Electronic duo David Lehnberg and Elin Lindfors make up The Deer Tracks, who play the CMU Social at 229 tomorrow night. Our first international CMU Social band, they join us all the way from Sweden to showcase their recently-released debut album, 'Aurora'. The album is a mix of epic electronica and glacial cool, with an emotional resonance not normally associated with such a sound. The album has been spinning in the CMU office so much that we're slightly worried that the laser might burn through the CD. So, we're delighted to be able to see them in the flesh. CMU Social is free to all you CMU Daily subscribers, to get yourself on the guestlist just email social@cmumusicnetwork.co.uk with the names of anyone you want to bring with you. More info at http://www.cmusocial.co.uk And to give you an idea of what to expect, we got David and Elin to answer our Same Six Questions.

Q1 How did you start out making music?
We grew up in a small town called Gävle in the northern part of Sweden, and we have always played music but in different bands. Somewhere around 2005 we found each other through some honest and beautiful moments and we started making music together. In February of 2007 we decided we should start a band to get our songs released, since we felt we had come up with a pretty good recipe. Somewhere around then The Deer Tracks was created.

Q2 What inspired your latest album?
We spent a lot of long nights and early mornings in the studio during the cold Swedish winter, and that shaped the music. Aurora Borealis is the Northern Lights in Latin, and the same magic was in the air those nights.

Q3 What process do you go through in creating a track?
It can start with a very basic idea of a melody or a feeling. Then we add a lot of different instruments and somewhere on the way a song takes shape. We don't have any rules, we create our own. We use a lot of junk toys and whatever things that lay around in the studio in order to come up with more or less unique sounds for every song.

Q4 Which artists influence your work?
Music from Iceland has always been a great source of influence. Artists like Björk, Múm and Sigúr Rós. But I think every artist that brings something that is very much 'their own sound' is appealing to us.

Q5 What would you say to someone experiencing your music for the first time?
That music is pretty much all that meant something in our lives. Music is more about the overall feelings you can share or get from the songs. That we try to make the songs sound the way certain experiences sound in our world of perception. That we love what we do and love doing it for anyone who it may concern.

Q6 What are your ambitions for your latest album, and for the future?
Our hopes are to keep getting the opportunity to create more and more music. Go on endless tours with performances where that lovely magic between us and the audience lingers in our bodies and souls for years. We always like to deliver a great experience of sounds and visual effects. And we hope we can continue doing it for our whole lives.

published september 2008