Gold Coast dance outfit Tijuana Cartel are thanking god for laptop computers this spring as they take a crack at a new album in between a massive line up of shows.
The new album is not due until next year and will be written during the band’s national tour, which will see them travel to Bali for the very first time.
Tijuana Cartel co-producer Paul George said playing shows every couple of nights was already starting to take its toll.
“We just got back form Cairns which was a pretty crazy week, the whole town came alive but there were a few too many after parties. There’s been a whole lot of travelling and it’s starting to catch up with us.”
George said the lengthy tour meant Tijuana Cartel would be taking its time with the new album, with the mobility of laptops meaning they could write it pretty much anywhere.
“We’ve got laptops attached to our brains, at the moment,” he said. “We find time to write on planes and in hotel lobbies and a lot of our recordings are done in hotel rooms. A lot of it starts with laptops, like making beats and electronic bits and then we’ll just grab everyone almost separately. We’re lucky these days, most of it’s getting pretty mobile.”
The new album will be typical of Tijuana Cartel, with the new sound certainly focussed on making people move.
“We’re just really concentrating on percussive elements. Just trying to get more intricate beats in a sense, the stuff that will make people dance. Personally we listen to a lot a dubstep which isn’t really our style, but there are little influences like that which come into it.”
George said the thrill of showing people what the band does never gets tired and he’s looking forward to showing off the new material.
“It’s getting to the stage now that half the people know us and the others don’t. We’re probably doing better in WA than anywhere else, I don’t know what it is but the vibe just seems to go down well there. People are coming back which is good and new people are really getting into us.”
Tijuana Cartel play Big Sound Live – the event’s showcase element – at The Troubadour on Thursday 10 September with Borne, Ryan Meeting & The Few, Josh Leys and Astreetlightsong.
Big Sound Music Industry Summit takes place September 9-11 at Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Art with showcases at surrounding venues in Fortitude Valley Entertainment Precinct.
Head to www.bigsound.org.au for more information.
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brittles
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