John 00 Fleming interview

John 00 Fleming interview
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Marjan
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# 19 January 2012, at 01:04
Nice interview with a legend, Dan!

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And lastly, in John 00 Fleming's own words, finish this sentence: 'Trance is...'

...coming back!


My favorite part.
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# 19 January 2012, at 02:12
Great interview! I really like John 00 Fleming. He seems like a really honest yet humble DJ. I definitely agree with many of the points he makes about trance. I saw him a few months ago and he played a fantastic set.
Remco
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# 19 January 2012, at 10:04
Impressive Dan! Can't wait to read it :D
Daniel
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# 19 January 2012, at 12:17
Thanks guys, it was an honor to be able to interview John.

Some of the interesting answers:

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Talk me through how you build a track, can you make it on a short journey or does it take you much longer until you are happy with how it sounds?

Each and every track actually starts in my head. I actually create the ideas and arrangement in my head, so that I know exactly what I have to create in the studio. This is the reason I don't turn to ghost writers, because I'm the only guy who can get these dark twisted ideas out of my head.


Creative ideas always flow better when I am thinking about them in my head. Even with Interview questions, I can't sit down and walk them I just get them as I go about my every day stuff.

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You are well known to stick by certain rules, as in you never record your live sets or play your own tracks in your live mixes, why is this?

I spend hours of each week pestering producers for new music, producers who know me will be reading this laughing. I hound them until they give me brand new unreleased tracks for my set. Many of them give me the tracks to road test in clubs so I can give them feedback to improve the tracks if necessary. There's a trust here that I don't give them any form of radio airplay until the track is ready for release due to the internet aging tracks quickly. If one of my sets gets recorded at a club, then I wont be able to play these aforementioned tracks, which make a good 75% of my set.


I like this reason allot, I had wondered why when I saw on his page and now I know why he does not record them. It's good to know. :)

I actually got the passion CD in the post today, I will write my thoughts on both CD's when I get a chance :)

You will notice that one or two of the questions repeat in my next interview, that is because I had not got this one back and I still wanted to ask them. I actually like asking the "Trance music is...." question though and will probably use that quite often :)