{"id":94,"date":"2016-08-30T01:07:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T04:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tudobeats.com.br\/home\/?p=94"},"modified":"2016-10-05T23:51:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T02:51:22","slug":"cozzyd-exclusive-interview-tudobeats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tudobeats.com.br\/home\/cozzyd-exclusive-interview-tudobeats\/","title":{"rendered":"Cozzy D exclusive interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-align: start;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif; font-size: x-large;\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-align: start;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif; font-size: x-large;\"><i>&#8220;Problem (&#8230;) is that the market has become quite saturated where new producers are impatient and just want to release the first thing they make, instead of really learning their craft, being patient and waiting until they have really nailed their sound.&#8221;<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-align: start;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif; font-size: x-large;\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-etIiBXAbJCk\/VusZ7P3lkmI\/AAAAAAAABUY\/dNuIHWptH50vyLCkPRJ76WBd78hGt--UQ\/s1600\/Cozzy%2BD%2BPress%2BPic%2B12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-etIiBXAbJCk\/VusZ7P3lkmI\/AAAAAAAABUY\/dNuIHWptH50vyLCkPRJ76WBd78hGt--UQ\/s640\/Cozzy%2BD%2BPress%2BPic%2B12.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"434\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phouse.com.br\/author\/nazen-carneiro\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-4khn20dCUKY\/Vtd_nbYccyI\/AAAAAAAABQo\/IOCTCdJYSWwy_I8_Xoro3FQSbfMr993fg\/s640\/phouse%2Bcoluna%2Btudo%2Bbeats.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"52\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span id=\"goog_1813556467\"><\/span><span id=\"goog_1813556468\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"_39k2\" style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24.12px; margin: 0px auto; orphans: auto; padding: 40px 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"_2yud clearfix\" style=\"font-size: 18px; margin: 0px auto; width: 700px; zoom: 1;\">\n<div class=\"_ohe lfloat\" style=\"float: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_42ef _8u\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<div class=\"_3uhg\" style=\"color: #9197a3; float: left; font-size: 12px; margin: 4px 0px 0px 4px; text-transform: uppercase;\">\n<div style=\"margin: 0px;\"><a class=\"_2yug\" style=\"color: #9197a3; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nazen.carneiro\" target=\"_blank\">NAZEN CARNEIRO<\/a><span class=\"_4_mg\" style=\"padding: 0px 6px;\">\u00b7<\/span><a class=\"uiLinkSubtle\" style=\"color: #9197a3; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/nazen-carneiro\/produ%C3%A7%C3%A3o-de-cara-nova\/1029327500450252\">THURSDAY, 10 MARCH 2016<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_39k2\" style=\"color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.12px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 40px 0px; position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"_4lmk _2vxa\" style=\"direction: ltr; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 48px; margin: 0px auto 12px; position: relative; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: nobile; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 20px; opacity: 1; text-align: justify; visibility: visible;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The underground London electronic music scene has his influence since a long time ago. I am talking about Cozzy D, more than 10 years of consistent hard work either organizing events, playing, producing music or releasing others peoples music and running his own label &#8220;Lower East Records&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: nobile; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 20px; opacity: 1; text-align: justify; visibility: visible;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Cozzy D has his releases in well known labels such as Dirtybird, Material Records, Get Physical Music, Noir Music and many others. At Lower East Records his focus is to mix new talents from England and abroad, as MK, Larry Heard aka MR Fingers, Richy Ahmed and brazilian Volkoder. Tudo Beats has interviewed him to get to know more from what he is doing now and plans for future! Check it out!!!!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/252334801&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"im\" style=\"color: #500050;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><b>1.<span style=\"font-stretch: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><b>After all these years you had several influences. Tell us\u00a0 5 tracks you have been listening to lately<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">Pearson Sound &#8211; Thaw Cycle<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">Tuff City Kids &#8211; Wooden Dreams<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">Cape Cod &#8211; Holding On<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">Janson &#8211; High Point<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">Moodtrap &#8211; Make It Better (Original Mix)<\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">2.<span style=\"font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\"><b>Its known your involvement with the underground scene in London. What is \u2018underground\u2019 for you?<\/b><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">Underground is just a term used for something when it is only known amongst a niche group who are into the same thing. For example a new house \/ techno track that has just been finished in the studio and played in a club for the first time will be very underground. Something only becomes commercial once it crosses over and becomes popular and many people have been exposed and like it \/ talk about it.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<b><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">3.<span style=\"font-stretch: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Our friend Elijah Collins says \u201c<\/span><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #20124d;\">If we are always willing to pass on information and look after each other the music will prosper.<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201d. How do you see that today.<\/span><\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<b><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">Yes he hits the nail on the head &#8211; spread the love \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<b><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<b><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">4.