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| Introducing NEM3SI$’s new label Infinite Resistance! | | Mindbenderz talk ‘Lord of the Rings’ and fishing, as well as the creation of their new album ‘Celestial Gateway’! | | Iono-Music artists One Function, Eliyahu, Invisible Reality and Dual Vision talk Robert Miles, kids, dogs and vinyl, while we chat about their current releases! | | Luke&Flex talk influences, the Irish rave scene, why Flex wears a mask and Play Hard, their new EP out now on Onhcet Repbulik Xtreme! | | Lyktum expands on his new album ‘Home’ – talking about his love of storytelling, creating new harmonies and the concept behind his musical works. | | Pan talks getting caught short crossing the Sahara, acid eyeballs and tells us Trance is the Answer, plus shares his thoughts on his latest release 'Beyond the Horizon' - all from a beach in Spain! | | Miss C chats about living with the KLF, DJing in a huge cat’s mouth, training her brain and the upcoming super-duper Superfreq Grande party at LDN East this Saturday, 16th September! | | NEM3SI$ - I Live for the Night – talks superficiality, psychopaths, and bittersweet success, ahead of a plethora of evocative, emotional, and passionate upcoming melodic techno releases! | | Psy-Sisters Spring Blast Off! We talk to DJ competition winner ROEN along with other super talents on the lineup! | | Blasting towards summer festivals with Bahar Canca ahead of Psy-Sisters Spring Blast! | | Shyisma talks parties, UFO's, and Shotokan Karate ahead of his upcoming album 'Particles' on Iono-Music! | | SOME1 talks family, acid, stage fright and wolves - ahead of his upcoming album release ‘Voyager’ on Iono-Music in February 2023! | | The Transmission Crew tell all and talk about their first London event on 24th February 2023! | | NIXIRO talks body, mind and music production ahead of his release 'Planet Impulse' on Static Movement's label - Sol Music! | | Turning the world into a fairy tale with Ivy Orth ahead of Tribal Village’s 10th Birthday Anniversary Presents: The World Lounge Project | | The Psy-Sisters chat about music, achievements, aspirations and the 10-Year Anniversary Party - 18/12/22! | | A decade of dance music with Daniel Lesden | | Earth Needs a Rebirth! Discussions with Psy-Trance Artist Numayma | | Taking a Journey Through Time with Domino | | New Techno Rising Star DKLUB talks about his debut release White Rock on Onhcet Republik! | | PAN expands on many things including his new album 'Hyperbolic Oxymoron' due for release on the 14th April 2022 on PsyWorld Records! | | Psibindi talks all things music including her new collaborative EP 'Sentient Rays' on Aphid Records, her band Sentience Machine and 10 years of Psy-Sisters! |
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We speak to Mixmag's Gavin Herlihy about machines eating his homework, life at Mixmag towers & the return of At Night
Reported by Tom Cypher
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Submitted 03-05-06 19:28
Gavin Herlihy, as well as being a Mixmag scribe and general gentleman about town, is fast building a reputation for himself as an excellent DJ with a style covering minimal house and techno, electro and plenty more. He recently completed a highly successful three-date tour of Brazil in association with Mixmag which saw him playing alongside Greg Vickers in front of 3,000 people at the Warung Beach Club. Back in the UK, he recently joined Tim Sheridan at the acclaimed Dirty Disco in Leeds and May will see him play OCD at the Rhythm Factory in London and at the Tribal Sessions at Sankey’s Soap up in Manchester.
For those in need of a quick fix, you can also catch him in the minimal house room for At Night Returns on Friday May 12th alongside Margaret Dygas, which will double as the launch party for his debut single, ‘Machine Ate My Homework’ on Moodmusic Records… in other words he’s been a very busy boy, so HarderFaster decided to have a few jars with him to find out more.
Gavin Herlihy, what do you do by day and what do you get up to at night?
By day I edit Mixmag’s Big Tunes and Features sections, by night I combat the evils of international terrorism from my secret subterranean lair.
