Ripping Vinyl In A Digital Age.
Galtier, A young DJ hailing from Geelong, providing the nightlife of said area is a person who i have not known long, although is someone who has opened my ears to many new genres of music that i thought i would never have a bar of (pun, unintended) This cheerful young lad is tearing it up exploring all points of disc spinning madness in the musical universe and i for one, think everyone needs to get a load of this guys genius.
I invited myself over to his home to take photos of him and bombard him with questions.
Unusually, the banter that followed did not take the usual path of throwing adventure time quotes at each other as quickly as possible, but took a much more serious and intellectual note. (compared to the usual, I in no way consider this to be highly intellectual)
This is the conversation as it played out.
I invited myself over to his home to take photos of him and bombard him with questions.
Unusually, the banter that followed did not take the usual path of throwing adventure time quotes at each other as quickly as possible, but took a much more serious and intellectual note. (compared to the usual, I in no way consider this to be highly intellectual)
This is the conversation as it played out.
Xav: I’m here with Galtier, listening to The doors LA woman on vinyl in the sun, and life is good
Galt: It’s very good
Xav: What’s been goin’
on?
Galt: Oh man, I’ve
been relatively busy with Uni, studying primary school teaching, and it’s
getting to the later stages of the course and its really starting to kick In. I
wanna be a school teacher at the end of next year, but it doesn’t feel right
quite yet. IM NOT READY! Haha
Xav: Especially if
you’re DJ’ing as hardcore as you are
Galt: Well DJ’ing wise
I haven’t been playing that many gigs, its been more production stuff. And its
really going somewhere at the moment and I’ve just been doing song after song
and its really going somewhere and I’m really enjoying it too. So production is
really this month’s ‘hot topic’
Xav: What kind of
stuff have you been doing, I know you do a lot of different things; you love
your techno and your…other genres that I know nothing about
Galt: Well let me
describe to you, what it is that I make. I make a lot of combinations of
different genres. The most prominent probably being house, deep house, bass music,
which is kind of about breaking the boundaries of music. And of course techno,
I live for techno. Love it!
But ive been making a lot of sort of experimental stuff lately, not sort of big heavy bass kicks and so on, Just testing different sounds and seeing what works and sounds cool. I don’t just stick to what’s ‘meant’ to be done.
Xav: I feel like you’ve had quite a different approach to DJ’ing than most others, seeing as every 2nd dude out there is a DJ. You really seem to go about it differently rather than just playing club banger favourites such as party rock anthem and other commercial songs of that description
Galt: Well yeah, as you said every second dude is a dj because of the equipment out there that makes it so easy to be a dj. so I try to do something a bit different, break the boundaries and the norms of what everyone else I doing and make my sets about making people go: what is this amazing music this guy is playing and where can I find it? I try to stick to what I like to do, I could never just conform to doing those disgraceful commercial club bangers
Xav: Its definitely impressive stuff if you’re able to get a dancefloor filled with music that isn’t the most well known and popular, then you’ve gotta be doing something right.
Galt: Yeah man, in clubs and stuff ill try to break the norms. But even when I play at places at the nash with my counterpart ; Tampa, shoutout too tampa.
We play metal, rock, old disco stuff from the 90’s and below, bit of hip hop and rnb all that Jazz. We don’t really play any modern stuff, we like to go back to when music was brilliant.
Xav: The 90’s was 20 years ago now, its vintage right?
But ive been making a lot of sort of experimental stuff lately, not sort of big heavy bass kicks and so on, Just testing different sounds and seeing what works and sounds cool. I don’t just stick to what’s ‘meant’ to be done.
Xav: I feel like you’ve had quite a different approach to DJ’ing than most others, seeing as every 2nd dude out there is a DJ. You really seem to go about it differently rather than just playing club banger favourites such as party rock anthem and other commercial songs of that description
Galt: Well yeah, as you said every second dude is a dj because of the equipment out there that makes it so easy to be a dj. so I try to do something a bit different, break the boundaries and the norms of what everyone else I doing and make my sets about making people go: what is this amazing music this guy is playing and where can I find it? I try to stick to what I like to do, I could never just conform to doing those disgraceful commercial club bangers
Xav: Its definitely impressive stuff if you’re able to get a dancefloor filled with music that isn’t the most well known and popular, then you’ve gotta be doing something right.
