{"id":7693,"date":"2015-05-13T18:08:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T16:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deephouselondon.com\/?p=7693"},"modified":"2015-05-20T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T16:49:00","slug":"mix-041-by-borrowed-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/mix-041-by-borrowed-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Mix #041 By Borrowed Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We&#8217;re in a great mood today as it&#8217;s mixtape time and this week&#8217;s fresh new one-hour long recording comes from Borrowed Identity. The man behind releases on labels such as DVS1&#8217;s Mistress, FINA and Ostgut Ton, among others, has delivered us a top quality mix that oozes class and delves into the true sound of deep house. Any mix that starts with &#8216;Rain&#8217; by Kerri Chandler is a winner in our books! He&#8217;s also kindly taken some time out to speak to us, so please read the interview after the mix, which is just below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"button small\" style=\"background:#E40045;\"><a style=\"color:#FFFFFF;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unlock.fm\/3qh\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Download<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fdeep-house-london%2Fborrowed-identity-deep-house-london-mix&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>So, tell us a bit about yourself and your history regarding electronic music\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hi my name is Chris, I&#8217;ve been producing and DJing for about 10 years. I&#8217;m 24 years old now and I try to avoid following any hype or trends with my music, especially since I started my alias &#8220;B.I&#8221;. Back in the day I started out as a rap nerd and hip-hop producer but around the age of 18 I got pretty bored with how stupid the rap world often is and got infected with the boom boom techno music I love today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you get into producing? How did you find the whole world of production when you first got involved (easy, difficult, exciting\u2026?)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was already experimenting when I was 12 or 13 with crappy programs like Magix Music Maker or Hip-Hop Ejay where you could only mess around with pre-made loops. It was the time when YouTube was booming and everyone uploaded tutorials and stuff and you could get cracked DAWs, it was through those that I learned to make my first little things in Fruity Loops and Cubase. It seemed to me like rocket science back then to cut a sample, pitch it in time and program some boom bap underneath. But I stayed motivated and soon after I was able to program everything I needed for a dope hip-hop beat. I&#8217;m lucky because I think at that age you learn really fast, so it was pretty easy for me but I have to admit without the YouTube tutorials I would have been lost&#8230; That&#8217;s the real lucky advantage for my generation of producers, it must have been hardcore to learn and understand production in the eighties or nineties without any tutorials and stuff&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oh yeah, totally. When you first started making music, what kind of sound were you aiming to replicate \u2013 any artists in particular who inspired your early musical explorations?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Me and my friends were heavily into the west coast stuff; Dr. Dre, Eazy E, Snoop, Ice Cube, DJ Quick, Nate Dogg (RIP) and that kind of stuff. I wanted to make those kind of beats but I wasn&#8217;t very successful, now I know I didn&#8217;t have the right samples. I thought those beats were all original productions back then. It was a shock when I found out all of this music that I love so much is mostly just a loop of a funk track with some extra drums and sometimes not even with extra drums or breaks, just the loop&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How long did it take you to get to the point where you were at least comfortable enough to start sending your music to labels etc\u2026?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two or three years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which track (if any) really boosted your confidence in the studio? What was it about that one in particular that helped you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was always pretty confident in the studio, I never felt like I couldn&#8217;t produce the sound I want and need. But with my track &#8216;Leave Your Life&#8217; it felt very spiritual and deep, like never before. I immediately knew this track would change everything and so it did&#8230; this track basically catapulted me into a situation where I could get bookings and finally live completely from, and for, the music. This experience showed me that it&#8217;s not about making the most complex music, less is more, it&#8217;s a pretty simple track but it has this groove that made me realise which of my productions I really like, and what I&#8217;m searching for in music&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you feel about the music you\u2019re making now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m never satisfied and I cant really listen or play my music in public. It&#8217;s strange&#8230; I&#8217;m very shy in that regard, but I guess this is what keeps me striving to get better. I think the moment you love your own music too much and praise your own skills and stuff, it&#8217;s over. You lose that mojo that keeps you motivated for the search for that production that perfectly reflects your soul.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we hear you have a label in the pipeline, can you tell us a bit about that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it will be called Chameleon Funk and will be open for any styles of music, for everything I like. Right now, I&#8217;m only focused on releasing my own music and my homie Mechanical Soul Brother, but if someone sends me the piece that changes my life, I&#8217;ll sign it. The first project on the label will be a collabo disco and g-funk house LP by me and Mechanical Soul Brother and I have two EPs lined up to follow after ranging from techno, ghetto house and deep house to latin and italo&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The label will be completely freestyle for some time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"button small\" style=\"background:#E40045;\"><a style=\"color:#FFFFFF;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Borrowed.Identity\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Artist Page<\/a><\/span><span class=\"button small\" style=\"background:#E40045;\"><a style=\"color:#FFFFFF;\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/borrowed-identity\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Soundcloud<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re in a great mood today as it&#8217;s mixtape time and this week&#8217;s fresh new one-hour long recording comes from Borrowed Identity. 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