So a couple years ago you guys had the iTunes Single of the Week. How’d that change things in terms of following or help expose you guys?
Alex: Yeah, it was our first thing, so it got us a lot of remix opportunities.
Nick: There wasn’t really a lot to compare it to, you know, so it didn’t really change anything because there was nothing before.
Alex: It got us some remixes and also, I mean, personally, it helped us because we were like, ‘Oh maybe we can do this.’ Not having to do with it being free on iTunes or anything but just having to do with making something, finishing it, putting out a 12-inch on the label that we love and having it go through all those steps so we were like, ‘Oh, shit.’
A confidence boost.
Alex: Yeah, that it could work out. So in that way I think it changed stuff for us. And you know, it validated our parents’ concern. Well, no. What’s the opposite of validated?
Nick: It quelled.
Alex: It quelled their anxieties, because once you’re on iTunes, everything’s gravy afterwards.
Were there a lot of anxieties before that?
Alex: Not really. We both had jobs and were working, but definitely for my mom and dad – they don’t understand DJing and they don’t understand remixing. They’re like, ‘Wait a second. So someone’s paying you to come to Paris to play someone else’s music?’ And I’m like ‘Yeah,’ and she’s like ‘Don’t they have someone in Paris to do that?’ Or like, ‘Someone’s paying to change the drums on their songs?’ But with iTunes…
Nick: Yeah, and if I could just get into New York Magazine, I’ve made it.
Alex: If we’ve made it into iTunes and New York Magazine, then our parents would be happy.
Yeah, there’s nowhere else to go from there.
Nick: Yeah, then my parents wouldn’t ask anymore questions.
Alex: The Village Voice would be cool.
Nick: The New York Times would be the end-all.
Alex: Oh, that would be it.
All right, let’s talk about what you guys are up to next. You have a new song coming out soon, right?
Alex: June 24th, digitally. Digitally available June 24th with a music video on the lovely GreenLabelSound.com.
How’d you guys hook up with them?
Alex: They actually approached us about a year ago to do a track for them, and we were so busy at the time, it just kind of, for various reasons, fell apart of whatever. Then our label kind of brought up the discussion again recently and it’s been really a pleasure and opened up a lot of opportunities that we don’t normally have- like to make a music video, and do some proper promotion for it and stuff- and hopefully more people will see it and download it. And it’s nice that we can give it a way for free, too. Especially after not putting anything original out for two years, this is kind of an apology.
Were you guys working on the track initially when you got approached about it?
Nick: Yeah, that was really like 90 percent of the reason that it was able to work out. Like when they first asked us to do it, maybe we misunderstood it, but we understood they sort of wanted us to write a song, especially for Green Label Sound, and we were so busy with remixes and we work so slowly we were just like, ‘We don’t have time to do.’ Whereas this was just like, the song is mixed, the remixes were done, the video was half done, and basically everything they were asking us to do we already had. So it was just like, yeah, perfect. I mean it’s been a pretty tight deadline, but there’s no way it could’ve worked if we didn’t have all this stuff in play already. Just because we work so, so slowly.
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