How would you describe the sound that emerges from the Mind Gamers collaboration? Liquid.
How do you create music together? Do you have a technique or ritual for? I think we try and get together in the most relaxed environment we can. We are certainly not out to break free from the shackles, it’s just a way of approaching music. For us, this project was the total freedom and ability to do something completely different. We recorded in a bunch of different places; Australia, Paris and Los Angeles and spent most of the time on Hydra – a small island in Greece, which is blissfully free of cars and motorcycles – they’ve only donkeys. It’s a really mystical island, home of the god Eros.
Do you find that when you create music without a goal in mind, that a naturally-formed purpose develops all the same? It’s not like we went in with no goal in mind, but we crystallized our ideas after working on the music, rather than advance what happens, I think a lot of time. The three of us have very different styles, themes, emotions, images, romance we have been able to work in music.
While we were doing this for ourselves, we never forget how the public would respond to music. We have never been about creating super-indulgent experimental music – there was a real sense of goal when we went about creating this.
