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MD: You’ve achieved an awful lot considering you’ve only been together since 2001, what’s the G&D vision for the future?
G&D: Well, at the moment we are working on our debut artist album. We have already started playing the first single "Tracking Treasure Down" at shows. The album will be released in the spring of 2006 and we will tour the world to support it.
MD: Did you realise how huge 'As The Rush Comes' would be while you were writing it?
G&D: We new it was special, but that's it. We had no idea that it would get as big as it did.
MD: Is there a tension between writing progressive house and trance, or do you happily have a foot in each camp?
G&D: Dave: It's not that we have feet in camps, but more like we are both heavily influenced by both progressive and the "first" wave of trance in the mid to late 90s.
Josh: I grew up listening to a lot of Jean Michel Jarre and when you
listen back to albums like Equinox, it sounds pretty trancy, but that
was 1978! We just make music and can't help what we have been
influenced by. All that said there does seem to be this artificial
tension across style lines, which is just silly if you think about it.
MD: Do you really not respect your own album 'Bloom' because it’s ‘only’ a mix album?
G&D: Bloom was a labor of love, so we have total respect for it. There
are a lot of original productions on it and most of the remixes came
from our studio, so it's a very personal record. Unfortunately, since
it did have other peoples music on it, it was looked at as a mix CD.
MD: Pls tell us about the artist album you’re currently working on?
Dave already sent me the first track off your artist Album “Tracking
Treasure down” which is amazing!!
G&D: We are working with a female vocalist named Molly and male vocalist named Jan. All the music is original and written for the album and produced by us. We are making music for the dance-floor. We are trying to make a record that does not turn its back to how we got here.
MD: Do you both use Ableton & how has Ableton Live changed DJing for you?
A: Josh: When we started DJing together, I was using Ableton and Dave was using CDs which he had almost 20 years experience on and was reluctant to leave. Now, we both use Ableton and it has transformed our DJing into more of a live show. Since most of the music we play, we make, we have access to all the parts. This means that we have drum only, voice only and other special mixes of songs to do strange things live.
MD: How does it feel when your remix completely eclipses the original,
as in your remix of Above & Beyond - 'No One on Earth' ?
G&D: when approaching a remix, we just do what we think is right for the song. We will even re-arrange and time the vocal parts if we think we can get a better song structure. In the case of "No One on Earth' we really enjoyed making that remix and I think it shows in the final
product. Whether is eclipses the original is a matter of personal taste.
MD: What track and artist would you like to remix most?
G&D: We would like to produce Coldplay, U2 or the Cure.
MD: Have any of the big stars you’ve remixed for been spoilt divas?
G&D: No. We never really get to meet them.
MD: Is it true, DJ’s get all the chicks?
G&D: No. Movie stars get all the chicks, DJs get what's left.
MD: Out of Gabriel and Dresden, who would win in a fight?
G&D: Josh Gabriel.
Interview by Matt Darey
www.dareyproducts.co.uk
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