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From: "modularpeople" <editor@modularpeople.com>
Reply To: editor@modularpeople.com
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 07:39:09 +1000
To: <modular friends & lovers >
Subject: A Touch Of Class
Hi all,
We've been chasing these guys from A Touch Of Class for a while
now. They run the label of the same name, and also produce a remix
a bunch of stuff that seems to have a staggeringly high hit/shit
ratio. Domie "LeTouch" Clausen and Oliver "T. Class"
Stumm founded ATOC in 1999 and since then have remixed people like
A.R.E. Weapons, Scissor Sisters and The Ones, and released smashing
singles by Waldorf, Pop Deluxe, and Secret Weapons. Below is a transcript
of my email correspondence I had with the gents of classy touch.
g.
From: q@atouchofclassusa.com
Subject: FW: INTERVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 11 March 2004 10:05:28 AM
To: editor@modularpeople.com
hey
glen, sorry for the delay, we just got back from the meat-packing
district (i.e. the winter music conference)
hope
you can use some of it
thanks
d & o
aka
touch my ass
___________________________
dominique
clausen
a touch of class recordings
www.atouchofclassusa.com
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From: "modularpeople" <editor@modularpeople.com>
Reply-To: editor@modularpeople.com
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 07:39:09 +1000
To: domie <q@atouchofclassusa.com>
Subject: Re: ciao...from your modularfriends
hi domie,
thanks for the swift response. whenever you get a chance to answer
some
of these would be cool. i've spat out a few questions, so just pick
whatever
ones you'd like to answer, no need to answer them all. thank you
so much,
i'll
let you know when it goes up. what's your postal address, i'll throw
some of
our shitty records in the mail.
glen.
where are
you going to play records? what's the occasion?
We play records in illegal 'smoke easys"
in New York City every now and
then. We'll do a small tour end of May, beginning of June starting
at the
primavera festival in Barcelona then heading over to Portugal by
way of
Madrid (nasti club) before we head north/east to Berlin and Eastern
Europe.
why did you and oliver get together to form ATOC?
Because
we just broke up with our girlfriends and thought it would be a
great way to upgrade.
you've done some pretty different parties (bordello series, sprinroll,
karaoke), would you mind if we modularpeople ripped off your ideas
and ran similar things here in sydney?
Only
if we're invited to the Bordello series.
who is responsible for your website and all the cool interactive
stuff? if
the man at work here knew how much time i'd wasted on them i might
be out of a job.
eh
that would be Domie
is there a common thread to the kind of acts you like to put
out/remix on
your label? your quality control seems exceptional.
it
has to in one way or another be retarded, that's our rule, and then
we
make it sound really good in our studio. That's our concept: retarded
music
that sounds like the best!
when are you gonna record an album? how would that sound?
We
are starting to record our material soon. It will be mostly stuff
that
was too retarded for the other acts.
have you any plans to license/distribute your records in australia?
or even come down here and spin shitty records?
we'd
love to!!! Give everybody our number and have em call us, oh and
2
surfboards are already on our "rider".
what has been your favourite remix you've done?
A.R.E.
Weapons "Streetgang", because it's perfect!
you guys must be pretty busy doing everything associated with
the label, are you actually robots? what do you do in your time
off?
We
don't have much time off. But on our time off we would love to be
beach
bums.
how do you feel about all the NYC rock around at the moment?
too
much indie rock by characterless softies with vintage t-shirts and
girlie haircuts supported rich parents, it's all fabricated.
top 5 tips to for a person wanting to exude an air of class about
them:
top 5 tips for creating an unhinged dancefloor romper, by ATOC:
always
wear red underwear.
always do the opposite from what everybody expects.
let them come to you never go to them.
rip ideas off blatantly and laugh in their faces, never use the
word
"inspiration".
always use an element that doesn't fit, like let's say a flute in
a punk
song...
if it sounds retarded your on the right path
if the distributor says he can't sell it then it's a hit!
top 5 people you would like to remix:
The
Strokes, because they sound aaawwwwwful and need some help
Yeah Yeah Yeahs because they got class
!!! because they got potential
Vive la fete because they got the looooks!
boney M because they got the mystique?
thanks again guys. much love.
From: editor@modularpeople.com
Subject: Re: ciao...from your modularfriends
Date: 10 February 2004 3:31:17 PM
To: q@atouchofclassusa.com
hey domie,
how did your record spinning trip go? i dont suppose you've got
around to answering my pesky questions yet?
glen.
On 31/01/2004,
at 7:02 AM, domie wrote:
hey
glen
thanks
for the compliments! of course we'd be glad to give shitty answers
to
shitty questions..we're leaving tomorrow for a week to spin shitty
records..please get back to me with the questions
best
domie
to those with
the class touch,
i'm the web coordinator type for modularpeople, home of modular
recordings and artists like the avalanches, yeah yeah yeahs, cut
copy
and the bumblebeez. i'm repsonsible for putting together content
for
our site, which we kinda run like a magazine, with bi-monthly major
updates. so anyway, we're real fans of A Touch Of Class as a record
label, and also think your site is v cool. we'd like to run a little
piece on you guys with our next issue, going up around march. if
mr
clausen and mr stumm would be at all interested in answering a couple
of my shitty questions, please let me know cause we'd really like
to
get a bit of an insight into your label. to get an idea of what
we do,
check out www.modularpeople.com
thanx,
glen.
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