disco pogo:the glimmers@bios sat 6/12+interview

Το Σάββατο 6 Δεκεμβρίου, το κοινό της Αθήνας θα έχει την ευκαιρία να ακούσει για πρώτη φορά, τους θρύλικούς Βέλγους djs της indie- electro disco, “THE GLIMMERS” και έναν απο τους πρωτεργάτες της Γαλλικής electro – disco σκηνής, COSMO VITELLI, και θα έχει επιπλέον την δυνατότητα να φύγει απο το BIOS με δώρο το νέο cd των Glimmers.

the glimmers interview:

1.You’ve been djing for more than 20 years, what’s the style of music that you can afford to play for more than fifteen minutes?
I would say, classics. Only tunes that have proved themselves to be timeless on the dance floor are the ones you can play for hours and hours.. No matter what genre or in which period they were made.

2.Everybody nowdays seems to be obsessed with nu disco, but you always had a preference to that kind of records. What do you think is going to be the next trend?
We don’t care that much about trends, as a trend is only a tool to make money. Our aim is to bring a good party. And playing good disco is something that helps to create a good party.

3.The last two years you decide to release your own records ignoring the record industry. Did that thing work for you?
We certainly are very happy that we could do this, as it is a very challenging time. We make music we like, and we try to distribute this on our own way, and by ignoring the whole record industry we just make it very cheap and available for everyone. We distribute our CD’s on events where we perform, and we make a deal with the promoter that he/she pays a little bit extra, and like this we can give away our CD’s for free to the party people. They take it home, listen to it, copy it, give it away, sell it on ebay, whatever they want… A whole new way of distributing! In 2008 we did more then 50.000 CD’s in the clubs and on top of that, DJ Magazine had us on their cover in April 2008 with one of our CD’s so that makes a total of approx. 75.000 ! We never would have done that much with a record company.

4.What’s the process behind the last 2 records. How did you make those GEE GEE Fazi albums?
Both CD’s are a collection of tracks made over the last 3 years with several friends/producers we met on the road. We tried to create some sort of an album in two parts, but it is more a chronological selection of music made at first for 12″ use only. Our real debut album will hit the clubs, not the shops, on January the 1st, 2009. It’s called ‘The Glimmers Presents Disko Drunkards’ and it is a band project. Music written by us together with some musicians here in Belgium, all in the same sort of flow. We will try to get the guys on stage as well, somewhere in 2009.

5.Do you prefer making music or playing music that other people make? Do you want the people to know you as a dj or as taste maker and a good digger that finds strange but beautiful records?
We want it all I guess. It is all connected as well. You make music, you want the audience to like your own stuff. And it is great to hear great music made by great musicians, and it is amazing to mix records on a loud system and see people going crazy.

6. How did you decide to do your own label and what is your main philosophy. Are you planning any other releases?
We’re planning a lot of releases this year, we still have a lot of music in the closet. We’re going to try to get as much of our stuff out there. On vinyl, very limited, and on CD’s, in the clubs.

7.What’s the best party you’ve played lately and what’s the strangest place you’ve ever dj?
One of the best ones really lately was Mexico City, a place called Covadonga. And Dubai was also great! There we played Alpha Night Club.
One of the strangest spots was probably in Brussels, the amazing Atomium. A strange but beautiful building made in 1958 for the world expo in that same year in Brussels. There has been only one party there with DJ’s, and we were part of it. Very strange, as it felt like the building could collapse anytime..

8.What’s your best memory from the prolific ESKIMO parties in Ghent?
A lot of crazy people, and a lot of styles coming together in one venue, like an indoor alternative festival. I think the one where we had Harvey DJing, that was an amazing one, and the one with Kruder And Dorfmeister as well..

9.What kind of music you play these days in the parties around the world and give us a top 5 tracks from the dark side of disco?
We still play all sorts of music, popular and underground, mixed.. as long as you can dance to it, and as long as it has a funky beat!
A top five would include Padded Cell’s Word Of Mouth (in our remix), Grace Jones’ Corporate Cannibal, Liquid Liquid’s Cavern, ESG’s UFO, Rub ‘n Tug’s remix for !!!’s track a year or two ago on Warp Records, what’s it called again.. ‘Hello ? Is This Thing On ?’ and a lot more !

10. You have inspired many new djs but who are these who inspired you?
Only the ones we’ve heard are mentionable, as other legends must have been amazing to hear, but we did not had the chance (yet). The ones we’ve heard so far, and are a big inspiration:
Grandmaster Flash, DJ Harvey, Alex Patterson, Francois K., TLP, Martin Maurice, Juan Atkins, Eric Lobos, Alfredo..

ΣΑΒΒΑΤΟ 6 ΔΕΚΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ

“DISCO POGO” & “YES IT DOES!! SURE IT DOES!!” PRESENT

THE GLIMMERS (ESKIMO / BEL) + COSMO VITELLI (I’M A CLICHE / FR)

@ ΒΙOS (ΠΕΙΡΑΙΩΣ 84)

Plus THE FLYING LILIS BROTHERS & “Yes U Do!! Sure U Do!!”

Doors Open @ 23:00

ENTRANCE FEE: 10 EUROS including “THE GLIMMERS ARE GEE GEE FAZI II”cd FOR FREE for the first two hundred!