Disco legends Metro Area are a combination of veteran producers Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani who burts onto the pre millennium disco scenes with their future funk classic “Atmosphrique”.
Lucky for them Radio Magnetic are huge fans and veteran listeners will remember a brilliant Discopia show with one Niall Connoly presenting a guest mix from Darshan which we’ve pulled out of the Magnetic archives and brought back to life. Check it out over in our Special Features.
Morgan and Darchan are back with another mix but this time it’s Fabric who hold the court to celebrate the release of their brilliant mix on the London club’s Fabric Mix series. Here’s a few words from the Metro Area lads about their production and the mix…
Morgan Geist: “I feel like I was designed to do studio work or electronic music; it must be in my genes or something. When I was little I used to tape myself playing something on the piano and then I’d rewind, play it back and play over it. So before I even had a sequencer, I was doing live multi-tracking when I was quite small. And I remember my dad had ‘Future Shock’ by Herbie Hancock; I remember reading the back of that record and triying to figure out what a Memory Moog and Mini Moog were. Speaking of which, weirdly enough – it’s like fate set it up for me – when I was really young, I had a babysitter who was a musician and he used to bring over synthesizer catalogues. I used to look at these Roland catalogues and, even though I didn’t know what they were, just the synth names – like, Juno and Jupiter – it was the kind of shit that a little boy could get into. I got a keyboard as soon as I could, when I was about 15.”
Darshan Jesrani: “My dad had a lot of Indian music, as he’s from Bombay. He used to play Lata Mangeshkar and all the hi-fi stuff was in the living room, so I gravitated toward it by looking through all of the records. He also had an open-reel tape deck and I used to play with that a lot. One of Kiss FM’s DJs, Shep Bettibone, did special remixes of R&B hits and very early rap, and those were amazing to me, because he would stretch out and edit the songs and emphasise all the electronic, trippy sounds and textures in them. These were really dance-y and oriented towards club play; they really caught my ear and imagination. That really propelled me in the synthesizer direction, along with a lot of synth-pop stuff like Devo and Thomas Dolby. There was a confluence of things that led me into synthesizer stuff, but I didn’t actually get a synthesizer till I was about 16.” but I didn’t actually get a synthesizer till I was about 16.”
To get your hands on the Fabric CD go to FabricLondon.com
myspace.com/metroarea
environrecords.com
fabriclondon.com
Tracklist
- Midway - Set It Out (Bonus Dub Beats)
- Gary’s Gang - Knock Me Out (Instrumental)
- Gino Soccio – Remember
- Amin Peck - Coda
- Z-Moor-R - Heros Dynamique
- Touchdown - Ease Your Mind
- Janice Christie – One Love (Dub I)
- Tia Monae – Don’t Keep Me Waiting
- Samason & Delilah – I Can Feel Your Love Slipping Away
- Prince - Controversy
- Elektic Funk - On A Journey (I Sing The Funk Elektrik)
- Gaucho - Dance Forever
- Reese & Santonio – Structure
- Telex - Moskow Diskow
- Voyage - Souvenirs (Hot Tracks Remix)
- Mother F – Welcome Aboard
indian music is kind of cool and very stylish;”‘
Indian Music is really cool and some of it are great dance music too..-~
indian music is quite cool, you just can’t get enough of those beat~-.
indian music is very passionate just like french music.:*