Igloo: At what point in the process of recording music and then releasing it do you gain the most satisfaction ? [ eg. making sounds / hearing that someone bought it for their mother’s birthday / reading reviews etc. ]
Plod: Recieving spontaneous emails from people who’ve gotten the album. Hearing the tracks on prime-time national radio.
Igloo: Do you think that the practice of MP3 bootlegging in the electronica genre has an impact on smaller labels? Have you experienced this with any of your releases ?
Plod: Yeah, our record has been found in it’s whole on mp3-servers and i think its got an impact. One less buyer means so totally more for us than for Madonna or Metallica or any other artist beginning with an M. They only get what they deserve.
Igloo: As a duo, how do you both handle the process of writing tracks?
Plod: Different and the same roles but Erik is the one who mostly puts the foundation to the tracks down. But duo rules over solo because it’s easy to get stuck with your head up your arse if you’re alone.
Igloo: Do you think that Melody is slowly becoming a more prominent and acceptable ingredient in electronic music today?
Plod: I think it’s close to extinction sadly. People think it’s all to easy to make music these days. When a filtered NWA track is something good enough to release as a single we’re in trouble.
Igloo: If Plod’s music was used as the score to a Hollywood movie, what would the plot be?
Plod: It would be a roadmovie and there would be very few actors and very few cuts and it would be winter. It would be about two guys driving around challenging people for bikebattles. Sort of like Clint Eastwood in “Every which way but lose”. The Coen brothers or Jim Jarmusch would
direct it.
