Is Tropical have finished making their debut Album! and to celebrate Kitsune are throwing a big ol’ party for them , oh and we’ll be there too! Joining us on the cd players will be…. !WOWOW! head honcho Matthew Stone, Moshi Moshi threesome TEETH, Amp & Deck and our very own Nasty McQuaid plus a very very special guest from Rinse FM.
We are overjoyed that things are going so well for Is Trop and now that their latest single ‘The Greeks’ has hit 1000,0000 billion views on youtube we thought we’d better get an interview out of them pretty quick before they get too big to ever want to talk to us again. So with that in mind we sent our most excellent journalist, Meg Woof, along to ask them some intimate and thought provoking questions. Here’s what happened;
MW: The video for your song, ‘The Greeks’ has had 1,700,058 views so far. Does this feel like success?
“Yeah, It’s great that its been viewed by that amount of people. It’s a well executed video that deserved to get attention. The guys at Megaforce are incredible video makers.”
MW: The first music video broadcast on MTV was ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ by The Buggles. The song is based on ‘The Sound-Sweep’ by J. G. Ballard, a story about a boy who goes round sucking up sounds with a vacuum cleaner in a world where music is banned. Do you feel MTV culture actively prohibiting your musical artistry?
“We haven’t actually seen any music videos on MTV, its all 16 and pregnant, the hills, and Jersey/Geordie Shore, which we love and take huge inspiration from. The MTV generation now exists on the internet instead of the TV, and there is little restriction. It’s all gravy.”
MW: What would you be doing with yourselves if music were banned?
“Spray tan, vet, 6 pack, get on it like a car bonnet.”
MW: The previously mentioned song and story are about changing and ageing, ending and subsequent nostalgia, some of which you state to be themed in ‘The Greeks’. How do you hope that comes across in the song?
“The great thing about music is that anyone can interpret it however they want. We never try to push a message, we merely serve to enhance peoples fantasies.”
MW: You also say you like daydreaming and imagination. Do your imaginings hold any reoccurring motifs?
“There has been a number of unintentional themes that have cropped up such as the sea, nautical imagery, war, and distant lands.”
MW: Moving image technology provides the tools to imitate the look, feel and power of dreams, and surfing today’s constant image stream causes a cinematic sensibility that impacts how we think, feel and even dream.” How can music imitate and impact dreams?
“We all enjoy traveling with music on headphones so you can hear every sound within the song drifting in and out of consciousness due to a lot of travel and no sleep. These become almost dreams and we definitely encourage people to follow suit.”
MW: Do you think a promo video widens or narrows people’s perception of a song?
“It’s just another form of art that can be connected. People may like it or not but as long as more people can create their ideas and get them seen, the better in our eyes.”
MW: Dance music tracks and classical compositions tend not to have accompanying videos, why do you think this is the case?
“Personally we haven’t seen many classical videos. I guess this answers the question that there are different expectations for different music. Different codes for different toads.”
You can buy tickets for Is Tropical’s Album launch for this Friday HERE! Hope to see you all there…
