{"id":63847,"date":"2021-10-18T15:24:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T13:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/?p=63847"},"modified":"2021-10-18T15:24:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T13:24:49","slug":"deep-house-amsterdam-sat-down-with-kolombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/deep-house-amsterdam-sat-down-with-kolombo\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolombo Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kolombo is a longtime favourite of us here at the website.\u00a0A man who always infuses his productions with\u00a0serious soul, he\u2019s a master of his craft and someone who\u2019s\u00a0regulars;y\u00a0begged up by the\u00a0biggest players in the scene. What\u2019s more, his productions always feature a funk that\u2019s not always apparent in contemporary house and techno\u00a0circles. We nabbed him recently for a quick chat ahead of his latest release on French label, Family\u00a0Piknik\u2026.<\/span><\/div>\n
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How are you, what’s good and bad in your world ?<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
heyo, i’m fine thnx, bad of course as all artists in\u00a0the\u00a0world were\u00a0affected by this pandemic\u00a0but the good thing\u00a0is that I could\u00a0had much\u00a0time in studio to focus myself and thinking about a plan B. Also the good thing is that I\u00a0could pass more\u00a0time with my family and friends (closer to me in Belgium) but missing my friends far away\u00a0from me and partners, manager, all my lovely team<\/span><\/div>\n
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How did you survive the pandemic and what did you learn about yourself?<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
I\u2019ve survived making music and being in touch with my loved ones. I have learned that I need to be closed to people! (Hahaha)<\/span><\/div>\n
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What’s the scene in Belgium like right now, is it back to being fully open, did it survive?<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
It\u2019s getting back slowly as the whole world, but I was always working more outside Belgium anyway.<\/span><\/div>\n
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And what sounds, artists, parties and labels are popular, is there a thriving underground scene ?\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Techno is really getting the scene, like Charlotte Witte and other names, nice to see.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Where is your best environment as a dj? a small dark club or a huge outdoor festival stage?\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
I like to play it late for the \u201cweridos\u201d but\u00a0also\u00a0early.. not really a \u201cbest environment\u201d\u00a0it really depends.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
For me the Best territory is South America, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Mexico, \u2026. I was probably latino in another life ;)))<\/span><\/div>\n
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Where does the impulse to create something come from for you? What role do sources of inspiration like dreams, other forms of art,\u00a0personal relationships, politics etc play?<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Most of all of inspirations to me is when i’m front of ppl on dance floor and realise they like that or that kind of sound and trying to\u00a0remade something like that with my background influence<\/span><\/div>\n
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Tell us about your new one on Family Piknik – where and when was it written?<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Actually, I have been playing some tracks from Tom Pooks since Long time and we\u00a0have\u00a0never met before,\u00a0so I found\u00a0some old trax\u00a0from him and\u00a0then I\u2019ve\u00a0played them at party. I really\u00a0like that kind of\u00a0atemporal trax where\u00a0after 10 or 15 year later, it sounds still fresh. When Family Piknik label manager offered me to remix the new Tom Pooks track early 2021, I was happy to make it. After this, Tom invited me to play with him in Toulouse and we\u2019ve started sharing demos and unsigned. I sent them the We Hate It EP I composed with belgian duo Eyes Faces and they managed to add two great remixes from their Family Piknik crew artists. I think we\u2019ve started a very good relationship here\u2026 We received many strong DJ supports on \u2018We Hate It\u2019 and \u2018Rockin\u2019 so far, the EP is quiet hot !<\/span><\/div>\n
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What gear do you use in the studio to make your music and does that matter to you ?\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
I’m an analog freak, but these past years\u00a0I\u2019ve been\u00a0trying to get more into plugins witch sounds amazing\u00a0for some, but I love mixing both where dirty analogue sound makes some texture as not many people use…<\/span><\/div>\n
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What else have you got coming up\/are you working on?<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
A new collab with Tom Pooks on Family Piknik, a\u00a0new EP on Flashmob and a Best of compilation from my own new label \u201cOtherwise\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Finally tell our readers something they might not know about you\u2026<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
I\u00a0did\u00a0sound engineering for a\u00a0theater around 1995 during 8 years with Breakdancers (Namur Break sensations) and the actrice Cecile\u00a0De France, mostly\u00a0did scratchs and all the background effects.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Keep up with Kolombo on\u00a0<\/span>Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Instagram<\/a>. We Hate It is out now via Family Piknik. Buy\/listen to the release\u00a0<\/span>here<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kolombo is a longtime favourite of us here at the website.\u00a0A man who always infuses his productions with\u00a0serious soul, he\u2019s a master of his craft and someone who\u2019s\u00a0regulars;y\u00a0begged up by the\u00a0biggest players in the scene. What\u2019s more, his productions always feature a funk that\u2019s not always apparent in contemporary house and techno\u00a0circles. We nabbed him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":63848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3971],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","category-interviews-london","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63851,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63847\/revisions\/63851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}