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THE GUESTLIST NETWORK | JULY 2010


DRUM&BASS//BREAKS//DUBSTEP27 DJ Friction - Shogun Audio


One of the biggest DJ’s in the drum n bass scene has just released a double CD mix album in association with Ministry of sound entitled ‘Mixed’, Khan- age caught up with Friction to find out more about the project, his label Shogun Audio, Its artists, Upcoming projects and everything inbetween!


a critical point of view it was re- ceived amazingly and the sales were fantastic aswell, it was fresh and different.


Is the label going to be con- centrating on artist albums? Yeah, that’s where we want to go. Ninja tunes & Warp are good markers for where we want to be. Icicles album will just blow people away, its on a totally different tip to anything people have heard and I am very excited about it. I am plan- ning an album project that will be more across the board, and then there is the Spectrasoul album which will probably sit in the mid- dle of my project and Icicles proj- ect in terms of style. We want to release quality electronic music.


What can we expect from Fric- tion in terms of tracks and projects? Well, as I mentioned, I am work- ing on my album. Its hard work just purely because of time but I am loving being in the studio. I am juggling alot, so the sleep is suffering right now! But I’m mak- ing some proper deep stuff and then some stinkin’ dancefloor ma- terial. People are like ‘how can you go from that to that?’ but that’s just me!


What can we look for- ward to f r o m t h e la - be l re-


decent sound technician!


If your weren’t a deejay/pro- ducer what would you be do- ing? Probably selling cars. If I had the choice Maserati’s or Lamborghi- ni’s


What occupies your time out- side of music? My friends and family. I’m meeting a mate of mine in abit that I haven’t seen for 6 months! and if I’ve got any time free I’ll be watching my son play football!


Can you give us any random tour stories that you can share with us? Ok. I need to seriously make sure that I don’t say anything that will get me into trouble


Well how about any stories of missing planes or late arriv- als? I had a show booked in Puerto Rico, we took off from Heathrow, got to about Ireland then realised that the plane had problems, so we had to turn around and land back at Heathrow. As we were landing I could see loads of fire engines and crew!


After 6 hours we took off again


and within 3 hours of flying some- one had a heart attack. The plane turned around again this time landed at Dublin, waited for 3 hours and flew back to heathrow. We were then told that we would be flying in the morning. As we fi- nally got to Puerto Rico the plane couldn’t land .. anyway i eventually got to the venue and had 30mins before I had to play!


“We just want to release quality electronic music”


Khanage


Was there a specific point that you decided that you wanted to pursue music as a career? It was when I first started going out to clubs like labyrinth at the lazerdrome, and raves at Hastings pier, I just knew wanted to deejay


Can you pick out some tracks that were rocking young Fric- tions stereo back in the day? Edge One, which was a classic rave track. There was Prodigy’s stuff too, Massive attack, west coast hip hop- Dre and Snoop, Death Row, even 80s dance stuff.


Who were the deejays/ labels/ producers that you admired in the early days? As for deejays- Carl cox & Ran- dall without a doubt, labels wise it was always quite random where the good tunes would come out. Things were alot less formulated back then.


How did the mix album for Ministry come into being? They approached me and wanted to me to do the mix, and my thing was that I wanted to do a double CD where I could play stuff that maybe doesn’t get the credit


and exposure it de- serves. We Went for the double CD and decided to go for it!


Is the mix a direct re- flection of what people can expect from you in a club? Depending where I play, yeah I would say so. That’s why I wanted to do a double CD...to show what I will play at a huge festival and then a more intimate setting


Your known as a very versatile deejay in terms of style, was it important for you to reflect this with the mix? Yeah, that’s very important to me. I have very varied influences within music and its important to reflect that. In an hours set its hard to show all styles but I can do differ- ent sets at different parties, that’s what its all about for me.


What are your favourite places to play across A] The world? B] The UK? Japan, Id say. Every time I go, there is a connection there. I get to play for three hours plus and I usually play at Womb in Tokyo, an excellent spot. I love my tours of Australia and New Zealand too. In the UK it was The End, in Lon-


lease wise? W e l l , we’ve got the Spectra- soul 12” Absen-


don. T h e club was very special to alot of different people, it had quite a spiritual vibe and an emotional connection to lots of people. If you ask most drum n bass deejays they will say that. It was a dream come true getting the residency, my management team did alot of work in making it happen and the parties went off and we went back a few times. We are now starting the night at Cable in London, which is looking wicked, I’m looking forward to the Shogun Audio night returning.


Your label Shogun Audio re- cently put out an Alix Perez debut, 1984, were you pleased with the reception? Yeah, really pleased. We worked really hard with Alix to put togeth- er something that reflected him and would also appeal to people who might not know him. From


tees and Glimpse, then there Icicles debut


dubstep 12’ which is xylopho- bia and minimal dub Then we’ve got Alix’s Dark Days EP which is starting to blow up. following that is my 12’ with Camo & Krooked, massive festival type tune. We got Rockwells 12’ that just dropped Ful Circle and My War and we’ve just signed another 12” from him, sounding really good!.


What are you listening to out- side of dnb? Let me just go through my itunes- We’ve got Bobby Caldwell, Silvia Stripken, Rick Holmes, I’m loving what Skream is doing too right on the other side.


What three things can you not live without on tour? 1) Decent hotel rooms are a must, I cant do the cell thing at all! 2) Four hours sleep a night 3) My iPod and im going to four so 4) A


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