1.Growing Up
I’ve got a lot of childhood memories that revolve around music. I started playing piano when I was three years old, so there almost isn’t a time when I don’t remember being involved in music. My parents played music in the house quite a lot as well – they didn’t have the coolest taste in music overall, but luckily they have just enough great records that I was exposed to a lot of good music from a very early age.
2.Inspirations
It’s tough to boil it down. Inspiration can come from a lot of places and it’s not always other musicians or even music itself. I was incredibly inspired by the sandwich and coffee I had for lunch today – true story.
3.Your Crew
We’ve been working with heaps of people – we’ve worked a lot with Styalz Fuego in recent years, we’ve spent some awesome time in the studio with Deutsch Duke recently, and the vocalist on our new single ‘Only 1’, Nathaniel S Lewis, is an amazing dude to work with.
4.The Music You Make And Play
Our most recent releases have been very club-focused. After a couple of albums we are really enjoying making music for the club again, and I think that element of fun is really evident in the music we’re making at moment as well.
5.Music, Right Here, Right Now
It’s a pretty exciting time for music – music is made more quickly than ever, released to an audience more quickly than ever, genres come into existence and then burn out more quickly than they ever have. The biggest obstacle musicians face right now would have to be carving out and building your audience in that kind of environment, where so much amazing music is being made and released on a regular basis – having something unique and distinctive to say.
The Aston Shuffle play Captain’s Club, Watsons Bay Hotel on Sunday April 24, with Set Mo, Refuge, Ariane and Jackson Hunter.
