Kick It Recordings: Exclusive Interview

That's right everyone, today for your intellectual and reading enjoyment, we have an Exclusive interview from the ones like Karton! Australian natives Karton are turning heads and ears far and wide with their cutting edge sound and exceptional musicality. Taking EDM beyond kick drum heavy tunas aimed at the dancefloor they recently released their first full length album. "For All Seasons" is receiving much acclaim for it's melodic rhythms and varied style. Featuring vocals from striking artists like Sharrad, Nick Craven, Jeff Hann and Cris Clucas. One after the other anthems like "We Bleed" are executed to perfection allowing the lyrics to lead when appropriate and for the synths to take control in response. "Play Our Game" switches things up and takes us to the tougher more Tear Out side of things without overdoing it while others like "Breathe for Me" touch on the Trancier side of things. A complete package all around, "For All Seasons" is available now on Beatport and your favorite digital retailer. We were lucky enough to catch up with Karton and they were kind enough to answer the Kick It Twelve for us.

The Kick It Twelve - Karton Edition

1. – At what age did you first find yourself gravitating towards electronic music and who were some of the artists outside of Electronic music that influenced that?
I came to it pretty late, I think I was about 18, before that I was pretty much exclusively listening to Hip Hop, then a friend turned me onto Vegas by The Crystal Method which really opened my eyes up to electronic music. Listening to a lot of hip hop growing up showed me that you don’t need a big studio and a band to make music. I remember reading an interview with RZA about how he produces and that really put the idea in my head that it was something I could do myself.

2. – What was your very first Album? How about CD?
Hmm, I can even remember. I’m sure it was something pretty horrible.

3. – How did you first get involved with the Electronic music culture and what was the first event that you attended?
The first thing I went to was a warehouse party in Sydney in about 98, it was in a really run down old warehouse and all the DJ’s were playing happy hardcore. That kind of showed me early on the side of the scene that I wasn’t interested in.

4. – Where was your favorite gig that you have had to date?
Hmm, that’s tough. We played in Perth on NYD a few years ago, that was a lot of fun.

5. - Who have you been most proud to play alongside?
Playing before London Electricity in Sydney was pretty special. He runs Hospital Records which in terms of consistency has to be my favorite label of all time.

6. - Where would you most like to play that you have not yet?
Getting to play in the US would be awesome. Also playing at Fabric in London is something we have always wanted to do.

7. - What is your favorite tune you have released?
Hmm, from the album, it would have to be ‘And Then There Were Two’. My favorite remix of ours would have to be the remix we did of Andrey Mute – Landmine on XSSR Music or our remix of Liz Melody – Skeptical on Sound of Habib.

8. - Who is your favorite EDM artist? How about outside of EDM?
If it could only be one it would probably be Hybrid, outside of EDM it would have to be Crowded House.

9. - Who are some artists you would like to collaborate with in the future?
There are a lot of Australian hip hop artists that I’d like to work with and we are lucky to have lined some of them up for the second album. Also working with a band like Delphic or The Wombats would be something that I think would be interesting.

10. - What is your preferred software for producing? Hardware?
All software these days, it’s just easier to do everything inside the box, it gives you the greatest amount of control and is easy to get down lots of ideas quickly.

11. - What life lessons has the music industry taught you?
I suppose it’s not to take anything too personally, which can be hard sometimes given the time and effort that gets put into creating tunes in the studio. The other thing which ties into this is that it never hurts to take advice from those who have been around and have learnt the lessons.

12. – What does the future hold for Karton?
At the moment we are working hard on the second album, hopefully if all goes well it will be out middle of 2010.

Lupo - Surprise Me (Karton RMX) by Karton

Play Our Game by Karton