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FANZINE SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2010
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Your sound is a very good blend of punk attidute, pop melodies and electro beats.
Like a jam between Strokes and Phoenix with Erol Alkan behind the consolle. How
do you create this very special mix?
Thanks a lot. The songwriting is rather classic, we mostly rely on usual pop recipes, got rid of
our habits of putting awkward bridges in the middle of the songs to concentrate on the bone of
the tracks. We kept what was possible to play on stage, save for a few strings parts of course, and
essential in the arrangements. We knew that we wanted the production to sound modern and
flashy so we thought it was better not to divert people with too much information. Thanks a lot
for mentionning the Strokes because we indeed thought about them when we put the tracklisting
together. The first two Strokes albums are like a long song, quite similar and we wanted to go that
really coherent way, tracks glued together and making you want to listen to them all over again.
Your previous music project was called Poney Poney. Talk a little about it and why it
is stopped ...Can we find a sort of music inheritance from it in Jamaica project?
Poney Poney was a three people band, our drummer left and we decided to start again from scratch,
more or less when we felt it was time to make a record. I think we mostly improved what Poney
Poney was like, some songs date back from this era but we played them better and produced them
in enhanced versions. People say sometimes that they knew all about those songs from the Poney
Poney years, but I often doubt it. I’ve seen the figures and it seemed that there were far more fans
than we knew at the time!
INterview
by Matteo Quinzi
How do you enter in contact with Xavier de Rosnay, half Justice and producer of
your debut album “Jamaica No Problem”? How was work with him?
Xavier is an old friend of ours and worked on most of our previous songs. It felt natural to ask him
to help us out when it was time for us to make an LP. He brought Peter J. Franco, who is Daft Punk’s
live shows sound engineer to coproduce. Besides all the technical aspects of producing a record,
they also pushed us to being better musicians, singers and songwriters.
You have met and played with Iggor Cavalera, mythical ex drummer of Sepultura. Is he
so bad and ugly as it seems?
Ahahah. He’s the nicest guy around, yet I wouldn’t dare to arm wrestle him!
Parlateci della vostra “dimensione” live... Cosa ci dobbiamo aspettare?
We’re three on stage, with our drummer David. I think we rock! We bring most of the really
minimal set up we used to record “No Problem” to make sure the audience gets a similar
experience for shows and the album. Also, I tend to give someone from the first row my
guitar at the end of the show to play the last song with us. Usually, the guest provides really
strange and feedback fed noises that I love.
Your first two singles and videos, “I Think I Like U 2” and “Short and Entertaining”
are both really catchy but in a different way. Talk about the choice of these two
songs and the directors, So Me with Machine Molle for the first one, and Martial
Schmetz & Jeremie Rozan from Surface To Air brand...
So-Me offered to direct our first video ever and everybody thought “I Think I Like U 2” was the best
song to start with, light and uplifting. Also, it was the last written song at the time, so the freshest
to us. So-Me’s also an old friend and we are really keen on working with people we know really well.
We had fun talking about what he and Machine Molle would put in the video, shot some pictures
on a single day and then they had to work for days and nights on all the postproduction effects, the
drawings and such. Concerning “Short and Entertaining”, we wanted to go a different way, yet a way we thought also
really interesting, grounding the video plot on aesthetics rather than tongue in cheek comments.
Though the video is also really fun to us. We shot it in one very long day, the ambiance was serious
yet really laid back since Igor Cavalera who plays drums set the tone, being the coolest guy in town,
really relaxed and nice to everyone. Martial and Jeremie seemed to be the best fit for a video like this
one, having developed a precise and classy taste in making eye catching videos.
Tell
us one album from the present and one from the past that cannot miss in your
collection (or mp3 library)...
In questo momento sono nella fase Neil Young, quindi non posso che dire “Harvest”, un must. I’m
in a Neil Young phase so “Harvest” is a must. It works in most situations, wether you want to be
dragged down or want to feel better. The Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs” is probably the record I’ve
listened to the most the last weeks. They managed to write a really personal yet universal album.
Hail to them.
