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Gtronic :: Rebirth, Engineering, Migration and Dance Machine [Interview]

Blogged — Tue, 10 May 2011 06:05:53 +0000

Gtronic holds a soft sport in the Dont Party team’s cyborg hearts. He was, as I have no other way to say this, our first. The first guy to put his faith in the DP brand and fly all the way to South Africa to play a packed out show in sunny South Africa. Little did we know how much of an amazing dude this guy would turn out to be and little did anyone know that I’d still be friends with him to this day!

The G recently did an entire revamp of his public image, and to mark this occasion I thought that it would only be fitting to catch up with the bass-monster and chat to him about what he has been up to since he came to SA, his new E.P., his “Rebirth” and more.

THE INTERVIEW

It has been a while since we last caught up with you, what has been happening in the world of Gtronic since South Africa?

Yo guys! Well, a lot has been changed. New manager, bookings agency’s, several EP’s and remixes, …

I graduated in 2010 as an engineer and became an artist fulltime hehe.

A lot of good stuff happened.

You’ve been travelling quite a bit… where has your musical journey taken you and who have you played alongside?

Uhm that’s quite difficult to say. I play in 4 to 8 country’s every month.

The last year I’ve seen a lot of cool places and played with a lot of good artists.

Bangkok and USA were really cool, because it was my first time playing there.

You have also remixed some amazing artists! How does that process happen? Do they contact you? Is it organised by labels?

It’s a bit of both I guess. My manager arranges all the remix requests, but normally I’m already having direct contact with the artists. Most of the time it’s just the matter of available time.

Arent you a qualified engineer? How / why / when / what!!??

Hehe yup! I got some good job offers for working at big oil company’s. But I’m going with the flow at the moment.

What I’m doing now for living, is so amazing. Being my own boss, traveling around the whole world and meet cool people… Partying every weekend and earn money with it. God, I hope I can keep up doing this for a while…

What is the Gtronic “Rebirth”?

Well, I’m now working for this Gtronic project for a while now. I guess almost 5 years ago I started producing music. But all this time I never thought about settling down a clear concept. A concept with an own visual style that fits the sound perfectly. Dark, rough, evil and mysterious are the keywords for this project.

With this rebirth, we’re taking everything to the next level. I made with AOOA.tv a cool promo video where you can feel the vibe and atmosphere of the Gtronic project. It was really exciting to make the audio effects and soundtrack especially for this short video. Beside this video I worked on a new logo, press picture, EP, …

More new stuff is coming, but you’ll find out next week hehe.

So old Gtronic RIP, it’s time for a new G. Rebirth…

Your latest EP “Dance Machine” is amazing, a journey back to the original G. What inspires you nowdays?

Thanks! The feedback I’m getting all over the world is my main inspiration. I’m trying to improve my sound all the time. Every EP is a sort of test project where I introduce new sounds. With the feedback I’m getting, I learn witch sounds I can re-use or develop for the next project. I’m already having good ideas for my next EP on Dim Mak Records…

Are you still living in Belgium? Do you have any plans to immigrate?

Yeah, I live in Antwerp, Belgium. I don’t have any plans to immigrate at the moment.
To be honest, I think this will never happen. I see a lot of great places around the whole world, but all this traveling makes me homesick everytime.

Immigrating means I would have to leave all my friends, to miss the nice culture in Antwerp and the most important stuff of all: I would have to say goodbye to Belgian frites with a good cold beer. Never gonna happen hehe

What can we expect from Gtronic in the near future?

I’ll keep developing my own sound keeping the underground electro trash values. New originals, cool remix projects and a lot of touring.

As long the people like my shit, I will make this shit hehe

Dankie en hopelik tot die volgende keer!

GTRONIC

MORE G:

Pantsula Fridays :: Bass-Heavy Dustbin Cleaners

Blogged — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:28:34 +0000

Its Pantsula Friday again! And we thought we’d inject you some with some disgustingly siff beats today to rinse out your speakers and clean out your Jozi dustbins! These track are HOTTTTT!

TRACKSSSSSSS

Cyberpunkers – Cabala (GTRONIC rmx) by GTRONIC

STARDUST by GRIZZLY J

CALVERTRON – R U READY? (CLIP) by calvertron

Lets Get iLL (clip) by jantsenmusic

In My Game (Fractal System RMX) by Fractal System

Lick The Lizard – Rusko Reso Collaboration by Rusko

Pickled Beets (Kids At The Bar Remix) by Crystal Vision

Designer Drugs EP :: NEW TRACKS!!!!

Tom Kennedy — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:08:06 +0000

Designer Drugs is that filthy American electronic dance music duo that will be hitting our shores next week for 2 disgusting shows in Cape Town and JHB!

