The reason you get into it is if you go to a lot of clubs and you feel like ”I can do better than this”. – Luciano Oliveira
We watched a bunch of interviews on the internet before we got here…
L: And you probably noticed that we were drunk in most of them. (laughter)
The interviewer asked you what impact Brazil has got on you and you answered that the only impact or influence Brazil has got on you made you move from there. Is it that bad?
J: Most people like it actually. But, we dont’. I mean all of our interest comes from Europe. We feel like home in Europe. Actually I’m Portugese, but was born in Brazil. But that’s it – I don’t really like football, I don’t like soccer, I don’t drink caipiriñhas, I don’t really go to the beach, so what else there is in Rio?
L: The thing is apart from all that, as musicians basically it’s about what you’re listening to. Your influences. To be honest there’s only one Brazilian band I listen to, and nowadays I don’t even listen to that anymore. I guess I’ve said their name in an interview before, they’re called Los Hermanos. I know it sounds Spanish but they’re actually from Brazil. One of the guitarists actually played in… He had a band togheter with The Strokes drummer, I forgot his name… He has an Brazilian band that I really like, but it’s the only one to be fair. That’s what I sad I’m not influenced of Brazilian music.
J: If you count todays bands. Because there are good stuff from like the 70’s…
L: Oh yeah. But I wouldn’t say that is a very big influence.
What do you bring from Brazil?
J: My wife.
L: I’ll take a postcard. To be serious, Rio is still the most beautiful city I’ve ever seen. For sure.
J: But that’s pretty much it.
L: It has got the potential, but when you look deeper into it it’s much misery, poverty and corruption, crime and hate. It’s too hard there. But it’s got the potential. Hopefully one day it would be the city it could be.
Last quetstion, TAjT wants to put out great music that makes us dance. We always ask people what makes them dance. So, what makes you dance?
L: I guess, most dj’s would tell you this. The main reason you’ll get into this is because you’re selfish and you wanna control the music that’s going on in the club. So I pretty much play what I would like to dance to.
J: It’s the same for me, but I dance to rock as well. That’s more of an air guitar thing.
L: The reason you get into it is if you go to a lot of clubs and you feel like ”I can do better than this”. I love the 70’s disco stuff, so I would like to dance to that.
Is there anything you wouldn’t dance to?
L: Oh yeah. There’s a lot of traditional Brazilian music I would never dance to.
J: Like samba and funk.
L: There is some good samba, but it’s mostly stuff from the north. I can’t really explain it, it’s not really called samba anyway, ”chariño”, popular music from brazil that is not dansable at all. Not for me.
Could you make it dansable?
L: I don’t think I would.
J: Probably but it wouldn’t be good. It would be tacky.
Terry Poison – Comme Ci Comme Ca (The Twelves remix)
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Etiketter: The Twelves