We Get Down to the Nitty Gritty with the Dissociatives
Firstly introduce yourselves…
Daniel: We’d like to introduce each other if that’s okay.
Yeah sure!
Daniel: Hi, this is Paul
Paul: This is Daniel and together we make the musical force that is The Dissociatives.
What is The Dissociatives then?
P: The dissociative state is when there is that mind/body split where your psychological state is separated from the physical, which is a good analogy for what music can do. Like taking you out of your body and into another place.
Excellent, how did you two meet and how the did The Dissociatives. come out of that?
D: We met quite a while ago when we did a remix for a Silverchair track and really liked it and I wanted to know more about his work. I listened to his group who were called Itchy and Scratchy, who were a seminal electronic band of Australia. I became a really big fan of the work he did and as a result of this, I decided to come in and work on Neon Bora, which was on the next Silverchair album. I then got him to contribute some electronic sounds and sonic sounds on the next record.
We did “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Rock”, which was just a little thing we did. Paul came round to my house and we recorded it on the laptop with four experimental pieces just for fun to see. We had a lot of curiosity to see what we could come up with. Then after that, I got Paul to come in and help me with Diarama. I think he played piano and keys on about five or six of the tracks. I’ve just always really like Paul’s contribution and ideas. In the way he gets inspired by the things I do. I always thought that we had a really good Ying and Yang thing and really picked up on each others ideas.
There are very opposing musical references on the album. Considering you’re known as a dance artist and have won lots of awards. Then there’s Daniel who’s from the rock side of things, especially going way back with the grungier stuff. How do these opposing musical references work together and culminate into something else?
P: I think that even if you make different styles of music, whether it's electronic or its rock, I think it’s still music at the end of the day. I admired the stuff Daniel did with Silverchair, like the melodies and the arrangements where he took the rollercoaster of his songs. I could relate to that, even though I was doing it in a different medium. So it wasn’t like we jammed rock and electronica together, which can sounds so passé. It wasn’t like that; we had similar types of temperaments. That’s why we wanted to work together I think!
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