COACHELLA 2007
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, Markkus Rovito
JEREMY GREENSPAN OF JUNIOR BOYS
How do you adapt your material from the studio recordings to a live show?
We take the original arrangements, separate all the parts and rearrange them into a computer program that constructs an algorithm that constantly generates square roots of prime numbers, which allows us to rock out. [Ed. note: Jeremy is either being dryly sarcastic or is using something like Cycling ‘74 Jitter or Max/MSP with Electrotap Tap Tools components.]
What was your live setup for Coachella?
There are three of us: Matt plays synths and controls the laptop, I sing and play bass and guitar, and we have a drummer named Foster.
Which piece is the most essential?
I suppose the laptop is most essential, but that's kinda boring, so I'll say that the most important bit is our big-ass synthesizer called [Studio Electronics] Omega 8.
What do you enjoy most about performing?
Sweating.
JOAKIM AHLUND OF TEDDYBEARS
What kind of stage lineup do you use to present your studio material live?
We have two drummers, bass, guitar, a DJ and a sound-effects guy, plus all the different vocalists, and we make a hell of a ruckus.
What was your gear setup for Coachella?
We have a lot of junk. Vocoder, synths and sound-effect stuff, plus more old-school rock stuff like a couple of drum kits and Gibson basses and Hagstrom guitars. The amps are three Fender twins for guitar and an Ampeg SVT for bass. Plus pedals of all sorts: Electro-Harmonix, Boss, Z.Vex and more.
Which piece is the most essential and why?
The bass, cause that's what shakes the earth and rings my bell!
What do you enjoy most about performing?
I love to be able to shout and swear and curse inside the bear head where no one can hear me.
FELIX DA HOUSECAT
What can we expect from your new album this year?
It's called Virgo Blaktro & the Movie Disco. I had to call it Blaktro ‘cause it's like a cross between Prince, Stevie Wonder and Parliament/Funkadelic, with Giorgio Moroder mixed in. I recorded it in Barcelona and mixed it in Dallas Austin's studio [DARP, in Atlanta].
What was your gear setup for Coachella?
I use Serato [Scratch Live], and all I take with me now is two CDs and a Mac. It's beautiful.
Which piece of gear is the most essential?
[Felix didn't answer this directly, but it was implied that it is his white tiger-striped flask filled with Patrón tequila and mescal.]
What do you enjoy most about Coachella?
They invited me back! I didn't think they would because last time, they wanted me to play at the same time as my favorite band, Radiohead. I was like, no way! But Coachella is so amazing. It's so beautiful. I was a little nervous. I was like, why're you all watching me and not the Jesus and Mary Chain? And Coachella acknowledges electronica, even though we're still the bastard stepchildren in America.
You know The Neptunes — Pharrell and Chad — they used to be ravers! They stole all that electronica shit. Even in England, NME and other magazines only cover rock. But when they go home and close all their windows and shutters, they're listening to dance music!
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