{"id":20922,"date":"2020-07-22T15:43:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T13:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xceed.me\/blog\/?p=20922"},"modified":"2023-05-17T19:10:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T17:10:09","slug":"xceed-premiere-020-psyfunkel-ft-lucia-lucia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xceed.me\/blog\/en\/xceed-premiere-020-psyfunkel-ft-lucia-lucia\/","title":{"rendered":"Xceed Premiere 020: Psyfunkel ft. Lucia \u2013 Lucia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s impossible not to fall in love with this story. This is how it is told from the offices of Zombie Soundsystem<\/a>, the label that was lucky enough to receive Psyfunkel<\/a>‘s Electronic Mistakes Vol. 1 EP: \u201cWe signed them immediately, transferring the advance to a Spanish bank account. Quirkily dancing around the boundaries of house, breakbeat, and techno, we hadn\u2019t really heard anything like this before, yet they fitted into the Zombie sound like a key into a lock. These guys really don\u2019t do software.\u201d According to the label, the third member of the band is a silent person, a mastering engineer who has already worked with Skunk Anansie and Womack & Womack, among others. The other two architects of Psyfunkel… introduce themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are Joefunkel and Dandroid (the Pronoid Android). Dandroid suffers from pronoia. He is convinced everyone in the universe is conspiring to help him. Originally, we were in an acid funk jam band called Green Glue, but we came unstuck. Meanwhile, Dandroid was a resident DJ at a little-known secret hotspot, churning out beats for days. Literally. He was forced to live in the DJ booth.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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The Electronic Mistakes Vol. 1 EP features four very different tracks. All of them give rise to experimentation, but open the door to ambient, breaks, random acid frequencies, hypnotic voices, conversations… They are perfectly playable tracks on a dance floor, but not adapted to large audiences, but to educated eardrums open to surprises and incomprehension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have been making tunes together since 2014 and we thought it was about time we let other people hear them. The strongest message is the political message in \u201cWake Up\u201d: what the fuck are we doing? Perhaps, that\u2019s what it takes: major upheaval. It starts with a bossa nova beat you hear on those old Casio<\/a> keyboards we had as kids\u2026 Totally naff then, but now we realize they are the future.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the EP’s production processes, the members of Psyfunkel say that they soon realized that being in a studio can be suffocating and not very inspiring, so they drag their synths and drum machines to snooker halls, friend\u2019s country houses, a huge disused warehouse in New York and even \u201cone of Henry 8th\u2019s old palaces in Surrey, UK (where Joefunkel was caretaker for a while)\u201d. In a few words, pretty much anywhere with power. How could nobody have thought of going to Surrey to produce?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Usually, during the writing process, industrial amounts of psychedelics are used, and then we tidy up the beats on a Tuesday over cappuccinos and croissants.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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