Product Shop NYC was able to interview After the Jump Fest's Riot In Belgium. They'll be headlining the night party at Studio B on August 25th, along with Soulico, Free Blood (members of !!!), and The Virgins. Tickets are available here.
How did Riot in Belgium form? Who is in the band? Are you involved in any other bands?
We have been friends for a long time and we djed together quite a bit, then we decided it would be fun to make music together thats when we did the acid never lies, bennie is also in bang gang and joel does more produlction under "comets"
What tools or instruments to do you use to create your music? What does your studio look like?
Synthesisers and computers, coffee and ideas and maybe the odd argument.
Where do the vocals in your tracks come from? What role do lyrics play in your music?
"The acid never lies" is a vocoder we recorded in our bedroom/studio, "la musique" is our friend gini helie she has an amaing voice we recorded it in a couple of hours
You have a song called "The Acid Never Lies." How do drugs relate to the rave / dance / house music today?
All the way back to studio 54!
Who are some of your favorite producers? DJs?
georgio moroder, timbaland, soulwax, the avalanches there are too many too mention!!
How do you approach a remix project? Who have worked with?
sometimes it's really easy and sometimes it's extremely difficult, we've done remixes in a day and some times they take weeks! we approach each one differently mostly we re write all the music, we just finished a chromeo remix it turned out really well
Where is the hottest place for electronic music right now? How is the scene in Australia?
hmm we will tell you in 4 weeks after that we would have visted alot more countries!!
What is the longest party you have ever been to? Who DJed or performed?
i can't remember, it must have been long enough for me to forget
Where else are you going while you are on tour in the US?
la, san fransisco, mexico, vancouver, atlanta, chicago, texas then ny!
What is next for Riot in Belgium? When are you going to release an album?
we just stopped remixing for a while its been getitng a bit silly remixing other people and not working enough on our original music, when we get back from this tour we do a festival tour in australia with justice, digitalism, goose and more then we'll lock ourselves in the syudio for a few weeks.