Speaking of At Night, this is the second time you’ve played for this particular party — what do you think has made it such a success?
At Night’s approach is simple. When it began there weren’t many parties where the objective from the promoter’s perspective was the old club reviewing cliché ‘a great night was had by all’. The DIY approach, the fact that your money is spent on a party where the promoters want the dancefloor experience to be the best as it can be because ultimately they’ll be on the dancefloor expecting the same too, that’s what putting on a party should be about.
Which producers and labels are really doing it for you right now and what kind of music can we expect to hear you play on May 12th?
My favourite albums include new long players from Plan B (the British Eminem without being a knob), Matthew Herbert (sultry electronic soul) and Nelly Furtado (Timbaland gives Nelly some welly... it’s heavy, trust me!). In the club it’s all about Dubsided records, the new Domink Eulberg mix of Gabriel Ananda ‘Ihre Personalische Glucksmelodie’ and the monumentally killer new album from Marc Houle on M_nus.
The At Night guys invited you to choose a special guest to join you in the Minimal House room and you chose Margaret Dygas — tell us more?
As more and more people start playing minimal, many miss the point and play flatline sets that never really go anywhere. Margaret is a proper techno dj and programs her tunes to tear clubs to pieces. The tipping point for getting her to play the room was a set she played at the infamous Panorama Bar in Berlin (heavyweight after hours session usually haunted by the likes of Luciano and Richie Hawtin). She put quite a few bigger name djs in their place that weekend (and doesn’t shy from getting in the rounds of Jaegermeister.)
At Night is also the official launch party for your debut single ‘Machine Ate My Homework’ on supercool Berlin label Moodmusic Records — tell us a bit about the track and how it came to the attention of Moodmusic?
I spent most of last year cutting down on djing to teach myself how to make tracks, so mentally I was going back to school to learn a new craft. Right at the end of a production month for the magazine I missed a day of work because of a club called Machine (which formerly ran at At The Rocks in Shoreditch courtesy of Bones & Ramsey). Wracked with hangover guilt when I finally woke up, I decided to finish the track I’d been working on and Machine, the excuse, was born.’
If you could pick a dream team of remixers for the track who would you pick to do the job?
Domink Eulberg is a master of big riffs and warped sounds so he’s on the team. Ewan Pearson and Sasse from Moodmusic are also experts at re-imagining records that fit between electro and techno and for a bit of soundtrack weirdness for the last mix, a collaboration from the king experimental composers of the 1970s: Ennio Morricone and 1970s experimental composer David Axelrod. That last one might cost a bit, mind you.
So are there any more dancefloor bombs being prepared in your studio?
Of course, there are three more waiting to be unleashed!
Any exciting plans for the summer and recommendations for Ibiza and beyond?
If you’re in Ibiza don’t waste all your money going to the big clubs. Make friends in the right (or should that be wrong?) places and go to the free parties if you can find them. Secretsundaze are putting on one beach party a month in the summer and if you look out for amateur looking flyers at places like DC 10 or Cocoon you could end up at rave in the caves or a twisted villa party in the hills. The trick is to talk to people and make friends, and if you’re going to a festival make a trip of it and go to Sonar, Benacassim, Exit or Melt. A Ryanair flight booked in advance is nothing compared to the fun you’ll have.
Mixmag has just had a bit of an overhaul too — what should we look at for in the new issues?
Thanks to our new independent publishers there’s no longer the noose of big company politics round our necks, so we’re free to make a magazine about good music and good raving. So expect a mix of everything: house stuff, hard stuff, hip hop stuff, rock stuff — clubland is a big family so we’re trying to make sure everyone gets a place at the table.
Thanks for your time Gavin & good luck with the music.
Photos courtesy of Gavin Herlihy. Not to be reproduced without permission.
Check out www.myspace.com/atnightreturns
At Night Returns!
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Friday 12th May 2006
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www.seditiondjs.com
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