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Tiffany makes a mean salmon with dill cream sauce and I’m an expert at making fresh hummus. So actually, you are quite a normal LA couple living in a good house with two dogs. You cook salmon in dill cream sauce and you drink a daily fresh fruit juice… How does that relate to the kind of music you make? It doesn’t... our music comes from the clash of multiple influences from our backgrounds. I have a background of blues, new wave, post-punk, reggae, African, all kinds of world music. And Tiff has a background of metal, goth, classic rock, punk rock. The dynamics of the differences of our background make this complex recipe of mixed genrefication. I’ve seen somebody calling your music ‘fourth-world music’, as opposed to the easier classification of world music. What are your thoughts on that? I think the fourth-world pop description is accurate. It just kinda explains this new movement of electronic music that is influenced by the whole world. Isn’t that also really how things work these days - being connected and blending everything into a personal and almost self-indulgent kind of art? In a way the people in the music scene these days are all hippies with a Macbook in Page 28
the giant digital comfort zone. Geographical location, or where your home is, is not so important anymore. Yet according to your answers - dogs, bamboo, yard, old furniture, juice... it is.Do you and Tiff like to sit on the couch watching TV and eating a TV dinner in sweat pants? We like to, but we don’t have the time to. I still like to just chill and play records. I used to be a big record collector and have lots of music to listen to that’s not on a Macbook. I wish it was all on my Macbook, though! Vinyl is hard to digitise. But maybe you shouldn’t anyway. Better put the needle in the groove and pour a glass of wine. I agree. So, what record are you gonna play when you get home from work? Lately, I have been pulling some old Art of Noise records out. No wine tonight though, but a beet-carrotginger-apple juice. And who’s cooking? Not sure what’s on the menu tonight. Actually, I have to run to the store. Maybe roast up a chicken. Enjoy all that! Nice and homely. Rainbow Arabia live dates: 12/09 - L’Escalier, Luik; 13/09 - Incubate, Tilburg; 17/09 - Leffingeleuren Festival, Leffinge (Middelkerke)