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Request: Melon Podcasts
I've found two so far, and really like both! Please post any other mixes / podcasts you know of from this netherlands dj... cheers
http://soundcloud.com/warmhq/melon-r...-november-2009
01. Black Devil Disco Club - I Regret The Flower Power (Quiet Village)
02. Fish Go Deep - Final Tide (Charles Webster Dub)
03. Rene Breitbarth - Freshin Up
04. Martin Hayes - Wasatrain
05. Ilija Rudman - Night People (The Revenge Midnight Mix)
06. Shinedoe - No Boundaries ft Mr. Bumpy (Martin Buttrich Remix)
07. Sunshine Jones - Distant Vision
08. Moodymanc & PaulHardy - Sizzler (Sei A Remix)
09. Stephen Rigmaiden - Objekt 5
10. Jeremiah - Moves!
11. iO - Cabaret
12. Georg Levin - The Better Life (Georg's Piano Dub)
13. Theo Parrish - Falling Up (Chateau Flight Dub)
14. Soul Clap - Conscious
15. Womack & Womack - Conscious Of My Conscience
http://soundcloud.com/ratio/melon-po...bric-june-2009
01. Linkwood - Skit
02. Above Smoke - Sweet Love (Scott Fergusson Dub Mix)
03. Kalabrese - Makelovedisco
04. Sebo K & Metro - Feel Dub
05. Alexander East - Believe (Melon Edit)
06. ? - The Warning
07. Rocco - Someday (NJ Mix)
08. Little Big Bee - Yellowtail
09. Phonique - Teenage Love (Kevin Yost Dub Remix)
10. Precious System - The Voice From Planet Love
11. Glowing Glisses - On The Bridge (Larry Heard's After Dark Dub Mix)
interview: http://warmhq.blogspot.com/2009/11/m...interview.html
In preparation for Melon's debut performance at Warm @ Plastic People in London next Friday (November 20th) where he will be playing alongside Tensnake (Live) and Jacques Renault, Peder Clark caught up with him for a quick chat!
You were a successful DJ for years before you started producing as well - why did you decide to move in this direction? What advice would you give to DJs who want to start producing? Do you think your DJing helps your production?
This is not completely correct, I started producing and playing in bands when I was 8 years old but waited for about 20 years to release something! It was more the other way around. At the age of 16 I started going out and needed money and as I had explored about everything I could do with my equipment I sold it all. Not long afterwards I started to miss making music terribly and found a quick solution in mixing records, which I also already did at a young age at school parties. Personally I think DJing and producing are two complete different things, sure it helps if you know what's going on on the dancefloor to produce club records, but there's more music to be made...
You've run many many parties in Amsterdam - who have been some of your favourite guests, and have you any particularly interesting anecdotes to tell...?
It's hard to pin point out one guest to be honest, all of my guest have been carefully selected and are friends or became friends, which made most of the nights special, 'cause there's bonding in the booth. But if I really have to... I must say that the Ratio? Easter parties always have been very special!
You scored quite a big hit with "Nitzi (In My Mind, So Fine)" - were you surprised by it's success? It's not a very obvious record, it's quite subtle...
This is a very special and personal record for me, made with a lot of emotions about losing somebody, so it was quite a surprise indeed that it went so well. Also kinda weird that other people experienced it on a complete different level of emotions and sometimes even the same. I remember one night in the Weekend club in Berlin where I played with Tobi Neumann and where I dropped it and the whole crowd went silent and closed their eyes, this was such an amazing moment and the biggest compliment ever (I still get goosebumps when I think about it). I guess it's easier to make everybody scream with there hands in the air and this was the opposite, ‘til the bass line dropped in!
Who do you see as your contemporaries, both locally in the Netherlands, but also internationally?
San Proper, Nuno Dos Santos, Patrice Baumel, Doc Martin, Innervsions, Seth Troxler, Tom Trago, Rush Hour, etc... some by the music they make, some by the vision they have.
Whatever happened to the next parts of the Four Seasons release? I really enjoyed Spring and Summer!
Thanks! It has been a while indeed, but as this project isn't really time bonded… I'm not in a rush and it should be good! But part 2 is almost done and should be hitting the stores this winter (I hope ) with remixes of Nuno Dos Santos and TJ Kong & San Proper.
Five records that are in your bag at the moment?
San Proper - Keep It Raw (Perlon)
Georg Levin - The Better Life (Georg's Piano Dub) (BBE)
Nicolas Jaar - El Bandido (Wolf + Lamb)
Tuccillo - This Time (Delusions Of Grandeur)
ATFC - I Called U (The Conversation) (Defected)
A record that's been in your bag for the last five years?
Several, some records grow on me and although there's lots of new music coming out I can't get rid of them and I keep on playing them till they become a Melon trademark hahaha! But one of them is definitely the Motorbass album [“Pansoul”]. Although it doesn't get played often anymore, it's always with me.
One of your secret weapons (if you want to tell us...)?
Hmmm, several this year, but I can reveal my secret weapon of last year's summer: Roberto Rodriguez “Ride”. This one has a completely different effect on the dance floor than when you just hear it at home or on the headphones in the record store. Don't know why but I think many people neglected this one as it seems to be very cheesy when you listen to it for the first time but when played out loud it's a complete dance floor killer!
Future plans for Melon? Future plans for Ratio?Music?
