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Posted: 09/19/2000
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Patrick Scott is a regular fixture in the Atlanta DJ scene, having just ended his residency at the Cobalt Lounge. Jive Editor Brandon Woodson had the opportunity to sit down with Patrick one night at Innovox Lounge and discuss his musical career, his plans for the future, and whether or not he ever had a mullet.
BW: Where are you gonna be playing now that the Cobalt Lounge has shut down?
PS: We'll be playing at the Rivera on Friday nights. That will be starting on the 29th (of September) and will be every Friday except for the second Friday of the month. That is gonna be a Florida Breaks night.
I have a couple other things in the works. I will be doing Karma on Oct. 7, and a few more things that I can't say too much about, yet.
BW: You played a couple of your new tracks tonight. What is the latest track you have out?
PS: The latest release I have out is the Ultra release with Ghost, Hula Girls, and Three Wishes. It's been out for a couple months now. It has done real well. It got up to #8 on the Balance Chart, but it did a lot better in the UK. It got up to #5 on the Massive charts and it stayed on the Massive charts for three months.
BW: So what have you got coming up?
PS: I just finished up a new track. It's awaiting for approval from Ultra, and I'm really excited about it. It's called Inexorable Lust. I played one of the mixes tonight, during my set.
BW: I heard it.. good track...I like that sound. I like Disco house more, myself...
PS: I was a straight up disco DJ for about 5 years and I gravitate away from the disco because I have just simply had enough. I have had my fill... It happens...
BW: It does.
PS: I was definitely into the more high energy trancy stuff. I was just going through a lot of my records, playing them because I'm actually about to sell a lot of my older records... listeing to the stuff,i was like "GOD!" I was like Mr. Euro (laughter)... And now I've definitely gonE in a much more progressive direction.. That's actually where I was before. Somehow it was like '99 was the summer of Euro trance and either you got swept up in it or not...
BW: How long have you been DJing?
PS: I've been DJing since 1986.
BW: When was the disco period?
PS: The disco period was actually recent. I really wasn't trying to spin out much. I really wasn't working on developing my own sound at that time. I was really just trying to pay my rent so I was doing a lot of Disco gigs in Buckhead basically... and, not just paying my rent, but actually acquiring more studio gear, and preparing...
BW: Now how did that happen? How did you get into the musical production side?
PS: In a way, I've always been in to it. I've always been interested in synthesizers. Long before I was thinking about DJing. We're talking maybe elementary school.. synthesizers, sound processing, I really just wanted to be a studio rat even when I was a little kid.
I got my first keyboard when I was 22. I've been a guitar player since I was 16. I've always been into getting lots of effects and seeing what kinds of weird sounds I can make with my guitar and a lot of the progressize stuff is great because it's a bunch of weird noises than anything else. A lot of the time it's not even melodies and chord progressions. It's great!
BW: Have you ever been bitten by a dog?
PS: Not a dog bite that breaks the skin.
BW: Now are you more central to Atlanta, or do you take a lot of outside gigs?
PS: I've been staying in Atlanta. It's hard to break out when I have to manage my career in such a way that I have always supported myself DJing. So, there are certain risks I haven't been willing to take, say I have a really good Saturday residency that's paying me a whole lot of money. I'm not going to risk that on taking out-of-state gigs, but now I'm in a different situation in terms of my career, and it really benefits me to take them. I have a new manager, Barbara Argeropolis up in New York. She also handles Mark Hunt and Liam Kennedy.
BW: Who are some of the up and coming producers that others may have not heard?
PS: Definitely Mike Hiratzka. You're gonna be hearing a lot from him real soon. It's funny, there are people that are real veterans of the scene that have been putting out tracks for a long time and I'm waiting for them to totally break through. People like Scott Dixon, "Justin Scott." He's just simply been the genius that has been sitting in the background for so long it's time for him to totally blow up.
BW: Who are some of your earlier musical influences?
PS: Im definitely a child of the 70's. I listened to a lot of 70's rock and I really got into the stuff that was happening in the late 70's and early 80's: the more experimental, a lot of the bands that Brian Eno was producing, the early work by the Talking Heads, the stuff that David Bowie was doing around the turn of the decade.
Early 80's was my teen years, so a lot of the earlier stuff by Simple Minds, like before the Breakfast Club. I found one of those early records the other day it's still phenomenal. Another influential band in the 70's would have been Japan. They've been around since 1977 and they were more of a glam-rock band and then they discovered electronics around 1979 and got hooked up with Giorgio Moroder... really electronic dance, really pioneering and really vocal and then people like Duran Duran and Tears For Fears ripped them off. Fascinating, deep music.
BW: Have you ever had a mullet cut?
PS: Yes. In the early 80's. My senior year in high school, but it wasn't really a bad one. I've had every haircut under the sun...
BW: Have you ever eaten grits?
PS: Yes.
BW: What is your craziest experience you have ever had while you were DJing?
PS: Some girl came into my booth, too drunk to figure out where she was and she said "I have to go to the bathroom."
"OK, whatever?"
But she's like "I can't make it over to the restroom."
I'm like "Yeah You can!", and I'm mixing a record and I look down and the girl has her pants down and she's about to squat on one of my record bags! And I'm like "NOOOOOOOOOOOO! You can't do that!"
I just grabbed her by the shoulder, picked her up and at least, got her out of the DJ booth.
BW: That's a good one!
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