URB: I feel like when the growth gets stunted its time to go in a new direction. I think that’s what you guys are doing.
TANNER ROSS: There is more to this than just the same recycled house loop. We are, and it is, constantly changing. We have new ideas for the next project. It may be a little different. Who knows? But it will still be dance floor. I’m producing “dubstep” now and I’m learning a lot of new ideas that I wouldn’t normally learn by just making the same techno beats over and over again. So then when James and I get back together again we will have this whole new thing. It will constantly be evolving until we are too tired to continue. With influence from dubstep to techno and even drum n bass. Eventually in 10 more years or so there will be no genre. It will just be dance music. But again, everyone needs a category – for organization purposes.
URB: You’ve got some interesting influences listed on your MySpace. I don’t think most people would list Bernard Hermann as an influence but I guess it fits in relation to your sound.
TANNER ROSS: Yeah. Hermann is amazing. Have you heard his score for Taxi Driver? Very beautiful Then you hear his music for Psycho and it’s different, but same techniques. That’s the thing, when you hear a Ben Klock techno track you think, “Ah, that’s a Ben Klock techno track.” But when you hear him do a dubstep track, same technique but different take… I think I’m rambling…
URB: I get you though. You guys are trying to be auteurs.
TANNER ROSS: Yeah, but the main point of the whole thing is to have fun. I think the best quote that fits the whole picture is something I read today on Resident Advisor about Andrew Weatherall, “The minute you get blinkered and you just go down one avenue, it’s like giving in. You’ve become your parents.” Amazing. And so true. That’s my new life mantra and I will stick to it.
URB: Last question. What are your top three horror movies?
TANNER ROSS: [Laughs] That’s tough. But I will give it to you:
3. The Shining
2. The Devils Rejects
1…………. Give me a minute. I need a smoke real quick to think about that because this will be embedded in the internets for eternity.
URB: Take your time. This is important stuff.
TANNER ROSS: To be honest, the number one movie that scared the pants off of me, like, really freaked me out, and I’m not trying to offend anyone, but I’m going to use my freedom of speech: Jesus Camp. That movie, it’s a documentary, I don’t know if you have seen it but, wow. All I can think about is those poor children. They have no choice. That to me is far scarier than any movie about some guy running around killing people, or ghosts, because that shit is going to affect my children and my children’s children. I’m not trying to say “we must stop this now” but… it is a concern in the back of my head.
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