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HEY GUYS, SO THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO TALK TO US. DO YOU HAVE A LOT OF INTER- VIEWS AT THE MOMENT WITH YOUR NEW TRACK COMING OUT AND EV- ERYTHING? Gavin: Yeah we have a lot at the moment… but yeah its good! A lot of late nights and early mornings but its good, we love it. OK GREAT, WELL AS LONG AS YOU'RE ENJOYING YOURSELVES! OK SO FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW YOU, HOW WOULD YOU GO ABOUT DESCRIBING YOUR SOUND? Gavin: Its definitely like dance and house influenced, but with 3 minds involved there's really a whole mix of influences. It really is a whole mix of sounds, so it can be different every time. Luke: You can't really bracket us in deep house, or house alone re ally because we all make such dif- ferent sounds… we all come from different backgrounds with pro- ducing and songwriting so when we all get in we all make sure we put our own slants on things. And we'll come up with a sound like They Don't Know or Catwalk or Poison Arrow, so different things come out the hat really. YEAH BECAUSE I WAS GONNA ASK YOU HOW THE DYNAMIC IS LIKE WITH YOU WORKING AS A THREE, COZ YOU KNOW THEY DO SAY THREE'S A CROWD… DOES ANY ONE PERSON EVER TAKE OVER WITH CERTAIN ELEMENTS OR SONGS? Duvall: Yeah 3 is definitely a crowd, I'd rather work on my own! Luke: We wrestle a lot in the stu- dio… Duvall: I think that's how we get a lot of the best music actually, through the fights! AND THAT'S YOUR SECRET?? Duvall: Yeah well I think we all have different strengths, I think that's why it works. Gavin's really good at percussion and bass and overall mixing, and Luke is really good at arrangement, writing the lyrics and the melody. I'm cool with the musicality; the sonics of a song, writing it and singing so… where one lacks, the others will pick it up which is why it works. But there are many times where there have been many argu- ments! But then a beautiful song comes out of it, or a beautiful beat comes out of it, so we don't question the method! DID YOU ALL GROW UP TOGETHER? HOW DID YOU MEET? Gavin: Yep we're all from South London/Surrey, me and Duvall met at sixth form college and we were both on the same mu- sic technology course, that was a little while ago now… well not that long ago! Duvall: hahaha, long enough! Gavin: And we started producing together since then, we'd do our own individual projects and ev- ery so often we'd come together. And then we were working with Luke as an artist, so all three of us working in the studio together was when Disciples was formed. OK, SO WHERE DID YOU GET THE NAME DISCIPLES FROM? I THINK ITS QUITE A GOOD NAME! SEEMS QUITE BIBLICAL, LIKE FOLLOWERS… ARE YOU HOPING YOU'LL GET LOTS OF FOLLOWERS? Duvall: Yes! There you go… Dis- ciples for us is like an inside joke that not many people really get… ARE YOU GONNA TRY AND EXPLAIN THE INSIDE JOKE? Duvall: Nope haha! It's something that means a lot to us all person- ally, the three of us all mutually decided on it together… we ac- tually never had to sit down and say let's call ourselves Disciples, because we we were already just calling ourselves that. Literally it was such a natural thing… and the meaning is important to us as well, like you said, followers, we wanna create this whole kind of cult feeling of people following our music and us even following them… its the whole livelihood of music, I don't think it should be oh he's up there or she's down there, it needs to be like a whole group and I think the name Dis- ciples kind of fits that for us. Coz we follow good music and I think people follow us… SO ALTHOUGH FROM LONDON, WHEN I LISTEN TO YOUR MUSIC I CAN FEEL NEW YORK SORT OF RET- RO VIBES, ESPECIALLY CATWALK, SO YOU KNOW, WHERE DOES THAT COME FROM? WOULD YOU SAY THE LONDON SCENE DOES HAVE AN IN- FLUENCE ON YOU DESPITE THESE OVERSEAS INFLUENCES? Luke: I think we're influenced a lot by New York and Detroit sounds, you know that's where house originated from, so all the leg- ends in the early 90s… Duvall: Yeah Chicago house… that's always gonna be embed- ded I think, in house music, even with the new generation not un- derstanding that but being able to do it, its subliminal… so I think that's within us naturally. But the beauty of the UK sound is that its forever changing, and forever growing into something without a name… and I think that's what's beautiful about the UK and Lon- don especially, we're very for- 12 Issue 67 / 2014 HOUSE / ELECTRIC guestlist.net DISCIPLES INTERVIEW Subb-An is one of the UK's hottest young globetrotting DJs - after moving from Birmingham to Berlin about 4 years ago, his career has been on fire. He was named DJ Magazine's top Breakthrough DJ in 2011 and since then has been playing regularly in some of the best clubs in the world: from Panorama Bar and Watergate in Berlin, to Fabric and Warehouse Project in the UK, gigs across America and a regular slot at Ibiza's infamous DC10. We found him at The Social, in between his jet setting lifestyle, amongst a huge line-up of dance music royalty. Miriam | guestlist.net

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