{"id":64076,"date":"2021-11-04T16:15:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T15:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/?p=64076"},"modified":"2021-11-04T16:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T15:16:00","slug":"deep-house-london-interview-with-the-mekanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/deep-house-london-interview-with-the-mekanism\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep House London Interview with The Mekanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Mekanism is a French artist\/producer with an excellent resume across a wide variety of musical styles and tastes. He also has released on some of the most respected labels around like 20\/20 Vision, Moan Recordings, elrow Music and many many more. With a new EP \u201cLive My Life\u201d on Italian label AdMaiora Music, we caught up with him to find out what\u2019s what, and how the EP came to be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hey The Mekanism, how are you, how has 2021 been for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hi! I&#8217;m well, living my dream \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>It was a very messy and interesting year, I tried to see in the pandemic a positive thing to further my career through my music production, and life in general&#8230; I realised the chances we have to live our dream and earn money with our passion! I sometimes took this for granted I think before the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was it like to get back to partying and DJing again after the pandemic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Incredible sensation, a bit strange at the beginning to be with a lot of people again but an amazing feeling &#8230;. and I enjoy even more of each second behind the decks!<\/p>\n<p><strong>You&#8217;re a pretty prolific producer, where does the inspiration come from to create?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It comes from everywhere, quality time with family and friends, travelling a lot, big parties and some differents trips \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you work, do you have an idea in your head you work towards or do you just experiment and jam and see what happens?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I never have an idea, it&#8217;s why I&#8217;m producing always different styles from disco to deep minimal or acid house! I love to jam with my machines and looking for some samples, then I see where the sound takes me!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about your upcoming AdMaiora Music &#8220;Live My Life&#8221; EP &#8211; how did you come to hook up with the label?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I had loved the last release out on the label, so I contacted them to have the promo and we kept in touch! They asked me to do an EP so I said yes for sure!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1147554100&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Techno Bible\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/techno-bible\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Techno Bible<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"TB Premiere: The Mekanism - Live My Life [AdMaiora]\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/techno-bible\/tb-premiere-the-mekanism-live-my-life-admaiora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TB Premiere: The Mekanism &#8211; Live My Life [AdMaiora]<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>Do you make music that suits certain labels or do you create first and worry about that later?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I tried to do music for specific labels, and it never came \ud83d\ude02 I think if you do that, you will lose a part of the creativity, being too much in a specific style! I think in electronic music, even more now we really need new ideas, a bit different to what we all listen to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are some of the key bits of music making gear in your current set up?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mpc one for beats, roland mc 505 and electribe for the grooves (I launch everything with the pioneer and I jam a lot)<\/p>\n<p>For basses and synth I use a lot my yamaha Rm1x , and I sample a lot again using that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where is your best environment as a dj? A small dark club or a huge outdoor festival stage? Late at night for the weirdos or early so you can play slow and eclectic etc etc?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so different but so complementary! Small dark clubs are great to be wild and in connection with people, but who doesn&#8217;t want to play on a big stage in front of thousands of people! The feeling is just magic even if u feel alone on the stage \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the scene in France like where you are, are you a lone operator or are you part of a vibrant creative community?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The scene is cool, but I feel it misses a big community scene for sharing like Berlin etc<\/p>\n<p>I was for 3 years in an amazing warehouse with Polo &amp; Pan and another great artists (visual, sculpteurs &#8230;that called Mad Agency) This was really my best years for creativity, and being around likeminded people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What else have you got coming up\/are you working on?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have a beautiful Ep with my friend Salome le Chat, out soon on Bambossa (Harry Romero&#8217;s Label)<\/p>\n<p>I also have an Ep out on Wyld with my bro&#8217;s II Faces and a special remix from MADVILLA!<\/p>\n<p>The beginning of 2022 I will be part of the new label of Distrikt (the burning man camp), when I will release an Ep with a big acid house track \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatport.com\/release\/live-my-life-ep\/3534299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Mekanism EP &#8220;Live My Life&#8221; is out now on AdMaiora Music<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatport.com\/release\/live-my-life-ep\/3534299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grab it here<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Follow:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheMekanism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/the-mekanism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SoundCloud<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mekanism is a French artist\/producer with an excellent resume across a wide variety of musical styles and tastes. He also has released on some of the most respected labels around like 20\/20 Vision, Moan Recordings, elrow Music and many many more. With a new EP \u201cLive My Life\u201d on Italian label AdMaiora Music, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":64078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3971],"tags":[5068],"class_list":["post-64076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-interviews-london","tag-the-mekanism-london-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64076","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=64076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64077,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64076\/revisions\/64077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}