It was a shared adoration of old Amiga and Mega Drive games that initially drew Colin Bailey and Jack Adams together. The pair, known collectively as Mums of Death – but better known to music fans in their singular guises Drums of Death and Mumdance – initially met at Sonar in 2009, but it took several months for the pair to act upon their promise to work together. A track was made, played by each in their respective DJ sets. People heard it, people loved it. But it wasn?t until January this year when a video for Golden Axe appeared on YouTube that people really got to experience it in all its 2D, 8-bit glory.
Here, in a rare joint interview, the two producers explain their dynamic, and reveal how when DJs hit a certain age, they swap hedonism for hearty meals at fancy restaurants.
When you play live, how does your dynamic differ to being in the studio?
Jack: When we do our shows we tend to just play back to back. We wanted to do something different to his live shows but still had elements of us both in it. When I first started out I used to do a live show, but I got really quite bored of it quite quickly so I ended up just going back to DJing. So we just go back to back, we?ve both got quite different styles so when we?re DJing we keep each other on our toes.
Colin: Neither one of us launches into a completely different tempo or going from building to too heavy. It?s kinda like we?re each following on from what the last one played. I didn?t want to do another live show thing, I wanted to do something different. For my live shows I?m on the mic, as a kind of party, hype man thing, the only white Scottish hype man out there, I don?t know! But when we DJ it?s really good as we can play lots of old stuff and new stuff, too. I treat it as a night off, I take more of a backseat and it?s about the two of us.
Jack: A lot he?ll be saying ?who?s this by?? or I?ll be asking ?who?s that by?? It?s always nice. I like doing collaborations with people, I like the idea of bring cultures and ideas and backgrounds together to make new, hybrid sounds.
So you were brought together by a love of classic gaming ? what other interests do you share?
Colin: Nothing! I made some good food last night, some fish.
Jack: DJs get in to food when they hit a certain age. When you get taken around the world, promoters always know where the nicest restaurants are, and they?ll always take you there.
Colin: Then you get back to London and you open your fridge and it?s like ?Gah!?
Jack: When you go on tour most of the DJs talk about food more than they talk about music. Especially the older crew.
So do you get emailed recipes by other DJs, are there loads of ?recipe fwds? going around?
Jack: Oh no, they?re not actually cooks! There?s a DJ called Skeet Skeet, he?s a big Hollywood DJ, he opens for Katy Perry on tour. He?s started a website called Dishlicker which is basically just DJs – when you go to a nice restaurant you take a picture of it and email it in and it goes on the blog.
It turns out that this is actually true and features culinary contributions from MSTRKRFT, AC Slater, Buraka Som Sistema and their label mates ? or should that be, ladle mates?
Click here to view the video on YouTube.
Catch Mums of Death at SW4 on Sunday, 28th August. Clapham Common, London.
Source: http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/08/19/mums-of-death/
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