Pete Kay: Can you tell us about how you got on the Sound of Spectrum tour?
Hernan Cattaneo: Well that was a Paul Oakenfold idea. Early this
year they wanted to do a two-week tour around the country, in America,
with different DJs joining in on different cities, and I thought it
was a really good idea since I could work also on weekdays apart from
the usual; usually I tour on a Thursday, Friday and Saturday night
basis, and it was like always the same, also doing all the different
cities and, you know, having a chance to go to places I've never been
before like Nashville or St Louis or Indianapolis, so I was really
keen on doing it.
PK: Speaking of Nashville, I saw you play in Nashville last
Wednesday and I was going to ask you about it? How did you think of
the crowd, and as your first time playing in Nashville, how did you
enjoy it?
Hernan Cattaneo: It's really good to get to see small cities where
not many DJs go and play. And even when it was Wednesday night in
Nashville, it was a really good crowd, rocking since very early, and
they seemed to be having a great time, the same as we did, we really
enjoyed the whole thing.
PK: That was a great set, thank you.
Hernan Cattaneo: Thank you.
PK: Is there a certain city in the US that you enjoy playing
more than others or you don't really have a preference?
Hernan Cattaneo: Well, it's different, every city has its own charm
I would say. It's great to play big cities, like New York or big
clubs in Miami or LA, but also, going to a smaller city where we have
smaller clubs and a more intimate atmosphere, it's also really, really
interesting. It's not always about playing for huge crowds, great big
crowds, it's also good to play in smaller clubs. So you go to a club
to play for two hundred people, and you enjoy more than playing a set
for twenty thousand.
PK: I agree, I definitely like the smaller, crowds myself,
it's more intimate.
Hernan Cattaneo: Yes, it's always good.
PK: Definitely more intimate. Now I've talked to a lot of DJs
and it seems like everyone enjoys playing in South America and Eastern
Europe, is there a particular part of the world that you like playing
more than others?
Hernan Cattaneo: Well those you just mentioned are really, really
good at this at the moment, I mean and they've been in the last two or
three years. And I think it's all about, Eastern European and South
America are like new territories in terms of dance music globally.
Like in Western Europe or in America, they've been doing this for more
than fifteen/twenty years, while in South America or Eastern Europe
it's more a newer thing, and you can really easily tell that they've
been waiting for something like this to happen and they enjoy it a
lot. They've been suffering from a lot of things so now they they go
out, they enjoy the DJs, it's a whole club concept and it's massive
over there. So I really enjoy it, also Japan, and all over Asia. Asia
is really good to play, China is growing, I've been going to China in
the last four years, and every year when I go to Shanghai, Beijing or
Hong Kong, it's amazing the way that dance music is growing over
there.