Mount Kimbie's two members work from separate studios in LA and the UK, forcing each to develop distinct musical ideas. One draws from LA's club and hip-hop scenes while the other stays rooted in UK influences. Without live shows, their website became the band's main presence, and they've learned that sharing ideas matters more than working alone.
Previously we've been both working out of the same space and now we've got our own separate studios.
A large part of generating the ideas is us being individuals and exploring our own thing. The influences that we're taking in now are like quite stark from each other.
There's distance between us in everything at the moment.
I've been out DJing a lot last year. I thought I was gonna make a Something that I wanted to bring into that space. With Dom moving to LA, it's a completely different world that he's being influenced by.
LA just seems to be very active musically. There's a lot of stuff going on, and there's lots of people coming from all over the world, lots of artists, lots of singers, rappers coming here. I'm just like hearing music in a different way since I've been here.
When you spend a lot of time listening to music in clubs, I think it does influence the way you think about sound. You want to put in and how that translates into that kind of space. I'll come in and just turn on all the machines here and start thinking of different ways they can interact with each other. Let the work lead me rather than having too strong an idea about what I want to do.
There's this sort of drive that people have that's different from back home. There's more of a pace to everything. People are very active, people are moving fast, and it just rubs off on you. I'm making stuff that's influenced by rap music, hip-hop, R&B, a lot of the kind of music writing world out here. I'm not really looking across at England, and he's not looking this way. Our website has always been like a huge asset, and more so now than ever really, because it's kind of the face of the band now. It's not like you can go and see us play live. You're consuming the world in a different way, so I'm not feeding off of energy around me as much. You sort of have to create your own. It's been productive. The only issue I've had is I do lose perspective on what the hell I'm doing. I'm sort of my own judge and I haven't seen anyone, so I haven't really been bouncing ideas off people.
I realised now during this whole period that actually such a big part of it is the kind of communication aspect with other people, and that really has way more value than I had considered before. I think I would make music if it was just me and There was no one else to ever hear it, but I don't think it would be the same experience at all.
At the end of the day, it's our individual sort of personality. Like, you're actually hearing the other person's, like, mind, because usually it's us working together, so there's like a fusion going on. This is a bit more raw and kind of individual elements.
There is a kind of palpable sense of those places and the difference between them, even though the styles are quite different from what we're doing and they sound quite different. I just kind of have to have faith that there is like a thread that runs through it all that will It will kind of make sense and be more interesting because of it.
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