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Tron mixes up the micheladas for the Halcyon Summer Ball — Mexican summer cocktail recipe included!
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Submitted 06-07-11 11:01
One of Mexico’s greatest exports alongside tacos, tequila, Corona, and as we’re about to learn, micheladas, Patricio Tron has been making music for over 10 years now and with two awesome albums behind him and gigs at the world’s top festivals, he’s only getting better. In London town for a rare live set at the Halcyon Summer Ball this Friday 8 July @Proud2, we thought it was well behind time that this multitalented musician made his HarderFaster debut…
When I arrive at Patricio’s friends’ flat in Clapham, the first thing he does is pour me a michelada, and at first I’m convinced that he’s made the thing up for the occasion. A beer cocktail (no that’s not a contradiction in terms in Mexico!), the interesting concoction also contains tomato juice, lime juice, tabasco/chilli sauce, soy sauce and salt around the outside of the glass. It certainly feels like there’s a meal in every glass and would no doubt sort you out quickly after a big night on the tequilas. But I’m not in Clapham to talk cocktails so I’ll leave the recipe until last: I’m here to learn more about this Mexican maestro…
Welcome the UK! For those who don’t know you, please tell us a bit about yourself. Did you always plan on being a DJ and producer, or was it something that you fell into over time?
Well, I always had an interest for music since I was really young. At age 12 I started to play guitar and I kept playing until I was about 18 or 19, when I was introduced to electronic music. And I started producing and djing around then, having more interest in it and investigating how to do it.
Why the name Tron? Is it your favourite movie?
It’s my surname! So it felt appropriate.
How would you describe the Tron sound?
The Tron sound I think is edgy, or at least rough around the edges. I try to keep production in mind, but I wouldn’t know how to describe myself. I try to make different things, but it’s never too noisy. I could say psychedelic trance, basically!
So who or what have been your biggest influences over the years? And now?
I’ve had a lot of teachers. It’s more about collaborating with them and you learn about how they do things and they learn how you do things. It wasn’t until after I released my first album that I started to get more real feedback about things. To be honest, nowadays I get really inspired more by different genres. I’m getting more into slower music, a little bit more popular stuff.
You’re getting old?!
My ears are getting thinner I guess! My focus is on different things now, not so much on the “havingitness”, if that’s a word!
We have to be careful how we word that as you’re headlining the “havingitroom” at the Halcyon Summer ball!
It’s just different projects I’m doing. I prefer to see it as not on the tension but on the flow. I see my music in a very different and abstract way.
If you had to choose between DJing and producing what would you choose?
I have much more fun when I’m playing when I DJ, as it’s only CDs so you can’t go very wrong. When I play live it’s only my own music. First of all, you can’t really go into tangents, like when you’re in a DJ set you can really just go on one, because you have a massive CD case of records that all sound great.
But with your own music you have a limited amount of tracks that you feel that will be fitting, so with that you have to make a journey and you can’t go as far with the content that you have.
At the same time, when I’m in the studio I have a lot of fun. I had a lot of fun DJing but I don’t do it any more because of my ears. It’s more strain and more work for the ears to be beat-matching with loads of sounds, sometimes in very very bad situations with very bad booths. I guess I’ve already decided that one as I’m only producing now and playing live, so production is the one I like to do!
[He has another sip…]
I love michelada. It’s my favourite drink in the world I think!
I’ll have to learn how to make it… What’s been your favourite party over the years and why?
Wow that’s a hard one! A lot of them have been magic experiences, some of them have been really humbling and some of them the opposite way around.
But you’ve got to have the bad to appreciate the good, right?
Yes the bad ones are good as well, because they show another aspect of yourself and how things are on the other side. You have to have a point of contrast. It’s not when I’m playing I feel it’s a bad one or a good one, but it’s more about the atmosphere or actual experience. The Glades in 2005 and 2006, the ones that weren’t muddy — for European festivals, they’ve probably been the best times I’ve had.
Are you going to any more festivals in the UK?
No, Halcyon is the last thing I’m doing here. But then in Europe I’ve got Sonica and Aurora.
Tron and Colin OOOD
You spoke about your collaborations. You’ve done collaborations with Dickster, Earthling, OOOD, BeatNik and Everblast, amongst others. How do you approach a new collaboration?
Well we normally just meet at a party and look at each other and say, “We have to do this!” With Dick, the first track we did was just after my first album and that was ‘A Few Spoonfuls’. We just met at a party and it was like, “Oi, get in the studio!” And we did that track in a couple of sessions. Last week I went for another session with him. Yeah I got another one in! It’s normally you’re passing by, you’re sofa surfing, and it just happens.
Is there anyone that you haven’t collaborated with yet that you’d really like to?
Well there’s a few people. I’d like to write music with Headroom.
Did you see his set at the Glade?
