Lost Records and VIVa Music artist Latmun steps up on the latest edition of the Select Cuts Series, providing a ludicrously groovy sixty minute recording. What’s more, we caught up with the producer fresh from releasing a brand remix for Green Velvet and his classic cut ‘Flash’ on Relief Records. Get the lowdown right here!

WWD: How’s things Latmun! Thanks for taking the time out to have a chat with us. What have you been getting up to as of late?

Hey! Thanks for asking me to have a chat and the support on premiering my music this year. Its gone from 50-100mph for me over the last few months and I couldn’t be more thankful too all the people supporting me. With every release and announcement I’m really honored by the generous support from everyone and all the nice words, so thankyou to everyone reading for that. I have been busy playing lots of gigs and also learning how to balance studio time properly between them! I have been writing lots of new music, although I’m keeping this secret for now as I have released 3 EP’s already this year, so there is going to be a slightly longer wait until my next release J

WWD: Where do you think faith would have taken you if you didn’t take on music in your life?

Well music very nearly wasn’t the path I took actually! I did a business studies degree (yes boring know), graduating in 2014. I also did a placement year working a 9-5 corporate job in London, which was the turning point at which I knew that wasn’t the career path for me, and I had to give music a proper go otherwise I would regret it for the rest of my life.
For a year a did promotional work and DJ’ed as a resident at Nottingham’s famous Stealth Nightclub, locking myself in the studio whenever possible. I was constantly networking while DJing at Stealth so that when I first made music I was happy with I could give it straight to DJ’s to play, which is largely how my music came to be known by people.
So if I wasn’t DJing for a career today I would probably be sat in an office looking out the window dreaming of DJing, and getting shouted at by my boss for going off tangent in a meeting about an infrastructure project and instead talking about how to make a good tech house bassline haha.

WWD: You have really grounded yourself the past year with some huge releases and bookings! When starting a new track where would you usually start?

Thank you! I almost always start a track with the drums, I don’t think they are any more important than other elements of the track, but the drums are what inspire the other components of the track for me; so they need to be grooving first in order to get the creative juices flowing.
Occasionally if I’m going through a period of writers block then I start a track with something else like a hook, to help break the block and make me approach the writing process in a different way.

WWD: Speaking more on the production sides of things the legendary ‘Green Velvet’ approached you to to be apart of his remix compilation for his big hit ‘Flash’. Obviously this is a big thing for you, how did it feel to be picked out for it? Did you approach this project different to others?

This whole project was crazy, so I got skype call from Green Velvet the day before I was flying to Ibiza; which was amazing in the first place as Green Velvet is a huge hero of mine. I then couldn’t believe it when he asked me if I would be up for remixing his classic – Flash! The only downside was that I had 5 days to complete and submit the remix and I was in Ibiza for 2 of those days, and everyone knows how hard it is to do anything other than party in Ibiza haha. Most of the remix was actually made on the plane then finished and mixed down when I got home! I didn’t really approach it any differently to any my other projects, this one in fact actually came together pretty easily as Curtis’s vocals just sound so good over anything.

WWD: A quick question for all of the tech nerds out there. What hardware / software would be a goto for you?

I use Logic Pro X for 90% of my productions, rewired with ableton live for audio work. Occasionally when I need re-inspiring I will make a whole track in Ableton as I find the different workflow makes me produce a different final product through making sounds in ways I wouldn’t have thought of in Logic X. I don’t use any hardware as I like the flexibility of being able to work anywhere, anytime.

WWD: Moving onto more of a DJing perspective. You’ve presented us here with a banging mix. Talk us a bit through it!

In my mixes and live set’s I like to pull from old and new tracks, unknown and known tracks. There is nothing more boring than listening to a mix that is purely the top 10 on Beatport where you know every song (ironically as the top 10 is exactly what every DJ wants to get their tracks into haha). Its great to put a track or two in there from the top 10 for example as you want a small amount of familiarity to the listener, but I think most of it should be unknown to them – otherwise they wont take anything away from listening to the mix / set, and cant feel the intended journey properly.
My mix is therefore a combination of old and new, known and unknown while varying the energy levels throughout to create a journey.

WWD: Any big plans/goals you wish to set out to achieve by the end of the year?

I would love to play out in Brazil, it’s a place I have always wanted to visit and some of the parties out there look insane, amazingly this is actually on the cards so keep an eye out! I would also love to get something on Hot Creations, its been one of my favorite labels for many years and constantly sets the benchmark for creativity within the scene.