011 WE ARE BACK IN IBIZA IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SEASON SO IT’S MANDATORY TO TALK ABOUT THE ISLAND AGAIN. BUT IN ORDER NOT TO FALL INTO THE CLICHÉS OF WETHER IT IS OR IT’S NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE, WHETHER IT’S COMMERCIAL –OR HOWEVER YOU WANT TO SAY IT… IN TERMS OF MUSIC: DOES AN ARTIST HAVE TO ADAPT TO THE MUSICAL CANONS OF THE ISLAND OR CAN SOMEONE MAKE THE SAME MUSICAL DISCOURSED THAT IS MADE IN PARIS, TULUM, ROME OR LONDON? I ’ve always said that Ibiza conquers you. You can’t conquer a place that has had its own culture and essence for many generations. You can’t do it. There are many DJs who have tried to change the essence of the island and have fai led. You have to adapt to Ibiza. My great advantage is that I ’ve been working on the island since 1999, I ’ve been here for 25 years, and nobody has to tel l me what to do. When I started working at Amnesia, it was a very hard but very enriching process. As an artist, it made me understand how to make a dance f loor work. Ibiza has a personal ity, an identity, and that can’t be changed. In these 25 years, I ’ve experienced everything. As a resident of Amnesia, there were nights when I had to open the booth, open for the main DJ and then just be there as the person in charge of the booth. This opened my mind a lot and made me learn how to handle a dance f loor in any situation. In Ibiza I feel l ike a f ish in water because it’s what I grew up with as an artist, the island shaped me as a performer. HI PACO! IT’S A PLEASURE TO HAVE YOU BACK WITH US AT FIESTA&BULLSHIT. JUST A YEAR AGO WE WERE TALKING TO YOU HERE ABOUT HOW YOUR 2023 SEASON WAS GOING.... ONE YEAR LATER WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THIS 2024? WHAT CHANGES HAVE YOU HAD DURING THESE 365 DAYS? The feedback is more than positive, every event gets better and better. The connection with the audience keeps growing and it makes me proud every time I finish a session to hear the audience shouting my name and to see many people with the NOW HERE tattoo. NOW HERE is not just a party I throw in Ibiza, it’s a movement that we try to export as a philosophy: live in the moment, here and now, because tomorrow you don’t know what’s going to happen or if it’s going to happen the way you have planned it. For me it’s very, very, very important to feel connected with the audience and to feel that what I’m doing is evolving, that it’s not static. NOBODY LISTENS TO AN IDENTICAL SESSION OF YOURS EVERY TUESDAY. WHAT IF THEY WERE TO GO TO OTHER PLACES WHERE YOU PLAY? No, they can listen to the tracks I play but never the same session. This is pure and simple mathematics: I play an average of 17 tracks per hour, every Tuesday I play about three and a half hours. Of those three and a half hours, out of 55 tracks I may repeat 10 from the previous week, maximum 15, but no more. It has to be like that, if I did the same selection of music and the same mixes every week or in every set outside the residency, it would be a replay, even if I did it really amazing or perfect mixes in the end it would be tiring to listen to the same thing over and over again. That’s why it’s very important to constantly renew the set. WE WERE TALKING, BEFORE THIS INTERVIEW, ABOUT THE LACK OF TIME AND HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO COORDINATE GOING TO SOME CLUBS OR FESTIVALS. NOWADAYS SO MANY DJS PLAY THE SAME SESSION ALL SUMMER LONG SO SOMETIMES IT CAN GET BORING. With all due respect to other DJs: they are not Paco Osuna. It’s what you grow up with as a person, with the values you grow up with. I hate monotony. I can’t do the same thing two or three times, because repeating it no longer satisfies me. As an artist, and that’s something that represents me, I have to feel that what I do excites me because if it doesn’t excite me… How am I going to transmit that emotion to people? I have a formula: one day a week I listen to music (every week I get 1,300 to 1,600 tracks and from those I choose about 30 songs, if it’s a really good week, about 50 or 60), another day I prepare the set and that’s how I work. I’ve been doing it since I started DJing digitally, 15 or 16 years ago, and that’s my routine. On Fridays I download music, on Mondays I listen to it and on Tuesdays I get it ready for the set.
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