Speedy J Resident Advisor Featured Interview

14 September 2010

Speedy J: Something for your mind In advance of his appearance at Time Warp Holland, RA catches up with the head of Electric Deluxe to talk about his lengthy career in the world of techno. "I was never really into that culture, and I didn't have a name for myself, and they were annoyed that I didn't. They said, 'You're a good DJ, and your fast on the decks, and we need to give you a name that we can use in our lyrics. We can't use DJ Jochem because that's rubbish... Can we call you Speedy J?' So I said, 'Yeah, sure. Why not?" In retrospect, the innocuous story of how Rotterdam resident Jochem Paap came to be known as Speedy J is fascinating. Because, more than two decades later, you'd be hard-pressed to find a producer in the techno scene that has made fewer compromises in his career. For a man so self-assured to end up with a name so strange... Well, as Paap himself laughs, "The reason I did that first official release as Speedy J was because I didn't think it was going anywhere."

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