These past three years have been mainly focused on creating a live show from scratch. Starting from small venues of two hundred people, to playing festivals with more than forty thousand people in the audience. The challenge for us was mainly to figure out how to curate our music on stage since we like to use so many instruments from various countries. Obviously, we had to make choices on what we would focus on playing/singing and how to make it fun and readable by the audience. It was a long process for us to evolve from DJs to stage performers. But our last US tour showed us we are on the right path.

It was a bit weird to do the whole project from a distance over a month, but for once, we had a lot of downtime to exchange our impressions and opinions about the tape and make it right. We made a first version that we finally dropped, but picked some of our favorite parts to build the final version. The mix was built in a shared project, so we both had the time to go into it and fine-tune each other’s choice of tracks, transitions, etc.

It’s in our DJ DNA. We met as selector DJs at Le Baron club in Paris back in 2010. The challenge was always to keep the mix entertaining by fusing music of different periods: the warmth of a 1950s sample against a modern beat sounds great to us. We both travelled a lot as DJs and always kept our ears open for new sounds to sample.

The album is going to be postponed until we know more about the situation as it develops. However, we have decided to release an EP in June to share some of our recent work before the LP releases. We thought it would be timely to release some tunes for the summer to share some much needed relief and joy in these stressful times. We are about to leave confinement spots to regroup in Paris to fine tune and mix the tracks at Les Studios Saint Germain.

France was hit pretty hard, everybody knows someone indirectly who has had Covid-19. It’s a tragic time for many of us. However, it’s also been a time to reconnect with our close family and take a break from our frantic 21st-century lifestyles. This unexpected time off the tour is actually probably going to turn out helping us make a better record. It’s been great to spend some time in the country and work here.

We are very hopeful. We always have been. It’s a conscious decision in our music and in our life to try to look at the brighter side of life. We hope our music spreads a bit of that optimism too.