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Featured Artist: Romain Pellegrin

1. When you went to a club for the first time, what changed in your life?

It’s pretty impressive the first time we insert our own USB key in a CDJ deck and we start playing our first track, we ask ourselves millions of questions, for me it’s been a while since I mix In all types of places and it’s true that the first time I played a track in a rather big club it was at the « Mistral Club" in Aix en Provence and I remember having the pressure but it Was good pressure everything went as I expected and I did not have any surprises. It is not easy at first to understand certain things, some will never arrive but for example it "must not be too much in his world" when playing in club or other, it is always necessary to find the right Middle between what the customers ask and what I want to play is not always obvious but it makes progress and it is a satisfaction when it is successful. What we must try to do is create a musical direction and create a story to succeed in taking as many customers as possible into our world is far from obvious.

2. Which genre within electronic music is your favorite?

House Music but I love the Techno, the Tech-House and the Deep house

3. Why did you choose to produce electronic music?

I was really interested about music at 15 yo. I started by mixing the sounds of my favorite artists and then trying to understand how these kinds of producers were doing to create these kindsof incredible productions. I listened to pieces in loops in order to be able to hear all the sounds even if I had to forget, I could see a certain orchestra in my head and understand how music was made, that's what made me Really wanted to create, I wanted to create my own orchestra. I simply wanted to create my own world without copying anyone, I wanted and I always want to create my style even if it’s complicated with all the competition that exists today, there are talents everywhere, pieces of crazy go out practically every day, it’s Sometimes demotivating but I take a huge pleasure to produce, this is what makes me want to get up every morning.

4. What is the purpose of your songs? Where do you want to go?

I do not necessarily have a goal in my productions, I want it to make me dance to me at first, and if it can make people dance other than me then so much better, it is a pleasure to share My productions.

5. Where do you live and how is the electronic music scene in this place?

I live in Marseille, there are a lot of nice places around here, « Le Dock des Suds » is a nice place to do great performances, it's really cool down there. For a few years now the Rooftop "R2" which is one of the unavailable places of Marseilles which accomodate many good artists, I had the opportunity to play there last summer, it was a treat. And I'm currently resident in one of the biggest club in Marseille called "TROLLEYBUS". It is a fairly large club with 3 rooms, 3 atmospheres that is quite interesting. I like playing the bottom. There are also other nice little clubs in the area such as the « Baby Club », and on the Aix-en-Provence side, it is the most famous Mistral. I spent all my weekends down being younger, I saw that by this club, I then return to the Mistral as a resident DJ for a while. It was cool!

6. What is the impact that electronic music has on your life today?

It has become more than a passion for me, I learn every day about electronic music, it represents a lot for me, my favorite part of electronic music is the drums part, the HH make me vibrate when they Are well treated.

7. What tools do you use to produce your music?

I use a computer (Imac) with a Roland Quad-Capture (middle range) and HS8 from Yamaha. I use the Maschine MK2 to create a groove and I export it on Ableton, this software is simply magic.

8. What do you hope to achieve with music and being a DJ?

I do not know at all what will happen tomorrow, how do you want me to know what will happen in my "career", I would like to travel around the world and make discover what makes me vibrate everyday.

9. What's the most important thing you've learned as a producer of electronic music so far?

That music should not be made for others but for no matter how long it takes. All these things that we put aside to succeed in simply creating an interesting groove are nothing beside what the music represents to me. I have never done music before (and I was wrong) but next to that I spent days and nights locked up in my room to produce and understand things. Electronic music for me is an assemblage of details that must be coherent, groovy and warm. There are unavoidable rules in music, we must put them in the skull and create an interesting story that corresponds to us.

10. What would you say about your experience in working with Urban Addict Records on your release?

For now I just signed an EP with two tracks plus 2 remixes on Urban Addict Records, Master rendering suits me, we'll see what they will do with my EP and how it all will go.

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