So for the benefit of our readers, tell us a little bit about yourself. Who are you and where are you from?
Hiya! I�m Casper, from Brighton. And I now live in Camden and work for the Lock Tavern and Adventures in the Beetroot Field.
You�re a guy who appreciates lots of different music. How would you describe your DJ�ing style?
My style is focused on ensuring I don�t accidentally press the cue button on the CDJs at any point. As for what I play, I�m not afraid to call certain elements minimal or deep, but I have had to play to all sorts of crowds in the last two years, and I don�t mind giving people a teensy bit of what THEY want as well. I want people to recognise a few and not recognise a few!
Any plans to get into the studio and record some of your own material?
As well as my day job, which I enjoy and work very hard at, I also work very hard at my DJ career and am trying to expand my knowledge (new and old) and develop my technique all of the time. I haven�t quite conceded that a career in DJ�ing is beckoning, so for now, I can�t see where it will fit into my schedule. I do, however, have a string feeling of what my music might sound like when I do get around to it, and I have already tapped up a few engineers to show me the ropes when the time comes.
Bloggers has seen a wealth of talent grace its decks, many now firmly established acts. Who�s your tip to make it big next, any great new talent we should be looking out for?
I am a fan of the art of DJ�ing above all else, and I think that although there�s a huge gulf of talent in London, there are a few people who have the right balance between good taste and good technique.
The latest Blogger�s Delight resident, 17 year old NikNikNik has certainly impressed me. Stopmakingme from AITBF has shown that the art of the warm up is not truly lost.
Skull Juice, as I have been saying for two years now, are the most innovative and genuinely brilliant young DJs in the country. On their day they�re unbeatable and they have made a conscious decision to live in poverty, in pursuit of their art.
I want to give a separate �shout out� to Tomboy and Fredski who are making the music I can hear in my head, and they�re hopefully set to take the world by storm. It�s like a combination of percussive house with British bass sounds, and quirky touches and breakdowns. Fantastic stuff.
As someone who has embraced and encouraged the blogging community, how do you see things progressing? It seems there are more and more blogs springing up all the time and many of them are throwing up the same music and copying what others are doing better.
I feel proud to have played a part in the emergence and subsequent �golden age� of blogging culture. Many of us got poached by a confused and scared record industry who wanted to figure out what we were doing, and try to control it from the source.
It�s hard to say what impact this will have on the music industry in the long run, but for now it�s made it quite easy to separate the conscientious DJs� from the guys who just like standing in the highest point in the club, and it has also brought welcome attention to many artists that would otherwise have fallen by the wayside by now.
So what tracks never leave your box?
None of them leave my CD case, because it�s the biggest one in the world! However, a few tracks (off the top of my head) that will never leave include Carl Craig�s remix of Falling Up by Theo Parrish, Ho�s Get Down by High Powered Boys, Spastik by Plastikman. In fact, there are just far too many classics, some of which you�ll hear at Polaroid!
And what stuff are you digging at the moment?
At the moment, everything by Duke Dumont and Brodinski of course, some deep house sounds from the Oslo label, Innervisions, Mountain People and Brother�s Vibe, some of Joe and Will Ask�s tracks are promising on a techy tip.
I�m obsessed with an Anthony Collins remix of Kreon and Lemos, I�m enjoying the innovative work on DIYnamic from the likes of Stimming and H.O.S.H, and also an awful lot of guilty banging pleasures, such as Crookers, Proxy, Popof, occasional Dusty Kid records and my friend Matt Walsh�s work as one half of Clouded Vision on Turbo.
You put together lots of different events and parties, if you could pick your dream line up what would it be?
I�ll have to think about this one. I�d want it to be a glamorous affair, with a hint of nostalgia, some girl power, and some ridiculous basslines, not to mention a long forgotten chill out room.
Main Room
Richie Hawtin vs Villalobos
!!! live
DJ Hell and Tiga b2b
Ivan Smagghe circa 2003
Audion live
Casper C
Tiesto
Back Room
The Hot Boys (Juvenile, Lil Wayne, B.G, Turk) live
Cajmere
DJ Assault vs DJ Funk
Gay black disco all-stars (Ron Hardy, Larry Levan, etc)
Skull Juice
Olodum & Timbalada (Brazilian live percussion)
The Cantina Band (Star Wars) live
Chill Out
John Williams + Orchestra live
Jean Michel Jarre dj set
THE BBC Library Soundsystem
Jimmy Saville
Aphex Twin vs Squarepusher ambient wig out
Joakim chill out set
John Carpenter visuals
Where�s the strangest or most unusual place you have played?
At the blue lagoon at midday in Iceland, in freezing cold winds while everyone swam and jumped all over each other, like an American frat party!
What have you got planned for the summer?
I can�t wait. I am scaling back on London gigs in order to focus on my T Bar residency (with Matt Walsh and Skull Juice) and the August bank holiday Blogger�s Delight event.
I�m also involved in running a tent at Glastonbury (with AITBF), a Bloggers Delight tent at Field Day and a gig every week or so, including twice at Razzmatazz in Barcelona, the end of season party at Culture Club in Gent, a post Fuji Rock event in Tokyo, the Loop Festival in my home town, Brighton and gigs in Bristol, Birmingham, and hopefully, beyond. It sounds like a lot, but it�ll be the most relaxed schedule I have had in a long while, thank God!
