[URL="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11151564/site/newsweek/"]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11151564/site/newsweek/[/URL]

interesting read...

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i cant that video to work. it sticks at ""buffering""

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quote: "[B]I?m setting my studio up in New York at the moment and I?m just about to go into the studio for a few months and work on some music[/B]."

so there's a new album in the making..8)

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"You get to a certain point in your career where you play one bad set and it?s all over the Internet chat rooms, you know."

:roll: more like numerous bad sets :twisted:

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[B][B]How much are you and your fellow DJs influenced by the partying and everything that comes with the dance-club culture: drugs, alcohol, sex.[/B][/B]

I mean, I really don?t know about that. I mean too much of that and you?re not going to get your job done. You have to be aware that people are out to party.

hmmmmmm, yeah i believe him!

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interesting read, thanks for the link

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Good interview, but the reporter seemed to ask the typical questions.

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:Crazy mo: hmm i wonder why sasha was really avoiding the drug questions???:Weirdoz :

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going back through the newsweek archive you can probably find an article blaming all pill use on "techno/electronic" music. now they are embracing it. cool article, but the news still sucks.

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newsweek sux...they very anti american imo.

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^^^^^^^^ i give them prps for the article though..........

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[QUOTE=chuckc][B][B]How much are you and your fellow DJs influenced by the partying and everything that comes with the dance-club culture: drugs, alcohol, sex.[/B][/B]

I mean, I really don?t know about that. I mean too much of that and you?re not going to get your job done. You have to be aware that people are out to party.

hmmmmmm, yeah i believe him![/QUOTE]

He was explaining that he doesnt really know about the sex and drugs having a big influence on the music, and too much influence from that and you wont be able to function as a DJ, but you have to keep in mind that your crowd is there to party (hence the answer to the question... You are playing music for people who are high, so you should avoid being a buzzkill)

Sasha is far from a goody-two-shoes....

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Not a bad interview. I thought it was kinda tame for a sasha article though but it was newsweek. I think it was funny that he told newsweek he did not want to talk about drugs though.

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[QUOTE=rewing3]Not a bad interview. I thought it was kinda tame for a sasha article though but it was newsweek. I think it was funny that he told newsweek he did not want to talk about drugs though.[/QUOTE]

His response was really fucking on point about it though, he's right... No matter how you word it, there is a huge percentage of readers out there who read the word DRUGS and immediately lump Courtney Love, Charles Manson, that crackwhore sucking dick behind the dumpster for a quick fix, Sasha, and myself all into the same group labeled "junkie sinners".....

..... Some of us are just Lowlife Junkies ya know.... I keep my sinning and my addictions separate...

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touchy today. mike, u ragging it?

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Not really.... Chuckc often inspires me to explain the logic behind things he's obviously missed somehow... Although I am still unclear about his Newsweek anti-american comment, what is that based on and is that a bad thing? And Sasha is british too, so I'm really curious about what that whole thing's about...

And I had an uber-productive morning so I am in fast-typing multi-tasking rant-writing mode....

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Interesting, but Sasha was choosing his words [B][I]very [/I][/B]carefully. Can't blame him, it was f'ing Newsweek after all!

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[quote=miketpoto]You are playing music for people who are high, so you should avoid being a buzzkill) [/quote] thats an interesting way of looking at it.

• just read the interview, what the fuck kind of interview was that, sasha just shouldnt have done the interview in the first place.

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dance music must be really passe if its in Newsweek -

or maybe its just Sasha thats passe? hehehe

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[QUOTE] [B][B]Do you miss the days of spinning at Twilo?[/B][/B] Absolutely. They were good days, definitely good days. It was a really great club. People constantly look back to the older days and how much better it was, but I just keep looking forward and keep trying to evolve in what I do. I’m setting my studio up in New York at the moment and I’m just about to go into the studio for a few months and work on some music. [/QUOTE]

I remember a time in between maybe like 03 and 04 when we were all like wtf, where has the music gone? Let us all remember the definition of progressive dance music and the banging beats comming out of John's latest sets. It fluxuates just like everything else in life, it has its' up times and its' down times.

Lets just be happy Sasha didn't come out and say yeah, coke and sex good combo.

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[quote=Neoxx]quote: "[B]I?m setting my studio up in New York at the moment and I?m just about to go into the studio for a few months and work on some music[/B]."

so there's a new album in the making..8)[/quote]

I remember right before Involver came out, he was featured in Urb Magazine and way back then he said he was moving to NYC to be with his girlfriend while she attends NYU. That was a lonnnnng time ago so I would have assumed he had his studio set up by now....didn't know that was still left to be done.

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[quote=Huggie Smiles]dance music must be really passe if its in Newsweek -

or maybe its just Sasha thats passe? hehehe[/quote]

He seems quite uncomfortable....

the interviewer is horrible....

I think he handled it well... poor Sasha...

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[QUOTE=liquidsky]I remember right before Involver came out, he was featured in Urb Magazine and way back then he said he was moving to NYC to be with his girlfriend while she attends NYU. That was a lonnnnng time ago so I would have assumed he had his studio set up by now....didn't know that was still left to be done.[/QUOTE]

He only lives in nyc half the year, and what studio do you think involver/fundacion were worked on at? His studio is mainly ableton based from what I know of anyway, so n ot a lot of hardware to setup anyway... maybe just getting a good layout in which he works best in? That makes the most sense to me I'd say.

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Yeah I don't think he needs a lot of equiptment. Especially with technology being the way it is today.

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That was an extremely weak interview. I thought Sasha handled it really well.