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Do you feel there’s a current band right now that’s doing everything right?
M I honestly don’t know, I really don’t.
T Nine Inch Nails? (Laughs) I think [Trent Reznor] is my favourite for live stuff that I’ve ever seen.
M I like that new My Bloody Valentine album; I think that’s really good. But from aside of that, I don’t know. I don’t even think I can name a rock album. I’m a little bit tired so it’s hard for me to remember stuff. I think the only album I’m really hyped on was the new My Bloody Valentine album. I got this album from some band from Mexico, I cannot remember their name but it’s kinda like weird, dark shoe gaze stuff but it has more like electronic elements, more synths, it was really good. I’ve never heard of them, I know nothing about them but they e-mailed us their album, it was f*ckin’ awesome. I love rock music but I honestly haven’t heard anything lately that was [great], it’s just because you know when we started doing this; rock and dance were kind of infused so it was really easy to get turned on by a lot of bands but now that we’re doing this, we feel so separated from the rock stuff. Rock remixes aside, I haven’t been getting a lot of rock stuff as much unfortunately. It kinda sucks.
Getting back to you guys, it’s been two years since Hardcore/Softcore, is there going to be a follow up album?
T We’re going through some problems with Ultra Records right now. We’ve had an album that’s been done for about a year, maybe a year and a half, and they wanted not to release it by an album, do singles first, and then it was just back and forth. They’ve just plainly been sucking. So we’re thinking about trying to get out of our contract and it’s been delayed until we settle this issue we have with them, we don’t know when it’s gonna come out but in the meantime, we’re starting to do remixes and stuff to get around that so we could put out more content for everybody without having to deal with the record label.
M Yeah, as soon as we get the legal stuff settled we’ll have some more music out but they’ve just been really flaky and just dropping the ball. We did a song with Alvin Risk, we shot a video in Thailand and it hasn’t seen the light of day and the song is a f*cking banger! But they’ve been waiting for so long that the music is gonna sound dated by the time it comes out, so we’re pissed, we’re like, what the f*ck, man?! I think this album is the strongest music we’ve made, it’s very dancefloor stuff but they’ve just been flaking and flaking.
T So yeah, we’re doing a bunch of remixes, we got like 15 songs that we’re gonna drop pretty soon.
M I think soon we’re gonna have a lot of music out. We’ve just been waiting, we worked on the album for so long and we gave it to them and they’ve just been sitting on it so we’ve been doing some remixes and stuff so yeah… pretty pumped up. It’s fun for us because we’re trying new things, using new synthesisers, using new programmes, and writing different styles of music.
What can we expect from the stuff that you have worked with but haven’t been released yet?
M In the album, there’s a lot of dubstep and fused stuff but it’s not like your standard dubstep. Some people probably won’t even notice it was dubstep.
T There’s maybe like half dubstep-ish kinda stuff and the the rest of ‘em are more electro house, like 4/4 stuff.
M Yeah, we’ve got some vocal songs, we’ve got lots of sounds… it’s good. It doesn’t sound like anything else.
Seems like these days, everyone is trying to bring disco back. What do you feel about that?
T We’d let Daft Punk take care of that.
M Yeah.
T It’s cool to listen to but it’s not my thing.
M No… Not into it.
Is trap music becoming the new dubstep?
T Yeah, a lot of the dubstep guys are making trap now.
M But I feel like it’s kinda on the way up too.
T I don’t think it’s on the way up quite yet but I think it’s going strong. Everywhere we’ve been people are listening to it.
M People are listening to it but I feel like I don’t think Hardwell is gonna be opening up for trap DJs anytime soon.
T An hour and a half long of just trap can get real boring because there are a lot of sh!tty trap songs usually included in people’s sets. I would rather hear electro house set than a trap set but it’s good to hear trap once in a while, people really go crazy for it.
M It’s like when we DJ, we play all kinds of stuff. We play a trap song, then a hardstyle song, then a f*ckin’ dubstep song, then an electro song and a trance song or whatever’s good and it seems to work. That’s how I like listening to music, I don’t like listening to one genre for like f*cking more than three songs. If you play four trap songs in a row, I’d be like over it and the same with dubstep or anything… except for hardstyle.
Say anything random to people in Malaysia
M Turnt up! Pizza sandwich! Yeah, stoked to be here, man
T Yeah, real happy to be here. Thanks for having us.
Designer Drugs played at The Pool on Sunday 15 September ’13 courtesy of KC&Friends.
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