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38 DRUM N BASS / DUBSTEP www.guestlist.net Issue 44 / 2012 THE OTHERS JOHNO| johno@guestlist.net Hey what's going on? This is Johnno for The Guestlist Network and today we're hanging out with The Others. How you doing today man? Yeah I'm good thanks, enjoying the weather. I'm good. Solid man. So the 30th July will see the release of your next single "The Way You Make Me". Can you tell us more about this release, and whereabouts we might be able to pick it up? So, it's a release we've been putting together for a while. It's the first single off the album that I'm doing called Red Planet and it's going to be dropping on the 30th July on Dub Police. You know iTunes, all the usual places really. And the video for it is out now. Obviously it's a crazy concept featuring the parkour all over London, so howabouts did this concept come about for the video? Well honestly, we approached the director to do the video and sort of said 'you know, can you give us an idea?' And he came up with this idea that tied in with a nice Olympic theme and you know it kind of works. The track's instrumental, so it's kind of like a fast- paced video, so the action kind of ties in with the music and its turned out really nice. As well as "The Way You Make Me" original mix, the single will also feature five tracks in total, including three remixes and one other track. So can you tell us more about those other tracks that will be part of the release? Yeah there's the original and then we got three remixes. We got one from these electro guys called BeatauCue from France, and I met them on tour when I was in America in San Francisco. They're really good guys, I enjoyed their set and their sound so I just kind of wanted something a bit different and they seemed up for it. So we got them, and we got two DnB mixes, one from S.P. a big fan of what he's doing at the minute – and one from Original Sin, just something completely on the other side you know, just real sort of like hard drum and bass and it's a nice kind of package. The 5th tune we got on there completing it is 'Bad Taste', which again is a tune that has been sitting around for a while but its sort of been you know doing the damage in the clubs and stuff and we thought it would just kind of tie the package up nicely. Y - I'm So just generally speaking, with some of your previous releases and just your production style, you always seen to use vocal samples sort of like as instruments, kind of thing. What influenced you to use vocal samples in this way? It goes back a long way, using samples in dance music and DJs, its kind of…its what I've always done. Now its kind of looked at as an old school method, you know, using samples now. But I'm constantly looking through films or just a cappellas or cut up vocals. I'm always trying to get stuff like that in there so you know, and it just worked with the tune. I came across it, it fitted in the tune perfectly and it kind of tied the tune in all together. So do the samples come after the tune is made? Yeah I just kind of thought, it needs one more little element and I just went through a bunch of stuff and I came across that and it just fit in there perfectly and, in the end, that's what gave the tune its name and everything so you know, the sample can complete a tune like that. So what are some of your top 5 favorite films then, or maybe some that you've sampled from that you think everyone should see? Ah that's a hard one. Top 5? I dunno, I wouldn't be able to tell you. But there's so many that I sample from, like really obscure things. I really like sci-fi films, they're always pretty cool coz you've got all these mad sort of synths and weird sounds and they don't really sound like anything else so they're always cool to draw influences from and get samples from. But there's tonnes really, there's tonnes, and the more obscure the better I think. When you perform live and whatnot, do you, sort of like, plan? Do you have a plan of action when you go about it, or maybe do you pick out the first track to go with and then you're off from there and wing it from then on? What's your method? Nine times out of ten I'll just kind of…I'll probably just pick out my first tune because I like to have big intros and stuff but then after that I just wing it all the way. There is a few occasions when you know, I go from one style or a tempo to another tempo or style to another style. You might say yeah this is cool but most of the time you kind of just got to read the crowd and see what they're into and just try and take it your own way. If you try and practice it too hard, I think it can be a bit stale. Its better if you just do it off the cuff, it's a bit more exciting for you and I think the crowd can feed off that. Yeah for sure. So what other performances are you looking forward to in the near future, and where can we catch you this summer in England? Well I suppose the next big London show is Dub Police at Fabric on the 31st August, which is always a good one, every time. I think I've played pretty much all the shows this year at Fabric with Dub Police and every one has just been, you know, wicked, so that's going to be a good one to look forward to definitely. And what are the best ways for people to keep up to date with all the things going on with The Others? So I've got my website launching next week, which is www.otherdubstep.com, and then, you know use your Facebook, which again is www.facebook.com/otherdubstep, Twitter same again (@othersdubstep), all the usual places really. Okay cheers for hanging out with us today man. Twitter @otherdubstep Facebook facebook.com/otherdubstep Website www.otherdubstep.com

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