Here are some questions that some top notch blogs (including us) posed to the fantastic electro duo that is Digitalism:
1. If you could have any artist (alive or dead) to collaborate with, who would it be? and why?
Maybe Vincent van Gogh because his paintings are so beautiful. As for musicians — that’s hard to say. Changes daily.
2. Which is your favorite remix that an artists has done for you? Do you like it when artists remix your work or would you prefer it to go untouched?
At first we didn’t like the idea of getting our songs remixed, but then people started just doing it, and the results were really cool, so we went along with that. There’s lots of good ones, but one that’s outstanding could be WhoMadeWho for “Idealistic”; they replayed the song with their band rather than doing a classic “remix” — dope.
3. What keeps you excited about music these days? How do you keep it fresh for yourselves?
We haven’t been to the studio for like three years while we been touring, so that definitely excites us now, doing new stuff, working with new synthesizers, getting new songs ready, playing them on our DJ sets that we’re touring with at the moment….. It’s great! We couldn’t wait to do new music, and after a while, you want to present these new songs and you’re looking forward to touring again.
Here’s what the other blogs asked –
4. When I sing in the shower, it’s usually:
basslines
5. My favourite place to play on tour is:
on stage!
6. Press play on your iPod/media player and list the first three songs that come up:
-taxi girl -mannequin
-azzido da bass – i want U JENCE remix
-a digitalism unreleased song
From The Culture of Me
7. I’m interested in artists’ perceptions of mp3 blogs. Of course, there’s some out-spoken opposers - like Radio Slave and Duke Dumont – but do you think the better blogs (who are careful not to thoughtlessly post high quality new releases) are helping or damaging the scene?
we like blogs and respect them for their work; they can show people things that they normally wouldn’t have discovered. the major labels have lost their grip on sales and downloads anyway, so there’s no point in blaming blogs for damaging the musical industry. people just have to be careful when there’s so much stuff out there — they tend to “zap” through songs rather than appreciating a single song like they used to, back then.
8. I always used to enjoy a good Digitalism remix. 2006 saw you bang out a lot of top notch remixes, but that seems to have petered out now? Will we be hearing any new remixes or original material this or next year?
there’s lots of new Digitalism stuff coming up soon, but it’s our own music rather than remixes. we want to concentrate on the Digitalism stuff first before we point attention on other bands’ works.
9. Who are your favourite up-and-coming artists right now?
hey today! and drums of death might be amongst them.
From You Can Call Me Pelski
10. Have you ever heard a remix of one of your own tracks, that you liked more than your own original mix? Or maybe a remix that inspired you to make a track?
It was usually the remixes we’ve done for other bands that inspired us to own songs. Like, we would have ten different ideas and approaches to a remix, and we pick one but might work on another one for an own song. It’s pretty inspiring.
11. Do you like music blogs and the blogosphere in general? And do you think music blogs have had any part of your success today?
We respect blogs for their work on spreading interesting things, combining music, text and videos, for promoting stuff and all that. It definitely must have played a part in where we are today, no doubt. There’s so many interesting sites out there, and everyday you can discover new stuff or read reviews. Our only concern is the fact that people nowadays tend to just zap through all this content — including music –, because there’s just so much out there. You don’t have your favorite song or album for a month anymore, it’s maybe for a day or a week. But that’s just about how you handle blogs and all the media as a consumer.
From Data Sapiens
12. How would you describe your music to a deaf person reading this interview?
We once had a family’s friend at a concert in San Francisco. She’s deaf, but that didn’t matter because she could actually sense the music, sense the basslines and the air pressure coming out of the speakers. Music of course is hard to describe in that way, but a good analogy/visual description would be a picture of an ocean sundown and the smell of spring at the same time.
13. What are three words to explain what’s different about your next album and when can we expect it?
Faster, not black-and-green, better mixdown. We’ll release it as soon as it’s ready of course! Please hold the line.
14. What is your favourite music festival moment so far and why?
Any festival that’s got goooood, sunny warm weather. Just because.
From Ears of the Beholder
Digitalism will be appearing live at this year’s Wireless Festival, held in London’s Hyde Park on the 4th and 5th of July – for further information on the line-up and how you can get tickets please visit www.wirelessfestival.co.uk
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