As a DJ, you’re often put in a position where you need to take spontaneous decisions as to what tracks to play, and when to play them. This is a skill that takes some time to develop, as you have more and more chances to test out the variety of different scenarios you encounter.
Clovis is someone who’s had his good share of adventures, starting out in his home-country USA and later becoming a passenger of the world, living for some time in Romania and later moving to Berlin, where he is currently located.
He’s seen some places, he’s made a good share of people move on the dance floor, so it felt only natural to ask him for a couple of track recommendations.
Keep on reading and find out what scenarios we presented and what songs he chose for them.
🗨️ If you could send one record back to your younger self at the moment you started getting into electronic music, which one would it be?
I wish I would have discovered Luke Vibert at the beginning and not almost 20 years into this…
🗨️ What’s a record that instantly takes you back to a specific room, night or sunrise?
Fumiya Tanaka late afternoon after hours house jams mode at Get Perlonized, Guesthouse Bucharest, October 2019. Simply a masterclass and the first time I heard this amazing record!
🗨️ Is there a record you’ve owned for years but still never fails to give you goosebumps each time you hear it?
This is actually the first record I ever bought when I started collecting vinyl around 2011 after beginning DJing with cdjs. An eternal classic.
🗨️ Let’s say aliens landed tomorrow and you are humanity’s last hope. What record would you play to let them know we mean business?
I would like them to know the beauty, benevolence, and empathy of our species, if there is any left…
🗨️ Let’s do a little imagination exercise. You’re playing the last record on a late Tuesday morning, basically ending a 5-day outdoors festival. What track fits this moment?
Always so hard to choose, and that reminds me I need to refresh my “last track” folder… but here is one. I have never closed with this masterpiece by Ewan Pearson but still trust the right moment will come…
