Interview: Le Castle Vania

Atlanta based Dylan Eiland, aka Le Castle Vania, is one of the most famed electro producers and will be playing Cassette Number Nine in Auckland this Sunday 3rd May.

A sought-after remixer and performer, Dylan has toured nonstop since the summer of 2006, playing with the likes of Justice, MSTRKRFT, Simian Mobile Disco, Erol Alkan, Busy P, Uffie & Feadz, Kavinsky, Soulwax, Surkin, Para One, The Presets, Steve Aoki, Boys Noize, Cut Copy and Crystal Castles.

We were lucky enough to get Dylan to answer a few questions for us before his descent to the land downunder. Here' what he had to say:

So how did you get the name 'Le Castle Vania,' the only other reference we could find to it was a late 90's Nintendo game?

it was really just more of a joke that grew into the music project that it is now. basically me and few friends used to joke around about making a band named after the old video game castle vania. so when i did my first remix for this project (the snowden- black eyes remix) i needed a name to put on it so i just stuck le castle vania on it as a joke not really thinking much would come of it but then the remix kind of blew up and started getting played out a lot in the dj scene so i ended up just kind of stuck with the name haha but i'm happy with it i think it has served me well!

The Remix you did of Snowden's 'Black Eyes' was flogged pretty heavily on radio stations here and pretty extensively all over the world. When did you realise how big that tune was?

i think once i started getting hit up online by djs all over the world and started getting asked to go dj different clubs all over it kind of started to sink in that ppl were really into that song. Click here to read full review.

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