We have some tickets to give away for the event, but that’s coming next week, for now enjoy the sounds of their new E.P!

Designer Drugs :: Dead Meat

This track is fat. Almost 90′s in the synth line but with hardcore screaming vocals, a little half time break in the middle, you can hardly sit still in your seats.

Designer Drugs – Dead Meat by Designer Drugs Official

Designer Drugs :: Dead Meat (Gtronic Remix)

Now this track is actually the favorite for me out of the two. It is none other than Gtronic. For those of you who dont remember Dont Party brought Gtronic out last year for a wee bit of devastation… and he came all guns blazing.

Honestly one of our favorite artists and one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet, G takes it back to old G of the Ironman age. Rough, grizzly basslines make your face scrunch up and your head nod uncontrollably!

TOO NICE!
Designer Drugs – Dead Meat (GTRONIC rmx) by GTRONIC

Onesmallseed.tv Cover Dont Party Gtronic [Watch the Video]

Tom Kennedy — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:14:17 +0000

If you missed Dont Party at the Assembly on the 5th of March 2010 then you missed a truely epic event. Luckily the guys at Onesmallseed.tv were running around getting loads of footage something admittedly we should have been doing, next time!

In the meatime go check it out, its truely an epic watch. See Girls Kissing, Stage Diving, PH Fat and JUST PLAIN MADNESS! Why they missed Gtronic we’ll never know!

CHECK OUT THE MADNESS HERE [CLICK]

Gtronic [Cape Town] :: Photos

Tom Kennedy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:14:46 +0000

On Friday the 5th of March 2010, Gtronic came and he conquered! bringing Cape Town to it’s knees, supported by the best South Africa has to offer PH Fat, Haezer, Richard the Third, Zim Dollar Bill and Daniel Ting Chong on Visuals creating one of the most mind blowing evenings ever!

Here are the pics we got before it all got a bit fuzzy!

If you had any problems, queries, recommendations or want a pic sent to you mail us at mail@dontparty.co.za [or click contact us above] and we’ll get back to you.

If you enjoyed Gtronic let him know here’s his fanpage

Gtronic – lets get to it! (interview)

Blogged — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:19:13 +0000

Gtronic is a man making massive waves in the electronic music circuit overseas.

Straight out of Belgium Gtronic has become a fresh reviver to an overcrowded dance music scene. Where similarity has become the name of the game, Gtronic has ripped through the fog of mundanity to come out with the newest style of hardcore dance music since the Bloody Beetroots left their villas in Italy… and don’t think that the world hasn’t noticed either!

(the Bloody Beetroots rocking Gtronic’s Ironman track and going mental!)
Having done remixes for the Bloody Beetroots, Foamo, Heads We Dance, Mustard Pimp, Hostage, Audiodakt, NT89, Toxic Avenger, Devnik, Steve Aoki, toured all over Europe, the UK, and as far south as Australia, and with releases on Sony BMG, OneLoveMusic, , Dim Mak, Monkey See Monkey, Do, Traktor Records, Livein Music, Basserk, BMKLTSCH RCRDS, Gash Digital, Rainbow Mode, Wearhouse Music, Dirty Disco Tracks, and lately electronic heads like Fake Blood and Diplo loving his stuff Gtronic is currently owning it overseas… and now he’s coming to South Africa.

So amped on his SA show that he CANCELLED a gig to headline with the Bloody Beetroots and MSTRKRFT in Amsterdam, showing his intent to come blow us away, Gtronic is definitely going to rip something out the magic hat for us down here… and it won’t be a friendly little bunny!

Dont Party got some good one-on-one time with the man himself:

1. When I hear the name Gtronic, my subconscious conjures up images of a sentient being controlling a crowd of marsupials through the medium of raw grit and anarchy in the form of music!

How did the name Gtronic come about and what does it mean to you?

I never thought I would create such an heavy image hehe.

I think it’s my experience in metal/punk and distorted guitar leads what brought me to this heavy bass trash that I’m

producing these days…

For me, Gtronic means Heavy Bass Trash. All the attention on the heavy distorted bass synths!

2. Your production is getting some major recognition in Europe and across the world, what drove you to this sound and style, have you always been into hard dance?

I was a tech house DJ in the beginning.

I listened to all kind of types of the electro music dance scene.

My first tracks where kind of breakbeat, chilling electro with lots of melodies hehe.

When I found some cool distortion effects, I fell in love with this kind of hard trash beats…

3. What influences your music?

The instruments I’m producing with… And my mood during producing.

I’m always trying out some new settings and cool sounds without totally changing the ‘Gtronic’ sound…

It’s the slightest new effects and changes that are influencing my vision on how electro trash should sound for me.

