{"id":64471,"date":"2021-11-30T13:58:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T12:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/?p=64471"},"modified":"2021-12-02T14:19:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T13:19:48","slug":"interview-carlo-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/interview-carlo-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Carlo Whale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlo Whale is an Italian experimental producer. He has been developing his pursuit in his hometown, Cagilari.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

His music\u00a0 presents emotive, distinctive and unique sounds by pursuing boundaries between music, technology and nature.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Carlo has a handful of quality releases landing on labels such as Einmusika, Steyoyoke, Inner Symphony, Poesie Musik and Manual Music, establishing himself as one of the most exciting breaking-trough artists of 2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

He has joined us in a conversation today about his musical inspirations, newest release, <\/span><\/i>Broken EP<\/span><\/i><\/a> , and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Hey Carlo, how are you, what’s good and bad in your world?<\/b><\/p>\n

Hey guys, thanks for having me! I’m fine thank you, we\u2019re all coming from a very weird couple of years but overall I can\u2019t really complain. I\u2019m finally back playing some gigs, planning some cool releases for the months to come and working on new music and this is what gets me excited. On the other hand I can still sense a lot of uncertainty due to the pandemic, generally speaking, and I feel people are starting to get affected by this psychologically. <\/span>
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\n<\/span>What was it like to get back to partying and DJing again after the pandemic?<\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been some kind of a rebirth, I won\u2019t hide it. I felt a bit insecure in the first place about whether I was able to keep it up due to the long long down-time, but as soon as I played the first track in front of people, all the doubts faded away and left room for energy and fun. We all really need to push away these dark times as soon as possible and being back on a dancefloor in close contact with others sharing love and energy can be one of the most effective ways. You can really feel it when you step into clubs, vibes are electric.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Tell us about growing up and getting into dance music – why did you love it?<\/b><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t actually grow up to dance music per se, as a teenager I was mostly into punk, metal, new wave and stuff like that\u2026 Where I live is not quite the center of the world and the Internet in the early 00\u2019s is nowhere near what it is today, so trends and music used to hit us with a certain delay. Sure I\u2019ve been hearing some electronic music in my adolescence too, but the game changer was hands down \u201cStrobe\u201d by Deadmau5. That track had something that immediately hooked me up, a subtle melancholic feeling mixed with the energy of a four by four beat: that was love at the first sight.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>What styles did you love at first, why did you want to dj and produce?<\/b><\/p>\n

As I was saying before, I was totally fascinated by deadmau5\u2019 music and started digging into various styles and genres within the electronic world and eventually felt the need to express myself with that language. Tech house was big at the time in Italy so I naturally began trying to reproduce what I was hearing all around me. That wasn\u2019t really any form of artistic expression, but eventually it helped me figuring out the basics of music production. Year after year I\u2019ve defined my taste more and more and at some point I started feeling curious about how other people may have reacted to what I was doing in my bedroom, so I started djing for friends and small parties. The first attempts were awful of course, but the excitement was high and kept me going.<\/span><\/p>\n