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Foreign Language
For those who have never known the Flight Facilities – Australia – to listen to their latest single - Foreign Language - is an opportunity not to be missed. The Flight Facilities is an Hindi Australian band made up of two young prodigies of the console, they expertly mix melodies like those by Quincy Jones with Beat worthy of the Daft Punk's masterpieces.
Today they are here at Spacecoolhunting for an interview. First of all guys thanks for your helpfulness.
What was your first exposes to Mixer, and when did you discover your love for Indie music?
We probably both became interested in indie music around the same time. Jimmy had more of a background in band music so his understanding was probably a little deeper. I was introduced to it by my cousin, Gus mainly through things like Justice or SebastiAn remixes. It was around the 05/06 time. It was more or less a case of one song leading to another. For both of us it was near impossible to avoid the style of music with bands like The Gossip, Future Heads, Mystery Jets and Klaxons being so closely associated with the dance music world. When you're first exposed to a mixer it's quite different to looking at one now. Now we can see the channels, levels, effects, etc. When you first look at it, it's like a piece of NASA equipment. All you can see are a thousand knobs with no idea of how any of them work. Any dj will tell you how terrified of mixing their first track was. Even in an empty club with nobody listening feels like playing to a thousand people all ready to judge your transition.
Who did you listen to growing up? and do you have bands or people influenced what your produce today?
We both draw a lot of influence from Daft Punk like a lot of people do. They're a great corner-stone in dance music and they've crossed over in a way that virtually nobody else has. We both grew up on older music. We were mainly influenced by our parents with music like The Doobie Brothers, Billy Joel, The Eagles and Roy Orbison. There was a lot more musicality, melody and thought put into their music and we try to be conscious of where music was and where it is now.
You both were deejays before your meeting? did anything change within your personal style, how do you think this has affected your career?
We both met through djing. What really affects our music making is thinking about how our songs will work in the club, in the car or even on the beach. The other thing that is very valuable, which a lot of acts seem to neglect, is making a song easy for a dj to mix in and out. If a dj can't play your music easily, you miss the opportunity to have your music heard in unique places. It used to be the case for a lot of acts [especially ones like the Bee Gees] to have extended mixes on their EP's. Somehow, modern music has grown out of this. We'll be sure to have this option with every song we release.
Your first single You Crave has surpassed one million views on you tube and had a huge success in Australia, and thanks to it you done a successful world tour. After this, how you changed your approach to music and creating new pieces? How much of this has influenced Foreign Language?
We had no idea what we were making when we made Crave You with Giselle. We were just trying to finish a song. There was no intention to make it a pop song or a love song or brand it in any form. Having had the reaction we did, it has now given us an eye into the radio/pop world so it has influenced us in a way to start making a certain kind of music. We don't want to be forced into creating a certain style of music but it would be nice to have some sort of impact on the pop music world with a slightly more reserved style of music. You have to skate a fine line to make music that is accessible but possesses the integrity and feeling of you as an artist.
What's the difference between Foreign Language and Crave You, for example approach of creation, sound and evolution?
Crave You was made in a bedroom and it took about 6 months to finish. We had no real idea what we were doing. We only knew that we had to finish this song and whether or not people would listen to it was a gamble. Giselle was also entirely responsible for the vocals. It was very personal to her which was a really nice touch. We were passing the project back and forth for a while before we all sat down and realised it was done. Foreign Language was different in that we had a fan base waiting for a second song. We were caught off-guard with Crave You because we had no idea it would do so well. Foreign Language was a draft project for a while but when we decided to go full speed at it, it only took about 2 months to complete. We never really try to go for specific sounds. We just experiment with different noises and if we like the sound of something, we'll run with it and see where it takes us. We collaborated with Jess consistently and helped her write some lyrics and melody. It's nice to look back on the process. It was so easy and probably the best case of musical teamwork that we've been a part of.
Can you tell us how the recording took shape? is there an overall narrative arc, or not, into it?
The recording was done 3 times for Crave You. Giselle sent us vocals she sung into her laptop at first. Then we tried recording her vocals again with a little better quality but sadly our vocal booth, consisting of a cupboard with underwear as sound proofing proved not to be ideal. So we had to call in our friend, Frank from the band 'Infusion'. He toiled in his studio for 2 days, once with Giselle, the next with the recordings. He layered and used all his musical tricks to create one of the most amazing recordings. When we sent to vocals out to the remixers, everybody remarked on the quality of the vocal stem. We knew at that point that we would never record anywhere else. It was a case of repetition when we took Jess there to record too. The content of the vocals seems to run with a theme. Girls having guy troubles. The hardest thing is finding new ways to convey this without sounding like the same recycled lyrics. Our next song is with a male vocalist and it approaches the subject from the other side. It should be interesting to see how people will react to that.
Giselle Rosselli was the vocalist of Crave You, in the Foreign Language you have collaborated with Jess Higgs, she is amazing, how are your collaboration with those two voices which have a strong personality?
