Interesting interview with Guy Gerber about his album he’s making with P.Diddy
Just finished reading this and am a bit curious to see what he and Diddy have come up with in the studio.
One of my favourite parts of the interview,
[QUOTE]Having spent time with Diddy, can you tell me how much he knows about techno? Who does he like?
Well he doesn’t know the names but he can tell the difference between commercial shit and real raw underground beats. He has liked this music for 10 years and he is happy that it’s getting bigger now in the US but he wants to show people that it can be different to these cheesy trance productions that are ruling the charts now.[/QUOTE]
Should be an interesting album none the less and hopefully more people will pick up on it instead of trying to go the David Guetta /Black Eye Pea’s route!
Judging by his liveset (great in the summertime) and the quality releases on his Supplement Facts label, Gerber seems to know what he’s doing. Respect to the guy (no pun intended), curious how this turns out.
Maybe Diddy will finally break into the underground scene in a big way. I know he tried doing some stuff with Deep Dish and Felix da Housecat that never panned out but this might just be it.
Because I know Guy Gerber has more integrity that that and won’t let it go that route.
Seeing how it’s an album I’m not expecting every track to be a floor killer, but I’m still expecting a good album none the less much like Matthew Dears “Black City”
I would certainly not define G.Gerber as commercial crap. As for P.Diddy, he has a genuine interest in electronic music (for quite a long time now) and he made a lot of featurings for different artists over the years (some with a more underground sound like Hell as mentioned above or others with a larger audience - and more commercial approach - like Morillo). He’s a known figure in Ibiza (well that does mean nothing in itself but he’s following artists and he’s a regular party goer).