Ketoloco Podcast 006: JEF K

Ketoloco Podcast Series

We are super proud to announce that our 6th podcast comes from Parisian house legend Jef K. Head honcho of deep house imprint Silver Network, Jef K is a man constantly striving to push great deep house music to the masses. This podcast, however, is a step in different direction from his usual deep house sound and delves expertly into the realms underground disco house. Ketoloco caught up with Jef K for a chin wag... 1) What have you been up to lately?Been touring a lot and working a lot on music lately, a lot of new releases are coming up including a new one on my label silver network with two originals from Death on the Balcony. Remixes by myself & gwen maze, robert james, and valentin from paris will also be onn that EP. There is also an original track and a remix for a very nice track from yakine on One Records - Birmingham, two original tunes by myself, gwen & alex murak on Italian label Rebirth and finally a remix for 2020 vision ... and so on!2) You were born and raised in the suburbs of Paris. How did this influence you musically?i was raised with all kinds of 'black music', reggae, funk dico, hip hop ... everything with huge basslines so i went naturally to house music after that ... 3) A lot of people tend to say the French house scene was stronger back in the 90's, what are your thoughts on this?I think it's true, bak in the days we were really lucky to have all big dj's fighting to play in paris, then it went a bit down for a few years but it's really changing now and paris is getting bigger and bigger nowadays partywise and musicwise ... a lot of new talents are coming up as well as new partypeople .... Paris is back bébé !! ;) 4) Silver Network has become a classic deep house label. Can Tell us about your ethos with the label? Have you always led it in the same musical direction as you do now?My brother and i built the label back in 1999 and we have 30 releases so far, we always tried to have a certain quality ... As big fans of US house music here are a lot of american artists but we opened it a lot to all kinds of artists from europe also .... Not really caring about names but defintly caring about quality music ... 5) What are your past experiences of Ketoloco? Did you think about those when you were planning your mix? I played ketoloco for easter bank holiday in london this year and had a real blast ... it was a beautiful sunny day and i only have great memories of it ... Of course i thought about it when doing this mix but it's not really what I play for you guys, it's takes a more disco journey.6) The podcast takes a more laid back route through disco house music. Do you prefer playing at slower tempos?Actually i love basslines and the slowest the better to enjoy them ... Also i like podcasts that are made for homelistening, i also like proper club sets, but i thought i should give you this one as i had a lot of beautiful tracks that are not always possible to play in clubs ... 7) How was the podcast produced?Did it this week end at home with my girlfriend as only audience ... She's really into music and gives me the good vibes i need to make a proper podcast ...8) When your not touring or in the studio, what do you do to relax? me and my girlfriend have two kids, no better way to relax than hanging with them ... 9) What's on the horizon for Jef K in 2011?More and more music more and more parties ... stay tuned !! ------------------------- Ketoloco Polar PartyFriday 3rd FebruaryBasing House, LondonSASSE (15 Years Of Moodmusic Record)MARIO BASANOV(Needwant Records)Event Info:http://www.facebook.com/events/346086005401550/£5 Early Bird Tickets (sold out)£8 Advance E-Tickets:http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?328597