<span style=\"font-stretch: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Producer, DJ, promoter, label owner for over a decade. Which one are you\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">more involved nowadays?<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\">I&#8217;ve always said I am DJ first, and everything else is second. I am still heavily involved running my label which takes up a lot of my time and of course am making music. I&#8217;ve taken a little break from throwing parties but that&#8217;s not to say i won&#8217;t start promoting again, so watch this space \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">5.<span style=\"font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/b><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">What do you feel that has changed in the Industry since you started?<\/span><\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<b><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Back when I first started DJing in 1998 you had to make Mix Tapes and pass them onto promoters to get gigs. Nowadays you really need to be a producer to make that step up. All you need is a laptop and you can even make music in your bedroom. Problem with that is that the market has become quite saturated where new producers are impatient and just want to release the first thing they make, instead of really learning their craft, being patient and waiting until they have really nailed their sound. T<\/span>he Internet has revolutionised the industry now.\u00a0You can speak to anyone at any time, and social media can be a powerful tool to get yourself heard. It also acts as a bit of a negative however where it seems to have become more about marketing or controversy and less about the music which is a shame, but it&#8217;s also great as it does gives everyone from all walks of life an opportunity and a voice.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/230776311&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/span><br \/>\n<b><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">6.<span style=\"font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/b><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Basslines, Crafted beats and versatility. Please describe your music.<\/span><\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<b><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">Yes I have quite an eclectic taste and am a fan of all styles of electronic music, and like to show versatility in my sets and not just play one sound. I would get bored just playing 2 hours of loopy obvious tech house. I like to play some deep tracks, some more techno, some soulful vocals and some more melodic and emotional&#8230; I know it&#8217;s quite cliche but I prefer to go on a bit of a journey with my sets.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<b><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<b><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">7.<span style=\"font-stretch: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">How do you make your music? (Consider ele<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">ments, technology, equipments, what is your up-to-date info on that.)<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">I like to use a lot of hardware, and quite often use analogue pieces of kit such as the 909 or 808, for my beats and the 101 for synth sounds.<\/span><\/span><b><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">8.<span style=\"font-stretch: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Lower East is a famous underground label in and out of London, \u00a0Mixing home-grown talent with artists from abroad. Volkoder, Brazilian talented and very promising DJ is one of them. What can we expect from that?<\/span><\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">Volkoder is someone who I have admired for a while so was very pleased to have him remix my track &#8216;Anxiety&#8217; earlier this year, and what a great job he did \ud83d\ude09 I invited him to play at my 5 Years of Lower East party at EGG in London in August which was a great night \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<b><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">9.<span style=\"font-stretch: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">As a true clubber do you feel today there is less people clubbing in London than 10 years ago?<\/span><\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">I would say there are probably more to be honest. It seems there are more and more parties popping up all the time and a lot more larger scales events &amp; festivals than there were before.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">10.<span style=\"font-stretch: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">What\u2019s latest with\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Cozzy<\/span>\u00a0D?<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">I&#8217;ve just had a release on Mihalis Safras label Material Series entitled &#8216;Hey People&#8217; as well as a remix on Lower East as part of the 5 Years Compilation. I have another remix on the forthcoming Lower East release from Moodtrap which also includes a remix from Gerd, plus I have been working on a collaboration with Roland Clark and am in the process of finishing up a couple of new EPs to release in the new year.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 &#8220;Problem (&#8230;) is that the market has become quite saturated where new producers are impatient and just want to release the first thing they make, instead of really learning their craft, being patient and waiting until they have really nailed their sound.&#8221; \u00a0 &nbsp; &nbsp; NAZEN CARNEIRO\u00b7THURSDAY, 10 MARCH 2016 The underground London electronic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.tudobeats.com.br\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Cozzy-D-Press-Pic-12.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tudobeats.com.br\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tudobeats.com.br\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tudobeats.com.br\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tudobeats.com.br\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tudobeats.com.br\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tudobeats.com.br\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/www.tudobeats.com.br\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tudobeats.com.br\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tudobeats.com.br\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tudobeats.com.br\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tudobeats.com.br\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}