Electric, forward-thinking duo Revaux have readied their Frostbite ep for Lifestyle, and we braved the icy terrain to snatch an exclusive: it’s below. We caught up with their news.
Hi Revaux, what have you been up to?
Ru: Hello! We’ve been busy sorting out the Frostbite EP really, alongside putting some parties of our own together. We’re involved with the new Distinkt Sounds club night in London with our first event coming late July, keep an eye out for it!
Joe: We’ve been doing quite a few guest mixes for various people as well which has been good, found a lot of really cool new music in the process! We’re also involved in new club night Vision State, so far hosting parties in Manchester and Leeds, so we’re looking forward to seeing how these nights progress.
‘Frostbite’ sounds great: what inspired the title, was it something emotional, psychological… or even a nod toward global warming? You tell us.
J: I think it was more something physical! Most of it was worked on at Ru’s place in London which was freezing at the time! He’s tight and refuses to put his heating on so we were writing the tune freezing our Jacob’s off, hence the name ‘Frostbite’.
R: Like Joe said, it was the middle of winter when we wrote it, nothing quite so profound as a global-warming inspired track! And I don’t put my heating on because London is expensive enough as it is… just put a jumper on.
That’s what I say.
When did the seed of the tune happen, what was the spark?
R: I think it just came out of a rough idea I started that ended up gathering digital dust on my computer.
We opened it one day and Joe pushed us to keep working on it, thankfully! I’d be the worst solo producer in the world, I bin 99% of everything I start.
J: Yeah that’s pretty much it. There are times Ru doesn’t see potential in initial ideas where I do see potential and vice versa. Always handy having a fresh pair of ears!
What else can we expect from the ep?
J: We wanted to give the EP an overall feel but keep the tunes sounding different, so ‘Head First’ is more of a minimal roller whilst ‘Stand Off’ is a bit more in-your-face.
I think Frostbite is a good title track as it’s a happy medium: minimal and eerie but dance floor friendly.
When you physically work together, where is this? It needs to be somewhere cool for creativity to happen, so where is this?
R: We usually take it in turns to either meet in Leeds or London, but the last few times I’ve been up to Leeds because Joe is a lazy bastard.
Ha ha! No, it coincided with a gig we had anyway, but either way I’ll be moving to Leeds in September so there will be much more coming from us after summer.
J: It’s because my house is warmer than yours! But now it’s summer guess I have no excuse…
I am overdue a trip to London but we’ve been very productive with writing new stuff and finishing various bits in Leeds. There is more to come!
Last chat you mentioned a certain podcast so where else do you get music inspiration from?
J: In terms of finding new music it’s great to have mates who make awesome tunes! Been hearing a lot of new stuff from up and coming people like Precision, Subdivision and Aperio: these guys are seriously ones to watch!
I’ve also been working on some hip hop with MC Subliminal, it’s always inspiring collaborating with other talented musicians, and Leeds has a lot of them!
R: I agree. The perks of being an up-and-coming producer is getting to know other guys in our shoes. The standard of production is unbelievable these days so we definitely have our work cut out for us!
Guys like Signal, Phentix and the guys Joe mentioned all give us inspiration as producers paving the way for the next drum & bass generation.
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