We all kind of had each other on the radar…

Gaydar :)

We all kind did our own variation of what we do now 

The crew is greater than the sum of its parts

Production-wise, and from the live show standpoint, it’s just more powerful to have all of us working together.  It’s more fun too.  

Let’s separate these two questions…from the production standpoint?

All of the above.  We all write our own, we work together in the studio and we do the trade-off thing.  

It’s never like too many cooks in the kitchen?

We’re all really good friends and we had been before we actually started getting deep into the Glitch Mob.  We just hang out, we all just talk shop.  

We don’t always see eye to eye, we definitely disagree, but when you’re collaborating, that’s the trick.  Pick your battles.  You know what’s important, what you really need to hold onto and what you can be just like, ‘Whatever.’ 

This is our hobby anyways.  It just so happens that people like to come and listen to our music, but we’d just be doing it anyways.  We just dork out on plug-ins and software and engineering and it’s just our hobby.  We really have a good time in the studio, it’s just like what we do anyways.  

Then, from a live standpoint…

Our live set is this combination of half DJing our own tunes and then half improvised jamming.  It’s not completely freestyle on the spot, made up.  There are some parts of it that are, but we definitely spend a lot of time in the studio writing music.  When we come out in a live situation, we definitely wanna bring what we’ve created in the studio into the liver elements.  

That’s part of the whole direction we’re going.  We’re progressing further and further towards more of an actual band template.  We’re bringing more live instrumentation into it.  Part of what we do with our laptops, is that we have trigger fingers which are drum pads which we trigger samples and remix our songs live.  I feel like that’s part of our show, people can see we’re actually playing beats and not just standing there checking our email.  There’s definitely times that all four of us are doing stuff and then there’s times that we’re not.  It’s just like a normal band. 

Obviously, you are responsible for a genre movement, so to speak.  Are you ever afraid of being pigeonholed or are you confident that you’re extremely happy with what you’re doing and you’ll be able to do a lot more of that in the future? 

Our main concentration is writing music that we enjoy and we wanna listen to.  We don’t worry about Sometimes, it helps people to give it a name so that they can recognize and identify it.  We don’t consider ourselves fitting into any genre like dub step or breaks.  In a few years, we could be writing completely different music.  The whole Glitch Mob name really started as a whole joke on the whole glitch hop thing.  People kept saying we were glitch hop and it was a terrible name, for starters.  We were just really poking fun at the whole thing.  We’re not trying to be the number one cats in this genre. 

It’s very flattering that a lot of people are coming up and doing similar stuff to what we’re doing and I’m all about it, but I don’t ever think of it in terms of the scene we’re part of or the genre that we’re in.  It’s just like what Ed said, we’re making the music that we wanna hear because we don’t hear it out there.  Everything else will just fall into place, I assume.  

Most importantly, the whole goal is to make classic music that stands the test of time.  Whether that falls into a certain tempo or certain sonic world, doesn’t really matter.  Even our album is coming together sounding a lot different that I think people will expect.  There’s a new sound that’s coming out as we work on it that is gonna be a little different than what we’ve put out in the past. 

You’ve got very few official releases.  Obviously, that hasn’t hurt your touring and booking… 

We’ve got a lot of stuff that’s gonna be coming out over the next little bit of time. 

Are you just uber-perfectionists?   

Unfortunately, we are.  It takes us all time.  If we’re gonna put something out, let’s put out the best and not mediocre.  It definitely represents us all.

And like Justin said, we want it to be classic.  We don’t want these to be throwaway tunes.  We want people to sit back and listen to it in ten or twenty years and think, ‘Wow, this is pretty cutting-edge, even now.’ 

We don’t have a ton of releases right now.  We’re working on a lot of remixes right now for people.  We’re gonna release a remix for our friend Eddie G, who’s a dub step producer.  We did another remix for another friend of ours.  And we have our own label which we release our own music on, but we’re super picky with our sound and with where our music goes.  So we’re not really in any hurry.  It will come. 

The next thing coming out is Ed’s.  Those are probably the most upcoming releases 

Which scenes are your favorite so far?  Do any of them top your hometown?

Colorado’s probably one of our biggest cities, for sure.  It’s probably one of our most diehard fan bases and it’s always awesome to come back here for all reasons. 

We love Colorado.  We actually have a lot of fun playing Montreal.  We have some friends, these guys called Megazoid, they’ve had us up a few times.  It’s a really cool town and they have a really good scene going there.  We play a lot in Canada.  Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Ed’s played in Toronto, Nelson, Shambhala Music Festival. 

San Francisco definitely gives us tons and tons of love.  We’ve been starting to do this thing where we’re picking the venue, picking the lineup and planning our own show.  First time we did it was in SF and it was a really big success, so we’re gonna do it again in October.  It should be really fun. 

Producing the shows yourselves?

To a degree, we’re choosing the venue, the lineup.

Anything else?

There is no glitch hop.  We’ve come up with some really good labels, actually.  Lately, we’ve been calling it melodramatic popular laser metal.  I think it’s more interesting.