VILLA NEXTBEAT IN IBIZA 2010, video 5... Lenny Fontana interview

1:54 I present to you, my best friend

I present to you, my best friend. Say hello! Hello! I use this for a sample. For example? Just say quickly, what's your name, where do you work? Lenny Fontana, international DJ from New York, playing space this summer. Nice! You can do everything. It's like a sampler, mixer. We show you. The beginning of the story is only one two-deck mixer and also all sorts of different tools and toys going around with it. This is really the beginning of the story, so you just select your track here, put all your tracks on a CF card directly from your Mac. So, now I'm going to call another track. It's already ready. So, two-day concert. Crossfader. Real cuts. So, now is it beatmatching? No, it's not beatmatching. So you have the beatmatch still, yeah. You've got a headphone here, you're cueing, okay.

Wow, obviously you can make notes. How much RAM does it have? There's no RAM. It's just managing cue points. So it's really, you can make like a 120 MP. There's no RAM, there's no, nothing comes out. Because I know like the Pioneer has like 800 MB or whatever. Everything is in your card. Everything is explicitly drawn on your card. So you can make notes, divide groups. No, we don't do that.

5:31 Touch sensitive, you know

Basically some six effects. Touch sensitive, you know. Transforming and everything. Okay right we're here in Ibiza in Villa Nexby and what's your name sir? I am Lenny Fontana. Okay and where do you originate from? New York City. And you're here in Ibiza for what reason? I'm the resident for Cafe Olay Republic Salvation at Space on Saturdays. Cool. Right, just so you know, I'm the first American DJ to ever play on this island. Excellent. When was that? How many years ago? God, it was in the early 90s. Wow. How long have you been a DJ for? Since 1982. Okay. If you could give one or two tips to the new DJs out there, what would it be? Learn your trade. That means go back in time and Research all the DJs that were doing things 25, 30 years ago. Listen to the music that was happening back then because it always comes back to real music. Cool. Always. What's your, okay, I suppose really in a sense, what I'm feeling, your favorite genre has got to be the original disco style but with that modern groove. Well, for a while there it was and then I changed a bit to electronic houses.

I'm kind of back, but when I started playing, this is what I was playing. Excellent. My counterparts were Larry Levan and Shep Pettibone and Tony Humphries, and you know, I had the best DJs around me in New York at that time. So the playing field was of high quality with high quality sound. Excellent. Alright, probably a very difficult question, but off the top of your head now, could you maybe pick out one or two of your favorite tracks? I know this is really difficult because there's so many, but choose five songs. I'll tell you a producer I like. It's hard to say. I'm feeling David Herrero right now from Spain. He's doing some amazing work. I'm playing a lot of balleric stuff because I'm here. I also like the Swedish Mafia a couple of bits here and there. I kind of very care for what I pick and choose and what I play so that I don't sound like the other guys.

15:00 I kind of missed that, you know?

The DJ Tutor is a professional guitarist who has been working with us for more than 20 years. What is probably your best experience about being in Ibiza since you've been here? Have you got one memorable evening that, you know, you can say, do you know what, that was like shit, it was just a bomb. I'll tell you when. Tell me, tell me. The early 90s when I played for Ministry in Pasha, those Friday nights were, there was one Friday night and we had 70, it's like the way it is with David Guetta now, we had about 7,000 people through that door. DJ tutorial by Ellaskins, Because they were coming off the disco era, they would go absolutely crazy. I kind of missed that, you know? Now it's such a younger crowd, you have to play more up front, more electronic, but it seems to be getting a little bit better again. Do you feel as though as well, okay, there's more electronic, but you can mix the occasional sort of maybe late 80s, early 90s track in as well? Of course. Like I said, it all depends on how you present your product, you know, how you're doing it through the night.

If you have the right crowd that is with you and they're dancing, I can't see there's no reason why you can't do it. Cool. Alright, I've got a saying that's known around the world, it's called practice and enjoy. My philosophy is you practice and practice and even when you make mistakes, you should enjoy your mistakes. In other words, it's about positive feelings not negative when you make mistakes. So will you finish off this interview with practice and enjoy please? Yeah, practice and enjoy. Learn from it and enjoy the moment. You're a star. Nanny, thank you so much. Thank you, mate. Thank you, take care. Right, this is a bit like the morning after the night before the night before the night before. The reason I say that is because for anyone who's been to Ibiza, when you come, really day ends up being morning and morning ends up being night and night ends up being day...

18:02 Sanchez rocked the place, he did

Thanks for watching. You've got to be able to stay up. There's no point coming here thinking you're going to go to bed at 1 o'clock because that's sometimes the time when people go out in the morning. Yeah, great, good fun. Saw Roger Sanchez last night. Amazing. Absolutely amazing. And what was so cool, some guy goes, are you the DJ tutor? I said, yeah. He said, oh wow! And it was great. So, that's pretty neat. These mates came over as well, had a chat. Brilliant. Sanchez rocked the place, he did. He just, you know, he did his things, stood there and nodded his head, put his hands up, waved them about, but he knew what he was doing. Sweet, very sweet. So there you go. Well, fly out in a minute, we'll go to the UK. Then I've got another three hour journey in a car, sorry, car, van.

This is some guy who lives in the middle of Wales. He's going through a lot of shit at the moment, family wise, but You know, I'm coping because I've got good people around me. And it's because I've got a positive attitude. Well, I try most of the time. Sometimes it does fall flat, but at the end of the day, I'm only bloody human. Bloody mosquito bites. Shit, pain in the ass. Look, there's... I don't know if you can see that. I've got loads of them. Come prepared next time with an AK-47. Smoke them out. Pool, a few beers. Lots of fruit, not much sleep, loads of women. I mean, not that I've, you know, but loads of women. Loads of sun, loads of music, but most important, loads of good vibes from good people. So, yeah, it's all good. Practice and enjoy. Thank you. It's a stop button.

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