Jun 5, 2014
El Chino delivers what he considers his first live mix in over
10 years for episode 36 of the Gangstercast. The mix was
recorded off the cuff after Sneak (who made up his name) asked for
it and, El Chino describes, “it showcases a range of house music
that i have been playing throughout my life, most the tracks are on
Vinyl and the music spans from 1991 onwards to fresh cuts from
myself and my friends, some released and some not. Normally
nowadays people do their perfect mixes off their laptops but I
thought it would be nice to do a live mix with real mixing, no
editing & just keeping it RAW. I did at my home in Ibiza
after being reunited with my treasured vinyl after many years of
being absent from each other. It’s probably the 1st mix ever to
showcase some of my new productions under my alias El Chino.”
House music is very close to El Chino’s heart and he explains some
of the difficulties he has experienced in the scene over recent
years, “I took a step back from DJing and producing for a short
while to look at the scene from a different perspective, as it was
soul destroying due to the fact that the industry is now
unfortunately over saturated with fake ass talentless people who
get paid a hell of a lot of money, who play shit music badly on
laptops and too many of which cannot produce their own beats.
These so called artists were the guys who were on top of the
game, playing at the time their so called “Underground” music, at
this time Real House music was un cool and not trendy but now Real
house music is tagged “Underground & Trendy”, so now all the
pretentious DJ’s who were too cool for the House music skool back
then are all now playing “House” music in todays so called
“Underground” dancefloors from around the world. House music
is not a fad, its not fashion, its a part of life, Real Quality
House music is timeless.”
The above leaves no doubt the El Chino is a bonafide House
Gangster. His take on it is that its about, “championing and
keeping real house music and the original art of DJing alive, a
collective of real purists who are all against the brain washing
regime of awful electronic dance music which we are unfortunately
exposed to in todays matrix system we call life. House Gangster
Sound? BIG Drums & Percussion, BIG Subby Basslines, naughty little
samples, Jacking Beats with Urban, Latin, Jazz, Techno, Deep House
& Hip Hop Influences.