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Sometimes, being isolated is a good thing. In this day and age here choice is available in abundance, sometimes one can feel over-saturated by the music on offer - and that's for just the record buying public. But what if you're an artist, working to the pressures and trends of a hyper accelerated culture? Being influenced by others around you is something that The Carter Brothers have never had a problem with - hailing from a remote part of Australia, the Tsuba endorsed duo take their own spin on dancefloor sounds - albeit doused with their own musical angle and lashings of upfront, quirky humour. The brothers took some time out to introduce themselves further to Pulse and delivered a cracking mix to boot. Read on...
For those unaware, where have you released music previously to your recent album Metropolis on Tsuba? We have worked with Black Catalogue, which is Monty Luke's label. Total legend and love his label. Hopefully we can do some more work soon. We've also just released a crazy five tracker for Melbourne Deepcast. Those Deepcast boys are nice lads. Threw us a dope party at Mercat in Melbourne to launch the record. Good fun.
For a debut it's quite ambitious to release across double 12" - did you guys have stacks of material begging for an outlet? No not really. Metro was out there but needed someone to believe in her and commit her to wax. Now she is whole and happy!
Electronic music - especially alternative forms of house music - are becoming huge in Aus, helped along by the likes of Melbourne Deepcast and artists such a Tornado wallace and Mic Newman. Is the scene going from strength to strength and are there any hot names you can tip us off for in 2013? There are a lot of young crew who are really passionate and love underground house and techno. The scene has grown a bit recently and I would attribute a lot of that to the players who have been putting out records and good clubs dedicated to underground music. Keep your ear out for the Cuckoo crew of Fission Theory, Martin Regan, 12"Phildo. All absolute talents.
It also stated in the PR that the album is largely focused around sampling... do you think the art of sampling is still an art form as such? Yes. Absolutely. It has to be done right. Certain things aren't kosher.
Growing up in rural Australia meant that you ere far from the trends and bustling heartbeat of any scene - but do you think your musical creativity and output has benefited from not being over exposed to stuff? It made us very hungry to experience new music. We became gluttons for sound. When we heard techno for the first time look out! Jeff Mills left us mystified. We would listen to techno 24/7. It was always techno time.
Is it fair to say that Metropolitan as a concept and title, is inspired by the fact that you DIDNT grow up in a busy Metropole? Movement and travel is definitely part of the concept!
Saying that, how did you come to get into dance music in the first place? There was a radio show with a dj who played lots of different house, techno, trance etc. People would bring mix tapes back from the city. Soon they're were crews with turntables putting on parties, playing records and there was this little scene happening. We would trip to the city and visit the record stores before we decided that Adelaide was we're we wanted to be. There were some artists and labels here we really believed in.
The album is a mesh of different sounds and influences... but outside of electronica, what genre or style is most influential on you? 50's/60's Rock and roll.
Have you ever had plans to take the sound a transpose it to the live setting? Yeah we have done many live sets over the years, in lots of different setups. At the moment we're doing a raw live acid set. Just drum machines and pedal efx but it's very good fun and sounds loud.
Tell us about the Pulse mix you've mixed for us - what';s the special flavour of it and are there a couple if curve balls included? We set up for a live set in the studio and had a bit of a jam. Piped our loops out through the desk. Drum machines & Filters. Then mixed a few to finish it off. Hopefully it's a nice little journey for the ears.
Finally, where next for the Carter Bros? Is 2013 going to be your year? We really want to work with all our local crews here in Adelaide making records. There's so much talent it would be a shame if a lot of these guys didn't get some records out.
Metropolis is available to buy now through Tsuba.