Tell us a little bit about how you got started as a DJ / Producer? Who was your biggest inspiration?
I remember like it was yesterday, I was about 16, as every summer I would go back to home town in Corsica (where my family comes from), and a friend of mine who was a local DJ there, told me that I might get a chance to play for a big outside party there. I was so excited about it, I remember my mother’s face when she saw my suit case with one or 2 swimming suits and the rest full of CDs...I played 2 hours, shaking with all my body, my technic was quite awful, but the energy was amazing, and the people liked it!
But after those first experiences I had to make a choice, I was a young teenage with a small savings of money, I couldn’t afford a dj equipment & buy machines to produce music at the same time., so I had to make a choice, and I choose the second option, in my mind create music was a better way to express myself than playing other people tracks...
It’s only 5 years ago when I went to Ibiza for the first time that I decide to get back more seriously into my dj’s work. And now I am happy to say that things come to one point. I am producing my own tracks and have the availability to share them with a big crowd when I am DJing.
Will this be your first time in Hong Kong? Is there anything that you are looking forward to doing or seeing in particular?
Yes it will be my very first time in Hong Kong and I’m so exciting about it, as I’m a big fan of his cinema!
Unfortunately I’m staying there for a very short time so I won’t be able to see everything, but I know that I’m going to start with The Big Buddha and Po Lin Monastery.
How do you feel that DJing and producing has changed over the last few years? How does social networks change or influence the business?
The good change is that it has become very simple and quite cheap to produce from your bedroom, so it’s more and more about the creativity and style, than about technic and machines.
But the bad thing is that nowadays a lot of producers spend more time tweeting or instagramming than producing beats....
I’m fighting everyday with my booker, because she is complaining with me not posting everyday on Facebook...unfortunately I think she’s right ... but please if you ever caught me posting a picture of my plate or anything like that , feel free to insult me ahaha!
Q4. What was your favourite memory of 2012 and what do you have planned for 2013?
Maybe my first gig in Paris @ Queen, in front of my two brothers!
I just sign with a German label to release my first EP, I could already tell you, that Amin Edge & Dance, signed a remix on it!
What can we expect from your upcoming performances at Boujis?
I’m playing around different type of House & electronic music, such has, nu disco, indie dance, deep house, french house, on which I add a little taste of hiphop
Aside from your DJ equipment, name your top three touring essentials.
The Gospel book, a pair of sneakers & a good tour manager, a good party never happen without a bro by your side.
What is the weirdest thing that you’ve seen from the DJ booth?
Well I don’t have any crazy stories to let you know about, but what always strikes my mind is to see how people's eyes can change at the precise moment you go on stage.
Do you have any pre gig rituals?
Yep, I’m always trying to spend few hours alone before I start, to edit some new tracks and listening to promos.
Who in your opinion are the best up-and-coming producers at the moment?
Yes there’s a lot a new guys that are great, so many that sometimes I feel like it’s impossible to keep up knowing everything... right now I am very interested in watching what is happening in England,with people like Jai Paul & Disclosure, with Canada, with Kaytranada & Shash’U, and in France with people like PaRade, Breakbot, Rone… to only name a few..
If you weren’t a DJ/Producer what would you be doing?
I would try to find something that would still allow me to express myself…
DJ Mosey is DJing at Boujis on the 30th March 2013. Click here for details.
