Dj / Joachim Pastor - Interview

English After contacting the German label Boxer Recordings, one of the best and most productive labels of Cologne, we got an exclusive interview with Joachim Pastor, a young French producer that we discovered recently with his very good track “Heloise” known also as “Heliose”. This interview follows notably the one of MA.N.D.Y. and Thomas Schumacher. It will give you more information about the artist that will buzz in the few weeks for sure... First of all, I would like to thank Joachim who answers the questions and Boxer Recordings. Have a good reading! “Hi Joachim, I’ve just seen onto your Facebook fan page that you’ve just released a track “Be organic” onto the new album “Kind Of Kling Klong” and that your latest EP was released under Boxer Recordings in September with two tracks: “Capuche” and “Toshiba”. What are your next projects? Are they any upcoming releases? > My next release is a remix for the band Morcheeba, which will be released on PIAS (Blood like lemonade : the remixes). It includes other remixes by my mate Max Bett as well as Maetrik and H2. I’ve been working on a lot of tracks lately and I’m preparing a new EP for Form (Popof’s label). My friend Romain Dalman and I also shot a stop motion movie clip last month, it took us 10 days of work to shoot thousands of pictures. The track is called “The Alive Sequencer” and the movie clip is really nice, we’ve had only great feedbacks. I’m also working on a track for a huge compilation for Boxer’s birthday, and finally I’ve got to confess that Max Bett and I are doing something together, we’ll see what track comes out of it. Honestly, I haven’t found so much information about your career in the web, so could you please make us a summary of how you became a DJ/producer and who are you more precisely? >It all started a long time ago, when I was dragged into a conservatory, at the age of 4. It was a classical conservatory, and I was introduced to a lot of instruments, mostly doing classical music. The main problem was the policy of this school: everything was a competition and the pleasure of playing music came second: I quit when I was 12 to change conservatory. I was now playing guitar a lot (all the time actually) and I wanted to become a guitar hero. My second conservatory was more laid back and I met a wonderful guitar teacher (Jean-Pierre Lacaille). I was fascinated by guitar heroes such as Jason Becker or Yngwie Malmsteen, and after years of work I was able to play guitar pretty well. I rapidly felt the need of recording myself, and Jean-Pierre introduced me to softwares like Cubase SX3. I finally stopped conservatory when I was 16 because my studies were taking a lot of time and I needed a break. I kept on producing electronic music, which led me where I am now. How did you meet the German label Boxer Recordings? Why have you choose it to release your tracks? > I really wanted the label Boxer Recordings for those specific tracks because I liked their style: they just like music and they always promote creativity. Most of their releases are interesting and each track seems to have a soul, which I think is the essence of music. I asked my manager and he already knew Boxer’s boss, so it made things easier I guess. I think I discovered them for real with Dusty Kid’s album, but I had already heard some things from them before. Concerning your career as producer, could you please tell us what was your first track? How did it happen? > My first track ever released was something on a really small label, I was not very mature technically and even if I think it’s funny, it is a tad embarrassing right now (lol), it’s something kind of housy called Tribute. Otherwise my first important release was on Minibus (Gailo/Le Poulain) and it worked really well. This period of my career was hard