Interview with Dj Darío Goenhag
By Luciano Ramos
January
in Buenos Aires city is synonymous of two things: vacations and moist
heat. Dario Goenhag meet me at his home located in the neighborhood of
Villa Ortuzar. To the 34 ° degrees of heat that feels in the street, we
will add several more degrees just going into the studio where he works
as a DJ. Surrounded by computers, amplifiers and speakers enough to
cover 800w , the feeling of entering into the dimension were musicians
live, come true. Dario gives me a blank sheet of paper and a pencil,
asking me to write ten words regardless of their length and next to
each, write the number of letters of each one. I do it & as I´m
finish he asked me to read them out loud
as fast as I can. As i´m doing it, i´m surprised to be interrupted
after each word with the exact number of letters, the longest being 18
letters. Dario smiled at me and tells me that is easy for him to group
sounds and calculate them mathematically. According to him, that is his gift to make accurate real-time mixing.
Q: Why do you do electronic
music?
A: Since I can remember, the sounds I hear have their root in my parents. My dad listened mostly “commercial electronic” like the one you could heard in “Oid Mortales” discs (records released in Argentina in the decade of the 90's),
A: Since I can remember, the sounds I hear have their root in my parents. My dad listened mostly “commercial electronic” like the one you could heard in “Oid Mortales” discs (records released in Argentina in the decade of the 90's),
Have you heard “101.1 Energy “ radio ? (laughter).
On the other hand, my mom
liked any kind of music to dance, like “cumbia”, “quartet”, from her I got the
joy of partying! Do you get it? From my dad I got the musical side, the hobby, the desire to do
this. I love the music everywhere.
Q: How much time do you spend making music?
A: That depends on how many activities I have. Some days I'm four hours recording as an obsessed, perhaps I record things that I really wanted for some time, and the next day I dedicate to other matters. Almost every day I spend some time making music.
Q: Which artists inspire you?
A: I like a bit of everyone. Trance DJs to deep house DJs, such as “Deep Mariano”, the truth is that I don’t have a favourite one. I have great admiration and respect for “Sgalia”, is a guy I always go to see him play live, actually I really like only 60% of the music that he plays, but i get how he plays and you can tell he puts all of his energy on stage, is the same if he plays, 2, 7 or 15 hours. He's humble & grateful, when he arrives as when he leaves. The DJ has to have fun, show off, has to make mistakes, & stain his hands.
Q: Which method do you choose to create the sets?
Q: How much time do you spend making music?
A: That depends on how many activities I have. Some days I'm four hours recording as an obsessed, perhaps I record things that I really wanted for some time, and the next day I dedicate to other matters. Almost every day I spend some time making music.
Q: Which artists inspire you?
A: I like a bit of everyone. Trance DJs to deep house DJs, such as “Deep Mariano”, the truth is that I don’t have a favourite one. I have great admiration and respect for “Sgalia”, is a guy I always go to see him play live, actually I really like only 60% of the music that he plays, but i get how he plays and you can tell he puts all of his energy on stage, is the same if he plays, 2, 7 or 15 hours. He's humble & grateful, when he arrives as when he leaves. The DJ has to have fun, show off, has to make mistakes, & stain his hands.
Q: Which method do you choose to create the sets?
A: Notebook, keyboard and
pad, left from when I was addicted to “Counter Strike”. I have a controller, is
beautiful and works perfectly. Possibly in the future I’ll need to access to
more professional programs. But now I feel very comfortable with handling 100%
of the current method. Is honestly enough. Virtual mouse and keyboard.
Q: Do you think that having access to better technology make a difference?
Q: Do you think that having access to better technology make a difference?
A: It's relative, with the
new technologies you can do things with much more detail, are useful and that
is why they are, but there are also things that are useless.
Q: How do you keep your music foundation update?
A: If you listen to “Delta FM”, you'll listen to thirty songs in a row and you will not recognize either one. Because is the ultimate progressive music , things like that, not yet arrived here from the hand of any DJ, you can't download it from MediaFire. Since I have no money to buy vinyl, I enter to music web sites and look for the producers, and name of the tracks to get to know the new tracks and associate to the authors.
Q: How do you keep your music foundation update?
A: If you listen to “Delta FM”, you'll listen to thirty songs in a row and you will not recognize either one. Because is the ultimate progressive music , things like that, not yet arrived here from the hand of any DJ, you can't download it from MediaFire. Since I have no money to buy vinyl, I enter to music web sites and look for the producers, and name of the tracks to get to know the new tracks and associate to the authors.
Q: what is your dream place to play your music?
A: I would like to close a "Sensation" fest in Amsterdam, a party with 350 thousand people dancing to my music. Now comes one in Chile...
A: I would like to close a "Sensation" fest in Amsterdam, a party with 350 thousand people dancing to my music. Now comes one in Chile...
E-mail Dj Darío Goenhag: d.goenhag@hotmail.com
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