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“Backroom” hits #1 pos. for Trapez on beatport…John Lennon still Imagines…

Thursday, December 24th, 2009 | Techno Artists and productions, Uncategorized, deepchild live and dj sets, deepchild podcasts, dj charts, reflections | No Comments

Backroom on Trapez

So this is Christmas. I’m sitting in Bar Colluzi, in the gorgeous warmth of a Darlinghurst Christmas Eve, with the streets alive with their usual mix of colorful gay-boys, too-thin fashionistas, blossoming young ladies for a day out in ‘the city’, old Greek and Italian men (this place is a cafe institution here) and sweaty junkies, soliciting money. I’m nursing a giddy head filled with asprin and giddy hangover, brewed skillfully with the residue of of a flu which refuses to abate.

Bon-Jovi plays in the background, and my mind is awash with thoughts of fallout from this weeks Copenhagen climate-change debacle, family gatherings and shows, melting icecaps and blistering summers. Minutes ago, John Lennon’s “Imagine” played softly, and I confess, I was drawn again to the brilliance of this timely song. A couple of days ago, I re-watched “John Lennon Versus the CIA” - a documentary tracing the politicisation of Johns song-writing and anti-war advocacy, along with the government suspicion which came to accompany his work. This Christmas, I’m humbled to be reminded of the power of intention, however roughly articulated - John Lennon’s was clear to me, and came to outshine the man himself…

I used to feel so jarred by much of his (and the Beatles) work - feeling it was gratingly twee. Now - older, mellower, I’m grateful for the simpler, more powerful sentiments he embodied - as twee and paradoxical and full of incongruity as they were. Imagine.

In other news, Backroom has been charting fantastically - I’m particuarly touched to have it, currently, at the #1 position for downloads for Trapez on beatport.com, as well as the #3 and #8 positions for the ‘B-sides’ from the EP. Trapez has been a consistently inspiring label to me, so I feel overjoyed to be producing work which suits their ’sound’ so well. This is all I could dream of…

I’m reminded, again, of one of the first electronic dance-floor artists I was introduced to - AKUFEN, whos wonderful “Pyschometry” is still a regular Trapez joint in many a set.

Merry Christmas. Keep imagining.

See you at Peats Ridge Festival on the 29th xo

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