They're both very different characters. Giselle is a lot more reserved. She's very shy and sweet and has such a beautiful and unique voice. It certainly comes across in her lyrics and vocals. Jess is a very strong and confident girl. She has a big and powerful voice and, from what we've seen recently, a great stage presence. It's really good to see two very talented girls sing about similar subjects in perfectly opposite ways. They possess their own charm in their delivery.
Why your music takes so much?
If you mean why do we take so long to make songs then it's because we're perfectionists [while some people may argue on the result]. We second guess ourselves to death. We never know if we're quite finished. We've begun to work a little quicker. Since the demand for our music raised a little, we realised we needed to get into the studio and start clicking and hitting those keys a little faster. We promise our third song will appear faster than the second one did.
With the technological evolution and the free software available to anyone, all can to be musicians and create pieces. in your opinion, what the public be able to use for recognize good music?
The internet has opened the door to all musicians. So has software like Ableton and Logic. The soft-synth sounds now available are fast approaching the realism that the old hardware had as well as real instruments. The best advice we can give is, when you have finished a song and you believe it is of your best ability, send it to the artists you admire or that you base your work on. Musicians often do have a lot of time for new acts. Musicians also love to discover new music. The worst that can happen is no response if they're too busy. You'll never know if you don't give it a shot. Soundcloud has become one of the best ways of sharing that music and becoming part of that music community. It has picked up where Myspace left off. In the end, the people who will love your music speak far louder than the ones who don't. You almost have nothing to lose.
What's next for Flight Facilities. Where do you see your future in remixes or execution of a complete album?
Next will be a single with an English artist named Grovesnor. We've virtually finished that single but we need to let Foreign Language run its course first. We have to do some touring and visit a few places we haven't seen yet. We're excited to get back into the nightclubs with another song. We can only hope it will be as well received as Crave You was. In terms of an album, we think we'll be holding off for a while. Too many artists rush into an album. We believe the music industry is changing in such a way that singles are far more valuable. We would rather put the time and effort into one song at a time. We don't want to be accused of writing a few singles and a bunch of fillers for an album. Artists should analyse every song with the same scrutiny rather than let half finished ideas fall onto the ears of the listeners. There's only so much mediocrity people will take until they start to become cynical. There's not much that is more haunting than disappointing fan.
Flight Facilities, thanks a lot for spend your time to me and SpaceCoolHunting's user.
Flight Facilities
Australia
web site | iTunes | shop | e-mail
For those who have never known the Flight Facilities – Australia – to listen to their latest single - Foreign Language - is an opportunity not to be missed. The Flight Facilities is an Hindi Australian band made up of two young prodigies of the console, they expertly mix melodies like those by Quincy Jones with Beat worthy of the Daft Punk's masterpieces.
Today they are here at Spacecoolhunting for an interview. First of all guys thanks for your helpfulness.
What was your first exposes to Mixer, and when did you discover your love for Indie music?
We probably both became interested in indie music around the same time. Jimmy had more of a background in band music so his understanding was probably a little deeper. I was introduced to it by my cousin, Gus mainly through things like Justice or SebastiAn remixes. It was around the 05/06 time. It was more or less a case of one song leading to another. For both of us it was near impossible to avoid the style of music with bands like The Gossip, Future Heads, Mystery Jets and Klaxons being so closely associated with the dance music world. When you're first exposed to a mixer it's quite different to looking at one now. Now we can see the channels, levels, effects, etc. When you first look at it, it's like a piece of NASA equipment. All you can see are a thousand knobs with no idea of how any of them work. Any dj will tell you how terrified of mixing their first track was. Even in an empty club with nobody listening feels like playing to a thousand people all ready to judge your transition.
Who did you listen to growing up? and do you have bands or people influenced what your produce today?
We both draw a lot of influence from Daft Punk like a lot of people do. They're a great corner-stone in dance music and they've crossed over in a way that virtually nobody else has. We both grew up on older music. We were mainly influenced by our parents with music like The Doobie Brothers, Billy Joel, The Eagles and Roy Orbison. There was a lot more musicality, melody and thought put into their music and we try to be conscious of where music was and where it is now.
You both were deejays before your meeting? did anything change within your personal style, how do you think this has affected your career?
We both met through djing. What really affects our music making is thinking about how our songs will work in the club, in the car or even on the beach. The other thing that is very valuable, which a lot of acts seem to neglect, is making a song easy for a dj to mix in and out. If a dj can't play your music easily, you miss the opportunity to have your music heard in unique places. It used to be the case for a lot of acts [especially ones like the Bee Gees] to have extended mixes on their EP's. Somehow, modern music has grown out of this. We'll be sure to have this option with every song we release.
Your first single You Crave has surpassed one million views on you tube and had a huge success in Australia, and thanks to it you done a successful world tour. After this, how you changed your approach to music and creating new pieces? How much of this has influenced Foreign Language?
