Filo & Peri
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Filo & Peri
Irave- Where did you both meet?
Filo- Where did we both meet! Ah. We both had a mutual friend name Daniel and we were both on trance.nu, We then both began talking for about a month and then we were at my studio down at the Bronx, the first week we work together we finish two tracks. We started on monday and on Thursday we had the two tracks signed with Armin Van Burren and that is how we started on board for the booth of us. It worked really quickly and the funny thing about that is that Bo and I before we meet each other we where pretty much against the idea of working with another person just because were very opinionated and we both like pulling are own weight, it was definitely a good turned of event for us.
Irave- Do either of you get on each others nerves?
Filo- Yeah!! absolutely, it happens all the time... at the beginning not so much because were both trying to get used to one another, so we kept are highly opinionated selfs to ourselves. Once we kind-a started to get into the groove then I started expressing my opinion and Bo started expressing his, what we had to do over the years is learned to pick our battles and it’s something I feel really strongly about that something that I change but were like brothers we fight all the time in the sense that you know he wants it this way and i want it my way, but at the end the product is really great so you do what you got to do.
Irave- Can you elaborate on your album Night Play?
Filo- This is our first official album with our own original material. We have done a couple of mix compilation’s, were we mixed other peoples music and some of our own into dj mix. This collection of music is strictly our own and it’s 15 tracks and its unique but it’s not in a traditional sense but I do not want to get to technical but when you are mixing tracks all the time what needs to happen is to adjust the base so you can sky slowly the track down and what we did not want to do when we mix this album is we did not want to affect actually the pitch of any of the tracks nor the speed of them... so the way we made the track is how we want the fans to hear them. We actually had to be really creative in doing mixing of the album so that is definitely the challenge. We did a pretty good job on it!
Irave- How difficult is it to come up with an album with your own tracks?
Filo- Ah!!! the funny thing about music as a job is that you could spend ten hours a day and come up with absolutely nothing then you can spend one day in a 3hours time and have the frame work of a whole song ... have recorded the melody and all the other elements that go along with all the tracks drum and base,.... you see! It’s really funny and I really can necessarily explain it in words where it comes from you just come up with a song in a couple of hours and you can work four to five days in a row and have absolutely nothing that is worst when you’re given a time period.
Irave- Can you tell us what Project FNP is?
Filo- Project FNP is something that we did very briefly, we made these tracks that were just special and place them on our own sets in the clubs we did not give them out to anybody and we did not have peopled looking at the tracks so we created more like a Project FNP for a couple of releases and we put them out I think it was October or November of last year when we put those out! Just something we do on the side while were working on all the other stuff in the album, we just want to put music out there and that was the result of it.
Irave- Your guys radio show called Big Room Sound comes out Bi-Weekly, can you explain why?
Filo- The reason we choose to do it twice a month instead of doing it once a week was because, I think for Bo and I we have a really specific selection of tracks that we think works really well, for what we do and for the sound that we play it’s really difficult for us to find ten new tracks every single week that really fit into what were doing and really pushing so rather than playing music that we do not necessarily like just to kind-a fill in that space every single week we just decided to do it twice a month were we can present 20 tracks every month were we can really fill confident about the tracks that you want to hear and like the ones being played in the clubs.
Irave- Do you, guys consider your music to be underground or mainstream?
Filo- Ah!! it’s funny, we have been asked that question so many times that we just keep up with this one saying “music is not underground it’s not commercial it’s just dance music”. I just do not like that distinguish among what is underground and what is commercial, I think most people when they get involved in the scene in any aspects as a producer, promoter or dj anything that they want to seek let the scene grow. The only way the scene will grow so fast is it needs to have the music reach the mainstream and become commercial so for Bo and I we just kind-a shaded the scene is never going to grow but the more the scene grows the more it supports the underground, you know! Theres more people involved, the scene has more money to go around, theirs more opportunities to bring to the up coming dj’s that wont have a chance if the scene was not big enough.
Irave- Is there a track that you guys would never played?
Filo- What would be the track that we never played? I do not know.... Bo and I happen to be so specific, so picky when it comes to tracks there is such a long list of tracks that we wont play so yeah There is definitely a lot of music that we wont play, that doesn’t necessarily say that it’s not good , its just not with in our preference.
Irave- Did “Shine On” meet your guys expectation?
Filo- Shine On was a.. I think Bo and I and Erick as well, I think we knew it was not like the Anthem and had a lot of pressure at that time from the label for trying to create another clone Anthem, so that they can released it! Bo, Erick and I we just decided to throw a little vocals and were going to try to do something for it but to make it similar at the same time it was not showing on. Did we do well as we expected? I say it did about what we expected to do.., we did not expected to do all well as The Anthem. So we were trying to do something different but fall in the realm of what The Anthem was like.
Irave- Do you ever get tired of playing The Anthem?
Filo- Well me personally I do not get tired of it because it’s one of the few tracks that you can play in the clubs and we can really get the crowd signing along and for myself I never get tired of it.
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