Interview with Guns 'n' Bombs

anthemadmin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:37:51 -0800

We did an interview with one of Kitsune Records' most successful acts, Guns 'n' Bombs, and while the original was published over at BiBaBiDi here and here, we're syndicating the entirety of the interview for your reading pleasure.

Q: Okay, so you two are from Los Angeles, but how'd you meet up? One of you is from IMAROBOT, the other a Chicago DJ …

A: We met over MySpace, Filip will deny it but he friend requested me and I went to look at his profile and saw that he had good taste in music, namely Anthony Rother, and that made me message him to ask him if he wanted to DJ my birthday party.

Q: "Nothing Is Getting Us" was your breakthrough. What was the process behind that and how did it take off!? Getting in all the clubs, getting picked up by Kitsune ... no small task!

A: Filip and I sat down and just tried to make a good club track and after we had finished it I sent a message to all my MySpace friends to check out my new music project and Gildas happened to be on my friends list and saw it and listened and was into it.

Q: You've toured quite a lot in the past couple of years ... where've these tours brought you and how're you received internationally? Any bizarre, out-there stories?

A: We’ve played every populated continent except Africa and South America, and its all been pretty good reception, especially in Japan and Australia, we’ve had nothing really bizarre happen to us yet, but of course we have nightmare travel schedules that include little to no sleep, like the last time we were in France during the transit strike and it took us an entire day to find a way from Lyon to Barcelona that included crossing the entire country twice.

Q: You've also done a tremendous number of remixes. How do those come about and why do you do so friggin' many!?

A: I don’t think we do that many, it probably comes out to one a month if that? Initially we asked friends if we could do remixes for them and after that we started to get offers based on the strength of the remixes we had already done.

Q: I'm always curious to know about a specific band or artist's musical past ... aside from the IMAROBOT/Junior Senior connection, what else were you involved in and what was the musical "lead-up" to Guns 'N' Bombs?

A: Filip has been in bands nonstop since he was still a twinkle in his daddy’s eye, but the only real lead up was that we were both DJs prior to Guns’n’Bombs and we wanted to make music that we wanted to play, and bam. That’s that.

Q: What's the plan for the album? If there's one coming out ...

A: We’re currently working on that one, hopefully it’ll be done by summer ‘08.

Q: And in a more general sense, what's coming up for you in the near future? Production stuff? More singles? Collaborations? Anything we all should know about?

A: We’ll probably have 2 more singles out before the album release. As for collaborations, I don’t want to jinx ourselves, so I’ll keep that hush.

Q: What's the recording process like for you? How do you construct these songs, hammer 'em out, all that good stuff?

A: We listen to a lot of Phil Collins and then we go into the studio. That’s all we can tell you.

Q: Undeniably, you two are a substantial part of a majorly hyped area of music today. The blog world is all over you, you're in every club, you're remixing tons, and, most importantly, you're feeding into that glitch-y, real heavy and abbrasive dance style that pretty much everyone seems to be copying today. How do you cope and how do you defend your position?

A: By playing a lot of Mario Kart on our Nintendo DS's.

Q: I think that's about it ... best of luck to you two as you continue to dominate the globe!