We had no idea what we were making when we made Crave You with Giselle. We were just trying to finish a song. There was no intention to make it a pop song or a love song or brand it in any form. Having had the reaction we did, it has now given us an eye into the radio/pop world so it has influenced us in a way to start making a certain kind of music. We don't want to be forced into creating a certain style of music but it would be nice to have some sort of impact on the pop music world with a slightly more reserved style of music. You have to skate a fine line to make music that is accessible but possesses the integrity and feeling of you as an artist.
What's the difference between Foreign Language and Crave You, for example approach of creation, sound and evolution?
Crave You was made in a bedroom and it took about 6 months to finish. We had no real idea what we were doing. We only knew that we had to finish this song and whether or not people would listen to it was a gamble. Giselle was also entirely responsible for the vocals. It was very personal to her which was a really nice touch. We were passing the project back and forth for a while before we all sat down and realised it was done. Foreign Language was different in that we had a fan base waiting for a second song. We were caught off-guard with Crave You because we had no idea it would do so well. Foreign Language was a draft project for a while but when we decided to go full speed at it, it only took about 2 months to complete. We never really try to go for specific sounds. We just experiment with different noises and if we like the sound of something, we'll run with it and see where it takes us. We collaborated with Jess consistently and helped her write some lyrics and melody. It's nice to look back on the process. It was so easy and probably the best case of musical teamwork that we've been a part of.
Can you tell us how the recording took shape? is there an overall narrative arc, or not, into it?
The recording was done 3 times for Crave You. Giselle sent us vocals she sung into her laptop at first. Then we tried recording her vocals again with a little better quality but sadly our vocal booth, consisting of a cupboard with underwear as sound proofing proved not to be ideal. So we had to call in our friend, Frank from the band 'Infusion'. He toiled in his studio for 2 days, once with Giselle, the next with the recordings. He layered and used all his musical tricks to create one of the most amazing recordings. When we sent to vocals out to the remixers, everybody remarked on the quality of the vocal stem. We knew at that point that we would never record anywhere else. It was a case of repetition when we took Jess there to record too. The content of the vocals seems to run with a theme. Girls having guy troubles. The hardest thing is finding new ways to convey this without sounding like the same recycled lyrics. Our next song is with a male vocalist and it approaches the subject from the other side. It should be interesting to see how people will react to that.
Giselle Rosselli was the vocalist of Crave You, in the Foreign Language you have collaborated with Jess Higgs, she is amazing, how are your collaboration with those two voices which have a strong personality?
They're both very different characters. Giselle is a lot more reserved. She's very shy and sweet and has such a beautiful and unique voice. It certainly comes across in her lyrics and vocals. Jess is a very strong and confident girl. She has a big and powerful voice and, from what we've seen recently, a great stage presence. It's really good to see two very talented girls sing about similar subjects in perfectly opposite ways. They possess their own charm in their delivery.
Why your music takes so much?
If you mean why do we take so long to make songs then it's because we're perfectionists [while some people may argue on the result]. We second guess ourselves to death. We never know if we're quite finished. We've begun to work a little quicker. Since the demand for our music raised a little, we realised we needed to get into the studio and start clicking and hitting those keys a little faster. We promise our third song will appear faster than the second one did.
With the technological evolution and the free software available to anyone, all can to be musicians and create pieces. in your opinion, what the public be able to use for recognize good music?
The internet has opened the door to all musicians. So has software like Ableton and Logic. The soft-synth sounds now available are fast approaching the realism that the old hardware had as well as real instruments. The best advice we can give is, when you have finished a song and you believe it is of your best ability, send it to the artists you admire or that you base your work on. Musicians often do have a lot of time for new acts. Musicians also love to discover new music. The worst that can happen is no response if they're too busy. You'll never know if you don't give it a shot. Soundcloud has become one of the best ways of sharing that music and becoming part of that music community. It has picked up where Myspace left off. In the end, the people who will love your music speak far louder than the ones who don't. You almost have nothing to lose.
What's next for Flight Facilities. Where do you see your future in remixes or execution of a complete album?
Next will be a single with an English artist named Grovesnor. We've virtually finished that single but we need to let Foreign Language run its course first. We have to do some touring and visit a few places we haven't seen yet. We're excited to get back into the nightclubs with another song. We can only hope it will be as well received as Crave You was. In terms of an album, we think we'll be holding off for a while. Too many artists rush into an album. We believe the music industry is changing in such a way that singles are far more valuable. We would rather put the time and effort into one song at a time. We don't want to be accused of writing a few singles and a bunch of fillers for an album. Artists should analyse every song with the same scrutiny rather than let half finished ideas fall onto the ears of the listeners. There's only so much mediocrity people will take until they start to become cynical. There's not much that is more haunting than disappointing fan.
Flight Facilities, thanks a lot for spend your time to me and SpaceCoolHunting's user.
Flight Facilities
Australia
web site | iTunes | shop | e-mail
