INTERVIEW - DJ GIULIANO - UNION MAGAZINE


UNION: How did you start do play?

DJ GIULIANO: Well.. I was influenced by DJ Pako's set and by the best of brasilians DJs at the time (92 to 96). I took courage and went to live in Europe, settling down in Swiss for about five years where I had contact with Squad Pubs. One of them adopted me as they resident DJ, Cyber-T (artamis.org). For start (97) it was to hard, I was playing with 2 diskmans and one unequalized mixer, roots situation...Anyway, with a lot of will force and faith in Jah... today here I am... I developed a proprer skill of playing and samplesinthetizing the sounds and this way I got to interact with artists which I respect and like very much.

UNION: What style did you used to play and what style do you play currently?

DJ GIULIANO: In Swiss I used to play Junglejazz, triphop, Ambient, nowadays I'm more into amb dub, downtempo, dub-triphop, lounge and deep house.

UNION: The Electronic scene has changed a lot lately, which of them were the main changes in your conception?

DJ GIULIANO: Well.. sonorously speaking, were many and good changes. The Chill Out grew very much in brasilian electronic scene. And nowadays not just in the psy trance commnunity, also the oldests electronic tribes start to adhere into more calm and chill rithims. The dub music took place in differents ambients like coffe places, bars, clubs... Jah bless us!! Maybe thats because it's up music style along with naya rithimy, it helps a lot this world, and all of us need more contact with spiritualysm, union and joyfull.. Lounge music earned respect and inportance into brasilian society while expressing a sonorous confort of soft melodies and slow beats, getting along with harmony and philosophy of not just "being well", but also "feelling well". Another great change was the Chill Will project creation, by DJ Schasco, offering a new base to Chill Out Culture. For sure, another great fact was DJ Soneca representing Brasil in the first Sônica Festival, in Italy. And, no doubts, Pedra Branca's launched CD, initiating a new fase to Chillout World, incorporating musicotherapy with folklore.

UNION: Which artists had influenced your sound?

DJ GIULIANO: Mix Master Morris, Kruder, Snap, Mad Professor, Augustus Pablo, Bob Marley, Soa Nago, and down here in Brasil, Ponto de Equilíbrio, Gongo Naya and Gilberto Gil, and Nação Zumbi.

UNION: About new productions and projects which had appeared, which of them calls your attention?

DJ GIULIANO: Citing a few projects: Afro Celt Sound Sistem, Prefuse and Hestatic, Organic-grooves, Seeds and 3adub.

UNION: Where are you living right now and how is the Chill Out scene there?

DJ GIULIANO: After a long time living in babylon, "chilling" the brasilian concrete jungle (São Paulo), I came back to south. Nowadays my adreess is Florian�polis, Santa Catarina, close to the sea. Chill Out scene is growing and getting respect more and more down here. There's a Chill culture earning place, people here already listen to calm sounds by nature. Right now I'm making emissions to Itapema Radio, 93.7 FM, for a one hour chillout radio show. Jah Bless us!!!

UNION: What is exactly sunset sessions project?

DJ GIULIANO: It's a sand floor project, and by that I mean a lot of nice and beautiful people at the beach warming up to night time (parties). So, it begins at four p.m. in Praia Brava - Itajaí - SC, playing at Kiwi Bar (www.kiwibar.com.br ). My intention is to make a warm up music set that goes til 6:30 p.m, from there, DJs guests starts to play house music and progressive house til bar closes.

UNION: Which were the major places that you�ve already played and what was the most meanfull to you?

DJ GIULIANO: Well, had been these, the first Exxxperience in Curitiba. The Solipse Festival, happened in Zâmbia 2001 ( África), that also was the higher moment of my carreer. There I played 3 sets which were 2 by day time and one by night time!!. Voov and Shivamoon (2002) in Germany also stayed in memory. All Trancendence editions, Klatu club together with Neuromottor, Freak*a*delic club, where the first Chill Out in a Brasilian Club was opened. And, for sure new years at Kiwi Bar (2004) where 6 thousand people danced (dont stop til you get enough) Michael Jackson (hahaha).


Top 10

Seeds - Psychedelic Kindon
Mad Professor - Mr. Bronw Remix (Bob Marley)
Dub sindicate - Delay Stone
Sly and Roobie - Take Look Inside
Augustus Pablo - Dubing in Africa
Willias Dasmond - Nat in Babilon
Dj Giuliano 3adub feat. Phunkdub - Smk This One
Ninjaman - Ligalize the Herb
Dub Conect - Give and Get
King Tubby and Lee Scratch Perry - Fire Up in Vatican