Macbeth: How did Egyptian Hip Hop and Shitdisco come to remix your releases?
Is Tropical: We’ve known Darren from Shitdisco for about three years now, ever since he moved in to the toilet factory, where we lived at the time. We’ve always wanted Darren to do a remix of one of our tracks because we all big fans of his remix’s. We met Egyptian Hip Hop when playing Manchester; we were both on the same bill supporting Jo Lean And The Jing Jang Jong. We are both releasing singles on the same label Hit Club, plus going on tour for two weeks in January with each other. One night they asked if they could do a remix of our track, we sent them the stems that night and we got the remix back in the morning. It was their first remix too.
M: Have you been remixing anybody yourself?
I: We did a remix of Crystal Fighters second release I Love London and also New Islands debut single, and we have a lot more planned.
M: Who else who you like to do some remix’s of?
I: We’d like to do remix’s of the Mystery Jets third album, because they’re all lovely talented lads, and Fiction because they’re making really interesting new music.
M: How about Collaborations?
I: We have done guest vocals on a Japanese track that will be released on an album in the New Year. Which was strange but fun. We have plans to go into the studio with an old friend Luke from Montague Populaire. Its always good to work with different minds, it keeps things fresh.
M: What’s been the best gig you’ve played so far?
I: Defiantly the first ADULTS night we played, because its our night and full of all our friends, and other bands we like.
M: Why do you wear masks?
I: Because we hate to see our faces in photos, we’d rather have a look at nice pattern on a mask.
M: What was the idea behind your music video When O When?
I: The songs about a really bad history lesson, we wanted to use stock footage that was at first going to be projected over us. In the end we ended up using a layering process in the editing, it was all made on a £100 budget with a friend Gareth Phillips.
Here's two new remixes from the boys exclusively for us here at the Macbeth (nd you lot too).
Firstly, Here's the Ehh remix of Seasick mutiny followed by the Shit Disco remix of the epic When O When.
Enjoy
http://www.zshare.net/audio/69747853aa8cc3f4/
http://www.zshare.net/audio/69747967db397ce0/
