Steve and Sebastian’s old studio in Stockholm, rather than working over the internet, which sparked the genesis of ‘People Of The Night’. “We noticed that when we’re together in the same room, we work 50 times faster,” says AN21. “So we were like, ‘Fuck, man, it’d be so cool to make an album. We could do it in two months’. So we started the album. Two years later, we’re done!”
IN AWE Having changed management twice, and scrapped
much of their earlier work, collaborators now also include Moguai, Congorock, Kim Fai and Michael Woods, but just when they thought they were completely done, they received a vocal from the legendary Julie McKnight, the voice behind Kings Of Tomorrow’s timeless ‘Finally’ and more recently David Guetta, Sebastian Ingrosso & Dirty South’s ‘How Soon Is Now?’
“She was our dream vocalist to work with and now we are,” says AN21, obviously still in awe. “We just played it, we started it at the same time both in our headphones, and the second she opens her mouth we were just, ‘Oh my God!’ I called Steve and said, ‘Yo, just listen to this vocal’.” “I think with that record we’re really going to try and bring some soul back into house music,” says Max, as we talk about a return to the diva vocals of house music’s first coming, rather than its current role as backing track to pop stars.
If you’ve caught any of their Size Matters appearances so far this summer, chances are that you’ll have heard much of the album, the personal stash of tunes helping them to avoid the problem of either playing tracks from other Size artists or the same few anthems being spun by everyone (“You get sent a shitload of promos but it probably takes about 300 or 400 demos to have one maybe playable record,” complains Max on the glut of music being churned out). While it’s a collection of dance tracks, though, they’re keen to stress that it takes in a myriad of forms.
“We have everything from really sexy, chilled out tech house to more dark tribal kinds of things, and beautiful melodies like we’ve always had,” outlines AN21 before Max goes on to address some of the criticism this has caused with the wild contrast between the album’s first two singles.
“When we released ‘H8RS’, some people who like our melodic stuff said, ‘What is this crap?’ And when we put out ‘People Of The Night’ some people were like, “Oh my God, wow this is so cheesy’. Yeah, but you have ‘H8RS’, go listen to that and let other people listen to this! Then we’ve got some techier stuff — you don’t like vocals, go listen to that. You want some old school stuff, there’s Julie McKnight. As producers, we can do whatever. We can do all sorts of different styles.”
FREEDOM It’s an ethos that lies right at the heart of Size.
Despite its obvious predilection for main stage music, its earliest origins lie in the kind of disco house that Chicago made famous, and it still releases artists like Tom Flynn, whose techy, bouncing productions are more usually found on labels like Claude VonStroke’s San Francisco- based Dirtybird.
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