{"id":55910,"date":"2024-09-13T08:38:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T08:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiestaybullshit.com\/?p=55910"},"modified":"2024-09-16T08:12:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T08:12:30","slug":"we-interview-paco-osuna-ibiza-cover-of-our-lastet-issue-celebrating-50-years-of-life-and-30-years-of-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiestaybullshit.com\/en\/we-interview-paco-osuna-ibiza-cover-of-our-lastet-issue-celebrating-50-years-of-life-and-30-years-of-career\/","title":{"rendered":"WE INTERVIEW PACO OSUNA, COVER OF OUR LATEST ISSUE, CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF LIFE AND 30 YEARS OF HIS CAREER IN THE ELECTRONIC SCENE."},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s always a pleasure to chat with Paco Osuna, as he is an artist who opens his heart in every answer, who holds nothing back, who doesn\u2019t go with a pre-established and empty narrative. In this interview we talked about everything, the success of now here, his relationship with Ibiza, his 50th birthday and his 30 years of career, and of course we wanted to know his general vision of the current electronic scene. Never has so much been said in so little time, so take note of Paco\u2019s wisdom and soak up his philosophy: live the present like there\u2019s no tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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HI PACO! IT\u2019S A PLEASURE TO HAVE YOU BACK WITH US AT FIESTA&BULLSHIT. JUST A YEAR AGO WE WERE TALKING TO YOU HERE ABOUT HOW YOUR 2023 SEASON WAS GOING…. ONE YEAR LATER WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THIS 2024? WHAT CHANGES HAVE YOU HAD DURING THESE 365 DAYS?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The feedback is more than positive, every event gets better and better. The connection with the audience keeps growing and it makes me proud every time I finish a session to hear the audience shouting my name and to see many people with the NOW HERE<\/em> tattoo.<\/p>\n

NOW HERE<\/em> is not just a party I throw in Ibiza, it\u2019s a movement that we try to export as a philosophy: live in the moment, here and now, because tomorrow you don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen or if it\u2019s going to happen the way you have planned it. For me it\u2019s very, very, very important to feel connected with the audience and to feel that what I\u2019m doing is evolving, that it\u2019s not static.<\/p>\n

NOBODY LISTENS TO AN IDENTICAL SESSION OF YOURS EVERY TUESDAY. WHAT IF THEY WERE TO GO TO OTHER PLACES WHERE YOU PLAY?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

No, they can listen to the tracks I play but never the same session. This is pure and simple mathematics: I play an average of 17 tracks per hour, every Tuesday I play about three and a half hours. Of those three and a half hours, out of 55 tracks I may repeat 10 from the previous week, maximum 15, but no more. It has to be like that, if I did the same selection of music and the same mixes every week or in every set outside the residency, it would be a replay, even if I did it really amazing or perfect mixes in the end it would be tiring to listen to the same thing over and over again. That\u2019s why it\u2019s very important to constantly renew the set.<\/p>\n

WE WERE TALKING, BEFORE THIS INTERVIEW, ABOUT THE LACK OF TIME AND HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO COORDINATE GOING TO SOME CLUBS OR FESTIVALS. NOWADAYS SO MANY DJS PLAY THE SAME SESSION ALL SUMMER LONG SO SOMETIMES IT CAN GET BORING.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

With all due respect to other DJs: they are not Paco Osuna. It\u2019s what you grow up with as a person, with the values you grow up with. I hate monotony. I can\u2019t do the same thing two or three times, because repeating it no longer satisfies me. As an artist, and that\u2019s something that represents me, I have to feel that what I do excites me because if it doesn\u2019t excite me… How am I going to transmit that emotion to people?<\/p>\n

I have a formula: one day a week I listen to music (every week I get 1,300 to 1,600 tracks and from those I choose about 30 songs, if it\u2019s a really good week, about 50 or 60), another day I prepare the set and that\u2019s how I work. I\u2019ve been doing it since I started DJing digitally, 15 or 16 years ago, and that\u2019s my routine. On Fridays I download music, on Mondays I listen to it and on Tuesdays I get it ready for the set.<\/p>\n\n\t\t