Pulse Radio Interview with Geddes

Geddes has been making party people across London mulletover and over for 5 years and counting, and has set the precedent for underground clubbing with its understated-cool crowd and aural-driven atmosphere.  With the release of his latest track, Paperweight with Alex Jones, his label Murmur plotting releases like electronic landfill and his events success spilling into the festival circuit and abroad, Geddes is far from toeing the line. We cornered Geddes to find out a little bit of this and that ahead of Mulletovers 2nd affair at the Eastern Electrics festival this bank holiday weekend.

mulletover stands strong as one of London’s best underground event brands- how did it come about?

I wanted to do a night and originally started mulletover with a guy called Jafar.  We were due to do our first party but the venue we were using got closed down and Jafar knew Rob who coincidently was doing a party on the same night, he had a spare room upstairs and the party went ahead.  We did another party together after that and decided we’d work under the same banner and here we are five years down the line.

The event has stretched its legs to festivals and one-off parties abroad. Tell us about mulletovers journey…

We first started doing parties in Ibiza, then Croatia.  Festival wise we were part of TDK Festival in London, Lovebox in Victoria Park last year and now Eastern Electrics with Resident Advisor.  This year is the first time we’ve been invited to do Glade Festival, which was wicked.

Glade Festival is said to be the subversive alternative to the other hyped UK festivals, how was it to have mulletover being part of it?

‘The thing about Glade is, it spurned from grassroots and they hardly have any sponsorship to help them along, it makes the difference to the festival and the people who go- it’s definitely special. We had Mr C, Adultnapper and Jamie Jones play for mulletover in the club tent and it rocked from start to finish, we had a great time!’

You’ve apparently managed to miss a few of the Mulletover parties- how does that happen- do you get lost trying to find the secret location?

I missed three parties and all of them being in Ibiza.  Moral of the story is not to put you passport through the washing machine J

How did you find yourself in the music industry and what initially guided your organic sound?

I was surrounded by music at an early age, it was quite an important part of my family’s socializing, and we’d spend hours dancing in the living room to Frank Sinatra, Grace Jones and Barry White.  Then my sister got a job with universal records and was product manager for Twisted Records, which was home to Danny Tenaglia and Murk, from then on I knew what I wanted to do.

You’ve played witness to the London scene over the last decade- what have you seen and learnt from it?

Trends move quickly, one minute minimal is the in thing then house is back.  Be true to your school!

You also produce under the guise Rekleiner with Anthony Middleton and Luca Saporito- how do you three come together to create this intricate and melodic sound?

I knew Luca from West London and he was hassling me to play at mulletover, through his persistence we became friends and started working in the studio together. The rest is history though however the guys are now in Barcelona so it’s hard for us to get together and make music now.

What has been one of your favourite gig experiences to date?

Robert Johnson in Frankfurt is the most amazing place to play, good sound system, small room and nothing else is needed.

Your track Paper Weight with Alex Jones is your first EP on Murmur and was released in July- what is the response so far?

Yeah it had a really good response from the promo we did, both Alex and I are very happy!

Murmur launched in 2008 and is cutting the edge with great track releases from great artists- what can we look forward to next?

We have a great EP from Tom Demac we’re very excited about, something else from BLM who’s a London-based artist, M.in from Frankfurt, Mic Newmann from Australia and hopefully something from Meat.  Release schedule is full now till next year.

If there was one sound you could remove from the earth and never have to hear it again- what would it be?

The noise of buses going past my window late at night, they are so noisy I can’t open my window and in this hot weather that’s not ideal.

Eastern Electrics Bank Holiday takes place on August 31st 2009, with Anja Schneider, Damian Lazarus, Glimpse and Geddes playing the Mulletover room. Tickets available from Resident Advisor.