INTERVIEW
Fall silent, for you are in the company of greatness. Marc Cerrone – drummer, producer, artist and DJ – has spent the last 50 years carving his own niche and doing his own thing, all the while influencing tens of thousands of musicians and delighting millions upon millions of music lovers.
Now, with Cerrone On Cerrone, his brand-new, career-defining album, Cerrone has personally created a seamless journey that reinterprets and merges his catalog of classics in a whole new way.
And with remixes on board from the likes of Joey Negro and Dimitri From Paris, disco has never sounded fresher, more alive, more vital and more ready to – once again – kickstart the creativity of today's new music makers.
With a view to talking ‘Love In C Minor’, ‘Supernature’ and beyond, we ensnared Cerrone at his studio in Paris to discuss the new album and his new career as an in-demand DJ, and to ask just how one goes about creating a whole new genre of music?
How did Cerrone On Cerrone come about? This is wall-to-wall classic tracks, but it all sounds so fresh.
I was working on a new LP with original songs but I've recently been playing at festivals. Playing to maybe five, seven, 30,000 people. My record company pushed me and convinced me that if I play as a DJI can play all the big festivals rather than play live. So I've kind of stopped my career as a musician. And I've been D Jing more and more.
Was it hard becoming a DJ after so long as a musician and producer?
Ah, but I found the great machine! The Ableton! And with my engineer I started to put samples on my original tracks and soon it was like I was making the album on stage with the public. Then I could go back to the studio and minimize the harmony from certain tracks. Take the original multitrack and