Taking the label to the next level and release more than one record a year hahahaha... Besides that releasing an album, probably not really a dance album but an album with lots of different music that made me the man I am today. And see what the possibilities are to make this album into a live show with a real band instead of on my own with some gear, this is one of my dreams to accomplish. Obviously continuing playing and organising Ratio? parties all over as this is something that I still love doing and gives me lot of energy!
http://soundcloud.com/warmhq/melon-r...-november-2009
01. Black Devil Disco Club - I Regret The Flower Power (Quiet Village)
02. Fish Go Deep - Final Tide (Charles Webster Dub)
03. Rene Breitbarth - Freshin Up
04. Martin Hayes - Wasatrain
05. Ilija Rudman - Night People (The Revenge Midnight Mix)
06. Shinedoe - No Boundaries ft Mr. Bumpy (Martin Buttrich Remix)
07. Sunshine Jones - Distant Vision
08. Moodymanc & PaulHardy - Sizzler (Sei A Remix)
09. Stephen Rigmaiden - Objekt 5
10. Jeremiah - Moves!
11. iO - Cabaret
12. Georg Levin - The Better Life (Georg's Piano Dub)
13. Theo Parrish - Falling Up (Chateau Flight Dub)
14. Soul Clap - Conscious
15. Womack & Womack - Conscious Of My Conscience
http://soundcloud.com/ratio/melon-po...bric-june-2009
01. Linkwood - Skit
02. Above Smoke - Sweet Love (Scott Fergusson Dub Mix)
03. Kalabrese - Makelovedisco
04. Sebo K & Metro - Feel Dub
05. Alexander East - Believe (Melon Edit)
06. ? - The Warning
07. Rocco - Someday (NJ Mix)
08. Little Big Bee - Yellowtail
09. Phonique - Teenage Love (Kevin Yost Dub Remix)
10. Precious System - The Voice From Planet Love
11. Glowing Glisses - On The Bridge (Larry Heard's After Dark Dub Mix)
interview: http://warmhq.blogspot.com/2009/11/m...interview.html
In preparation for Melon's debut performance at Warm @ Plastic People in London next Friday (November 20th) where he will be playing alongside Tensnake (Live) and Jacques Renault, Peder Clark caught up with him for a quick chat!
You were a successful DJ for years before you started producing as well - why did you decide to move in this direction? What advice would you give to DJs who want to start producing? Do you think your DJing helps your production?
This is not completely correct, I started producing and playing in bands when I was 8 years old but waited for about 20 years to release something! It was more the other way around. At the age of 16 I started going out and needed money and as I had explored about everything I could do with my equipment I sold it all. Not long afterwards I started to miss making music terribly and found a quick solution in mixing records, which I also already did at a young age at school parties. Personally I think DJing and producing are two complete different things, sure it helps if you know what's going on on the dancefloor to produce club records, but there's more music to be made...
You've run many many parties in Amsterdam - who have been some of your favourite guests, and have you any particularly interesting anecdotes to tell...?
It's hard to pin point out one guest to be honest, all of my guest have been carefully selected and are friends or became friends, which made most of the nights special, 'cause there's bonding in the booth. But if I really have to... I must say that the Ratio? Easter parties always have been very special!
You scored quite a big hit with "Nitzi (In My Mind, So Fine)" - were you surprised by it's success? It's not a very obvious record, it's quite subtle...
This is a very special and personal record for me, made with a lot of emotions about losing somebody, so it was quite a surprise indeed that it went so well. Also kinda weird that other people experienced it on a complete different level of emotions and sometimes even the same. I remember one night in the Weekend club in Berlin where I played with Tobi Neumann and where I dropped it and the whole crowd went silent and closed their eyes, this was such an amazing moment and the biggest compliment ever (I still get goosebumps when I think about it). I guess it's easier to make everybody scream with there hands in the air and this was the opposite, ‘til the bass line dropped in!
Who do you see as your contemporaries, both locally in the Netherlands, but also internationally?
San Proper, Nuno Dos Santos, Patrice Baumel, Doc Martin, Innervsions, Seth Troxler, Tom Trago, Rush Hour, etc... some by the music they make, some by the vision they have.
Whatever happened to the next parts of the Four Seasons release? I really enjoyed Spring and Summer!
Thanks! It has been a while indeed, but as this project isn't really time bonded… I'm not in a rush and it should be good! But part 2 is almost done and should be hitting the stores this winter (I hope ) with remixes of Nuno Dos Santos and TJ Kong & San Proper.
Five records that are in your bag at the moment?
San Proper - Keep It Raw (Perlon)
Georg Levin - The Better Life (Georg's Piano Dub) (BBE)
Nicolas Jaar - El Bandido (Wolf + Lamb)
Tuccillo - This Time (Delusions Of Grandeur)
ATFC - I Called U (The Conversation) (Defected)
A record that's been in your bag for the last five years?
Several, some records grow on me and although there's lots of new music coming out I can't get rid of them and I keep on playing them till they become a Melon trademark hahaha! But one of them is definitely the Motorbass album [“Pansoul”]. Although it doesn't get played often anymore, it's always with me.
One of your secret weapons (if you want to tell us...)?
Hmmm, several this year, but I can reveal my secret weapon of last year's summer: Roberto Rodriguez “Ride”. This one has a completely different effect on the dance floor than when you just hear it at home or on the headphones in the record store. Don't know why but I think many people neglected this one as it seems to be very cheesy when you listen to it for the first time but when played out loud it's a complete dance floor killer!
Future plans for Melon? Future plans for Ratio?Music?
Taking the label to the next level and release more than one record a year hahahaha... Besides that releasing an album, probably not really a dance album but an album with lots of different music that made me the man I am today. And see what the possibilities are to make this album into a live show with a real band instead of on my own with some gear, this is one of my dreams to accomplish. Obviously continuing playing and organising Ratio? parties all over as this is something that I still love doing and gives me lot of energy!
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