everything we've been doing since we're
kids is making music together it's more
than advantage just like it's a
lifestyle the first time we met we
actually didn't click I don't know what
it was but the week after that we became
best friends we made music together and
and the most unpopular thing culturally
musically was electro funk it seems so
it was only right for two sort of smart
asses like us yeah to start discovering
this music but also really take a
genuine liking to it I grew up listening
to Billy ocean Huey Lewis Hollow notes
and Palmer mostly and really idolizing
those guys so for me if I can get closer
and closer to those to the to those
personas it's actually more and more
genuine in a way
Rick James have songs called give it to
me baby I could never pull that off and
he look at me I could never convincingly
sing about that so I was like well maybe
I could put this kind of neurotic Jew
take on the loverboy thing and update
the Robert Palmer persona with that
neurosis and it'll be true to what kind
of person I am and also it'll make it
endearing for people because they know
that that's really who I am and also
they could relate to it and then it
gives you like a weird modern love song
you know late 70s early 80s even up to
you know 86 is really where a burst of
987 no no 86 basically whatever happened
in those night you know eight or nine
years is first of all the videos came
out MTV was there and also all the new
technology came out the whole concept of
synthesizers and synthetized synthesized
music and robot like music you know
having straight square grooves with
machines that really started in 80s this
is where all of Marvin Gaye Harlan notes
all these guys they they were thrown
technology at them not knowing how to
use it and they were just mixing stuff
up and I think that made for something
really really magical the 80s even
though they were for a long time looked
upon as a very like the cheapest you
know one of the cheapest periods of
music is actually one of the most
interesting and most hybrid the most you
know so the crossed experimental mental
we like when Afrika Bambaataa came out
people didn't know they used to call it
mute music of the future
what we try to do is have videos that
have these faux cinematography coal
ambitions you know and that's what
reminds me of the early days of MTV as
well let's really make a three minute
movie now obviously they never really
had the means to accomplish that but
that's where the charm used to used to
hide cool
so this is a talk box basically
recording over the track this is the
sound of the synthesizer here box top
box top box think when we first came out
just a fact of having an eighties
reference was devices and controversial
I think where we kind of were ahead of
the curve is that we were paying tribute
to black 80's music
and that's still quite marginal you know
you've got a lot of people coming out
with a new wave sound but not a lot
coming out with you know this kind of
boogie weak James can be all kind of
thing
we started Chromeo to to do what
whatever we wanted because the other
projects that weren't really satisfying
to us you know I would be out there
making a hundred beats a day that sound
the same with the stock stones stock
sounds that everybody uses just to get
by and make money this is