Yes, I arrived for the middle. A month ago we brought him to Mexico for a party and that was cool. Tristan: we’ve been talking about it for years, but he’s always busy. Lately he’s been doing his Killawats. There’s a lot of people I’d really like to write music with, like a lot of the Zenon Records guys, like Grouch. He’s from your land! I’d like to work with some electro producers, that would be really good. To go to the dark side! To see what it’s all about to be commercial and popular!
Well Headroom’s been doing some of that…
Yes I think we’re all crossing over, to get serious about stuff. We have to be honest, this is a very limited scene. It’s the best one, with the best crowd and the best energy, and we do it for the love, that’s what we have to keep doing it for.
Tron and Tristan
You’re also half of Blind Roller with Cameron from Mood Deluxe. How would you say the Mood Deluxe energy and sound is different from what you do by yourself as Tron?
What I do with Cameron is usually a bit more energy and a bit faster as well. He likes faster music when it’s trance, but we haven’t been doing much trance lately, he’s given it up! I would say it’s a little more old school, it’s a very ambiguous term but it is a bit old school with not so many chops or high tech sounds. It’s more with the lead lines just flowing, with a storyline without so many chops and edits.
If a movie was made of your life, who would you like to play you?
Jonny Depp!
You’re playing at Halcyon on Friday 8 July, headlining the second room; why should people reading this come and watch you play?
Because they’re going to have a good time and they’re going to hear music that they haven’t heard before, played in a way that hasn’t really been done before, it’s not so stereotypical or generic, although it’s trance it’s not quite the full-one style or the high-tech style… I don’t know about styles, I just like to write music!
What advice would you give up and coming DJs and producers that want to make it in the music scene?
Keep at it, that’s the best one I can give them because they’re going to have to do a lot of that! Just don’t give up, because it’s hard out there as there’s a lot of people doing it. It’s like when you see a model or a star you think it’s all fun and games, but it’s not so glamorous as they think it would be. But it’s good fun!
If you’re a DJ, work on your taste because it’s the most important thing. And if you’re a producer, don’t listen to loud music too much. Look after your ears!
How do you think the scene in Mexico is different to the UK?
I would say in England there are a few very important differences. The education of the people that go to the parties is one of the biggest ones that makes most of the difference in Mexico. Here people most of the time respect you and don’t get in your space, they don’t try to rob you. In the odd squat party you get weird guys, but you don’t get 1,000 of them for 5,000 people, it’s not the same proportion. So that is a very big difference.
In terms of the parties, the decoration is non-existent over there, or it’s being introduced very recently. The sound systems, they don’t really look after them. So basically production-wise, it’s not so good. Maybe because they don’t have so much money to invest in it or maybe because they want to make more money for the investment, but either way, that’s a fact, the production is lacking. And music-wise I would say they go more for the popular trance, rather than the underground or the more experimental or original. Over here you listen to loads of music and go to good parties, sometimes bad parties, but you know what to expect from a party, you know to have a good time. But I don’t go to parties in Mexico unless I’m playing because I know what to expect.
But you get the odd good one as well, with really nice people and you get the best locations over there with really nice weather — so when it’s really good it’s great!
You can get jaded by any scene can’t you?
That’s true, but I don‘t think this is jaded. I think they promote the parties to the wrong crowd, they give flyers to the wrong people. It’s not even the people that pay, there’s a lot of people that jump in the party and they’re inhaling glue or doing these really bad drugs that aren’t good for anyone, like dissociative drugs. They don’t dominate the party, but it’s not a very healthy scene.
What would you say have been the highlights of your career so far?
My two albums have been definitely something I put a lot of energy into and got a good outcome from them. I don’t know what the actual highlight would be though, as my whole career has been a highlight in my life! It’s just been really good fun and a really good ride, but I’m not sure which drop or which up or down has been the best. It’s been a good roller coaster and I don’t see an end to it yet!
Moving on from that, what would you say your goals might be? Where do you want to go with this?
With this project, Tron, I’d just like to do what I’ve been doing, releasing good quality psychedelic music. And I don’t plan to sell out that, because I think that’s the way it has to be. But I am going to start doing some — as I said — slower and more popular music, under a different name or pseudenom, so my goal would be to be basically writing music for other people, like for really big names, as a ghost writer, get some contacts and get into the real mainstream, but not being completely generated music, put in some of the influence I’ve had in 10 years of the psychedelic scene and just take it from there. A bit of popular music could get a bit of an influx of that.
The important thing is the way you do it. It’s not commercialising my project that’s already psychedelic, but finding a commercial project and crossing it to the psychedelic side so it’s already easy to listen and will be appreciated by a wider range of people, but at the same time you get the other side, they actually can listen to a little bit of the other side, like original music or more psychedelic sounds.
Dickster’s done that hasn’t he?
