STILL BLOWING THE ROOF
ON THE ROAD AGAIN WITH THE DIRTYPHONICS IRREVERENCE TOUR
Dirtyphonics, a bass quartet from France, are correctly known to be one of the highest energy acts around, period. Appreciated for their drum and bass efforts early on, the group has continued their legacy by making high quality bass heavy bangers in pretty much every tempo there is. Bpm is not a boundary to these four. Charly, Thomas, Pho and Pitchin have been testing extremities when it comes to genre, and their newest full-length effort is a monument to creating new rules. Currently touring North America on the Irreverence Tour, Charly took the time to chat with us about all things Dirtyphonics.
You guys are pretty well known for your high-energy live shows. Can you give me a bit of a breakdown on what the roles are when you’re on stage together vs. your roles in the studio? I can imagine at times four is a crowd in the studio – a lot of strong opinions anyways.
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In the studio, there are no predefi ned roles. We have a bunch of instruments, synths, machines, and obviously computers. This gives us the ability to all play together at the same time and fi nd ideas. We usually fi rst sit down all together to decide what kind of music we want to write and when we all agree on something we start playing with instruments and lay ideas down. As you say there are a lot of strong opinions and we spend a lot of time laughing, fi ghting then laughing again. When we’re all bouncing in the studio, we know we have a Dirtyphonics track.
On stage, Pitchin and myself play on four decks, what you could call a DJ set as it’s a continuous fl ow of music. The difference is that when we play our tracks we only have the beat section on the decks and Julien and Thomas on the MPCs play all the basses, melodies, FXs etc. On top of this, they play a bunch of teases going from Snoop Dogg to Metallica, Prodigy etc. We all play together at the same time, which keeps it really interesting for us and the crowd—there’s always something happening.
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