Metro Area is one of the best techno/house history lessons you could ever hope to hear. Big nods to Detroit, New York and Chicago here,. One of these days, someone will create the “Cherry Pie” of the disco-house revival, but as long as Metro Area is still throwing down music like this, I’m not sure I’ll ever care. This Saturday for First time in Medellín: METRO AREA.
1- How Morgan and Darshan knew each other?
We first met on an internet music mailing list and started hanging out, record shopping, talking about music and eventually working on stuff together.
2- Why Metro Area ? where did this curious name born?
“Metro Area” was a way to acknowledge the big influence of New York City radio and the city itself on our music. We both grew up near, but just outside the city, so the radio was the way we were able to get the vibe of the city’s music from where we were. It’s also a name that others can relate to their own city centers.
3- Do you see yourselves as a italo-disco renaissance ?
Not really. We have too many influences to be considered specifically Italo-disco, though the style does play a part in our sound and DJ sets.
4- What were your first and most important influences in the musical history ?
70s rock, 80s R&B and “boogie”, disco, new wave, early rap and hip-hop, some industrial music, some Indian music. A bunch of stuff.
5- What happened with your Live show ?
We stopped doing it because it was getting boring.
6- What do you think about the actual encounter between pop electronic music, electro, house and neo-disco? it is good for the culture or is more a mainstream product?
I don’t know, I hear some influences from underground club music in big pop radio hits but who cares? The majority of those kinds of songs are made specifically to be exactly what they are – huge, immediate, disposable. It’s an entirely different world. Those songs are basically audio productd for people who aren’t really looking for music or any kind of mood or meaning.
Until the whole mentality of commercial radio and TV changes, which I’m sure it won’t, that’s the kind of stuff they will play. Back in the 70s & 80s you used to hear a lot more actual music on the radio, and playlists that were longer than 6 songs on repeat all fucking day.
7- What does a set for you? is the crowd, the surroundings or the feeling who drives your mixes? as we can found an infinity of genres and styles in?
Thanks, I guess it’s just a common theme or value that ties all of the different records together. Then it’s the vibe in the room and what the place feels like. We try to get people excited playing music our way.
8- Why music is important to the human antropology and generations?
If other people enjoy music the way we do, I would guess that it’s a way to escape, to dream, it can be uplifting, it can be a way to celebrate with friends. It can be a way to reflect and, if you make music, to express.
9- Do you believe in love, war or we need both?
I believe in love, and also in war if the war is just and fought in defense. I don’t believe in wars of conquest, and I don’t think any of today’s wars are just.
10- To end add a word in front of each concept:
Life: one
Past: cherish
Present: yours
Future: fluid
Environ: solid
Piña: jugo
Minimal: ingredients
Electro: circuit
Disco: party
Techno: futurism
House: skeleton
Detroit: america
New York: transmitter
Europe: endless
Southamerica: richness
