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Definitely growing up the music that our parents were playing to us from a young age definitely had an affect on us. Also, just being apart of families that were doing music for a living made it seem like a normal and viable career for us so we’re really lucky.

We’re still trying to work that out to be honest. It’s just a mix – it’s everything we’re into, everything we’re inspired by. Generally, a lot of it would be quite 90s based. The Chemical Brothers constantly inspire us. We’re into quite high energy punk, we started calling it ‘discopunk’ at one point. It’s always been a bit of a struggle for us to specifically define the style of music we make. But, it’s something we’re constantly being told by people ‘you guys have really got a sound’ but I don’t know what the name of that ‘sound’ is yet…

We’ve definitely got the same taste, we’re both Goffey’s, we’re both the same age with similar upbringings with our families. I think creatively as well it definitely does help as we have a stronger bond than friends would have. And it also means we can have a go at each other and know that we do still love each other in the end.

Definitely Demi Riquismo – he’s been putting out these really cool disco remixes that have a cool sound to them. That style of music really suits our sets as a bridge between the heavier tracks and bringing it back down. Elliot Adamson also is just nailing it at the moment. We met him a couple of years ago, but he has just taken it to another level releasing three albums in three months. The sheer output of it is just so impressive. So we’ve been playing out a lot of his stuff.

Oh there’s loads of people. It would be amazing to collaborate with any of our idols. Gonna have to go with The Chemical Brothers.

Glastonbury kicks it off, then Hideout Festival in Croatia, Wilderness, Little People, but it’s exciting to have loads of good stuff coming up. Got the Summer Ball next week!

It was really surreal just because we had only released one EP at the time. It was a really unexpected series of events – our debut EP ‘Juggle’ he made an essential new tune so it was absolutely insane hearing him say that on the radio. Obviously, you hear that every week but suddenly you hear your name and it’s surreal.

They’re a Bristol band so they got in touch with management asking for a few artists to do a remix. We ended up doing ours quite quickly as the vocal parts we got given we’re so good – so it was pretty natural to build the track around it. It was really fun to make as we’ve had a couple of other remixes which were dance records already. So, this was the first remix we’ve done of a live band, and we figured out we definitely prefer that process of working with live sounds and instruments.

We’ve both got an eye for visuals, so we try to find old archived footage online that has expired copyright. Then it’s just really simple putting it together in terms of editing. We cut all the old footage up and slow things down so it’s in speed with the track and create this vague storyline. We’re pretty much a ‘do it yourself’ type of creator, and it helps being in a good friendship group that almost shares the same artistic brain. We want to create a visual language to go with each track. We are doing the Brain Ticker one at the moment, but we have a direct vision for how everything comes together.