{"id":17285,"date":"2014-11-11T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deephouselondon.com\/?p=6447"},"modified":"2015-05-14T14:06:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T12:06:29","slug":"exclusive-interview-hector-desolat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/exclusive-interview-hector-desolat\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive Interview: Hector (Desolat)"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the key members of Loco Dice’s Desolat family, Hector brings that dark, edgy side to his music which verges between techno and house yet maintains a deep sound ethic. The Mexican artist is constantly on tour, squeezing in studio sessions and the occasional social meet with friends when he can. Off the back of a hectic summer he’s just relocated to Los Angeles in the United States, where he’ll be touring extensively for the next few months. With all this in mind, we caught up with him for a little chat about his lifestyle…<\/strong><\/p>\n

So you\u2019ve recently been to Tokyo, how was that?<\/strong>
\nI keep saying this on repeat, but it\u2019s my favourite city. The people there are incredible, I have no words to describe how kind these people are, seriously.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of my dream places to go.<\/strong>
\nYou need<\/em> to go there! It was quite funny, Richie Hawtin was there at the same time, to receive an award from the Sake Samurai Organisation \u2013 he\u2019s been supporting a lot of sake brewers from Kyoto, so he was in town. Also the Red Bull Music Academy was taking place, they had people like Kerri Chandler, Matthew Jonson, Carl Craig, Goldie was there\u2026 so it was pretty cool. I played at a new club called Origami, which was nice and intimate and I also played at a small club in Osaka called Circus, nice underground vibes. Just a dark, black box, that\u2019s it \u2013 with one strobe, it was really cool.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s going on with you now the summer is over?<\/strong>
\nWell, we\u2019ve finished the summer tour and now it\u2019s on to the autumn\/winter tour! We\u2019re doing it in the US and South America, so I\u2019m moving to LA for the next few months \u2013 from there I\u2019ll be traveling everywhere; Output in New York, Spybar in Chicago… I did it last year as well, so I\u2019m looking forward to hitting all my favourite clubs in America. We\u2019re booked up all the way until February\u2026<\/p>\n

And did you live in Los Angeles last year, too, or elsewhere in America?<\/strong>
\nI lived in Brooklyn, in New York. It was pretty intense because the tour was really hectic, I was playing gigs four times a week and, with the winter over there, one the heaviest on record, there were a lot of flight delays and I couldn\u2019t get out of my house much either. It was tough, but the last week of my tour I went to Los Angeles and I really really liked it. The thing is, when you\u2019re doing these tours and they\u2019re so hectic, the quality of living you have outside of that is crucial. LA is really chilled, I should have time to work on my music \u2013 winter is when I make the most music, so I\u2019m looking forward to it.<\/p>\n

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Do you know where you\u2019ll be living when you\u2019re there?<\/strong>
\nYes, in Hollywood. Close to Mulholland Drive and the Hollywood sign actually, so it should be nice.<\/p>\n

What do you like about LA the most, are there any spots you\u2019re particularly fond of?<\/strong>
\nThere are a lot of cool restaurants, shopping areas and bars too \u2013 you get to meet a lot of people because, as you know, in Hollywood everyone wants to be an actor or an actress so it\u2019s funny to see and meet interesting people. Like going to clubs around that area and seeing C-list celebrities, it\u2019s funny to watch them all \u2013 the life there is so different compared to London or Berlin. It\u2019s not like here everyone dresses in black and goes to Berghain, you know. What impresses me the most is all these big billboards with people like Tiesto, Avicci\u2026 once I saw a big hotel with Ingrosso on one side and Axwell on the other, so they\u2019re really into the EDM sound at the moment. Within that there are pockets of \u2018underground\u2019 stuff, I\u2019m looking forward to investigating the scene there.<\/p>\n

Yeah, because they\u2019ve got a strong warehouse scene happening over there.<\/strong>
\nI would like to explore their warehouse scene, I love warehouses so that\u2019s a very good point \u2013 I want to go and experience all of those parties.<\/p>\n

