Interview with Bob Sinclar (1/3) by Toni Tambourine

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Bob Sinclar is the French DJ currently making his mark with the Defected label. Toni Tambourine took some time out to interview the man known as 'music's premier playboy superstar..' What were your initial ambitions and dreams for Yellow Production? Do they remain the same, or if not, how and why have they changed? It's amazing having people asking me to do promotion! I started Yellow Productions, my label, in 1992 and I wanted to stay behind the scenes.

I never wanted to be an artist, I just wanted to produce different musicians, I couldn't imagine that one day someone would be asking me to do an interview, or appear on TV or even play in a club. It was my dream.

What did you really want to be when you grew up? Somebody! I wanted to be like Bjorn Borg or Michel Platini, a sportsman, but I was a bit skinny, not strong enough for sport! That's when I discovered music. What are your memories of the musical landscape that you grew up in? Musical influence in France is a nightmare! There is only the French variety! Funk and black music didn't arrive until really late - around '84 or '85.

It was the radio really, first pirates then official stations. In about 1984 it started to get better, they started to play funk like D-Train, Earth Wind and Fire, Prince, all the classics. We discovered that and it was amazing.

What's the first record you can remember dancing to, when and where? The first time I saw a DJ scratching records? In '89 Hip Hop was arriving from America. We had Public Enemy, LL Cool J also Jungle Brothers and the Native Tongue, and all the Def Jam crew. We had all of this Hip Hop scene arriving. The dancing, the scratching, it was amazing! What was the first record you purchased?

The first record I bought was Sweet T - I've Got The Feeling.

Where did you play your first gigs, and where did you really learn your craft? The bars, the areas, the crowds? I didn't know how to get into the music industry, I was DJing in my bedroom as a hobby, mixing tapes for myself, but I didn't know how to introduce myself into the industry. I wanted to work in music, I didn't know which area, maybe a record company. I started working for two different guys, one on a TV show called Rapline, they didn't have enough money to keep me on so I started to DJ around Paris. I organised Hip Hop and Acid Jazz parties in '91 and '92.

What did it mean to you what you could do with all your influences? I discovered immediately that the most important thing for a DJ to do is to make people dance. The DJ is there for the people. At the beginning nobody knows you, so you have to show everyone who you are through your music. That's still the same today, but people come to see you now. You have to play your records but at the same time you have to tell them a story about the roots of the music you love. I like funk and disco, but it's hard for me now because dance music is on the radio, its everywhere.

It's hard to keep a balance between what you want to play and what they want to hear. That is the real job of a DJ, it's hard to do that. The most important thing as a DJ is to see people dance to your music.

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