The fact that my life was changed, altered, and ultimately bettered by covering an MOR Canadian rockers 80’s pop tune is a quirk of destiny that gives me faith in the magical comedy that we call existence. Other than that I’m getting my next single tied up and looking forward to a busy autumn of shows.Luck is everything, and it only takes an instant for your life to become your dreams. There’s remixes coming out for Diztortion, Ella Eyre, Lethal Bizzle, and Drumsound & Bassline Smith soon. Quiff steps out of the car, sunglasses on, and says ‘I didn’t even spill my beer’. Miraculously we didn’t get hit by anything… bear in mind that this was a tiny car and wouldn’t have taken a hit very well… and slammed into the wall in the tunnel. The tyre then bursts and we spin out across four lanes of traffic, I was looking out the window and there were cars and trucks all heading our way, I thought ‘this is it’.
So this driver loses concentration for a second and clips the kerb as we enter a tunnel. Quiff and the driver had been partying the night before. Q Project and I were coming back from a gig in Berne, to the airport in Zurich. I’d say the time I nearly died in Switzerland was pretty interesting. Live work as a DJ must mean touring so you got any stories? I’ve got some great new bits from InsideInfo and Mefjus, as you can imagine they’re pretty militant! I’ve seen you DJ and really dug it so what’s some live firepower that you have in the arsenal that’s delivering? Can imagine it’s weighty! He’s got such a good voice, he’s going to go far. We were blown away! It didn’t change much from that original demo, they nailed it. How did the vocal come about? Wicked delivery and lyrics… it’s very natural and sounds great.įuturebound passed it on to a songwriter called Andy Bullimore, who went in with Benji (above) and recorded a demo for it. I get told off by my Mrs for air-keytaring along to that part. Definitely needs to be played on a keytar by someone wearing shoulder pads. That lead synth was a relatively last minute inclusion, but it’s now my favourite bit…it’s like a good rug – it ties the room together. It’s got to be played live with a hand held synth.
It certainly was! I spent about a year on it, coming back to it now and then. ‘Colour In The Shadows’ has a wicked chord progression, it’s very memorable… was it a labour of love? I’m really in to sound tracks for example. Thanks, that’s a compliment! Yeah I guess I want things to sound like a ‘thing’, though I’m not really sure it’s something I consciously think about, I’m just drawn to music that sounds that way and has an atmosphere, and for want of a better word depth. Got to ask do you have a ‘cinematic’ POV? Do you imagine scenes when making music? It’s very visual. Originally the main body of the tune was going to be my remix for Diztortion, but I realised halfway through the project that the remix needed to be something different, so I left it and came back to it later. I used some samples from some film trailers and then played in the intro parts and ran them through a tape emulator to get that worn out VHS sound.
I wanted to see if I could get that VHS 80’s action movie vibe and marry it to a dance floor D&B tune. To the release, tell me about ‘No More Heroes’, what inspired? Was the track I went to first. Yeah it’s good to have all the experience around you, Brendan Futurebound has been in the game since it began pretty much, and between him, Tim and Asad there’s a lot of knowledge to draw on. I was reflecting: YOU know so much about the industry from your history and teaming up with the Viper people like this is a meeting of minds: how do you look to operate things, is it tough out there what with so much desensitisation going on or…? Viper feels like home, there’s such a good team spirit – it feels like we’re all pushing in the same direction. It’s been a great year for me, really productive in the studio. Hi how’s it going this year, and being a member of the Viper clan? And what turns out to be the mother of all road stories which reads like a segment in a particularly good blockbuster. Cyantific continues serenely and fastidously fixed to his artistic trajectory, the latest point along being ‘Colour In The Shadows/No More Heroes’: his energised, Viper-fuelled coupling.