Yes, there are older heads/musicologists in the Pioneer DJ Network jury as well. This time around, upon hearing the Sequencers from Mexico, these senior members of the jury raised their voices when it came to the final decision! While recent winners, in their own brilliant way, have come through with the greatest in progressive house, electro and minimal, Sequencers caught us off-guard with a smashing set of disco house!
Hey guys, congratulations! What do you think you got right with your song selection and vibe?
Thank You! We really like this disco vibe a lot! It’s very rich musically; it has all the right elements to make you move in every possible way and also is versatile enough to blend with a lot of other genres perfectly. Concerning the song selection, well we really enjoy music and that is what lead us to a constant search for new sounds, melodies and rhythms, so it was this way that looking in our record collection we found all the tracks that seemed right to build this mixtape.
As in everything we do, we try to make it with some certain sequence, particularly in this mixtape we passed from point A with slowed down grooves and laidback melodies all the way to point B of pulsating beats and relentless bass, we like to use music that can suit in the mix seamlessly without getting too monotone. From the very beginning this mixtape was intended to make you dance, have fun and never lose the funk!
Late at our Basement Mixtape from Sequencers at Letsmix.com.
A lot of the music you spin has come to be associated with Northern European DJs. Has it gotten popular in Mexico as well?
That’s right… we try to follow as many labels and producers as we can, this music is often associated with Northern European DJs and producers but there are also many talented producers in South America that have amazing records! Nowadays you can find great music from all around the globe; it’s just that you have to look in all the right places!
On the other side Mexico has been developing a great scene in general, at least we can speak for our hometown Guadalajara where a lot of people have been involved for quite a while now, good promoters that in combination with great venues make exposure of many international artists as well as emerging local talents, this has helped being an eye-opener for the people who is interested in the scene.
However this particular sound isn’t really popular in here as maybe other commercial genres! In general terms we can say that this kind of music has the crowd that really needs, nothing complicated or pretentious just people who wants to go straight to the dance floor and have a good party!
What is a typical gig weekend like for you?
To be real honest we don´t have this “gig weekends”, in fact we do this simply for the love of music and fun, our “gigs” are mainly with friends, whenever we can throw a nice but pretty local party.
We’ve never been involved in anything too serious although it would be great, but right now between jobs and college we have a pretty tight schedule!
Nonetheless we do program some studio time on weekends to re-listen all the tracks we found in past days and decide what we really dig so we can buy those records, also try new things on the decks or write and produce some pending tracks as well, we make edits of tracks that we want to play, which by the way are pretty basic, just for the purpose of making them a little bit dj-friendly and ease things out.
In a few words our weekends are simply about playing a lot of music and practising any recently acquired and very ridicule dance moves!
What features will you get into on the mixer after unboxing it?
We don’t know where to start! This mixer features a lot of functions that we are really eager to try, we guess some of them are the midi mapping plus soundcard to make use of Ableton and CD players in a more integrated way, besides the frequency mix and FX will totally help to build a smoother mix and then we could get creative with the sidechain FX manipulating audio, also the live sampler sounds interesting! Maybe we could use some live vocals? Our intention is to explore all the sound capabilities it can deliver!
Right now: Another round of Pioneer DJ Network is on!
