Sep 13 2011

Interview: Justin Faust

by Westhead • Interviews, Nu Disco • Tags: Duke, Electronic, Interview, Justin Faust, Nu Disco 0

It was a quiet Sunday night out in Santa Monica just barely on the east side of Lincoln. The club was tiny and the turnout was relatively sparse. However, the music was nothing if not incredible. The way Justin Faust mixes in the funkiest of nu disco tunes with his own absolute club-jumpers was perfection. He’ll build then like hard electro, match them like house, and drop them like dubstep, all the while keeping the bassline funky and synth groovy. Nu Disco may be the genre that never was, but Justin Faust is one of those guys who’ll bring it to the forefront. He’s got all the talent and makes all the noise required to sell out the biggest clubs in the world all the while coming up mainstream adjacent. We got the chance to catch up with him and ask him a few questions, be ready for an interview that is eloquent, passionate, and groovy beyond all comprehension:

Justin Faust Interview:

BB: What was it that prompted you to get into music in the first place?

JF: Actually my dad, he is a musician and producer, and I grew up in a house that has been music all the way: with a studio, instruments, and all that. I started doing music when I was eleven, I played drums and that was my first love. After that I switched to playing piano, guitar, and some other instruments.

BB: Did growing up with a producer/composer as a father influence your musical style?

JF: Absolutely, my dad is a huge fan of Jazz and always loved funk and soul. I listened to a lot of music by Crusaders, Earth Wind and Fire, really cool funky older stuff. He used to do producing work for Boney M so the disco thing just came naturally.

BB: What was it about the genre of disco house that appealed to you the most?

JF: I began to discover the house movement when I was in Ibiza the first time in the early ’90′s at fifteen. Before that I never really understood rave music before, but then I saw all these people dancing and freaking out to house music and that’s when it clicked. House music is something that you have experience, it’s not an intellectual thing, it is an emotional thing. After that, I realized that’s what I wanted to do and it took off from there. Later, when I started buying vinyls and doing DJing was about the time when Daft Punk came out along with the whole French Touch movement and that really got me into it.

BB: Any immediate plans for upcoming releases?

JF: Actually no, I have a couple remixes that I’ve been working on that will be out soon, but I’m not sure which way to go with the next release. Right now I have four EPs out there and I feel like it’s the time do a full album. I would love put out the album but with my tour schedule I don’t know when I can squeeze it in. That should be my goal for 2012.

BB: So on the record 2012, new Justin Faust album!

JF: Oh man, that’s pressure right there.

BB: Who are some of your favorite artists right now?

JF: I love Breakbot, there’s so much good stuff coming out right now I barely know where to start. Bit Funk is fucking amazing, Broke One from Italy is definitely someone to watch, there’s just so much great music coming out it’s hard to keep track.

BB: So you said you had some remixes coming out, who will you be remixing?

JF: I have a remix coming out for Viceroy, they have this single called “No Ending” and I just finished a remix for the new Discotexas release. Also, I have one for Moonchild coming down the pipeline. I’ll put them on my Soundcloud as soon as I can.

BB: Is there anyone else you’d like to collaborate with? Any new tours coming up?

JF: There are a few collaborations I’m doing with a few artists which I am waiting to see how they turn out. Just know, that it’s going to be amazing. I can’t really talk about it but it’s going to be some rad stuff coming out. I’m definitely planning on coming back to the US next year play at the cities I didn’t get a chance to go to like Chicago and all along the East Coast. I think the US is about ready to disco it’s slow but it’s catching on.

There’s the interview and make sure to support the disco movement, let’s prove to Justin Faust that the US is ready to disco and support those artists out there with this kind of originality. Here are a few tracks:

Choppy Slick – Vincent Fries & Justin Faust

Do It Again – Justin Faust

Girl Talk – Justin Faust

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- DuKΣ