Galt: Yeah man, in clubs and stuff ill try to break the norms. But even when I play at places at the nash with my counterpart ; Tampa, shoutout too tampa.
We play metal, rock, old disco stuff from the 90’s and below, bit of hip hop and rnb all that Jazz. We don’t really play any modern stuff, we like to go back to when music was brilliant.
Xav: The 90’s was 20 years ago now, its vintage right?
Galt: The 90’s is an
era that we love and its great to see kids dressing very 90’s and getting into
really what was the era, they were born in. Like, kids, you’re dressing how you
did when you were a child. And I dig it
Xav: Its very interesting indeed, from a social observant point of view
So did, you go out last night? Gert smershed?
Galt: I did go out last night, but I was completely sober. Driving as I have now aquired my Probationary License, the Green P’s as they’re known.
But yeah, I went out. To Fake Chow, which was exceptionally good last night, because in my circuit of DJ’ing I associate myself very closely with two other DJ’s ;Tampa, which is Alex Helmer and Jump Street which is Jesse Chapotet. Pluggin’ my brothers again there, and as a collective we are known as ‘The Club Achieve’
Xav: Achieving what exactly?
Galt: Excellence in music of course, and we have a slogan, the slogan is: Club Achieve, you can do anything. Haha!
Xav: Its very uplifting, a sort of go get a job type thing.
Galt: Yeah its like, don’t do drugs, go Dj, go to school, listen to good music.
Xav: Yeah kids, listen to good music. And if you’re not doing it. Well you’re kinda shit.
Galt: Anyway so Club Achieve was in full force last night, and we were all up on stage for a bit and I did a few volume throwdowns and stuff. But Tampa’s set was the most packed Fake Chow has ever been, it was Phenomenal.
Xav: Sounds great and I might have to pop down to Fake Chow soon, seeing as I do not do this often. Do you have any gigs coming up soon?
Galt: I do actually, im Dj’ing at the establishment known as toast, you know the one with the bread and the butter and the nicely cooked and all that.
Xav: Yeah, the one with the Toast
Galt: Yeah you can get some really good toast there while you’re out partying
Xav: Really?
Galt: No, the nightclub doesn’t serve toast ya dickhead
Xav: Oh.
Galt: Haha yeah, so im playing at Toast at the event known as 12am, which starts at 10pm but we wont get into that right now. And there is a few large names playing who I am supporting, including Motorik, the record label based in Australia and artists like The Finger Prince, Jenson Interceptor, Your Ol’ Lady. And these guys are really taking the dance scene by for so it’s an honour to be supporting these guys.
Xav: Its very interesting indeed, from a social observant point of view
So did, you go out last night? Gert smershed?
Galt: I did go out last night, but I was completely sober. Driving as I have now aquired my Probationary License, the Green P’s as they’re known.
But yeah, I went out. To Fake Chow, which was exceptionally good last night, because in my circuit of DJ’ing I associate myself very closely with two other DJ’s ;Tampa, which is Alex Helmer and Jump Street which is Jesse Chapotet. Pluggin’ my brothers again there, and as a collective we are known as ‘The Club Achieve’
Xav: Achieving what exactly?
Galt: Excellence in music of course, and we have a slogan, the slogan is: Club Achieve, you can do anything. Haha!
Xav: Its very uplifting, a sort of go get a job type thing.
Galt: Yeah its like, don’t do drugs, go Dj, go to school, listen to good music.
Xav: Yeah kids, listen to good music. And if you’re not doing it. Well you’re kinda shit.
Galt: Anyway so Club Achieve was in full force last night, and we were all up on stage for a bit and I did a few volume throwdowns and stuff. But Tampa’s set was the most packed Fake Chow has ever been, it was Phenomenal.
Xav: Sounds great and I might have to pop down to Fake Chow soon, seeing as I do not do this often. Do you have any gigs coming up soon?
Galt: I do actually, im Dj’ing at the establishment known as toast, you know the one with the bread and the butter and the nicely cooked and all that.
Xav: Yeah, the one with the Toast
Galt: Yeah you can get some really good toast there while you’re out partying
Xav: Really?
Galt: No, the nightclub doesn’t serve toast ya dickhead
Xav: Oh.
