Deep Root Records Label Owner Francis Mercier Talks Career & Music

Deep Root Records is a record label that specializes in deep house, afro house, and electro pop music. They boast a diverse international roster, and have released music from house music legends like Roland Clark, Rowetta and Chapter & Verse, as well as from up and coming stars. DJ, Producer and Deep Root Records Label Owner, Francis Mercier joins the Mason Paine Show to speak about his career, music and latest projects.

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Francis Mercier Interview Transcription

Mason Paine: Francis Meier is not only a DJ producer, but he is also the founder of deep roots records. This label focuses on deep house Afro house and electro pop music. The label has a diverse international roster of artists and has released music from well known house music, legends like Roland Clark, and Rotta as well as some up and coming stars. Francis Meier joins me to talk about his career music and latest projects. Thanks for joining me, Francis.

Francis Mercier: Thank you.

Mason Paine: So tell me, how long have you been a DJ?

Francis Mercier: It's been a long journey. About 15 years. Looking back, it's been 15 years. Yeah.

Mason Paine: Wow. 15 years. Did you start when you were in high school or college then?

Francis Mercier: When I just moved to the states, when I just started college, around my freshman year, I had a chance to CTS, to I'm in UR in live back then it was like the big trans days. And that really drew me in and I got my first pair of equipment.

Francis Mercier: And from there I started playing like college parties and it's, it's been history since.

Mason Paine: Your first piece of equipment. Do you still have it? I'm just curious.

Francis Mercier: No, not at all, actually sold my turntable, which was a mistake back in, I think it was 2008 because I wanted to get, you know, a new computer and I wanted to get like sero and I kind of moved to the digital.

Francis Mercier: I completely changed startup nowadays. You know, I play mainly with, CD-J's, so it's kind of pointless to have equipment, if that makes sense.

Mason Paine: No, it does make sense. But I still get nostalgic of keeping a lot of my old devices because I don't know why I think to myself, maybe it'll be useful or, you know, maybe I'll pull it out and I'll just try something different using, you know, something older.

Mason Paine: But, I try not to sell any of my old stuff just because I don't know

Francis Mercier: I think it was a mistake. I think it was a mistake because you know, turntables turned out to be. Quite valuable nowadays because they don't make them anymore. The techniques. So I had techniques back in the day and I sold them for not, not a lot just to get myself a MacBook and, and, Serato sound card because that's what was trending back then.

Francis Mercier: Yeah. And yeah, since, since it's been, it's been a big change, you know, I obviously moved from Serato to now USBs, but nowadays with all my touring schedule, you know, I don't really have to bring equipment to, to gigs anymore. I just have equip. At, my disposal, all the clubs or wherever I wanna perform, I just hit up my friends who have equipment and whatnot.

Mason Paine: And that's some of the fun part about it. But as a producer, do you ever think to yourself, I wanna bring my own equipment just because you're familiar with it.

Francis Mercier: Not really. I do play with a mug. I do have a mug at home, but, most of my production is digital. To be honest with you, it's in the box. It's, it's through Ableton. You know, I really work with diva. I work with, most plugins are like,