Of course great producers like The Proxy and Boy Noize also influences my vision on electro music.

4. What gear do you use (Studio/ Outboard) at home to make your music?

Hardware / tools:

- AMD Quad Core 3.0 Ghz with 4Gb Ram and enough disk space

- 2 monitors 22″

- Akai MPD24 Pad

- Evolution UC-33e Midi controller

- Evolution MK-249C Midi Keyboard

- Line6 TonePort UX2 External Soundcard

- A simple Microphone

- Fender Telecaster

- Yamaha HS80 Near-field Studio Monitors

Sofware / Computer stuff:

- A LOT of samples

- VSTIs: Albino 3, Korg Legacy Collection, Dominator, TB-303, NI Pro-53, …

- Cubase 5, Acid Pro 6.0c, Cool Edit Pro

5. Have you had any ladies losing various bits of clothing to your stage performance?

Haha, I don’t think so. When I played in Sydney, a girl once threw a rose at me.

But that’s not as exciting as nice round…

um, yeah what ever!

6. You’ve done remixes for some pretty influential artists… how do they come about, I mean do they approach you for remixes, or vice versa?

Well, in the beginning of your ‘producing career’ you have to try to make some remixes of big, hot tracks.

It’s just for recognition, spotting your name… It’s very satisfying if the original artist likes you remix.

These days, I’m getting tons of remix requests for ‘smaller’ labels.

But I’m aiming at bigger remix projects for big labels/artists.

7. What’s happening in your near future, anything we should be on the lookout for?

Yeah, big things are happening for me this year.

I’m signing some nice contracts, so I’m really looking forward to these releases.

You can see/listen at a preview on my myspace (click here to view) already.

Also a lot of travelling around the world, and hopefully I get my graduate this year in July, so I can start my career as fulltime producer…

8. What can South African’s expect from Gtronic?

I’m just doing my best to share the coolest heavy bass trash tracks that I like.

I really hope people get familiar with my music and understand my vision of heavy bass trash music.

That would make me a happy person and producer!

Check out Gtronic at the Dont Party:: Gtronic Edition, Friday 5th March, The Assembly, Cape Town.

SUCKER PUNCH Trailer from GTRONIC on Vimeo.

Aerial 7 – Gtronic Event – Week 1 Giveaway!!!!

Blogged — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:43:20 +0000

In preparation for Gtronic on the 5th of March 2010 at The Assembly, we’re going to be giving away loads of Prizes over the next few weeks, and we seriously mean loads. Our good pals over at Aerial 7 have given us some awesome prizes to giveaway to you! And its really easy for you to win, just follow the instructions below!!

For those of you who don’t know, Aerial 7 is a brand that is currently sweeping up the DJ scene with their headphones. Launched as a competitor to the Skull Candy series, Aerial 7 is fast becoming dominant in this range of headphones with internationally recognized brand ambassadors from across the globe and a strong product range that express diversity of application and versatility of design, Dont Party is proud to have them on board…

And we have some serious product to shift!!

For this giveaway we are offering some serious prizes and there are different ways to win each.

****WEEK 1 INSTRUCTIONS READ THEM****

3 X Aerial 7 Bullets (sumo’s) (in-ear headphones)

Watch the Facebook fanpage and our new twitter page for live status updates that will tell you how to win on the spot prizes!

2 X Sound Disk Beanie’s (Built in Beanie headphones)

Invite your friends to the fanpage and post your name below or on the fanpage (AFTER YOU”VE INVITE YOUR FRIENDS CLICK HERE FOR AN EASY ONE STEP WAY OF DOING THIS)

1 X Matador (Outer Ear headset)

Invite your friends to the fanpage and post your name below or on the fanpage (INVITE YOUR FRIENDS USING THIS EASY ONE STEP METHOD), leave a comment on a post on Dont Party or RETWEET a post to your twitter.

Doing any of the above will make you eligible to win 2 X V.I.P and 2 X Normal tickets to the Dont Party Gtronic Edition event next Friday (5th March)!

WE CAN TELL YOU THAT INVITING YOUR FRIENDS TO THE FANPAGE WILL GIVE YOU THE BEST CHANCE OF WINNING THE ABOVE PRIZES. DO IT USING THIS METHOD HERE!!

THE MORE YOU DO THE MORE ENTRIES YOU GAIN SO INVITE, COMMENT AND RETWEET AND YOU’LL BE ENTERED EACH TIME

HOW TO WIN

To win all you have to do is invite all your friends to our DONT PARTY facebook group (click)… (click here for an easy 1-step way of doing this)

Dont Party presents Gtronic (Belgium) in SA!