Galt: Haha yeah, so im playing at Toast at the event known as 12am, which starts at 10pm but we wont get into that right now. And there is a few large names playing who I am supporting, including Motorik, the record label based in Australia and artists like The Finger Prince, Jenson Interceptor, Your Ol’ Lady. And these guys are really taking the dance scene by for so it’s an honour to be supporting these guys.
Xav: So have we got
some set times or anything like that?
Galt: Nah haven’t, got any set times so I’ve gotta send an email saying “hey, give me some fucking set times, I’m gettin’ edgy”
Oh! I’ve got a set at Fake chow 2 weeks after that, so come on down, I thinking I’m gonna play a 100% vinyl DJ set, which will be cool.
Xav: I will try to make it too that also but, I probably wont because im terrible at making it to events and whatnot.
Galt: Well ill tell you about it afterwards about how fuckin’ cool it was
Xav: Yeah you can tell me about it at work…because we work together, at a bakery.
Galt: Yeah Zeally Bay Sour Dough! Plug!
And shout out to Zeally Bass, Rowan and Ryan.
And Pat! I saw one of Pat’s Gig’s the other day, he’s fantastic
Xav: Plugging again, Pat Wilson. Just got a new EP out, check it out. Ill be interviewing him soon. For anyone who might be reading this
Galt: Nah haven’t, got any set times so I’ve gotta send an email saying “hey, give me some fucking set times, I’m gettin’ edgy”
Oh! I’ve got a set at Fake chow 2 weeks after that, so come on down, I thinking I’m gonna play a 100% vinyl DJ set, which will be cool.
Xav: I will try to make it too that also but, I probably wont because im terrible at making it to events and whatnot.
Galt: Well ill tell you about it afterwards about how fuckin’ cool it was
Xav: Yeah you can tell me about it at work…because we work together, at a bakery.
Galt: Yeah Zeally Bay Sour Dough! Plug!
And shout out to Zeally Bass, Rowan and Ryan.
And Pat! I saw one of Pat’s Gig’s the other day, he’s fantastic
Xav: Plugging again, Pat Wilson. Just got a new EP out, check it out. Ill be interviewing him soon. For anyone who might be reading this
Galt: Actually this is
interesting, I asked him about the sampling of his voice for a song and im even
doing an original electronic/folk version of some one of his songs. Which he
thought was cool, and I do too.
*farts*
*farts*
Xav: Did you just
fart?
Galt: Yes.
Xav: Alright, moving
on. Anything else been happening? Watching any good Tv Shows?
Galt: My sister Naomi got me onto Dexter, which is like pretty cool. A bit of murderous discourse, a serial killer, killing other serial killers. Everything is very messy.
Xav: I think we’ve plugged enough things for you to become a promoter, anything else of note?
Galt: *finishes Nordenfine smoothie*
Go get a Nordenfine Smoothie! They’re great!
And there is a very exciting chance that ill be doing an EP with an undisclosed record label, but all that’s still being worked out, but its very exciting.
Thanks to anyone who listens to my music.
Xav: And anyone who hasn’t check out his Soundcloud, there will be a bunch of links at the bottom of the page to go with all the promoting Galtier has done today.
Galt: Definitely need to get a job in promoting.
Xav: Alright we’re done here, Thanks Galtier. Ill see you at work this afternoon.
Galtier is playing this Saturday the 15th at Toast for 12am. Get Down!
Galt: My sister Naomi got me onto Dexter, which is like pretty cool. A bit of murderous discourse, a serial killer, killing other serial killers. Everything is very messy.
Xav: I think we’ve plugged enough things for you to become a promoter, anything else of note?
Galt: *finishes Nordenfine smoothie*
Go get a Nordenfine Smoothie! They’re great!
And there is a very exciting chance that ill be doing an EP with an undisclosed record label, but all that’s still being worked out, but its very exciting.
Thanks to anyone who listens to my music.
Xav: And anyone who hasn’t check out his Soundcloud, there will be a bunch of links at the bottom of the page to go with all the promoting Galtier has done today.
Galt: Definitely need to get a job in promoting.
Xav: Alright we’re done here, Thanks Galtier. Ill see you at work this afternoon.
Galtier is playing this Saturday the 15th at Toast for 12am. Get Down!
Galtier:
http://www.facebook.com/galtiermusic
Tampa:
FakeChow:
Toast:
Pat Wilson: http://www.facebook.com/pathamiltonwilson
Zeally Bay Sourdough:
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