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Talking with Kiran Shahani & Shana Halligan (continued)
PM: So that brings us to the unbelievable, kind of unprecedented fact that your debut was so well received that it spawned a whole disc of remixes. I mean, I've never heard that in a debut before, have you?
KS: In the electronic world it can be common.
PM: Oh?
KS: Yeah.
SH: We've been really lucky, though. I mean, Bruno over at Quango is just so well connected.
PM: How do you say Bruno's last name? Spell that for me?
SH: G-u-e-z.
PM: Okay. And so he's the guy that put the list of hot producers together for the remix game?
KS: Yeah. I mean, we had input, too, because we'd pick who would be best for which song.
SH: And we're fans of a lot of the remixers.
PM: Now, in that world, in the remix world, is it generally considered within the rules or the etiquette of that game to add tracks, or do you got to work with what's already there?
KS: As a matter of fact, sometimes someone will just ask for the vocals. Someone will ask for the music and the vocals all separated. But the standard is to try and put your own twist on it so it doesn't sound like the original, that it's something new and fresh, and do a different take.
PM: So it's totally cool to add your own tracks, and as you say, do a different take?
SH: Oh, yeah.
KS: Yeah, that's the whole purpose.
PM: Yeah, because I heard a rap on "Our Remains" that wasn't any original track.
KS: No.
SH: Yeah. It's cool, it's fun. It really adds a new life to the songs. It's like the record has been out almost a year, so it's exciting, it should be able to recycle it and give it a new life and put it in different environments that it wouldn't necessarily have been in. Kids will be like, "Oh, my God, I love that DJ, or I love the guys in Brudendorf Pasture." And they're going to automatically want to listen to it because of that. So it just introduces more fans to us.
KS: Yeah. This record is really nice, where it's not just your typical dance house music remixes. We really picked ones that captured the essence of the songs, too, and you can still really feel the songs in the remixes.
PM: Absolutely. Although I kept thinking, "Okay, I'm going to hear one or more of these remixes that I'm going to like more than the original track, it's just natural." But I didn't, really. I always said, "Well, that was really cool. I like this, I like that about that remix, and that was a lot of fun, and I'll keep listening to that. But I still like that original track better."
KS: OG, baby.
[laughter]
SH: I mean, that's where, obviously, our hearts and souls are, completely, in the original track, so we're not going to argue with that.
PM: Yeah. I think my favorite remix, though, was "Bittersweet Faith," Thievery Corporation.
SH: Ah, we really dig that, too.
KS: Yeah, that's got a nice groove. It's so Sade and nice.
SH: Uh-huh.
PM: Yeah, it's so amazing. Are any of the remix producers personal friends of you guys?
KS: We did meet the Thievery Corporation guys at a party at Bruno's house.
PM: Did any of them become friendly after the remixes; call you and say, "Hey, that was fun," or "let's do another one," or--
KS: Morgan Page, we've been hanging out with him a little bit.
SH: Yeah!
KS: And now we talk business and Protools and stuff.
SH: And a lot of them actually had emailed on MySpace, just saying that they really enjoyed working on it. God, I'm trying to remember--
KS: And J Boogie too--
SH: Somebody I was like a huge fan of emailed and said how much they enjoyed doing the remix and loved our songs, and I was like, "Oh, my God, this is so gravy!"
[laughter]
SH: It's been pretty cool.
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