Bassculture Islands No 1 | Page 80

WHAT ARE YOUR MOST EXCITING LATEST PROJECTS AS A BAND? At the moment we are busy in the Basement studio again with Bas van Wageningen who recently produced our songs ‘Ready For It’ and ‘When I Return’. Actually, at this very moment, I am sitting in the Basement as Jacob and Tim are recording their guitar tracks. We are very excited about what is going on in here and we can’t wait to share it with all of our fans! Also happening right now, our song ‘Ready For It’ was remixed by Bob Sinclar and is being released in a bunch of different countries in Europe at the moment. YOU MENTIONED THE BOB SINCLAR REMIX. TELL US MORE ABOUT THE SONG AND HOW IT CAME TO BE THAT BOB SINCLAR REMIXED IT? We wrote the song a little over a year ago and quickly decided to go into a very good studio to record it. We chose to record it at The Basement studio in The Hague, with Bas van Wageningen co-producing it together with us. It turned out to be a very good decision. A few weeks after, we were on our way to the island of St Maarten to perform at the 2013 St Maarten Heineken Regatta. We got a great tip to contact one of Sinclar’s friends while we were there to see if he’d be interested in doing collaboration or remix of some kind. I contacted Thierry, gave him our new song ‘Ready For It’ because we all thought this would be a wicked track for somebody like Sinclar to remix. A couple weeks later, on April 1st of all days, we received an email from Sinclar himself telling us that he loved the song and would like to work on it! At the moment the song has been released in a couple countries (Italy and Greece) and many more are to follow in the months leading up to the summer. THE BIGGEST DREAM TO STILL BECOME A REALITY..? In the future we’d like to have our band based in the Caribbean with our own studio near the beach with a few mango and banana trees in the garden, but that’s fast-forwarding a few years. Whatever comes first though, that or the Grammy awards is all fine by us.