Interview with Lapalux at iCrates:
How would you describe the direction you’ve taken your music in the new EP since When You’re Gone?
I think it’s a lot more sophisticated. I know everyone always says their next record is the most thought about, but I do actually genuinely believe that it’s a lot more focussed than the last EP. Direction-wise it’s along a darker route, considering how some of the tracks on the first EP were up tempo and a bit chirpy.
When you say ‘more focussed’ do you also mean in the quality of the sound?
Yeh, in the production and what’s going on in the tracks as well. It’s a lot neater I suppose and every song has its own specific idea. It’s still quite maximalist in a way, but more coherent. I think coherency is a major issue and I’ve addressed that in the new EP.]
When you’re building up a new track do you have a picture in mind before your start or is it more like trial and error?
It’s always trial and error with me. I never really have a massive picture. I mean sometimes I’ll work or I’ll sample something and I’ll think “that’s the way it’s kinda going”, but you know, it could be that the next day I wake up and feel completely different and completely strip the track away and start again.
I tend to do a lot of remixing of my own stuff as well, so I’ll make a whole track and then balance it down and then put it back into Ableton a couple of weeks later and see how it sounds again and if I don’t like it I’ll change it and remix it and play about with it.
Your tracks are very deeply layered – What do you think that adds to the sound?
I use a lot of background sounds, a lot of field recordings that I’ve taken throughout the last couple of years on my little Tascam recorder, just going out and recording spacious sounds, in airports and places like that or also different other little artifacts like people hoovering, recording that and adding it as a texture in the background. There are a lot of background layers to make it sound a little less clean and a bit more organic, I suppose.
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