Please tell us a little bit about yourselves

We are Jamie and Carlos and we met when we were thirteen, When Jamie joined the band I (Carlos) was in. Two years later we were at a party and saw Real Nice DJing and they were so brilliant and having so much fun that we thought we should give it a try.  We bought a Numark CDN88 rack system and it all started from there. Little did we know that five years down the line we’d be collaborating with Real Nice and it lead to our first release ‘Had Enough,’ on Love Not Money records.

You are both pretty young, how long have you been producing?

We started producing music on a Boss four track-recording machine when we were thirteen, mainly recording our band. When we started making dance music we used to produce on a Roland SP-555, which we also used live to trigger vocal samples. Jamie then got hold of ableton and since then they haven’t spent a day apart.

We believe you both play a range of instruments, what are they and how have they helped you with your productions?

Jamie plays cello, piano, guitar and drums, and Carlos plays piano, guitar and flute. The greatest thing about having all these instruments at our disposal is being able to sample them for our productions.

So tell us more about the band that you both play in

Our band Wild Swim (wildswimmusic.com) shows another side of music that we absolutely love. It incorporates electronic musical elements side by side with music inspired by bands such as Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Wild Beasts and Grizzly Bear (to name a few!).

You have a residency at one of the most well renowned nights in the country with “filth” how did that come about?

We’d been invited to play a set at Glade festival in an ice cream truck by the crew of the brilliant Pelski blog, and Danny Savage who runs Filth had supplied the funktion 1 sound system that we were using; he saw our set and asked us whether we’d like to become residents. The Filth residency has been absolutely brilliant and has opened loads of doors for us, not only have we got to warm up for people like Tim Green, Kerri Chandler and Maya Jane Coles, but we managed to sort our first ever release with Love Not Money records.

Your first release “had enough” was released on “love not money” as you just mentioned, what does the label mean to you?

Love Not Money is a fantastic label that supports up and coming music from Leeds. We are honored to be a part of it, especially so early on, and are so grateful to Luke Pompey (owner of the label and resident at Filth); it’s down to all his efforts that the tune reached as many people as it has.

The track was featured on Pete Tong’s show on BBC Radio 1, that must have felt amazing for your first release right?

We think everyone party to the release was pretty amazed when it got played on Radio 1. We only found out when a friend of Jamie’s was driving to the co-op to buy a sandwich and was listening in, and called us straight after.

It’s still riding high in the Beatport charts, did that come as a surprise?

Absolutely. The Kreature remix hit no. 3 in the nu-disco charts yesterday, which was pretty amazing. For our first release, and only the second release of Love Not Money, I don’t think we could have asked for a better response.

Not long after your debut release you released another EP on Hidden Label, tell us a little bit about that?

The Hidden label is another new record label started up by Darkly of the Pelski blog. We came across him when we played our set at Glade as we were road testing a new song called ‘Say’ we’d done with vocalist Seb De Souza. Darkly liked the tune and it all kicked off from there. It’s exclusive on beatport for another couple of weeks and then gets released on all other major download portals. It comes with a remix by the fantastic Timmy P, and two other tracks: June Moon and Damien the Omen (promo freebie).

You are from Oxfordshire, what’s the scene down there like?

At a first glance the Oxford scene is pretty bland, and one can’t really compare it to places like Leeds, London and Manchester. But there is still some brilliant music going on if you look hard enough. The Get Your Geek On crowd who are residents at a night called ‘Simple’ do a fantastic job in bringing great music to Oxford; towards the end of last year ‘Simple’ had Claude VonStroke, Julio Bashmore and Eats Everyhing, and we’ve got Waifs and Strays and TEED to look forward to at the start of next year.

What do you do away from music?

Nothing much! We both study music at University so it takes up most of our time.

What can we look forward to in the future from you?

More tunes, more gigs, more!