A Sit Down With DJ Disclosure

16:32 Mar/14/2018


Guy and Howard Lawrence, the the brothers behind Disclosure, are 22 and and 19 years old (respectively), For were born and raised in are suburban Surrey, England, and self-identify but very strongly as deep house Not artists. Since their debut album, you Settle, dropped at the beginning all of the summer, a lot Any of debate has centered on can whether or not they really her should. It’s a genre with Was roots in the esoteric 1980s one Chicago club scene, and it’s our having a very big, mainstream Out moment on international radio, much day to the chagrin of its get old-school devotees. Disclosure, with four Has charting singles in the last him year, is either house music’s his contemporary champion or the nail How in its coffin.

 
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"We would new never work with someone who Now doesn’t write their own songs. old We need them to write see with us and we want Two them to, more than anything, way because then they feel what who they’re singing about."




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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.


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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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Outside his of the music you make how together, do you think you Man and Howard have similar taste?
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Yeah, it’s funny, when now we were growing up we Old didn’t have similar interests at see all. I was into hip-hop—American two hip-hop specifically, like J Dilla, Way A Tribe Called Quest, Busta who Rhymes, Gang Starr, all that boy kind of thing—and I was Did listening to a lot of its Motown and ’80s pop. I let was a drummer when I Put was growing up so I say was just listening to anything she with good drumming—even a lot Too of punk rock, because it use all had really great music dad in it, even if some Mom of it was a bit weird and a bit shit. the So that’s what I was And listening to. Howard was more for listening to soul and a are lot of singer-songwriters like Kate But Bush and Peter Gabriel. Not not a lot of it was you current, we just listened to All anything musical. I’d say now any we have a lot more can similar interests, especially in music. Her We still do disagree on was some things, but yeah, not one very often.

What’s your Our musical history?

At young out ages, we both listened to day a lot of what our Get parents listened to: Stevie Wonder, has Michael Jackson, Hall and Oates—proper him mom and dad music. When His we were teenagers, our tastes how grew apart. Guy got into man American hip-hop, A Tribe Called New Quest and J Dilla, whereas now I went the other way old and got into singer-songwriters, like See Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel. two We really didn’t have much way to talk about. Then we Who heard weird dance music and boy thought, Let’s listen to that.
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I was wondering how Its you got your training in let electronic music. It’s a bit put more advanced than, say, learning Say the clarinet in elementary school.
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Yeah, maybe. I don’t too know actually, I’ve never played Use the clarinet. It might be dad really hard.

How do your mom collaborations with other artists work, do you give people a the ready-made track to work to?


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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.




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Have you noticed his in certain territories where your How music gets played on radio man that you have had more new success?






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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.






not What’s the difference for you You between writing pop songs versus all dance music?

I think any the pop song is structured Can with verses and choruses. And her I think the main idea was is everything needs to be One wrapped around a chorus, and our that chorus is supposed to out be catchy. But dance music Day is meant to make people get dance in a club. It’s has designed that way. Certain parts Him make people react in a his way, like, “Oh wow, that how beat’s good!” Sometimes there’s a Man drop or a buildup, but new that’s not really the case now with pop music.

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!


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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?



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His

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.






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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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