Quarion (Retreat, Drumpoet, Perspectiv) exclusive interview for Del Jardin Latino

Cita:

Here a briefly introduction to a new and interesting interview with one of the destacated names in the swiss electronic music scene. A very special DJ and selecter, Quarion is showing that besides producing great tracks he is also one of the musicians that take the risk for the scene and launches a vynil-only label,

Extracts:

In the last years some big labels closed and the industry is going to digital instead of vinyl, but you decided to launch a vinyl-only label.
How did you came up with the idea?

Hauke and I were just tired of hearing left and right that “vinyl was dying” so we wanted to do something about it, and we thought that the only way to have people keep on buying vinyl is to release and promote music STRICTLY on this format. No one gets wave or mp3 files apart from the mastering engineers and we promote our releases with white labels. The great thing is that it works! We only press about 500 copies of our records but we manage to sell almost everything. We even had to do a repress for RTR03.

¿Have you considered playing conventional instruments on your presentations?

Yes, it’s something I would like to try in the future. I’m thinking to bring an extra keyboard so I could play a few basslines or melodies live. The problem is that the space in most clubs’ DJ booths is pretty small; I sometimes had to struggle even with just a computer and midi interface. But still, I’d like to try a more instrument-based approach to my live set, we’ll see!

There seems to be some bad concept of “dance music producers” in the music environment, did you have this impression when started working in dancefloor oriented music?

Well, not really. Of course, there were some fellow musicians or friends (from when I was playing in bands) that were a bit surprised that I was taking that route and weren’t so convinced about it, but I have to say, I never heard somebody saying “Dance Music is done by idiots” or “House music is only for faggots”. Since I feel I’m an open-minded person, I need to be around open-minded people as well, so I never felt rejection from my musical entourage when I started producing electronic music. Criticism of dance music producers is more something I hear or read from time to time coming from frustrated musicians. I think the whole instrument vs. machine debate is ridiculous: of course it’s easy to make a track in 15 minutes using only presets in Ableton, but it’s also easy to make a pop song with a few guitar chords, so I think we should not think in terms of acoustic vs. electronic music but rather good music vs. bad music.

Link to the complete interview: Entrevista Exclusiva a Quarion : Del Jardín Latino | Musica y Cultura Electronica