1.Growing Up
Our father is Pakistani and our mom is American-European, so our house was juxtaposed with Bollywood movie soundtracks, classic and progressive rock, and protest music from our mom. Our infusion of tablas and tribal percussion in our most recent work stems from our fascination with Bollywood at a young age.
2.Inspirations
Some of our favourite artists are Incubus, Sum 41, Fall Out Boy, Kanye, The Postal Service, System Of A Down and Lady Gaga. Our dad was a big fan of ABBA’s Gold, which was one of our favourite records, and I think that’s a huge part of why we’re obsessed with harmonies and catchy hooks. David Gray’s White Ladder was always in the CD drive in our Mazda minivan.
3.Your Crew
Our crew is everyone from our family to a few old-school buddies, our loyal business team full of homies, and our hardcore fans! We fell in love with music as little kids, but pursued it as a career almost ten years ago. A lot has evolved in the past couple years, but the one constant throughout the entire process has been both of us sisters. Throughout this experience of establishing our current sound, we’ve formed a really tight group of youthful, energetic and super talented producers like Diskord, Cody Tarpley and Chaz Jackson. We’re just really grateful to be able to collaborate with people who really support us in experimenting artistically yet have such a pop dance sensibility as well.
4.The Music You Make And Play
Our sets are quite an adventure and always high-energy! For our DJ club shows we play a healthy mix of our original songs, remixes of our music, hip hop, throwbacks and top 40 vocals that we mix into trap drops. For the past few months we’ve been playing ‘Game Over’ by Lookas non-stop whenever we want a really brutal moment in the set. We’re really obsessed with the new Dvbbs release ‘Wicked Ways’ – the drop is super melodic and has a dope groove.
5.Music, Right Here, Right Now
Right now is a cool time for music. Because there is so much oversaturation in the dance music scene, we’re really going to see what stands out among the masses. That requires elements of uniqueness, solid songwriting and melodies, yet familiarity in the sound as well. That recipe is something you can’t force, and it’s quite the challenge. The process can be neurotic. But I think that’s what makes artists survivors in a certain sense, because you have to be able to handle so much rejection and hundreds of your songs going into the vortex until you have one that really feels authentic to you as an artist, but also pops off.
Krewella play at Marquee, The Star, on Saturday December 31.
