Delhi-based trio of Arsh Sharma, Srijan Mahajan along with Nikhil Malik( together known as Studio Fuzz, a music production company) are the men behind the soundtrack that packs in a range of‘ highs and lows’, ranging from rock, jazz electronic music to an element of folk-fusion. When not at the studio, the three young men are busy performing their rockstar duties with some of the best known bands of North-India such as Parikrama, Fuzz Culture, Half Step Down, Cyanide and The Circus.
Srijan and Arsh as a part of Fuzz Culture put out their 3rd release titled Twins, after the critically acclaimed EP Indulge. Divulge in 2013 and full length album NO in 2015. Twins is a short two song collaborative EP with 2 artists, Twins has Raoul Kerr a rapper from New Delhi featuring in the first song“ Be A Monster” and British / Indian singer Heather Andrews featuring on the second single“ Gemini”. Both the songs have the singers collaborating with Arsh Sharma on the vocals. The album is a concept EP dwelling into the subject of bipolarity, duality and of opposite natures.
What is the concept behind Studio Fuzz?
�Srijan: Studio Fuzz for us is a one stop shop for anything to do with music. From scoring films, documentaries, ad jingles to producing songwriters and bands, we do pretty much everything related to music on and off screen. We love what we do and want to make music for the better of the industry and change how Indian music is perceived by audiences around the world.
�Arsh: Studio Fuzz is just three of us trying to be the best possible composers we can be and we aim to make the best music possible for all of people ' s visual artistic needs an e love to work with film makers, productions houses and all. We also wanted to create a space which is very fulfilling for an artist to be in.
�Nikhil: We built this studio out of passion and we love fuzz. Fuzz being a musical effect that was used by a lot of cool guitar players back in the 70’ s namely Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain. It’ s symbolic for attitude and aggression.
Each of you are a part of some of the leading bands in the country if you aren ' t in the studio. How do you manage to multi task?
�Srijan:- Between the three of us, we have an understanding with regards to the studio and we do what it takes to make sure we meet deadlines even if it means working from 3 different parts of the world, which we incidentally have done! No matter where we are or who we’ re playing with, we’ re always available online and thankfully havent missed any deadlines yet!
�Arsh: Well we ' ve never missed a deadline in our lives! But how we ' ve done it as a completely different question, we generally keep things task based rather than how many hours a day one one works, as long as the tasks are completed everyone is free to do what they want.
�Nikhil: The amount of bands and projects that I’ ve taken up make me a serious case of ADD. There is always so much going on. I think over the years we’ ve learnt to cover up for each other. This is possible only because we have spent so much time together that now we understand each other’ s workflow. We also help out each other in any projects that we take up other than the studio. It’ s much more than just professional association. It’ s family.
Your trippy soundtrack for M Cream was super! How was the experience working on it?
�Srijan: Thank you! Composing the soundtrack for this film was one of the most fun experiences for us. We immersed ourselves into it completely for about 6 months where we had the film on our screens and were just noodling with our instruments while watching it. Agneya was one of the best directors we have ever worked with and struck the perfect balance
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