LONDON CALLING
URB: What’s happening in London music-wise?
James: There is a lot of new dance music. There’s obviously the electro, techno thing. Then there’s been a lot of that I suppose fidget, fidgety house stuff like Switch. But more than that recently there’s been a lot of dub step and kind of UK funky and UK wanky sort of like British kind of urban dance music, which is good and interesting. Not that far away from garage in a way mixed with grime and what not.
Jas: Also I think people not playing music that fast is good. It gets so frantic.
James: We get really sick of DJs playing like 30 seconds of every tune per say. And it’s just like MAH-MAH-MAH, RUH-RUH-RUH. It’s just boring you know, there is no dynamics, no music in it. It ends up being just energy and noise and not really anything. I think there is definitely a movement towards a more deeper house music.
URB: What are you going to be working on in the near future?
James: We just did an album and we really love it but I think we are going to do a techno version. So a techno album which will be a lot longer with more of an aim at the clubs, for DJs and that’s the thing we are working on at the moment.
URB: So you’ve started working on it already?
Jas: Actually the original idea of this album was to make a techno record mostly experimental and it just didn’t work out that way.
James: We started out with instrumentals and then we got a lot of vocals back and we thought, ah this is good, and this too, this is pretty good too and before we knew it we had like 8 or 9 songs. So we just said fuck it, let’s just make a song-y record and then we will make a more stretched out, psychedelic record.
URB: Do you write lyrics as well?
James: No, we mostly do just the instrumental and the chords. But mainly the singers write their own lyrics because then it’s kind of more believable.
Jas: The kind of people that we chose to work with, aren’t really the kind of people you can tell what to sing. And that’s the reason we work with them – they’re also good writers. It would even be uncomfortable saying something like “Hey Chris, do you want to sing these lyrics?”
URB: Yes, makes sense. Thanks guys. Have a great night.
Jas/James: Yeah, thank you. See ya later.
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