1.Growing Up
Moktar’s dad is a music composer and classical conductor. He’s grown up in a very musical family and music had always been a big thing at home. Going through high school, Moktar listened to a lot of usual heartbreakers like The Smiths, The Doors and David Bowie and eventually found funk with Parliament and Funkadelic. Dan’s dad was a big music fan and had drums, guitars, records, tapes, big speakers, everything! He used to keep Dan up at night blasting Pink Floyd, and his mum used to play Enya… a lot. Growing up, he started to discover music for himself – it was a lot of ’60/’70s rock from his dad’s collection but then turned to electronic/experimental music and hip hop.
2.Inspirations
Just some of many for Moktar, but favourite musicians would be David Bowie, Tame Impala and Gorillaz. If you’re talking rap, The Pharcyde was a huge game-changer. Favourites tend to be a phase of who does Dan like most at the moment, but some of his all-time favourites are Neon Indian, Change, Tame Impala, Boards Of Canada and A Tribe Called Quest.
3.Your Crew
We’ve got loads of mates that have a huge discography of amazing music that we all share with each other. It’s like a never-ending cycle of music-sharing between us all. We both work nine-to-five jobs to make ends meet unfortunately, but our plans are to change that one day in the future! Dan also works as a graphic designer and has been doing so for over ten years. It’s good for him to have a visual outlet as well as a musical one, keeping things interesting.
4.The Music You Make And Play
We’re kind of known for always playing unreleased music in our live set, but with this new EP coming along that’ll change and people might actually know the songs. You can expect featured artists like Looks Fade and Winston Surfshirt joining us onstage, but whenever we can’t get them to join us we normally make a remixed version of the track to make it more interesting. In the future we also plan to have some live visuals to help take things to another level too.
5.Music, Right Here, Right Now
We think the music scene at the moment is growing real fast! There’s a lot of talented people out there making some inspirational music and it’s great to see more and more artists doing their thing. Though nowadays you need to work twice as fast to keep up! The best thing about our local music scene is the great friends you make along the way. It’s like one big family and we’re all out to help out each other no matter what.
Friends is out now through Sweat It Out. CatchPolographia,Pluural and Colourwaves atNewtown Social Club,Saturday November 26.
