Interview w/ Loco Dice

November 19, 2007 | Filed Under Artists, Interviews |

TrickyDisco did a nice interview with Loco Dice, during his recent visit of Slovenian capitol Ljubljana and club k4. Check this out, its a nice read!

*So, is it Mr. Loco or just Loco tonight?

No. It’ just Dice. (laugh) People call me a lot of names. They call me Negro, Loco, Dice, Diceman …

*And how loco are you on the scale from 1 to 10?

How loco? Oh, I’m fucked up, man! (Laugh) As you can see me now, I’m a normal person. But on the other side, I have something going on in my head, which I still try to discover. I’m crazy. I do a lot of crazy things. I party hard. But I still live a normal life. I mean, every one of us has a little bit of craziness inside, you know.

*As I hear, your friend and excellent producer Martin Butrich is even bigger party animal than you.

(laugh) No! Not at all! Martin and me, after living in New York together, we’ve just adopted to each one. It’s like in a movie Switch: we’ve stepped into each other personality. He’s got mine and I’ve got his. I get more and more quiet and he gets more and more crazy. The craziest thing is I’ve lately caught myself leaving parties before him. (laugh)

*You’ve spent quite a lot of time together in New York producing music in the beginning of this year. Have you already released any of that material?

The first thing we did there was our remix of Dennis Ferrer’s song Son of Raw. We did two versions and it was quite an inspiration for me to go back to my house roots. I was always kind of housy, but if you look into Martin’s stuff, he’s totally housy. I was weird, ethnic, kind of techy one but New York gave us a lot of things which you’ll be able to hear soon. We didn’t release anything from the forthcoming Loco Dice album yet. I’ve recorded it with Martin in New York. We’ve spent most of the last half of a year producing this album. It was a successful half of a year for Martin and me as solo artists. Martin was previously producing in the background for Timo Mass. And I’m quite happy that Martin finally accepted that he can do his own thing. We’ve pushed him all. We’ve told him he has to do his own thing. So we’ve worked a lot on our own things and collaborated. But all I can say right now it’s that the album is coming out soon. It’s going to be released trough our new label Desolat which was lunched successfully with the release of Dubfire’s RibCage. This one is still a huge hit. And we have a new single coming out soon. It’s from Italian guy that lives in Romania. I won’t tell you more. Just wait for it. I’m not really a friend of saying a lot before the project is really out. We’re taking it easy and we’re quite happy about everything’s going right now.

*Why New York? Because of your hip hop roots?

Also because of that. My personal philosophy is that everyone who has the opportunity should at least once in a life for at least few months live in Ibiza in once in New York. Those are two totally different experiences: in Ibiza you can learn a lot of yourself and its magic. Ibiza is good, but can also be bad. I’m sure some of your readers will understand what I mean.

*So, Ibiza can be like a woman: good and bad at the same time?

For example. (laugh) New York has a kind of magic, too. But it’s different. I can live there. As an artist, I can breath. It’s the city. It’s the hip hop. Roots. Everything.

*You’ve left DC-10 club this season although you were kind of essentially connected to that institution. Why?

Yes it is an institution and I’ve had the most beautiful time in my life in DC-10. But DC-10 went into another direction I didn’t want to follow. I was impressed with the lifestyle DC-10 had and the mixture of resident and guest artist performing there. It was all about the music. But then DC-10 decided to change the direction and I didn’t want to follow it.

*But you were performing in Ibiza with Sven.

I’m always with Sven. We were hanging together and became buddies even when I was still a hip hop kid. We go way back. We’re not friends but we know each other and we used to hang around together. And even before I started my DC-10 relationship I’ve played at Manumission and Cocoon at the after hours at Space terrace. So, I’m really related to those guys, to Johannes (Heil) and all the team. For me Cocoon delivers family. When you’re in Ibiza it’s a little bit tough for an artist. It’s not just about going to the clubs and playing. I hate to just go to the club and play. I want more. I want to meet with the promoters, the people. I want to be the part of it. And I want the people to be the part of it. Otherwise it makes no sense to me. I’d stop it. I don’t want to do a job. I’ve left hip hop because I needed family, I needed something like this, you know. And Cocoon delivers me this. This is why I’ve played for Cocoon even when I was part of DC-10. I commit myself to the Cocoon and I’ll do it again next year.

*And even before: you are playing New Years Eve gig in Rotterdam with Sven.

Exactly. I’m really happy about that.

*Sven denies that but I want a second opinion: is it true he’s going to live forever?

If Sven will live forever? He denies it? Sven WILL live forever! (laugh) There’s nothing after Sven! I respect him a lot. You know how people are. Sometimes people are just weird. He is an institution for all of us. He helped my career as well to the career of many artists. And he delivered a lot of beautiful moments to all of us. That’s him. And yes, he’s going to live forever.

*For me, it’s very important to keep the child in me. How do you do that?

Well I’m a fucked up kid. Believe me, I’m the worse kid in town. People see me sometimes a dull and serious guy. Luciano used to say to me: ‘Don’t be so serious.’ But I’m not. We’re going every night playing and partying with the people. We are kids!

*Do you consider deejaying as a serious job?

I get paid to survive, to live. We’re working on the weekends, trying to find some hamburger to eat. But in the end, it is a job. Although you should not see it as a job. I won’t say it’s the best one, but I enjoy it. Although sometimes I feel I would be better working as a carpenter or working outside as a constructor. You start at eight am and finish the job at four o’clock in the afternoon. You can plan holidays, you can have kids, live a normal life. (laugh) It’s good and bad at the same time. It’s not the best job in the world. Every job should be the best in the world – as long as you love what you are doing. When you do the job that you love to do you are a lucky man.

*Is there any artist that really gives you goose bumps nowadays?

The artists that give me goose bumps are always the artists from back in the days: Santana, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye. I’m still listening to the old jams. And they give me goose bumps. Sometimes is some a set of some new deejay that catches my attention but it’s not the particular name I could mention. It just happens from nowhere and it can be a no name resident deejay. I might be in the club partying and the record just hits me. I never know when it’s going to hit me.

*Which of your own productions would you play when landing with a nice lady on the bear rug in front of the fireplace?

(laugh) This one is easy: Menina Brasileira.

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