[Introspective] Stuart Price interview

[Derek BD]

*You've been working with the Pet Shop Boys on their new album.*

I'm finishing mixing the album this week. It's been one of those
collaborations where I think we both feel like we got something out of it
that's greater than the sum of its parts. You know, sometimes you work with
your dream collaborators — I'm not talking about myself, but I include
myself as well — where you might be a little bit let down by it, or you
say, "That's not quite as good as I was hoping it was going to be." But I
feel like on this record we've had the opposite. Last year they were
talking about doing a new album, and they said, "We've got some ideas." In
quite a formal way, we listened to the demos. But then, when we got
together in the studio, it just clicked. The way they regard the process of
making records — they'll be present, and they want to get the best out of
everyone in the room. That means sometimes letting someone do their thing,
and other times discussing it and figuring out ways to make it better.
They're just masters of the craft. Again, it comes down to parameters. The
parameters were, we're doing a dance record. And each track is just going
to be, even if not necessarily uptempo, every track is going to have that
euphoric, fresh feel to it.
So for me, being able to work with them on, specifically, a dance record —
I mean, the Pet Shop Boys, they're two of the reasons I started doing
electronic music. To this day, I've never figured out if I want to be Neil
or Chris. The key record in their catalog, for me, was always *Disco*. *Very
* and *Actually* are huge, huge records, but the key one in their career
was always *Disco*. That had everything that I liked about *Actually*, and
it had everything I liked about electronic sound and dance. So we used that
as a kind of starting point. But if we were making music that sounded like
1985, you'd have to say, "What's the point in making it?" So the
perspective on the record was, all that matters is what we do today, and
what our aspirations are for tomorrow.

from
http://www.spin.com/articles/jacques-lu-cont-interview-album-stream-tracques-pet-shop-boys-les-rythmes-digitales/

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derekbd
"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all." - Oscar Wilde
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