Digital song manufacturer and DJ Ewan McVicar has stuck up with MusicTech at Glastonbury and spoken about his early beginnings as an artist.
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The Scottish party-bringer laughs about his first-ever DJ setup, which comprised a Hercules DJ Keep an eye on Metal mixer – which he lovingly calls an “absolute shanner.” For the uninitiated, ‘shanner’ is a Scottish slang phrase that most often refers to a shockingly tattered object.
Along that “shanner” of a DJ controller, McVicar says he additionally had an “HP Mini pc I had for my uni research that lower out each time I’d DJ, and a couple of PC audio system. I’d set the ironing board up and frustrated my mum for years after that.”
Now remixing tracks by means of the likes of The Chemical Brothers and being hotly-tipped by means of dance song royalty Todd Edwards, McVicar’s come relatively some distance from ironing board DJing setups. Nonetheless, his DJing setup is stripped-back for “cheapness and quickness,” comprising an Allen & Heath Xone:92 mixer and a couple of USB-only Pioneer decks.
Talking on his favorite piece of studio tools, the manufacturer cites a couple of HEDD Audio HEDDphones. McVicar says they’re “mad fucking spaceship headphones,” however supply an “fantastic” blending reference. Lately, a couple of HEDDphones will set you again £1,529, when you’re intrigued.
This month, McVicar launched a documentary, Again Tae Ayr, in collaboration with BBC Scotland and BBC Radio 1, following his adventure in growing the primary digital song competition in Ayr, Scotland – his place of origin. He advised MusicTech that his favorite phase about Scotland’s digital song scene is the crowds. “We’re all simply mad bastards, mate…In the event you don’t convey it, we’ll permit you to know.”
McVicar is taking part in back-to-back DJ units over the Glastonbury weekend with Skream, Kettama, and has a solo set at the Glade degree. We’re but to be told whether or not any of the levels may have an ironing board for his decks.
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