The Juan MacLean Drops the Bomb
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 running time 07:09
John (a.k.a. Juan) MacLean on how he learned to stop his indie-rock worrying and love disco.
Juan MacLean tells us how he went from beating up DJs in the '90s to being one in the '00s. Although MacLean's made a new career for himself out of this whole indie-dance crossover thing, he's still got a skeptical eye on the dance-punk invasion and the "de-gaying" of disco via disco edits. Plus he shows us his Theremin and his unconventional booty shaking style of playing it.
Highlights
punk rock
(
0:34, 0:34
)
dance music
(
1:16, 1:29, 1:33, 5:04, 6:42, 1:16, 1:29, 1:33, 5:04, 6:42
)
disco
(
5:23, 5:45, 5:52, 5:23, 5:45, 5:52
)
indie rock
(
1:19, 1:49, 1:19, 1:49
)
punk rock
(
0:34, 0:34
)
dance music
(
1:16, 1:29, 1:33, 5:04, 6:42, 1:16, 1:29, 1:33, 5:04, 6:42
)
disco
(
5:23, 5:45, 5:52, 5:23, 5:45, 5:52
)
indie rock
(
1:19, 1:49, 1:19, 1:49
)
Automatically Generated Transcript(may not be 100% accurate) ( more )
" This episode accelerated TV has been brought to you by the party the last 10009 coming to feeding you music featuring artists like DJ am easy trick master craft major blizzard. For more information go to the party dot com slash he lives."
" I CN trouble lot of it. Like a lot nicer now than analysts' then. I think."
" That are. We'll go punk rock club in Providence. It. They have one night that was advanced night and it just infuriated me and my friends so we would go there and get really drunk and start fights and his cousin mayhem. In general and because we are so upset that there are PGA's and playing -- not applied than this in the nineties and overheard something with like."
" Poster techno beat -- there's something I was pretty much repulsed by hand he's and I were both."
" The FAA. Before there was an idea okay. This is like late ninety's -- that you're there as early as 99 and at that time there was really no crossover. Like. Rock world in the dance music world premiere was just becoming bored with -- indie rock scene of that would -- from -- watched a lot of fans media days was one of the pioneering."
" and brought India audiences to dance music. "
" Together my appreciation to mr. dance music and debates and forums scores. Something that is consistent repetitive. About it yeah. Like craft versus the big bridge where a lot of people because they were always accepted by you like the indie rock world."
" Yeah I'm told. Peter yeah yeah. We've got -- I."
" I've always been influenced by -- things. We're -- the sound futuristic. In the eighties all it took it was like stressing. A certain way of putting on funny. Clothes that looked like -- your spaceship uniform."
" Playing synthesizers. You know presenting themselves as machines. And."
" Creating this music that they believe would be the future of music it's funny like in the production side fans in the sixties that are making this kind of like. Fire out psychedelic music is the same studio production techniques like. Putting a delay and reverse on a guitar. Instantly made it sound psychedelic and and like other worldly and futuristic. And it's still what we do in the studio."
" This is my future retro revolution it's a clone of the -- TV studio three. It has but sixteen steps sequence or that runs in the circle and as prime my favorite since right now. This is my -- trustee -- and has this war. I think twelve years. This is the pitch antenna. Said that the closer I put my hands of this. The higher the pitch put your hand back the lower the pit. This is the volume. Antenna. I touches like this. There's nothing you'll hear anything they put away it's allowed. So want to want to want to do volume by Bravo my hands going like this. For -- by -- it's like this. It goes back or back or do some Mike. Crazy cross -- kinds of things like that if you roll -- like this that winds that ups and downs. And just generally you know playing it back and forth whereas people typically playing it it. Withstand. Very close. Like this. --"
" This is my -- Roland SH 101. And this is like peace and the one McLean -- Because I did not -- keyboard player I have actually."
" I have a series of pieces of tape. There -- tell me which. Notes to play this is my way movement voyager. That. Generates all of our baseline spin to it you can afford to 3000 dollars to make bass lines this is the way to go."
" And hate. I'm good -- CB has -- it's not and I'm. And yeah."
" don't because it's time we checked it doesn't do that yeah. I was -- components so that tempted but I don't."
" In this crossover of like indeed people into the dance music scene I still feel like there's this. Weird undercurrent of homophobia. Where. It's a group of people who would consider themselves the most sort of like open minded and liberal people and what not. But when things get too overtly decades seems to make them comfortable in a Disco song they could cut other saudis like the songs going on. And they break out of his that you guys at sixty changes in the spring uses like what was the sort of stereotypical. --"
" Gave is still at its analysis of these things and basically what they are is they have been he --"
" She can get Disco songs you take out the gate flourishes. So it just has like the sort of tough parts and that's the Disco. "
" talking -- it's yet hearings. A line just saved some field and yeah. Just these very direct sexual -- X whereas in the indeed sort of hipster world you can't be directly that like. They have to either employee irony or be really clever that kind of thing and we."