Would you be happy to have a huge billboard with just your face on it?<\/strong>
\n[Laughs] I could say to you, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m underground I would never like to have something like this\u2019 but come on man, everyone\u2019s got their own game \u2013 I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s good or bad, it just is what it is. The Americans like to do it, some DJs like to be exposed in that way so I\u2019m happy for everyone to have a little piece of fame if that\u2019s what you\u2019re comfortable with.<\/p>\n

How are you feeling about leaving Berlin?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s still like my second home, it\u2019s easy to travel from here, it\u2019s very easy-going, obviously if you want to go out there are plenty of places to go \u2013 Berghain, Club De Visionaire, Kater Holzig is gone now but I\u2019ve been discovering a lot of other newer places recently too; Sisyphos, Kater Blau.. places I didn\u2019t know about until recently. BUT, I try not to go out \u2013 I have the weekends for touring, sometimes 12 flights in three days, with all the connections, so I get to see friends over dinner and so on. When I see my DJ friends we don\u2019t want to meet in a club, we usually do something more like that. There\u2019s so much on offer here; arts, fashion, film \u2013 I went to the last two Berlin Film Festivals actually and saw a lot of independent underground films there, I even bumped into George Clooney in a Japanese restaurant.<\/p>\n

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Do you have a regular crew of people you hang out with in Berlin?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s very difficult. I\u2019ve lived here for four years, and for the last three years my life has been flights, hotels, and not spending much time in Berlin. I haven\u2019t seen much of my crew in the last two years, it\u2019s really difficult \u2013 I don\u2019t get to see many of my friends anymore.<\/p>\n

Does that get you down much? Or do you just accept it as the sacrifice you have to make for the sake of your career?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s a sacrifice of course because you lose the day-to-day friendships you had with your crew, you don\u2019t see them anymore. At the same time you\u2019ll be touring and you might party too much, you travel a lot, you\u2019re alone in the airport, your flight got cancelled, you have to spend one night in a hotel where you didn\u2019t want to stay in a city where the only person you know is the promoter \u2013 you take it as it is, but it\u2019s not as fashionable or glamorous as people may think; \u2018You\u2019re a jetsetter,\u2019 they think, but it\u2019s a job you know. I have a professional responsibility to maintain, people are paying for me to stay in their city and to perform at their clubs, so there is a responsibility that I have to uphold. At the same, I just got back from Tokyo where I spent some great times with good people in a wonderful city, so there\u2019s that aspect too. There are pros and cons, but this is kind of job we do. It\u2019s very different to working in an office.<\/p>\n

As you\u2019ll be living in LA soon, do you have many plans to go back to your home nation, Mexico?<\/strong>
\nYes, actually I\u2019m playing there during Dia De Los Muertos (Day Of The Dead) \u2013 I\u2019m playing with Nicole Moudaber, Marco Carola, Format B and some others, it should be great. I always go back to my hometown Guadalajara to play at Bra Americas and then BPM, so I go home quite a lot nowadays.<\/p>\n

I guess you must miss it a lot?<\/strong>
\nOf course! Food, friends, family\u2026 every little chance I get to go and see them I always do it. My mum looks after me, I see my little homies, it\u2019s always good, I always enjoy that.<\/p>\n

Are there any big plans for 2015 underway?<\/strong>
\nYes, my new party \u2018Vatos Locos\u2019, which I\u2019m starting in the US while I\u2019m there. I won\u2019t be doing any in Europe yet. It\u2019s going to be a warehouse-based party, which will start at BPM \u2013 I want to take it to Detroit, Chicago, LA \u2013 that\u2019s my new project, I\u2019m really excited about it.
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\nCatch Hector at fabric this Saturday with the Desolat gang, more info here<\/a>. And Hector’s latest EP ‘H.P.I.C’ is out now on Serkal Music ((Digitally 24th November) – go here to pick it up<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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