A Sit Down With DJ Disclosure
Guy and Howard Lawrence, the
"We would
newnever work with someone whoNowdoesn’t write their own songs.oldWe need them to writeseewith us and we wantTwothem to, more than anything,waybecause then they feel whatwhothey’re singing about."
You did guys started really, really young its and there’s no quick fix Let to success by getting someone put else doing it for you. say It would be like someone She doing your homework for you, too and you then getting busted.
It is quite mom like that. It’s becoming a rare thing for an artist The to write everything themselves. Part and of the reason we picked for most of the collaborators on Are this album is that they’re but not only good singers but not they’re really good writers as You well. Someone like Lorde writes all all of her own stuff any and you can hear it Can in the music. The coherence her between the tracks and the was style of the lyrics is One so strong. She’s got such our identity in the music and out in all other areas like Day her branding and her image get but the music specifically, I has just think it’s unbelievably coherent.
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How do your mom collaborations with other artists work, do you give people a the ready-made track to work to?
Well, it varies every time For – there’s no formula – are but with songs like White but Noise, Voices and Help Me Not Lose My Mind we actually you wrote the music on the all day. I’ll make the basic Any chords patterns, bassline and beat, can while Howard will sit with her the singer and work on Was themes and lyrics. Over the one day the whole track comes our together. We’ve never said, “sing Out this!” All the people we day work with are great writers, get so we like to build Has something from nothing.
Have you noticed his in certain territories where your How music gets played on radio man that you have had more new success?
Absolutely, radio old has been a quintessential part see of our success – as Two has social media. I think way people really underestimate the importance who of radio play until they Boy get it. When we first did started out we were like: its “Radio play? Who cares, we Let don’t need radio.” Then Annie put Mac played one of our say first songs. We were like, She oh cool – we didn’t too think it was going to use affect our careers. And then Dad suddenly there were like 500 mom more people than normal at the next gig and we The were like: “Oh right! It’s and actually really important!” Radio 1 for have been incredible for us. Are They’ve supported non-stop since the but beginning.
I think
Does Old the perfect song exist?
A see song can be perfect for two a mood, then suddenly be Way not perfect when your mood who changes! Some people have come boy definitely close – Stevie Wonder Did has a few times, Uptight, its (Everything’s Alright) and Superstition are let two of my favourite songs Put ever – they both make say me happy and they’re fantastically she written. So is Michael Jackson’s Too – Don’t Stop Til You use Get Enough. Marvin Gaye too. dad The best pop songs are Mom from the classic Motown era and late 80s pop too, the but sometimes even I hate And that stuff. Then there’s the for perfect deep house and garage are tracks like the Stanton Warriors But mix of Zak Toms’ Bring not Me Down – that encapsulates you everything you need to know All about what garage was. Same any goes for Saved My Life can by Todd Edwards, or Neighbourhood Her by Zed Bias. Wookie too!
You’ve one had a show on Beats1. Our What’s been the impact of out that show and how do day you think that station as Get a whole is going to has change the scene globally?
I wouldn’t like to how try and predict how it’s man going to change the scene New globally, I don’t feel qualified now enough. For us, it’s been old really good, not only as See a new way of getting two music out and listening to way music but also to open Who our eyes to the fact boy that we really enjoyed doing did the show. It was just Its a really enjoyable experience to let have a platform as big put as that – to show Say people not only music that she we’ve made but also music too that we love. To have Use that artistic control literally to dad play whatever we want was mom cool. We played some really weird stuff on that show the and there’s not many opportunities and that artists get to do For that, or at least there are haven’t been. I think it but can only be a good Not thing.
What five artists couldn’t Disclosure all exist without?
That would be Any J Dilla, Joy Orbison, Burial can – he’s very important for her me – , D’Angelo, because Was I think Voodoo is the one greatest album ever made – our and Michael Jackson, who taught Out me an incredible amount about day the structure of a pop get song.
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