" Set."
" Guidelines. But why don't we be as honest and sort of sincere. About things. In our personal lives as we can't."
" No big reason why I quit my -- can only -- in six here's now. It was because. Which. I was about to turn thirty and I figured that. Playing that kind of music was playing -- something for young people. Dance music Felix is a tradition of older people as people get older they become more of three years."
" He's going to just this I don't know if I'll have I'm in good shape. Maybe it goes -- and sixty you probably couldn't because you're terrible pain he was."
" This episode accelerated TV has been brought to you by the party the last 10009 coming to feeding you music featuring artists like DJ am easy trick master craft major blizzard. For more information go to the party dot com slash he lives."
" I CN trouble lot of it. Like a lot nicer now than analysts' then. I think."
" That are. We'll go punk rock club in Providence. It. They have one night that was advanced night and it just infuriated me and my friends so we would go there and get really drunk and start fights and his cousin mayhem. In general and because we are so upset that there are PGA's and playing -- not applied than this in the nineties and overheard something with like."
" Poster techno beat -- there's something I was pretty much repulsed by hand he's and I were both."
" The FAA. Before there was an idea okay. This is like late ninety's -- that you're there as early as 99 and at that time there was really no crossover. Like. Rock world in the dance music world premiere was just becoming bored with -- indie rock scene of that would -- from -- watched a lot of fans media days was one of the pioneering."
" and brought India audiences to dance music. "
" Together my appreciation to mr. dance music and debates and forums scores. Something that is consistent repetitive. About it yeah. Like craft versus the big bridge where a lot of people because they were always accepted by you like the indie rock world."
" Yeah I'm told. Peter yeah yeah. We've got -- I."
" I've always been influenced by -- things. We're -- the sound futuristic. In the eighties all it took it was like stressing. A certain way of putting on funny. Clothes that looked like -- your spaceship uniform."
" Playing synthesizers. You know presenting themselves as machines. And."
" Creating this music that they believe would be the future of music it's funny like in the production side fans in the sixties that are making this kind of like. Fire out psychedelic music is the same studio production techniques like. Putting a delay and reverse on a guitar. Instantly made it sound psychedelic and and like other worldly and futuristic. And it's still what we do in the studio."
" This is my future retro revolution it's a clone of the -- TV studio three. It has but sixteen steps sequence or that runs in the circle and as prime my favorite since right now. This is my -- trustee -- and has this war. I think twelve years. This is the pitch antenna. Said that the closer I put my hands of this. The higher the pitch put your hand back the lower the pit. This is the volume. Antenna. I touches like this. There's nothing you'll hear anything they put away it's allowed. So want to want to want to do volume by Bravo my hands going like this. For -- by -- it's like this. It goes back or back or do some Mike. Crazy cross -- kinds of things like that if you roll -- like this that winds that ups and downs. And just generally you know playing it back and forth whereas people typically playing it it. Withstand. Very close. Like this. --"
" This is my -- Roland SH 101. And this is like peace and the one McLean -- Because I did not -- keyboard player I have actually."
" I have a series of pieces of tape. There -- tell me which. Notes to play this is my way movement voyager. That. Generates all of our baseline spin to it you can afford to 3000 dollars to make bass lines this is the way to go."
" And hate. I'm good -- CB has -- it's not and I'm. And yeah."
" don't because it's time we checked it doesn't do that yeah. I was -- components so that tempted but I don't."
" In this crossover of like indeed people into the dance music scene I still feel like there's this. Weird undercurrent of homophobia. Where. It's a group of people who would consider themselves the most sort of like open minded and liberal people and what not. But when things get too overtly decades seems to make them comfortable in a Disco song they could cut other saudis like the songs going on. And they break out of his that you guys at sixty changes in the spring uses like what was the sort of stereotypical. --"
" Gave is still at its analysis of these things and basically what they are is they have been he --"
" She can get Disco songs you take out the gate flourishes. So it just has like the sort of tough parts and that's the Disco. "
" talking -- it's yet hearings. A line just saved some field and yeah. Just these very direct sexual -- X whereas in the indeed sort of hipster world you can't be directly that like. They have to either employee irony or be really clever that kind of thing and we."
" Set."
" Guidelines. But why don't we be as honest and sort of sincere. About things. In our personal lives as we can't."
" No big reason why I quit my -- can only -- in six here's now. It was because. Which. I was about to turn thirty and I figured that. Playing that kind of music was playing -- something for young people. Dance music Felix is a tradition of older people as people get older they become more of three years."
" He's going to just this I don't know if I'll have I'm in good shape. Maybe it goes -- and sixty you probably couldn't because you're terrible pain he was."
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