![]() ![]() To the casual observer, Maceo might seem to have more in common with fellow top-tier Timewarp talent like Adam Beyer or Sven Väth, but there’s a restless creativity and desire to experiment which has seen his sound increasingly difficult to pin down in recent years. I just saw it take off and my crowds get bigger and bigger.” “But I think it had more synthesizer or a little more sound design. “I had this sound which arrived just at the right time, during the era when deep house made a big wave,” he tells us. That experimentation struck gold, first with a series of singles on Crosstown Rebels, including “ Vibe Your Love” and “ Your Style,” which became key tracks during an early-2010s purple patch for richly melodic global house music and led to Maceo Plex releasing his debut album Life Index on Crosstown Rebels, becoming one of the most in-demand house DJs in the world and then launching his own Ellum Audio imprint. It was really intoxicating at first and that led to me experimenting on some house productions.” But we (Eric and his wife Christine) ended up moving to Valencia in 2009 as I was getting booked in Europe a lot more and that’s where I started to learn how to make people dance more and keep a groove. “For a long time, I wasn’t really drawn to four-to-the-floor and definitely not to house music,I was playing that kind of Cologne minimal sound you’d get on Kompakt or experimental electro. While he built a fairly successful career as a respected DJ and producer as Maetrik throughout the 2000s, it wasn’t until he took on the Maceo Plex alias towards the end of that decade that the wheels were set in motion for his career to go supernova. Originally drawn to sounds like hardcore, drum ‘n’ bass, jungle and Miami electro, his obsession paid off with Eric first building a name for himself under his Eric Entity moniker and picking up support slots with the likes of Green Velvet in Dallas before eventually taking on the Maetrik moniker for his techno productions and the alias Mariel Ito for his more IDM and electro flavoured music. “But it’s harder as you get older as you just have so many other priorities.” ![]() Soon, the young Eric had picked up his first set of decks and a synthesiser and found himself spending hours and hours in his bedroom, either practicing his cutting and scratching or figuring out how to make music and becoming ‘completely obsessed’.“I almost wish I could become as obsessed with one thing as I did back then,” he tells us. ![]()
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