IVIYH Interview and exclusive mix
We recently did an interview with music blog, I Vacation in Your Hell. Here is an exerpt of the interview. To read the rest of it and to listen to our exclusive mix, click here.

Can you tell me a bit about your “Tide Out” release on AS, what are some of the influencing factors that inspired it?
TIDE OUT began exclusively as a remix project of tracks from our debut release but due to the number of artists involved it took a while in the making. Whilst those involved were working their magic, we came up with some songs that we were happy with and felt fitted in well with the overall feel of what we wanted to achieve. Since the remixes are so eclectic, the original tracks help give the album a bit of direction and allowed us to stamp our own sound onto it.
With Dougie living in London and Tom having recently moved back to Berlin, the new songs were heavily influenced by the cities we call home and how they’ve changed us. Even the record’s imperfections are a direct result of the environment in which it was made, with the final mixing and mastering being done in a sparsely furnished Berlin bedroom with a high ceiling and wooden floorboards. Natural images have always been very prominent in our artwork as we feel they juxtapose with our sound nicely and help emphasise its inherently unnatural qualities. Almost every song we have written within this project has been conceived within the box, the result of digital experimentation, and lyrics usually draw inspiration from life in an urban supercollider. As for musical influences, it was great to have some of our favourite and most influential artists on the release. Everyone we asked to be involved in the project has affected us greatly in some way and we were delighted with how receptive they were for this project.
Can you tell me a little bit about recording it as well?
I suppose the most unusual thing about our recording process is that we never actually record anything together. All communication is done via Skype and projects are shared via Dropbox. We have both collaborated with many musicians, but ultimately work best when alone and able to experiment with sounds without anyone to laugh at you if it sounds ridiculous. We had one recording session face to face a year or so ago but ended up recording a theremin for most of it. We usually work entirely within Ableton and a standard songwriting process involves Tom coming up with an initial idea before sending it over to Dougie to chop and skew as he feels fit. It’s then sent back and forth a few more times and the end result normally sounds nothing like the original track. On the EP, Where’s Your Love? was born out of recording and sequencing random percussion sounds and building the track up from there. Some songs took ages to finish and were difficult to stop working on, whilst others – such as Golden Armour – were written, recorded and mixed within a matter of days.
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