It's hard to believe its been 18 months since Marco V last played in Perth, closing out the inaugural Creamfields trance stage with a mind blowing set that was the highlight of most people's day. However, come three weeks time the Dutch master craftsman will be headlining Perth's very first 3D live experience when Godskitchen 3D hits Metro City on September 30. GLEN CANNING caught up with Marco to get the low down on the exciting prospect of discovering a new smoothie flavour on his next Australian visit.
"Ha ha ha ha" Marco chuckles, "you remembered! Yes I can't wait for an Australian smoothie!"
Reminiscing on Marco's powerhouse closing set at Creamfields last year is a popular past time amongst many fans and one can imagine this must be an incredible motivational factor in getting up each day and living the high pressure life out of suitcase and Marco agrees.
"Yeah but the thing is its really hard cause you don't know what's going on in the minds of people when your DJing but if you see people enjoying the music, that's what it's all about you know. That keeps you going, sometimes people ask me if I get tired of travelling and everything and I do but when you're behind the decks and playing your music out and you see the people going then you forget everything and its just great every time."
Not one to sit still for too long, Marco has been extremely busy was some wide ranging and diverse projects including a remix of Nicole Sherzinger and 50 Cent's track "Right There" which was sure to raise a few eyebrows in the scene but the result is quite impressive. Marco sheds some light on how he chooses what tracks to remix.
"It depends. I like to do a remix of someone big like Nicole Sherzinger, it's the thing that everyone's doing now. They gave me the offer and I just said I'd give it a try, it's not the first thing that pops up into my mind when I want to remix somebody but we started working on it and it came out the way it did and now I'm really happy with it and getting good response but if I couldn't do something with a track and I wasn't happy with it, I wouldn't put it out so that's the deal you know? I'll start working on it and I'll see if I can take it somewhere that I like. That's the main thing I say to everybody that I remix now."
With trance suffering from an oversaturation of cheesy vocals, Marco's tech inspired trance fusion is a refreshingly alternative to some of the crap being produced. With some of the best harder edged producers even now resorting to these productions it appears to be simply because of the simple fact that it brings in the money. Marco knows all too well the conflicting sides of making a living yet staying true to your roots as he explains.
"It's a struggle everyday in the studio and I know where all those people are coming from. Everybody wants success these days, they don't make music with the heart anymore and the shortest way is put a vocal in it and I can tell you now that if I found a vocal tomorrow that I think is really catchy and it's really doing something for me and it will give me chart hit then I hesitate to do it but there's so many vocals out there now that it just doesn't make any sense – it's just a vocal on a track, it doesn't go anywhere, it's not catchy, it's not anything!"
So where is the electronic revolution leading us towards one may ask? Well it depends on so many factors but Marco isn't forecasting doom and gloom for the future.
"Just recently I start to enjoy trance music more than I did for the past 2 years, I think the productions and the way it's going right now I think it's going in a much more positive direction now but maybe it's because it's not as trance trance as it was before, there's more influences now from techno and progressive. There's a big music change going on, maybe too many people who produced trance before just cause that's where the money was at but now they've switched to producing House music because that's the most popular genre."
Continuing on from the good vs bad of the scene's evolution, Marco was very much in emphatic agreement when the following statement was put to him. Do you think genre labels are restricting the growth of dance music?
"Oh yeah, absolutely. Yes, yes, yes!"
"I mean I also like a lot of styles of music and when I go to download promos or put my music on Beatport or Track It Down, I go to "All Genres" I don't go to only trance or techno, I list all genres cause sometimes there's a track in a certain type of genre that sounds more to me like this or that or maybe something's labelled as techno and you think it more progressive or the other way around."
Godskitchen in 3D:
Friday 30 September, 9pm – 5am, Metro City
Tickets on sale now through www.ticketmaster.com.au (136 100), 78 Records, Mills Records, Live Clothing and Planet Video.
Read more of Glen's work through Teknoscape.
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