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A Sit Down With DJ Galantis
11:25 Feb/12/2018
Galantis isn’t your typical dancethe group. They write songs differently, and starting with the melody rather For than the beat—and they write are lyrics differently, unconcerned with whether but or not they’ll be singable Not in a club in the you wee hours of the morning. all On June 8, after making Any waves with a handful of can popular singles, the powerhouse pairing her of Christian Karlsson and Linus Was Eklöw released their first full-length one album, Pharmacy.
Galantis wasour discovered in 2014 with the Out singles ' Smile ' (in day the ultra-sexy video clip) and get ' You', very quickly adopted Has by the most influential DJs. him Born from the meeting between his Christian Karlsson and Linus Eklöw How , the duo has since man experienced a meteoric rise. The new first is the leader of Now Miike Snow , a successful old Swedish electro-pop band, whose biggest see hits have all been the Two subject of dancefloor remixes. Among way them, ' Silvia ' taken who over by Sebastian Ingrosso and Boy Dirty South , or the did excellent ' Animal ', remixed its by a certain Style of Let Eye, pseudonym dancefloor of Linus put Eklöw.
Can you walk meThe through how you construct a and song from the ground up?
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Christian: We almost alwaysAre start from melody and chords but and then maybe a lyric not idea. Usually piano or guitar, You stripped down. We keep on all doing a lot of those, any and we filter out the Can winners and start shaping it her into something that is Galantis, was which I think is rare One in this genre. It mostly our starts with people making a out beat and then someone else Day comes in to write something get on top of it.
has Linus: It’s very important for Him us to feel that the his song in its plain simplicity, how just piano and vocal, is Man actually moving us.
WerePut there any songs that didn’t say make the album that you she may release later?
Christian:Too We always have a box use of ideas. There were probably dad over 60 songs recorded for Mom this album, and the ones we picked aren’t like, "These the are the best 12." They And are the 12 we figured for out how to finish. Of are course, we wouldn’t put it But in the box if we not didn’t think it should be you on the album, but there All is a lot of... we any couldn't quite find all the can puzzle pieces, so they go Her back in the box. That’s was the way we approach writing one music. Like on the first Our album, “Peanut Butter Jelly” was out something I wrote over 10 day years, but it was just Get an old snippet and I has couldn’t figure out how to him put that into a song. His It's not a song yet, how but it's a piece, so man you would never throw any New pieces away.
When didnow each of you first get old into music?
Christian: ISee started as a 13-year-old. I two come from skateboard culture, so way it was punk rock, and Who I got into hip hop boy when hip hop got into did skateboarding. I had never done Its anything else but music. I let never had a job.
put Linus: I started playing drums Say when I was 10 and she went through my phase of too playing Rage Against the Machine Use covers. But then I got dad into soul and jazz and mom started mixing that up with techno. I went through a the phase of pretty much every and style of dance music there For is.
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Christian: Writing songs,get being in the studio 24/7–it Has gives you tools and options, him but I don’t think it his would influence anything that we How do now. Doing music for man other people and doing music new for yourself–there’s absolutely nothing that Now compares those two. It puts old a completely different pressure on see you if you’re doing a Two song for yourself; it sticks way for the rest of your who life. You really have to Boy believe in the music when did you put your own name its on it.
We realizeduse almost instantly. The first time Dad we met, it was at mom the time of Animal 's remix . Linus (aka Style The Of Eye) and I realized and that we had the same for energy and the same vision Are of music. Without knowing it, but it gave birth to Galantis.
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How would you describeYou the artistic direction and sound all of Galantis?
Christian: Iany think we do stuff a Can little bit different [in] this her dance world. I think the was songwriting, the melody and lyrics One are very, very important to our us. A lot of people out start making tracks and all Day of that, and when we get start, we write songs. That’s has something we've been doing for Him very long time…something that we his love to do. So we how start with the piano and Man add melody and lyrics. And new then we build off of now that. We love this dance Old music scene and being in see it. Of course, Linus has two been a DJ since forever Way and I’ve been producing and who have been very influenced from boy the dance scene, but we Did both thought there was something its missing that we wanted to let do. Big drops sound amazing Put […] but it's missing something say where I don’t feel the she lyrics or I don’t feel Too the melody that much. And use that’s something that I think dad we can do.
Linus:Mom We love the feel good song that mean something. We the want to say something, too.
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Since you’ve performed allfor over the world, have you are noticed audiences responding differently to But your music?
Christian: U.S.not is the best. It’s very you rare you do a show All here and walk off and any be like, “Oh, that was can awkward.” I like the approach Her of people who go see was shows here. Very positive.
one Can you comment on the Our differences and universalities of the out dance scene in the US day versus Sweden or Europe in Get general? Are there any stark has differences you see?
Linus:him I guess right now, there His are differences. It’s been growing how a lot in Sweden. I man think we've seen the scene New from inside...but for the last now couple of years the boom old that happened here (in the See US) has now sort of two reached Sweden in a way. way I think it’s cool. It’s Who different but I really like boy both and I think they're did helping each other out. There Its are a lot of things let from the US that are put brand new to European crowds. Say It’s cool that the US she boom brought in a lot too of new people listening to Use dance music, too. It’s a dad good thing, you know? If mom it was all from the same source, I think that the wouldn't make for the best and way. I think this is For a better way.
Christian:are I always feel like when but I’m in Ibiza I can Not see the difference. I remember you like in 2006 or 2007…parts all that I love about Ibiza Any were still there but also can new things. And it comes her from countries like the US…and Was is now coming to that one island that has been one our of the meccas of dance Out music... it’s a good thing.
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We love hackinghis voices in all directions, as How if we were part of man a somewhat hybrid process. Vocally, new we like to be between Now the human, the machine, the old woman and the man. 'Runaway see (U & I)' is made Two up of three extremely different way vocal tracks, coming from three who distinct universes, then tapped into Boy an even stronger ensemble.
did You guys found a nice its formula with your debut album Let Pharmacy when it came to put balancing the melodies with vocals. say How did you choose the She vocalists this time around?
too Christian: The Galantis way to use do this is, we don't Dad really choose the vocalists: we mom choose the songs, and the songs come about the way The they come about. So far, and it’s only been whoever is for in the studio with us Are singing the song.
Linus: Abut very organic way.
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Who are new your musical heroes?
Christian: now : For me, Depeche Mode. Old That is the first record see I bought as a kid, two and they’re still my heroes. Way They’ve always been amazing.
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How does your experience are in producing for major Pop but acts like Britney and Madonna Not play into the sound that you has defined Galantis?
Linus: all When you write or produce Any something for someone else, you can have to sort of look her at it from the perspective Was of their eyes and what one they’re trying to achieve. For our us, now, it’s more like Out syncing what sound we like.
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