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2020 Soundsystem • Ocean (Jacksonville rmx)
Midnight Magic • Beam me up
The KDMS • High Wire (D-Pulse Remix)
LCD Soundsystem • Sound of Silver (Tim Fuchs rmx)
Flight Facilities • Crave You feat. Giselle
Azari & III • Reckless with your Love (Tensnake rmx)
Holidays • Believe (Andrea Esu rmx)
Chamboche • Feverish (The Revenge rmx)
Evil Nine • Stay Up
Toni Toni Lee • Feelin’ real good (Shazam Mix)
L-Vis 1990 • Forever You feat. Shadz
Burnt Island Casuals • Scotch Hop
Nakion • Horse Track (Xaver Von Treyer Fury mix)
Hotbath • You Wanna Do
Joan Reyes • Shakedown (Bass Kleph rmx)
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After a lot of years and several remix/session compilations, finally is (almost) arrived
your debut album. What we have to expect from it? When and for which label it will be
released? Why some many time? Are you a perfectionist or only “distracted from life”?
My proper artist album will come eventually. I find the album format is gone to the ages. No one listens
to albums all the way through anymore. Most people buy one track and never even hear the rest of the
music anyway. This is a moment to moment world we live in. The best you can do is create as much as
you can, share as much as you can and love as much as you can until this short journey of life vanishes
into a cloud of smoke.
You’re also a great and well know remixer: Yoko Ono, Good Charlotte, Kelis, Yeah
Yeah Yeahs, Elvis Presley, Pink, The Killers, Amanda Lear (!?) are only a little part of
your “patients”. Which is your first rule in the art of remix?
INterview
by Matteo Quinzi
Your music career started in Chicago but now you’re based in Brooklyn, New York.
Why this change? Which are the most important differences between the two music
scenes? In which city have you found better living conditions?
My heart will always belong to Chicago where House Music began. New York is more hard edged
which I like but you lose some of the soul when you have to be so tough. New York House Music
is more about the drugs and Chicago House Music is more about just getting sweaty from moving
your body. In a way, when House Music left Chicago it was always a compromise. Nobody will ever
make music like that again and it will always have a special place in my heart.
You have played in a lot of fashion show and after party for many brands like Versace,
Raf Simons, Chanel...And Paul Frank ask you to design a pair of sunglasses for him. Why
the “Fashion World” is always so interested in you?
Funny you should ask, I am wrting this to you from, Dubai where just a few hours ago I did a
perfume launch for Carolina Herrera. Fashion interests me because it moves very fast. Faster
than music even. It’s very Warhol how things come into style and then vanish. Fashion parties
are usually boring and I much perfer playing to music lovers.
I have never remixed anything I didn’t like the orginal of. I enjoy interpreting other people’s music
thought my kaledescope and serving it back up for the world to move to. I keep the songs intact
which is something most remixers have lost the art of. If you take the vocal and create a new track
with it, I hate to break it to you but THAT’S NOT A REMIX!
You were also commissioned to do score work for the upcoming Paramount Pictures
film Bad News Bears. Is this a new episode, always directed by Richard Linklater? How
do you feel and move in this new adventure? Which is your favourite movie?
No movie music, however: I have been collaborating with many people in this past year all over the
world. I have a single coming out called “Drop Acid’ with Bart B More in October. I’ve done a few
sessions now with TAI in Germany working towards an EP with him. I have been working with Mark
Verbos for a decade now and we continue to innovate our approach to things.
I have a label about to drop; Brooklyn Fire and have been making music with most of the signed
artists like Figure, Jon Kennedy, Dan Aux and Turbo P. Also been working with a Brazillan guy
named Kassiano who did Lil Jon’s new single “Machuka” and we just finshed an amazing remix of
Green Velvet’s “La La Land” together.
You have traveled a lot around the world for dj-sets, showcase etc...Do you have a favourite
club, location or audience in which one you feel “your sound” at its best?
L’Australia è “la mia casa lontano da casa” perché la gente va veramente fuori di testa da quelle
Australia is my home away from home because people go absolutely insane down there. However,
I am Italian and the love of my life Daniela is actualy Roman so we love to come to Italy and it will
be an amazing experience to play in Roma and maybe your hospitality will change our minds?
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Top 12 Disco Influences
Magic Fly • Space
The Chase • Giorgio Moroder
You’re the one for me • D Train
I thought it was you • Herbie Hancock
Together • Together
La prima cosa bella • Nicola di Bari
French Kiss • Lil’ Louis
Wild Strawberries • Pnau
Wild Combination • Arthur Russell
I dig You • Demis Russos
Lay it on the line • Logg
Walking on a Dream • Donnie Sloan
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