But I am glad I convinced everyone to put it on the album. So there was a point where I was going to drop it or use it for a side project. They were like, ‘Well if you want to make it a song, you gotta like have us play on it.” I mean, I guess in defense, it is a little bit of a departure from the sound of the Disco Biscuits – it’s a little weird hearing, whether it’s Tu Phace or somebody else, sing over what – we never really bring in singers or guest vocalists. I thought it was an immediate hit but everybody in the band was really against it. Two or three weeks later he sent it back to me while I was in Colorado with a note that said, “I don’t know if you guys are gonna like this.” I listened to it on the speaker of my iPhone and I was like, “This is sick!” I hooked it into a stereo at this birthday party on a boat and it was an immediate dance party. Harry suggested that we ship it off to this Tu Phace who I didn’t even know at the time. So I had to end up changing that.Īnyway, I got to a point where I knew that the song was dope enough but didn’t know what to do with it. So I went back to work on it, got another section in and the bass line, and I realized in that other section was pretty much a Chromeo song I’d involuntary stolen – I was listening to that much Chromeo that a put down a Chromeo bass line. I plugged it in and he is like “Yeah, whatever dude, it needs like an ARP on it,” and I was like, “What? Listen to how funky it is, what do you mean it needs a fucking ARP on it.” And that was kind of the divide. Then I brought it to a Conspirator show, and played it for Marc at our hotel after the show. Finally, came up with two different sections that I saved on the computer as “Funky Sex.” And Harry was like, ‘Dude you need to come up with more bass lines, that one’s good but you’re not quite there yet,’ and I just kept on pumping more and more bass lines into it. So I would dance around the studio and listen to it. I can’t go out to the club and impress the girls with my dancing skills so I impress the girls with my music skills. I mean, the whole reason I play music for a living is because I’m not a good dancer. I spent the next day by myself just walking around the studio listening to it and dancing to it, and I am not a good dancer. It needed something more so I put Harry in the vocal booth with a snare drum so he could tap out a few more rhythms and then we had something solid. Harry and I put down a cool little riff and then we put in a little bit of drums. It was kind of like designated vacation time so it was me in there and songwriter and producer Harry, and I wanted to do something dancey. It was also a period of time, for whatever reason, that it was just me in the studio. I guess it was summer of ‘08 and at the time I was listening to a lot of new disco, and a lot of Chromeo. When did you start working on that particular song? You wrote Planet Anthem’s successful single, “On Time.” Though very different than the usual Biscuits song, “On Time” has actually received a bit of mainstream attention.
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