You guys do a lot of DJing, too. What are your DJ sets like?
Alex: They’re kind of a mix of new edits of old music, some new tracks, and just kind of classic paradise garage-style stuff, long, long songs, overly long mixes, soulful old disco stuff, some harder stuff, but compared to a lot of other DJs we played really soft and really for people to dance to, not to bang to.
Nick: We don’t like people to look at us. Generally when people are looking at us when we’re DJing it’s because we’ve done something wrong (laughs).
Alex: Like take the CD out.
Nick: Or trainwreck the mix or something.
Do you guys bring vinyls out with you on the road?
Nick: Yeah.
Cool. It seems like these days with all this laptop-inspired technology that anyone can be a…
Alex: Yeah, we spend enough time on a laptop doing e-mails, it’s like why would you want the four hours that you have off from that to be staring at a screen. Just for us it doesn’t really work.
You guys do a lot of DJing, too. What are your DJ sets like?
Alex: They’re kind of a mix of new edits of old music, some new tracks, and just kind of classic paradise garage-style stuff, long, long songs, overly long mixes, soulful old disco stuff, some harder stuff, but compared to a lot of other DJs we played really soft and really for people to dance to, not to bang to.
Nick: We don’t like people to look at us. Generally when people are looking at us when we’re DJing it’s because we’ve done something wrong (laughs).
Alex: Like take the CD out.
Nick: Or trainwreck the mix or something.
Do you guys bring vinyls out with you on the road?
Nick: Yeah.
Cool. It seems like these days with all this laptop-inspired technology that anyone can be a…
Alex: Yeah, we spend enough time on a laptop doing e-mails, it’s like why would you want the four hours that you have off from that to be staring at a screen. Just for us it doesn’t really work.
Do you think the new technology broadening the amount of people DJing is a good thing or not so much?
Nick: I don’t really feel strongly one way or another. I’ve definitely seen people play great DJ sets on Serato. I’ve definitely seen people play fucking awful sets on Serato, but I’ve seen people play awful sets on vinyl too. I think the one bad thing I’d say that it’s done is because it allows you to mix so quickly, it sort of started this trend in dance music where it’s like (snaps quickly), which I guess sort of came from Hip Hop with the sort of Funkmaster Flex style mixtape shit where everything was like a minute long, and you have some opening DJ at 10 a.m. and in one hour he’s played 60 tracks, or it’s like 11 o’clock at night and he’s playing 135 beats per minute to an empty room. But yeah there are definitely people I like that play on Serato, and there are people like Drop the Lime, who really milk the technology for all it’s worth doing all sorts of looping stuff and really do cool stuff with it. I’ts just, I’m not a nerd with records, like with collecting them, I just really like them a lot. Half the fun of DJing to me is playing records. If I was just playing CD’s it just wouldn’t be as fun to me. It’s not a judgment call against people who do play CD’s; it’s just that the fun for me is the records.
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