Q: We Aint Going Home Tonight has a very interesting vibe to it, almost like a club on a tropical vacation. What was the motivation for that?
Collaboration is a very big thing for me, with doing what we’re doing too right. I got A LOT of loops I’ll sif through, I got some great plug sites and producers that I get prime, not 100% exclusive, but very rare loops. I’ve seen it happen twice in my career where I've heard someone have a loop I've used, 1 song wasn’t my song, just one I produced. The records aren’t identical right they both have the loop. The xylophone you hear is one of the loops I found, I never went on a vacation or even been out of the Province in a long time! (a Province is like a State in Canada for all the American readers). I found it 20 minutes before a booked session with Maddie. I made the whole beat drinking my breakfast smoothie waiting for her to get to The Den. I played her the beat and she instantly started singing “Sun is going down” and I was shook. We recording it all there and that alone just carried the whole turn over. It was great!
Q: Obviously this song is about a party and is set in a warmer place than Calgary, so where do you envision this song taking place?
Miami hands down! Never been, but i’ve been to Fort Lauderdale on several occasions. Would love to go tho!
Q: Slide Thru is a very vintage sounding song, with the distorted guitar and a live crowd doing artist call backs. Why did you go with this idea?
Environment and/or narration is so important when you’re creating concept projects or albums. The Calm is day to night story but there’s no actually narration to it. We had to bring in the feel with the environment. You'll notice we do it with every record. The live 80’s guitar & bass has a nice evening feel to it after the whole pick up of Drip, Need to Know, & We Ain't Goin Home. Switch the Addy with the Beach/People FX. This drops a tranquilizer in the rhythm and melody but leaves the life in the drums. It leaves you your night music, it creates that image with that environment but you still have the energy to keep partying through the night and you'll feel the same texture in Late Nite Crew. The vocal chats are always done speratley, some time months apart but really cool to do. We use them as the characters "peanut gallery" a mostly biased, hopeless romantic, extra opinion. The mini cartoon characters in musicals for meant encouragement haha.
Q: When doing the group recordings for the callback, who did you end up getting for it?
It's all people who are in circle or artists and friends that'll come to the studio.
Fun Fact 2: The other 5 Underdogs (Aypayne, Selly Cisco, Niyi, Vars, & Yung Cazzy) were on Need to Know as well as a homie of ours Colin Martin. They all were involved in asking a girl out in a way.
Slide Thru only has a 2 of the Dogs and a lot more (artist) friends. Everyone's name is on the tracklist credits! You can see everyone there!
Q: The song has a bit of a different vibe in terms of lyrics than Need to Know, where it seems to be like a call out to get a girl into you. Was this the intention with it?
The 2 songs for sure sound like they’re different. Personally I would still say these lyrics to my girl. I see how people will interpret it that way, that’s the plan, but it’s a (phone) call to link up, nothing more. You could easily call your girlfriend and play it smooth like that you feel.
Q: How would you describe the style of this song?
80’s Pop Alt-Trap
Q: Finally there is Late Nite Crew. This whole EP has been a roller coaster of different styles and makes it a very interesting listen, and Late Nite Crew doesn’t disappoint. The song beckons to a darker, even sexier tone to it. What is your intended feeling with it?
