1. Growing Up
I didn’t come from an overly musical household, however my older brother was quite upfront with his musical taste and introduced me to all kinds of cool music. The KLF was the group that really resonated with me and started me on the direction id later take. When I was around 20, my grandmother bought me a pair of turntables and a mixer, and I never looked back. I often wonder what path I’d have taken had that not have happened, I sure as hell didn’t have 3K to drop of equipment myself in those days. Bless her heart!
2. Inspirations
Sasha and John Digweed’s Northern Exposure nd Endorphin’s Embrace were two albums opened my eyes to electronic music but it was BT Movement In Still Life that spawned the obsession that would follow. I started off with prog, trance and breaks but when some friends and I were at Substance at Salt one night I called my brother who was at some gig at Capsule Nightclub, and when I heard the banging music through the phone we drove straight there and I became obsessed with harder music and I started DJing around that time.
3. Your Crew
Being around as long as I have, lots of the guys I came up with have taken different paths. These days I see myself as somewhat as a travelling gypsy. I don’t have a crew as per say I’m more of a loner. I prefer it that way, I like to do my own thing and do them my way. However I’m lucky to work at Store DJ which keeps me in the thick of technology and like minded people. It’s the ideal environment for me, watching the face of music technology change before your eyes on a daily basis makes me moist with excitement!
4. The Music You Make
I can be a confused artist at times. If you listen to the music I write, it’s different to the music I play. If you listen to the Earthcore CD that just came out, my disc leans heavy on techno but explores house, breaks, prog, psy and acid but if you listen to the music I write, it always comes out prog. I find it hard to shake my roots I guess. My latest EP For What It’s Worth is out now on Molecule Recordings and that’s very much prog. I guess no matter what I play there will always be an underlying element of prog and I’m cool with that.
5. Music, Right Here, Right Now
Music’s in a great place right now, with EDM doing its thing in the limelight, it’s just pushed the underground back underground and made it stronger than ever. I will never understand these people who say “you can’t beat the music back in the day”, I call bullshit. Production has come so far over the years that the quality has go ten to a ridiculous point, music has never been better than it has today and the day I don’t believe that anymore if the day I give it all away. I just had Josh Butler play for my Our House night I run at Pawn & Co and it was just good music. House music that doesn’t have to prove its importance to you, I love that.
Trent McDermott will play at Earthcore which goes down from Thursday November 27 to Monday December 1 in Pyalong. Tickets are on sale now from the earthcore.com.au – where you can also check out the full lineup.
