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Tomorrow Is Original Mix. Promised Original Mix. Promised Dave Clarke Remix. To No One Original Mix. See More. He used to go to Fantazia all the time, and Sterns in Worthing. DD: Fantazia was still an illegal rave then, right? JG: Yeah it started off as an illegal rave, and then they started doing it at Portsmouth Guildhall.
They used to pack 6, people in there every few weeks, and my brother Danny used to come home with these boxsets of cassette tapes that the DJs had made, you could buy them at the merchandise stalls. I was hooked on those, I loved the fresh sounds and the escapism of them. And I was fascinated from there on really. DD: You got started young! Do you remember the names of the DJs whose cassette tapes you were listening to? That kind of hardcore scene, at the time. DD: I assume DJing came before making music for you then?
JG: Oh yeah, way before, 7 or 8 years before. DD: What sort of stuff were you playing and making back then? By the time I was about 17, I was into this kind of Eastern European sound in techno - a really funky, percussion based sound.
Artists like Umek and Joris Voorn, who I know is from Holland but back then was making this kind of stuff.
The sound seemed to originate in Slovenia, and the countries around there. A label called Recycled Loops, offshoots of that label and all the friends affiliated with that, I was just really into that sound. It then crossed over into Carl Cox and his label at the time, Intec, they were doing something a bit more UK.
I just really loved that fast, percussive, groovy stuff, and I pretty much took that into my residency at Slinky, one of the original UK superclubs, when I was DD: How did you get the residency at Slinky so young?
JG: It was through a competition on their website, they were looking for a new resident. You had to send in a 30 minute tape and then I got through to the final, where you had to go to the club, and yeah, I won it! DD: When you went in for the final, was that to a crowd during a night, or when the place was empty? JG: It was Wednesday afternoon, it was so weird! DD: Just DJing to one guy on the dance floor with a pen and a clipboard, judging you?
JG: Yeah it was Dave Lea, the guy who ran it. There were chairs, and people brought their mates down to support them. From then I was their resident, playing to clubbers every Friday.
So I had to learn pretty quickly! DD: Did you play any instruments, or do anything non-electronic back then? JG: No, purely electronic. I mean, the records used to just baffle me. I spent about five years like that, without making anything. All my mates were into Oasis and Blur, and I was obsessed with all this dance music. DD: So how did you first learn to produce?
He engineered a couple of tracks for me and then I basically learnt from him, and started engineering myself. I just got hooked on electro and early electro house mainly, although I listen back to that stuff now and it sounds kinda ridiculous.
They were doing something really cool in that electro house scene, it still had that electro synthy sound, but it had housey percussion, and I was really into that. JG: Yeah, I had one track, I forget the name of it, that I made back in , and Paul Woolfoord played it on the Essential Mix on Radio 1, and then he played it again on a live mix in Ibiza, and it blew up a little bit.
So I was on the same roster as Paul and Nic, and that was fun. I had about three years of touring around the world, and I warmed up for those guys a few times.
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