DJ Nano's book: "Music saved me from a bad life"
The DJ of confinement
"It still won't be able to be an Old Gold as we lived before the pandemic, it will be 80%." Optimistic by conviction, DJ Nano, Spain's most influential promoter and DJ, is back for Christmas. The man from Madrid from 77 returns to the public his most legendary show in person. It will be tomorrow at the
WiZink Center, the old Sports Palace
, due to the impossibility of being held at the Ifema fairgrounds, as usual. Ahead, six hours with the classics of electronic music, the great Spanish dance party, an intergenerational event that is the flag of this Madrilenian who has become the most popular DJ in Spain.
A personal effort by this icon of electronic music in order to recover "a party that makes thousands of people happy", although it never rains to everyone's liking.
«We wanted to do things well.
We were looking at rooms throughout the capital and the only place that guaranteed us strict security measures was the WiZink, but there were hardly any dates available, "he says of that harrowing search when he learned that the two dates he had reserved in Ifema were falling.
With effort, in the great Goya palace they made a hole for it on Friday the 10th, but it would have to conform to the afternoon format, from 6:00 p.m. to midnight, instead of the classic early-morning event that Oro Viejo has always been at the fairgrounds.
DJ Nano poses in a solo WiZink.JOHN MENDOZA
Many of its followers have generated a heated debate on social networks because it takes place in the evening hours, because they work, or due to the restrictions on alcohol consumption on the track (you can only drink in adjoining rooms or if the town is step) or when wearing a mask at all times.
«I understand the complaints when compared to other formats where we have done up to 12 hours of music.
Not doing this event was not an option for me despite the criticism », confesses the DJ, who compares the situation with 2020.« For the first time in 19 years, last Christmas it was held in digital format.
It couldn't be done physically, like so many other things.
Now we can finally dance looking into each other's eyes in a perfect space.
I can only feel joy for the absolute return of Oro Viejo ».
Rigid rules
Neither is an event of such dimensions profitable nor has it broken the records of other years with the sale of thousands of tickets due to these changes, he acknowledges. In just four hours, it reached the figure of 6,000 tickets. And he is convinced that it will reach 10,000 tickets sold tomorrow. In addition, being aware of the evolution of the data, the changes in the measurements in real time or the concern about the arrival of the Omicron variant takes away any artist's sleep. Sure I'm on edge, but it's worth it. People show me loyalty and infinite affection, this show is my way of giving it back to them: the best event of the year screaming and jumping until we have our voices ».
Both Nano and his team have been very strict throughout the coronavirus crisis with their participation in any event, although at some point it has generated controversy.
He demanded a mask and a seated public by contract.
"It is how things have to be done, although I know that there are people who skip everything to the bullfighting, but the law is there to comply with it and we do it 100%."
Dj Nano, last Monday in the session he held at the WiZink before the Nicky Jam concert.
The venue has a capacity for 15,000 people, 155,000 cubic meters and is capable of renewing the air every eight minutes.
"We will review the history of electronic music, from the late 80s to 2000, what I usually play."
Accompanied
It is a place prepared for major shows and that is why it is preparing a highly visual event: "Many things will happen in the contents of the intros and stops."
Accustomed to going to the WiZink to see numerous concerts, DJ Nano announces surprises from the hand of guest artists.
“Not only is it my session, but it will be revealed there.
I can anticipate that they are a good part of the culprits that electronic music is so important in our country and that they have filled out tracks ».
The Madrilenian chooses them without taking into account their style, but because they have marked times.
"Producers of hits, creators of absolute anthems that we carry in our suitcases and we have all danced, without having to do with each other, except for the common point that they have left an important mark on music."
The only sure thing is the closure: the theme
Lover Why
by John Wesley, his classic.
After the pandemic
Aside from satisfying the public, the DJ is especially happy to re-employ nearly two hundred people who have had a terrible time during the pandemic. «There is a very large human team that has been unable to do concerts where the least of us are artists. Design, communication, production, assembly, lighting ... They are joined by all the people from WiZink, because a pandemic event, so to speak, has many legs to control and everything is more difficult. We have been working on this for months because we live in constant change and you have to be prepared for everything, even for it to be canceled. Nothing to do with making money or doing business, I would even tell you that it is tiring, but it always pays off if it is achieved », acknowledges the Madrilenian.
At 44 years old, Nano is still on the crest of the wave, triumphing among all generations. This year he released an autobiographical bookhttps: //www.elmundo.es/cultura/musica/2021/05/18/609dac71fc6c83a6258b4605.html and is preparing a musical at the Teatro Príncipe Pío on the history of electronic music in Spain.
He covers a very varied audience, with more than 205,000 followers on his social networks, from young people who have discovered him at home during confinement to elderly faithful who danced with him in his days in the Arena room. Right now, as there are so many changes that some do not understand, he gets the occasional raptor. "I enter the debates that are formed to clarify my doubts to a certain extent," he asserts, since he does not want to waste energy with negative feelings. «I am not left with the ugly, but with the good comment. I love meeting the thousands of people who come to my events. I will continue to get into scrubbing because it goes with me, I am that natural, "he says with a laugh.
He already has festivals closed for 2022, so he is hopeful about the future.
«There are spectacular posters where Spain is the nerve center.
I think it is going to be the best summer that we are ever going to experience because of the desire that people have to dance and enjoy themselves ».
A 'show' with an early morning extension
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Despite the paradox of being a little disco fan when he is not at the decks, DJ Nano has already been able to go out and observe the new trends in the Madrid night that has triggered the pandemic.
From the room that includes its own restaurant inside the nightclub, thus expanding the show, to gastronomic spaces that add a DJ to the experience, with guest artists and ephemeral 'shows' or the Anglo-Saxon 'lateo' that has come to stay extending the fun. «I have already played in trendy places that offer spectacular food and that later are gradually transformed into elegant clubs where house music plays. I think it is a wonderful option for all those people who want to dance until two o'clock but do not intend to return home at six in the morning, "he says. These places where it is already difficult to reserve a table thanks to this new concept offer more job opportunities to DJs. “They widen the range and that's great for us. Some are doing really well.
During the pandemic, he had no choice but to DJ from his home in Las Rozas, broadcasting live on Instagram digitally, another consequence derived from the coronavirus crisis.
«As I was very active 'online' they have asked me a lot that if people are now going to stay more at home because technology is here to stay.
I think we are about touching, hugging, being with our friends and living the experience in the first person.
Yes, it is true that there can be hybrid events, and I am very much in favor of it.
Thus, Oro Viejo could be enjoyed by a Madrilenian at WiZink and a Mexican from across the pond through a screen.
"It is a good thing that the pandemic has left us but, from my point of view, interpersonal relationships are irreplaceable."
Long-term plans still cannot be done, and even less knowing that the peak of infections is volatile and rises at Christmas.
"I have gone from calculating my schedule to a year in sight to practically closing events for months, and that is a chore for an artist."
That is why he has quickly sought an alternative to Wizink for those who cannot attend.
"I knew that many could not go late, so the promoters of Panda and La Riviera will do two 'after party' events that do not depend on me but where Oro Viejo will play."
An intense Friday awaits the Madrilenian, who after his nearly six-hour marathon at the WiZink will continue to tour, playing two more parties at dawn in Madrid.
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