Conversing With D-Note Genius Matt Winn
First of all, how have you been
I've been really well.
Living the highlife?
Yeah, flying around the world, America, Sydney, Paris, hanging out with supermodels. No, actually I've just been stuck in a basement in W10 writing music.
How's that been?
It's been dark, it's been moody, and it's been difficult. But we got there in the end and I never stopped smiling!
You said it's been dark, and that doesn't come out to me, in fact it sounds really uplifting.
Yeah, it's quite ethereal...yeah, uplifting...a little bit ghostly type of thing. Yeah, originally I had this idea of doing a track that was like three tracks all in one. 3 Different sections.
Like Bohemian Rhapsody?
Well, sort of, yeah. I mean it's not just one kind of music. It's got one section leading into another section, and then back leading into the first one again. I did it and everyone said 'that's three songs isn't it?'. It's one really: it's just going on a bit of a journey. So the idea was to try and lead the listener, in a way that was slightly surprising, so you think you're in one place, and then you're in another, and then it sort of recaptures the beginning again.
It's weird isn't it how people listen to one thing on the radio, listen to one idea, and trying to listen to more than that seems such a preposterous idea!
I think with that I was also trying to do something quite different, saying 'here's one piece of music...and here's another one'. It will make sense that they're both one thing, but they're done in a completely different style or vibe. And as you say, it's sort of that people realise that that's one piece of music, and that's a totally different record.
And then it sticks in their memory?
Ah yeah it all makes sense to me now! But also I think in dance music and that, people change the sound of the hi-hat, and they think they have created an entirely different genre of music. You know - "hat house" or something, just because they've changed the EQ on the hi-hat, but I think it's all part of it, it's all part of the same thing.
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About Petrol Records
About Petrol Records