Yes he’s done a few, he’s been charted. He’s a good one to ask how to proceed. This is just more like my project, I’m not sure if many people are ready to go the whole mile, I don’t see a lot of people doing that.
It’s July already, what are you up to for the rest of the year?
I’m staying here ’til the end of August, going around Europe for festivals, then going back to Mexico for probably about a month, then going up to Montreal to visit my girlfriend, she’s going to be living there for a little while. And then go back to Mexico and down south for Brazil for the end of the year, for Universo Parelello… let’s see how long!
You’ve released two albums, ‘Existence’ and ‘Biologic’, would you say your sound or music has changed and evolved much over the years from 2006 to 2009 to 2011? It’s a long time to be making music, how do you think your sound has evolved?
Yes it’s growing! I don’t know if the sound itself is growing or my experience of it is, my ears are evolving, you know I’m not going for the “havingitness” or the weirdness, it’s more about the flow. I try and do a bit more musical work in my tracks, instead of modulation and arrangement tricks I try and go for gravity and flow. Overall I think it’s cleaner and the influences from electro are making quite a difference on the latest tracks.
CD vs digital downloads?
Well there’s always digital deals and stuff but you always want to CD, you always want the printed thing. I think that there are DJs that are more DJs than producers and they like to perform more than they write music. I’m the opposite! I like to write music more, in fact I would like to write music all the time. Instead of having to go to various different places and being in airports, it hurts the ears!
After another drink and more chat, it’s time for me to head home. I can only recommend you head to the Halcyon Summer Ball on Friday 8 July at Proud2 to see Tron live as it’s going to be very special. In the meantime, here’s the michelada recipe as promised…
Ingredients
coarse salt for rim of mug, or as needed
ice cubes
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 lime, juiced
1 dash hot pepper sauce (such as Tabasco®), or to taste
1/2 teaspoon soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 1/2 cups tomato and clam juice cocktail (such as Clamato®), or as needed
1/2 cup cold beer
Directions
Dip the rim of a chilled 1-pint mug or schooner into coarse salt, and fill the mug with ice cubes. Add 1/4 teaspoon of salt, lemon juice, hot pepper sauce, Worcestershire sauce and soy sauce. Pour in the tomato and clam juice cocktail, top up the mug with beer, and stir gently. As you drink, you can keep topping up your mug with more beer.
Enjoy!
For music and info about Tron check out:
http://www.soundcloud.com/tron-music
http://www.myspace.com/tronmexico
Images courtesy of Tron. Not to be reproduced without permission.
HALCYON presents 'The Summer Ball'
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Halcyon Presents: The Summer Ball
Fri 8th July at Proud2 (matter)
(The O2, Peninsula Square, London, SE10 ODX)
10pm to 7am
...*VERY LIMITED £8 TICKETS ON SALE NOW*
Halcyon Returns to Proud2 for its 2nd event of 2011 with a very special unique selection of artists moving through tech and progressive into full on psy – trance. As is expected from Halcyon we lead from the front and we present to you a handpicked selection of some of the biggest and most influential artists in the world of psy – trance from across the globe!
Son Kite Live
Behind the successful production of Son Kite are Sebastian Mullaert and Marcus Henriksson from Sweden. Son Kite have over years established themselves as one of the most interesting and in demand live artists in the trance scene today, always developing the music and always searching for new ways to push boundaries. Headline appearances across the globe at all the major festivals include Ozoora, Boom, Brazil, Tokyo, Mexico, Australia, South Africa, UK and anywhere else you can think off! If this does not keep them busy enough then their other project Minilogue is awaiting the release of its first album on Cocoon Records.
Ticon Live
Ticon are Filip Mardberg and Fredrik Gilenholt. The story of their musical involvement dates back to 1991 when they found mutual interest for underground dance music. After releasing on almost every now classic trance label they earned a spot in the growing group of respected trance producers. Released in April 2001 on Digital Structures, their first full length album 'Rewind' received fantastic reviews and is today a milestone in progressive music. It's been a great journey from the first releases, and with landmark albums like 'Aero' and 'Zero Six After' and '2:AM', they have earned a top spot position in the trance and club scene.
D-Nox & Beckers Live
D-Nox & Beckers was introduced to the electronic-community with tracks such as Jetlag Slave (Baroque, UK), Seven Hours (Electribe) and Memory Cell (in cooperation with David Amo & Julio Naves from Spain) and they where all incredibly successful 12inches, all reaching the number one spot on Beatport. 2007 marked the year of the LP Left Behind, which was released on the label Electribe. Shanghigh was another enormous breakthrough track for the dynamic duo. Aside from their own productions, D-Nox & Beckers are highly sought-after remixers. Minilogue, Tocadisco and many well-known artists are among the musicians they have worked with.
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Room 2 hosted by Liquid Records
Tron Live
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From: Jessica Alici on 12th Jul 2011 17:03.30
Hey - nice interview guys  xx
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