Plug In Zine's Podcast

01. What you love and what you hate in dj’s life? Hate's a strong word man! I love getting sent promos (it's a real privilege and we should never forget that), the downside is the amount of time it takes to get through them all, it's pretty much a full time job. I must only manage to get through 10%, no idea how some people get through everything! 02. What do you do in your life besides producing and dj’ing? I work part time for a marketing agency in London, using the experience gained from running Lost My Dog to help bigger, more boring brands market themselves better. 03. What’s the strangest thing happened to you during a gig? I managed to turn a CD deck off mid-track during my first ever gig... still have no idea how I managed that one. People seemed to like the breakdown though... 04. Describe your last release in three words. Music for dancing! 05. In your opinion how would electronic music change in the next 10 years? I think we'll see the same old cyclical trends, but with lots of new flavour from

Artist Name: Kerri Chandler Web: http://www.kerrichandler.com/ Biography:Kerri 'Kaoz' Chandler has been injecting soul into music since the early 90s, making him one of house music’s originators.Kerri Chandler is a house legend, icon, inspiration, key figure, and a true house music purveyor. An ambassador of the natural and instinctive 4/4 beat, Kerri’s influences can be traced back to New Jersey growing up in a family of jazz musicians. His father, a respected deejay, provided Kerri with a rich background in the origins of soul, disco and the New York Underground Sound (known also as “Garage” music). Kerri began playing records at the Rally Record Club in East Orange, New Jersey at the tender age of thirteen and it was only a natural progression for him to become interested in production.Since the signing of his first single SuperLover/Get It Off by Atlantic in 1991, Kerri began producing a prolific body of work that has helped coin him one of the most respected house producers in the world. This has been a

Artist Name: Soul Minority Web: http://www.soulminority.com Biography: Soul Minority is a musician and dj based in Barcelona, Spain. Soul Minority started production back in 2008 and after several well received remixes, he delivered his first EP on Pack up and Dance, an instant hit on the new deep house scene: “A soul thing” was number one in the Beatport charts for 6 consecutive weeks and was acclaimed by techno and house dj’s around the world. Releasing his second EP, “I Remember House” in May 2009, it was no surprise to see that shoot straight in at #2 on the Beatport top 100 charts. Since then, Soul Minority’s production work has graced labels such as Kolour Recordings (USA), Tsuba (UK), Dirt Crew (Ger), Raw Cutz (Spain), Dark Energy (UK), Night drive Music (Ger), i!Records (USA), always maintaining his fresh deep sound. 01. What are your musical influences? Well, it's a pretty difficult question, I've got loads of influence. I'm a huge music collector, I've got lots of records from different g

                                01. How did you approached to the dj profession? I used to DJ with a friend in his bedroom. We used to do that for years playing trance and house music. I also moved on to drum and bass after inheriting his decks at university. I was then friends with another DJ at university and we approached the university with an idea for a booking, with the condition that we would be able to do the support slot. We ended up getting the booking and the university enjoyed our support so much that they gave us a regular slot in the student's union. We did that for a while, and I also secured a small residency at a bar playing funk, soul and jazz. I moved back down to Edinburgh and played a few gigs through friends and contacts - by this time I was playing electro, but it wasn't bigtime, and I stopped enjoying the tracks I was playing, so I stopped. I then started producing dubstep and once I had a couple of small releases I ended up getting a few small-time DJ gigs locally, and from

Artist Name: Mark Farina Web: http://www.djmarkfarina.net/ Biography: Shortly after Mark befriended Derrick Carter in 1988 at a record store in Chicago, his passion for House music, and sharing it with the world, exploded. Mark experimented with a deeper style, dropping De La Soul, disco classics and other stuff that wasn’t being played in the main rooms of nightclubs. While exploring his love for the purist forms of House Music, Mark developed his trademark style: Mushroom Jazz; acid jazz infused with the West Coast’s jazzy, organic productions combined with urban beats. Fans embraced Mark’s downtempo style so much that he started a weekly Mushroom Jazz club night in San Francisco with Patty Ryan. In 3 short years, the club established a fanatical, cult-like following for Farina and the Mushroom Jazz sound. When the doors closed, Farina continued the tradition by releasing a series of Cds on OM Records: simply titled, “Mushroom Jazz”. Since then, Mark has been traveling the globe performing 10

Biography:"The first time I ever put two records together I was 11. The first time I ever played at a club -- 18. And the first place I had a full-blown residency was at the Powerhouse with Ron Carroll, DJ Rush and myself, in… well, the poster on the wall over there says "1990". - Gene Farris | 5 Magazine Since then, Gene, at 6' 7", has become one of the most accomplished, if not one of the "biggest", DJ/Producers in House Music, releasing some of dance music's hottest anthems on his label, Farris Wheel Recordings with The Copa Cabana (sold 25,000 units), The Spirit (with DJ Sneak remixes) as well as Defected's 2001 classic, Sanctified Love, CR2's, The Big Doopie Rmx's and Cajual with Summer Affair. Depending on the continent, talent or party you find Gene performing, you can count on him setting the tone with his distinctive "funky summer Chicago hot kinda vibe"; simply put, "funky, dirty, sexy, grooving beats". Chicago born and raised, Gene was inspired by the likes of Larry Heard, Ron Hardy, L