Julio Bashmore
From: Bristol. Tracks played out by: Claude VonStroke, Sinden
One of several producers in this feature to have contributed tracks to Fabric’s Elevator Music compilation, Julio Bashmore makes house music that probably wouldn’t have received so much attention without the UK Funky explosion of the last couple of years, but owes more to the gently swaying house of say, Dinky than it does big names on the Funky scene – it’s telling that his first single recently came out on Claude VonStroke’s Dirtybird label.
Julio Bashmore – introduce yourself.
“Hi I’m Julio, I live in Bristol and right now I’m making lots of music.”
How would you describe your music to the uninitiated? Is it just house at the end of the day, or something more?
“Well to be honest I’m not even sure, it’s been called a lot of different things but I’m happy to just call it house.”
How long have you been making music?
“Since I started playing guitar about 6 years ago, then my brother had a copy of Reason about a year after that and I just started playing around with that. but it’s only within the last years that I’ve taken it seriously.”
What do you build on?
“Right now I’m using Ableton, an Akai MPC and a Roland Jupiter 6. The Jup6 is my baby, but it’s really bulky and takes up a good portion of my bedroom studio! I’ll be looking at getting studio space this year for sure.”
You’ve just released your debut 12” on Claude VonStroke’s Dirtybird label. How’d that happen?
“Graham from Fabric sent Claude a couple of tracks which he liked and the next week he played here in Bristol and one of the guys who runs Just Jack gave him another CD of mine. He was into and said he wanted to release a couple of them!”
Tell us about the mini-mix you’ve done for FACT.
“This is a mix of some of my original stuff and some remixes I’ve done last year. It’s all quite percussive and bassy.”
What else do you have planned for this year?
“This year i’m going to be collaborating with other artists and putting more effort into my DJing.”
What particular producers / things inspire you? And are there any particular themes you find constantly cropping up in your music?
“Well there’s so many and it changes all the time. Mainly I would say Justin Martin of Dirtybird has been an enormous influence on my music, his grooves are just incredible. At the moment I’m listening to a lot of music with quite emotive synth sounds like Deadboy and Hyetal. I guess also I’ve been listening to a lot of Prince lately, received his Purple Rain movie for Christmas (highly recommended) he is pure inspiration!”
The bit in Purple Rain where he makes the girl get in the lake for him is ice cold.
“‘That’s not Lake Minnetonka.’ Literally my hero.”
Download: Julio Bashmore – FACT mini-mix
Tracklist:
Julio Bashmore – Around (forthcoming Soul Motive)
Julio Bashmore – Footsteppin
Julio Bashmore – Banda 2 (unsigned)
Julio Bashmore – The Moth (Fabric)
Julio Bashmore – Um Bongo (Dirtybird)
Sekta – Peter Pan (Julio Bashmore Remix) (Top Billin)
Mosca – Square One (Julio Bashmore Longhorn Remix) (Night Slugs)
Julio Bashmore – World Peace (Dirtybird)
Julio Bashmore – Tread Soft (unsigned)
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