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The song, now called Greatest Hits, celebrates the powerful experience of hearing dance music on the radio, and the BBC’s radio compression gives it a greater musical and emotional richness.Flux Pavilion (Joshua Kierkegaard G.
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One of his recent “conceptual realisations” about how to produce their music involved him asking “a secret contact” at a national BBC radio station to play one of their demos anonymously on air late at night so he could record it. “It’s successful because we like each other’s work,” says Skye. The tables were turned in 2010, when he got a laptop and discovered dubstep acts such as Netsky, Nero and Flux Pavilion: “Then I started introducing music to my parents.”Įllery’s and Skye’s roles in Jockstrap are independent yet becoming more fluid. “Stevie Wonder was the thing that got me into enjoying music, after my dad gave me his Definitive Collection and we all went to see him in Hyde Park,” he says. He grew up playing the piano and found it difficult to escape the gravity of his relatively hip parents’ taste in music. But when he was 11, the family moved to Leicestershire and his parents became teachers. His dad was in Starlight Express and “could do backflips while wearing roller skates”. His parents were successful performers in musical theatre. At 14 she started attending crusty raves in the Cornish countryside: “I was there for the party!” Ellery never rebelled against playing classical or folk instead she developed “a duality”. By the time she was seven she was part of a local folk band who marked midsummer and midwinter by accompanying the pagan figure of Penglaz – a horse’s skull with snapping jaw bone and bottle-glass eyes carried on a pole – around Penzance with raucous song and dance. Ellery received her first violin aged five from her midwife mum, a self-taught violinist. While most musicians of their generation have fairly catholic music taste already thanks to streaming culture, Jockstrap venture far beyond any algorithmically generated sense of variety.In part this is due to their music-focused upbringings. Skye says he hadn’t even considered the idea until he went to this year’s Wireless festival and took in an entire day’s worth of rap: “It made me imagine what it must have been like in the 1960s going to a folk festival and seeing Bob Dylan and everyone approaching their craft in different ways.”Įmotional richness … Jockstrap. The thought of sticking to one genre is alien to Jockstrap. On a song such as Debra, for example, there are rhythmic nods to Beyoncé and Lil Wayne, happy hardcore synths, and bhangra strings.
You can hear that mathematical pop songwriting, as well as Skye’s mercurial, often seemingly counterintuitive, skills as a producer, throughout I Love You Jennifer B. A golden route to songwriting which you can tap into.” For Ellery, the school helped her understand the architecture of songbook-style pop music: “It’s not just about what it does to your heart – there is mathematics to it. Skye says Guildhall essentially represented a “student loan” that allowed them to record “bedroom music”. What we do sounds like switching between all the open tabs on your computer, a familiar feeling for people these days Taylor Skye Later, the pair added digital strings: Jockstrap was born. After Ellery wrote a song on Logic in her second year, she asked Skye if he would produce it: “He had snippets of his own music on Facebook that were right up my street.” Skye agreed, replaying all the instruments, adding new beats and putting effects on the vocals.
(She also performs in the Happy Beigel Klezmer Orkester and acts, appearing in Mark Jenkin’s acclaimed 2019 film Bait.) Outside Jockstrap, Skye makes music under his own name and has remixed songs for Metronomy and experimental hip-hop group Injury Reserve.Įllery and Skye met during their first year at the “very insular” Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, when Ellery (jazz) was struck by Skye (electronic composition) “wearing tartan pyjamas on his way to do laundry”. It’s already been a busy year for Ellery: when we meet, she’s having a short break from her duties as a violinist for acclaimed indie band Black Country, New Road, who are partway through a lengthy world tour.
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