{"id":67986,"date":"2022-07-20T16:09:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T14:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/?p=67986"},"modified":"2022-07-20T16:09:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T14:09:41","slug":"interview-dale-howard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/interview-dale-howard\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview – Dale Howard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey Dale, how are you? Does it feel like everything is back to normal now after covid?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hey! Yea I\u2019m alright cheers. I don\u2019t know really.. I guess it\u2019s back to normal, in the sense that parties and events are back on, but I don\u2019t feel how I did pre-pandemic. Can\u2019t really explain it.<\/p>\n

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What did you learn about yourself or the industry during the pandemic?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It reaffirmed how important it is to appreciate the people in your life and all the little day to day things we take for granted.<\/p>\n

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Do you write music for certain labels, to suit their sound and style, or doesn’t it work like that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It probably works like that for some artists, but it hardly ever works for me. I even had a label request to license one of my tracks, two years after they originally turned it down when I sent it to them as a demo. Mental.<\/p>\n

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How different are you in remix mode than when making originals?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m pretty similar to when I\u2019m making originals really. As someone who\u2019s had their own label – it\u2019s a bit gutting to open up a remix from someone you\u2019ve wanted on the label, only to find they\u2019ve decided to go in a different direction to what they usually make.<\/p>\n

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What inspired your take on Jochem Hamerling’s Breezer?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The vocal was the thing that stood out to me the most, so I built a track around that. No idea what she is saying though, so I hope it makes sense to anyone who speaks Spanish (I don\u2019t even know if it\u2019s Spanish – it could be Portuguese). Soz if I\u2019ve butchered it anyway.<\/p>\n

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Are there certain rules you have to stand by like how much to change, or how much is too much, for a remix?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It might sound strange, because it\u2019s a remix, but I try to not let the track influence me too much. It\u2019s a bit of a balancing act sometimes between building a track around a particular element, but also making sure that element or sound actually sits well in the style of track I\u2019ve made. I never want to sacrifice my sound to accommodate parts of the remix (it\u2019s usually the opposite if anything haha).<\/p>\n

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What gear do you use in the studio? Hardware, software? Does it matter?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A mix of both. No it doesn\u2019t matter AT ALL.<\/p>\n

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What else have you got coming up?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m in Amsterdam and London this weekend and Amsterdam at the end of the month. I\u2019ll have to take a little time off from touring after that – I\u2019ve completely torn my pec tendon off my humerus, so I need surgery to reattach it.<\/p>\n

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Once upon a time you dreamed of being a pro-footballer, would you still take that career now if you could swap?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Haha no. I\u2019ve got to see so many parts of the world and play so many amazing parties, that I wouldn\u2019t swap that. I would have missed a lot of matches because I was still at an afterparty somewhere too. I probably would have been sacked by whatever club I was playing for.<\/p>\n

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What was the last record you bought and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fabe & Baccus – Cannot Think Twice<\/p>\n

Just a proper groovy little House tune, innit!<\/p>\n

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