![]() Lazarus: It started when I started working at Dazed & Confused magazine around 1996. It went like this:ĭJ Times: You’ve been part of the dance-music landscape since the ’90s – what were your first forays into the scene? The London-born talent went all the way back to his nascent years, recounting the events and experiences that brought him to the present time as one of the curators of not only singular DJ sets, but taste-making record labels Crosstown Rebels and Rebellion, and magical destination festivals and events such as Day Zero and Get Lost. In between keeping an eye on his quarreling goats, shuttering his windows against a pending rainstorm and sipping tiny espressos punctuated by intermittent cigarettes, Lazarus gave DJ Times plenty to chew on. These efforts sometime have a clear view of the dancefloor such as on “Leave,” “Everybody” and “Mountain.” At other times, it looks inward, such as on “Beth” and “Bas.” At yet other times, such as on “Into the Sun,” it is tailor-made for Lazarus’ signature sunrise/sunset selections. It delves far back into his musical past, unearthing his early drum-n-bass influences, bringing those together with jazzy grooves and skipping house beats or jumpy breakbeats and buzzing basslines. Sequestered with his family and his engineer/tour manager/assistant and all-around Man Friday, Paolo Bartolomeo, at his Monastic Studio in the middle of a nearby forest, Lazarus has never had this much uninterrupted time to focus on creation, and mostly likely never will again.īut it was put to good use because Flourish captures all the isolated, nature-driven environs in which it was created, not to mention Lazarus’ fluctuating state of mind. Lazarus spent the month prior to the pandemic and the ensuing five lockdown months at home at his idyllic farm in Italy, high atop a mountain, working on his opus, Flourish – the second album under his own name, his fourth overall. No gigs and lots of time on his hands to get creative. ![]() In 2020, Damian Lazarus, the DJ/producer/label owner with the excellent name – it sounds completely made-up, but isn’t – was confronted with some of the same challenges shared by all DJs.
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