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Interview: La Roché

Evoking pure and proper nostalgia, this is pop electro in a different light: both sophisticated and unbelievably catchy. This is the song Louis La Roche was born to remix. To download Beating Hearts (Louis La Roché Remix) - Ocelot click here.

When did you start exploring making your own music?
When i was 14/15. Messing about with 4-tracks then moving onto Garageband.

Do any other genres influence your work?
Every genre there is, i’m a big fan of bands like Holy Fuck, LCD Soundsystem, Hercules And Love Affair, but at the same time i like people like The Kings Of Convenience, Air and Caribou.

Your song structure is great, would you say its just a result of listening to a lot of music?
I guess so, but also because with dance music often songs are 6 minutes long or whatever, for DJ’s to mix in and out of. Thats all good but its not great to listen to, i get bored easy. So my songs are more like radio edits, short, simple and to the point. Most DJ’s now days use CDJ’s or Laptops anyway, so they can loop the intro and outros to mix into.

What are you currently listening to?
Plej, i love them! If you haven’t heard of them go check them out. Imagine if Daft Punk went Lounge, thats Plej. There 2nd album ‘Home Is Where Your Heart Was’ has just came out, its a really good album. Im still really loving Untrue by Burial, every track is a masterpiece.

You do a terrific job of sampling, especially of Michael Jackson in ‘Love’, how do you choose your samples?
It all depends on how i approach a track. Sometimes I’m digging through records and something in the song jumps out at me, i sample it and sometimes it takes days, sometimes it takes months before its finished. But then other times i have no idea what to sample, so i don’t go looking for it, i let it come to me. For example, when i made Love, i was listening to Off The Wall and heard Michael call out ‘Cry’, and was like ‘Thats It!’.

Tha Trickazzzz

Explosive noise held back with professional restraint. The recent winner of the Cassius Remix Competition, these South Asian Trickaz have exploded onto the scene and have a full EP in the making. To download The Sound Of Violence (Tha Trickaz Remix) - Cassius click here.


A Short Background

Self-labelled “Tha Vietnamists” and lifelongtime friends, Pho & DJ iRaize, founded the group over eight years ago, based on a mutual need to push musical boundaries as well as their own technical limits. They are based in Paris, France.

Their live performances best illustrate the magic of combined imagination: rare and traditional vinyl cut up with sampling, scratching, analog instruments, live musicians & the MPC real time drumming. All this combined with killer beats to shake the floor!

Wax Tailor “Say Yes” 2009 remix contest winner & “Découvertes du printemps de bourges 2009”, they released their first unofficial LP, “Iconoclast Sound Adventure” in 2005. This year they're releasing "The Cloud EP", featuring 3 tracks from the forthcoming album "Cloud Adventures" and “Megaphone”.

Tha Trickaz represent the perfect combination between 90’s hip hop and electro music such as dubstep or drum & bass.

Courtesy of myspace.com/thatrickaz