Tom Kennedy — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:51:44 +0000

We’re Back, and this time we have sifted through the countless ends of electronic muso’s out there to bring you a completely fresh candidate for world glory, and he goes by the name of:: Gtronic (Belgium)

Straight out of Belgium Gtronic has become a fresh reviver to an overcrowded electronic music scene. Where similarity has become the name of the game, Gtronic has ripped through the fog of mundanity to come out with the newest style of hardcore electronic music since the Bloody Beetroots left their villas in Italy… and don’t think that the world hasn’t noticed either!

Having done remixes for the Bloody Beetroots, Foamo, Heads We Dance, Mustard Pimp, Hostage, Audiodakt, NT89, Toxic Avenger, Devnik, Steve Aoki, toured all over Europe, the UK, and as far south as Australia, and with releases on Sony BMG, OneLoveMusic, , Dim Mak, Monkey See Monkey Do, Traktor Records, Livein Music, Basserk, BMKLTSCH RCRDS, Gash Digital, Rainbow Mode, Wearhouse Music, Dirty Disco Tracks, and lately electronic heads like Fake Blood and Diplo are loving his stuff..

Gtronic is currently owning it overseas… and now he’s coming to SOUTH AFRICA.

So amped on his SA show that he CANCELLED a gig to headline with the Bloody Beetroots and MSTRKRFT in Amsterdam, showing his intent to come blow us away, Gtronic is definitely going to rip something out the magic hat for us down here… and it won’t be a friendly little bunny!

Supported by only the BEST that Cape Town has to offer

Haezer
P.H. Fat
Richard the Third
Bruce Willis??
Zim Dollar Bill

(Live Visuals by Daniel Ting Chong)

This event is set to melt your toes!

Plus:: Stupid amounts of giveaways and everything else that comes with a Dont Party event…

Ticket Info

R50 Pre-Sale
R60 Door
R80 VIP Limited to 100, (Including Dont Party Vol. 1 CD (Haezer, Sibot, Markus Wormstorm, Zim Dollar Bill, Mix ‘n Blend, Liver, Dank Gazelle and many more… Private Bar and Chill Area and exclusive giveaways)

So come and
DONT PARTY with us!

Check out the facebook event here, win tickets here

Gtronic ripping it up down under on his Australian tour!!

Gtronic (Belgium) at The Assembly Cape Town – Recap

Date: Friday 5th March 2010
Acts: Gtronic, Haezer, PH Fat, Bruce Willis??, Zim Dollar Bill, Richard the Third with live visuals by Daniel Ting Chong
Tickets: R50 Presale, R60 at the Door, R90 VIP (Limited to 100, (INCL Dont Party Vol. 1 CD with tracks by Haezer, Sibot, Markus Wormstorm, Zim Dollar Bill, Mix ‘n Blend, Liver, Dank Gazelle and many more…, as well as a Private Bar and Chill Area and exclusive giveaways)
Alternatively: Buy tickets here [http://www.webtickets.co.za/assembly]

Video of the Week :: Gtronic Australian Tour

Tom Kennedy — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:39:42 +0000

Dont Party is proud to announce Gtronic (Belgium) at The Assembly, 5th March 2010 supported by Haezer | PH Fat | Bruce Willis?? | Zim Dollar Bill | Richard the Third with live visuals by Daniel Ting Chong. Its going to be our biggest party yet!!!!

As a warm up to this awesome event we have a video of Gtronic rocking it out on his Australian tour, and if its anything to go by, he’s going to blow Cape Town away!

Supported by only the BEST that Cape Town has to offer

Haezer
P.H. Fat
Richard the Third
Bruce Willis??
Zim Dollar Bill

(Live Visuals by Daniel Ting Chong)

This event is set to melt your toes!

Plus:: Stupid amounts of giveaways and everything else that comes with a Dont Party event…

Ticket Info

Check out the facebook event here, win tickets here and our past post here

Gtronic (Belgium) at The Assembly Cape Town – Overview

Date: Friday 5th March 2010
Acts: Gtronic, Haezer, PH Fat, Bruce Willis??, Zim Dollar Bill, Richard the Third with live visuals by Daniel Ting Chong
Tickets: R50 Presale, R60 at the Door, R90 VIP (Limited to 100, (INCL Dont Party Vol. 1 CD with tracks by Haezer, Sibot, Markus Wormstorm, Zim Dollar Bill, Mix ‘n Blend, Liver, Dank Gazelle and many more…, as well as a Private Bar and Chill Area and exclusive giveaways)
Alternatively: Buy tickets here [http://www.webtickets.co.za/assembly]

Video of the week :: Gtronic Australian Tour

Tom Kennedy — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:31:04 +0000