I'm Jesse I'm tan line American tan
lines that's the name of our band don't
ask us where we go where did you guys
get the name camera I know you're gonna
do that I hear a certain song and I feel
the way I did at that time in my life
you know music has the ability to do
that
we're my house and it's where I live and
it's where I work there's a lot of art
from years of collecting
paint-by-numbers art other miscellaneous
things there's just stuff here
everywhere
there's a mic here oh yeah sometimes
we've made sound in the computer and
it's lifeless and so you pipe it out
into the hall and you record it back
into the computer with it like it has
alcohol this is a an 1176 which is a
compressor this mixing board is how we
get a lot of instruments into the
computer of my voice for example Eric
built a studio in Brooklyn and
Greenpoint and with his brother and he
was at that time he was producing and
recording a lot of different bands
including my old man which was called
Professor murder and a few years after
that we just decided to start writing
music together and it just was a very
spontaneous thing that has slowly
evolved publicly into what we are now
I think good music and good art this
collaborative comes out of friendship
good friendship and I think we just get
along well and naturally understand each
other and others
we have different but complementary
skill sets with tan lines our music is a
kind of a combination of warm sounds and
cold sounds I don't mean cold like
devoid of feeling I mean sort of just
like a little darker and it's really
important to us to like present
ourselves as true to who we actually are
as possible and I don't want people to
get the wrong idea we're not like club
Brooklyn club party boys or whatever a
British music journalist might describe
us as so look internet check it out
it sounds pretty good huh
this is what it's analyzed song looks
like this is pretty well organized
there's um there's all kinds of stuff
going on in this song
this is drum kit which is program drum
loops a live snare that runs across it
and a live hi-hat and it makes it way
more human jamming is really fun and a
lot of things come out of it that often
you know don't get captured and you try
and return to it and it's never as good
it's never the same and I think the nice
thing about computer recording is that
it lets you capture those those bursts
of creativity in a conscious of the
capturing process but then when you do
something that's really magical or
special Arif it makes you feel good you
know you have it there and you can go
back to it ah how's everybody doing
one of the challenges of braiding
electronic music and then performing it
is that the listener in general they
don't know how the sounds are
synthesized they don't know how they're
recorded they don't know where it's
coming from something that we've
discovered by performing live is that we
have a connection with the audience and
I think a lot of it comes from Eric
singing the songs and I'm up there and
I'm doing a lot of sort of physical
stuff and I think that that's a big part
of it also but I really hope that
there's people out there who listen to
this music maybe they just listen to it
for a month the goal is to make
something that people have that
relationship to you know they hear it in
ten years and they're brought back to
this month of their life that they
listen to you