John '00' Fleming: here to shake and stir you in October

The Godskitchen 'Boombox' tour is heading our way this spring and with John as one of headliners it's an event not be missed.

Almost two years since his last visit, and in the first of a three part series, we get straight into what we won't be hearing and on his relationship with the big labels:

Vanilla flavoured trance isn’t on the menu with John ‘00’ Fleming for his style has a flavour that will leave you both positively shaken and stirred.

A pioneer of the electronic music scene since the early 90s, when you hear his sets you’ll hear the sounds of originality and pumping dark delight, instead of the predictability and vocal cheesiness that gets the eyes rolling in the back of your head.

“It’ll be the sounds of new music and a mix that won’t be a typical ‘hit after hit after hit’ which seems to have become the norm at so many of these festivals,” he said.

Touching on an interesting point, I asked the outspoken Fleming to elaborate.

“As a clubber when I went out it was to be blown away by hearing new music, where you would walk away and go, where the hell did that guy or girl that music from, rather than leaving and saying that they had just heard all of the hits in a formula that many big name DJ’s are repeatedly copying.”

So, Fleming’s a maverick. An individualist who leads in musical style and who is never shy to speak his mind.

Nevertheless, self cast in this unique mould he is one who is still popular with the name brands and I asked him on this marriage of peculiarity.

“With Ministry of Sound for example, they turn to me when they want a specialist sound. The trust is there and they allow me to express myself musically without messing around with the track listing."

“I’m putting another album together for them at the moment and they’ll say to me, ‘Right John, just do your thing, the results are there and you’ve got a strong following,’ that’s what I love about them.”

Check back real soon, or simply subscribe to the RSS feed, for part two of D.M.M.'s interview with John '00' Fleming, where we discuss big festivals and his take on the scene right now.

Until then enjoy some hands in the air moments as John smashes it at Gatecrasher:



Keep groovin',

DC