Meet Django Django. Maybe you are already well acquainted with the band. If you were, you wouldn’t forget it. The band, with roots in Scotland and London, feature an explosion of different sounds and genres, often all on one song. Their influences and musical twists and turns are fascinating and make for an excellent listen. You can hear all of this on their debut, self-titled record – it is probably the most fun you’ll have listening to a record in quite some time.
Warning: Do not look directly into the sun (credit: Warner Music Group Canada)
Despite being a fun album, it is a good album. The songs are unique, exciting, and catchy. The vocal layers are soothing, while most of the songs will have you tapping your foot or dancing on the table (which is a little awkward at work, I found out). The band – with producer and drummer Dave Maclean, singer and guitarist Vincent Neff, bassist Jimmy Dixon, and synth man Tommy Grace – released a single back in 2009, and then disappeared for awhile. They returned with their debut album earlier this year in the UK, which came out more recently in North America. The album has been shortlisted for the prestigious Barclaycard Mercury Prize for Best UK or Irish album. Not a bad debut!
PeteHatesMusic caught up with Dave Maclean over email to discuss how to describe Django Django’s sound, the influences of The Beta Band, how being a DJ helped with the tracklisting, and where to take the band’s sound next (musically, not physically).
Click to read the PeteHatesMusic interview with Dave Maclean from Django Django
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Interview with Dave Maclean from Django Django
Meet Django Django. Maybe you are already well acquainted with the band. If you were, you wouldn’t forget it. The band, with roots in Scotland and London, feature an explosion of different sounds and genres, often all on one song. Their influences and musical twists and turns are fascinating and make for an excellent listen. You can hear all of this on their debut, self-titled record – it is probably the most fun you’ll have listening to a record in quite some time.
Warning: Do not look directly into the sun (credit: Warner Music Group Canada)
Despite being a fun album, it is a good album. The songs are unique, exciting, and catchy. The vocal layers are soothing, while most of the songs will have you tapping your foot or dancing on the table (which is a little awkward at work, I found out). The band – with producer and drummer Dave Maclean, singer and guitarist Vincent Neff, bassist Jimmy Dixon, and synth man Tommy Grace – released a single back in 2009, and then disappeared for awhile. They returned with their debut album earlier this year in the UK, which came out more recently in North America. The album has been shortlisted for the prestigious Barclaycard Mercury Prize for Best UK or Irish album. Not a bad debut!
PeteHatesMusic caught up with Dave Maclean over email to discuss how to describe Django Django’s sound, the influences of The Beta Band, how being a DJ helped with the tracklisting, and where to take the band’s sound next (musically, not physically).
Click to read the PeteHatesMusic interview with Dave Maclean from Django Django
Watch Trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained
Pretty much everything Quentin Tarantino does turns to gold. His hits far outweigh his misses. More importantly, he picks incredibly fitting songs for his films, and soundtracks them brilliantly, often revitalizing the songs in the mainstream scene. His latest film, Django Unchained, doesn’t come out until Christmas, but the trailer has finally been released. The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, and Christoph Waltz, and is about a German bounty hunter and a former slave (Django, who gets “unchained”) who team up to try and find Django’s wife, who is held by Leonardo (an evil plantation owner). Yes, it’s another revenge flick from QT, but does anyone do it better?
So what music do we hear in the trailer for Django Unchained? The music starts off with a little Johnny Cash, with Ain’t No Grave. It quickly shifts to James Brown’s The Payback, and there’s not much reading between the lines to do there with the song title and movie theme. The music is more Jackie Brown than a western about slaves, but that’s the genius of Tarantino. Check out the movie trailer and wish it was December (if only for the Christmas presents).
Django Unchained Trailer