All the music I release is designed for catwalks.
JPER talks about Music Suiteabout its influences between fashion and classic house and the festival that starts this Saturday at the Indie Rocks Forum!
There are labels that are born from a business and there are labels that are born from an obsession. Music Suite Records belongs to the second group. JPERits founder, built the concept from three axes that do not always intersect but that function precisely in his universe: fashion culture, electronic music and raves from the 90s and 2000s. The result is a project that moves between production, curation and DJ sets, with a sound anchored in classic Chicago and New York house, and aesthetic references that range from Tom Ford to daft punk. This Saturday, the first edition of Music Fest Suite arrives at Indie Rocks Forum! Before, he spoke with Indie Rocks!
Indie Rocks!: Where is it born from Music Suite Records and what are the pillars of the project?
JPER: Music Suite It is born from inspiration in three things: fashion culture, electronic music and vintage raves. If you go back in time, read and investigate, you realize that many people met in warehouses or abandoned places and there were very consolidated communities, both in clubs in Chicago and in New York, places where house was practically born as a genre.
On the electronic side, I am interested in the very particular sound that was heard in those ravesauthentic house. Today there is a lot of variation and mixing of genres, but I think that the sounds of classic house will always be relevant over the years, just like disco music and its impact on other genres.
Fashion is also key to Music Suite because the catwalks always have a particular musical curation, and I like to curate music for specific moments. To imagine the direction of the label, the catwalks help me hone a very specific sound. House is very inclusive and important in that context. These three concepts are the axis of the label's branding.
GO!: In addition to the stamp, you have your personal project. How do you transfer the label to your identity as an artist?
J: Rather I think it was the other way around: Music Suite Records It was born when I began to identify the things that caught my attention and, from that, to make DJ sets and production. Listening to a lot of music and seeing other disciplines, such as fashion, helped me define the sound. I researched the lives of designers like Tom Ford Versace either gucci to imagine a particular sound. We use classic sounds of Roland and synths from the eighties. My perception of the label is that all the music I release is designed with one purpose: to make music that works on catwalks.
GO!: This Saturday will be the first edition of the Music Fest Suite. How did the idea come about and how was the curation of the events for this first edition?
J: I did the curating in a very natural and somewhat raw way. I'm not much for going out at night, but out of the need to give deeper support to musical projects I began to investigate the nightlife of Mexico City: iconic places like Bar Oriente, Giorgio in North Rome, Mimi in Reform and funkwhich I consider one of the most important clubs. I looked at what acts and DJs play there. Many are DJs who don't always produce their own music, and for me it is important to find people who propose a very particular sound.
In the last year I have developed my sound as a producer and I wanted to get along with projects along the same lines. I remember going to Drama Radio Bass and meet Gary; I loved their set because they do live: one of them brings a drum machine and they sequence things live. That attracts me a lot, projects that propose something unique. Raul and Sergio, Gallo and Shisho They do very well and their selection is excellent. Polar Disc, ZAYA and Edga They are also people who care about sticking to a particular sound: Chicago House, disco, Balearic, Italo Disco and 90s and 2000s house.
GO!: What do you expect from this presentation?
J: Personally, I hope to continue building and growing the community of Music Suite. My desire is for people to know my project through these curated parties. I see the festival as a project with the potential to become something big, in the style of EDC either Tomorrowlandbut focused one hundred percent on 90s and 2000s house. I want people to connect again with that music that marked me when I met it, to feel those classic songs. Rescuing the past seems valuable to me and that is the objective of the festival.
GO!: What can we expect the rest of the year from both Suite Musique and your personal project?
J: I'm personally producing more artists, not necessarily electronic, so there will be interesting collaborations with other genres in the coming months. I'm working on the second volume. Suite Musique Vol. 2. And regarding the festival, there will be a second edition in a couple of months in another important place in Mexico City. This Saturday at Indie Rocks Forum! It's just the beginning.
GO!: Would you like to add anything else?
J: I take this opportunity to mention my influences as a producer. Artists who have greatly influenced the universe I am creating are daft punkespecially Homework; the first album of Disclosure, Settle; Inawhich has a strong presence in my sound; and SG Lewis. All of them have been a central reference for what I do.
