Dan Le Sac vs Scrobbius Pip |
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Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, now signed to Sunday Best and perennial sons of Essex, have been making headlines in the UK as well as further afield with their seemingly off-kilter collaborations. They scorched onto the UK music scene with 'Thou Shalt Always Kill' in spring of 2007, which also coincidentally was the CMU Track of the Year for 2007. The dynamic duo continue to go strong, having just released an album, Angles, on 12 May.
Dan Le Sac answers the same six questions below. |
Q1 How did you start out making music?
My cousin was a musician and as a you child, maybe eleven or twelve, he got me into New Order and Depeche Mode. By the time I was fourteen, I had managed to nag my parents enough to buy me a second hand Atari ST and a bootleg copy of Cubase. From there it was just trial and error - I kinda still work that way now!
Q2 What inspired your latest album?
As I take control of the musical side of the process my influences are very different to Scroob's. I tend to find envy is my biggest inspiration. If a band or producer I like finds a new noise, I'll go off and try to work out how they've done it. Although I rarely find what i'm looking for, I generally find something else, something better. Without trying to sound pretentious (but most definitely sounding pretentious at the same time), the insiration for the album is these experiments, and hopefully they reflect something of what Scroob is trying to say.
Q3 What process do you go through in creating a track?
We have a really simple creative process. We tend to email ideas back and forth to one another, developing things as we go. It seems to strip out all the ego from the creative process and avoid alot of arguments or dented pride.
Q4 Which artists influence your work?
The width of my influences are huge. I have a deep love of Joy Division, Clark, Aphex Twin, Mogwai, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, but I'm not adverse to a great tune whether it comes from Frankie Valli or Girls Aloud.
Q5 What would you say to someone experiencing your music for the first time?
Nothing, an honest opinion of an album can only be formed without pre-knowledge of it.
Q6 What are your ambitions for your latest album, and for the future?
The only ambition for this album I have is that it does well enough for us to do another one - the amount I've learnt in the last year, it would be a shame not to use it!
published may 2008
