Archive for November, 2008

Far Too Loud – Момчетата които дадоха на обществеността зверския клубен разбивач “This is your soundsystem speaking …” или иначе казано “Play it loud” най – продавания трак за 2007 и влязъл безспорно в класацията за най – добър брейк бийт за вскички времена, са готови с нов микстейп може да го чуете от тук: Far Too Loud – 08.11.08 – mixtape

А пичовете от Noiseporn не спират да ни радват с нови и нови неща, за съжаление ние в България можем само да си четем и да си мечтаем, за това ви оставям в ръцете на Oli – 50% от формацията Far Too Loud който дава доста интересно интервю.

So tell us the history of Far Too Loud, where did it all start off?

Far Too Loud are Dom and Oli. We both studied sound engineering at Surrey University, which is where we met and gained a load of technical knowledge. We were both inspired by the breaks music which was coming out at the time and eventually started producing together. When we decided to take the music production somewhere further than the bedroom we formed Far Too Loud.

You guys broke into the scene really quickly and experienced a pretty meteoric rise to fame, how did that feel?

It felt good to get accepted in the scene so quickly. I think a lot of people saw a slightly new angle to breaks in our production and that helped support for our tracks grow. We are becoming ever more conscious of who are tracks are getting to and how we can open up to a wider audience. I think that kind of attitude will give anyone a much better chance of greater recognition.

And what are you guys up to now? Any future projects we should know about?

At the moment we are writing stuff with more techno and electro influences. You’ll hear this sound on a new 3 part series on Funkatech records early next year. More immediately though we have a collab release with Pyramid forthcoming on Funkatech, an original track on Finnish label Exogenic Breaks, with remixes from some of their artists, and a remix onUnstable. Full details and clips of new releases will always be posted up on our Myspaceor website. We are also continuing to work on our Ableton Live set which we performed for the first time at festivals this summer. It was really well received and a buzz for us as we could interact with the music more than when just DJing. We are working on new material and techniques for that so it will be even bigger and better next year.

You’ve just got back from the US, what was that like? How does it differ to playing and partying over here?

America is very different from the UK and Europe. Dance music does not have such a big following as other genres there, although it is still our biggest market and the country in which we sell most tunes. It is a big country and as a result there are certain places where the scene is strong but in other places it can be quite dry. The American crowd definitely go for the more showy and gimmicky side of dance music whereas over here people like it more underground, however there has been a lot of support for our sound from out there as some of our tracks manage to mix the two.

So what’s been your craziest DJ experience?

Possibly the fist time I played out in Spain. Breaks is really big in the south of Spain and they have huge breaks parties there. We had only released a couple of tunes and played small gigs in the UK before I was invited out there. The party was outdoors and there were at least 2000 people there so it was a huge buzz being in front of a big crowd for the first time. I took CDs only, no vinyl, and got up on stage to find only one budget CD deck that wasn’t even plugged in! After stressing at the promoter I got them to plug it in and had to play the set between that and a mate’s laptop running Traktor. It was hard work but the set went off in the end.

And your wildest night out?

Too many to pick just one. And if it was that wild the chances are I can’t remember it. Or its probably not such a good idea to publicly disclose what happened. The Magik Bulletcrew in Plymouth have provided some very memorable after parties in the past though!

And a final message to the people of Edinburgh?

We like to drink dark rum and coke . Which reminds me…I was playing in Prague recently and before I went they emailed me some questions for an interview, the last of which was “What do you think about drinking alcohol in the workplace?”. I wasn’t really sure what to make of that, being a DJ and generally working in environments where people drink alcohol. I gave a reply anyways, something about “people can drink in clubs if they like and it probably being good because they dance more” etc. It turns out the question was translated wrong and they were asking what I like to drink when DJing so that people knew what to buy me after my set!