Slam is undoubtedly one of the most important duos in the electronic world. Their albums and singles have shaken the earth many a time, let alone their Soma imprint, without which the techno/electro scene would be impossible to imagine. Here’s what Stuart McMillan had to say about Slam’s works. Orde concentrated on listening.

Sound Revolt: Are you fans of Celtic or Rangers?
Slam: Orde: Celtic!
Stuart: I’m not a football fan. In Scotland there are only two teams involved in the fight for the Championship what I find ridiculous. I was a guy that was into music and no one really understood the fact that I’m not into football.

Sound Revolt: So, Orde, what do you think about Polish players?
Slam: Orde: Fantastic strikers! Good goalkeepers as well! (laughs)

Sound Revolt: Got it! Do you know that you have two Polish producers on your “Nightdrive” mix?
Slam: Really? Which ones?

Sound Revolt: Robert Drewek and Tommie Nevada.
Slam: Yeah, from Unleashed Records. Amazing label. German label, right? Really cool, great music! I got every Unleashed record.

Sound Revolt: Weren’t you afraid that “Nightdrive” might outdate a bit to quickly? You used tracks that have been quite popular.
Slam: It would have been easier to go for everything new and kind of baffle people but the whole point of the album was that we compiled it over an amount of time and it was supposed to come out in summer [eventually released on October 10th – editor’s note]. There are some big tracks there but those are tracks that were special for us. And every piece on the album was special for us. Music can be seen as being disposable and as a DJ I’m trying to keep an element of freshness in the set but with the compilation we tried to show what we’ve been into for about a year.

Sound Revolt: You, as well as other artists, call your music “electronic house”. Wasn’t house electronic before?
Slam: Yeah, yeah but the whole point with house and electronic music is that it has to come up with new things all the time.

Sound Revolt: And the “progressive” word has already become worn off (laughs).
Slam: P word is a bad word. In reality it’s progressive but the word has already been used and it’s not a good expression. But I think music at the moment is probably healthier than ever, because of the software that allows loads of people to make own sounds. Of course there’s a lot of bad stuff around, but there’s a lot of great stuff as well. There’s a lot of people doing music for great reasons again.

Sound Revolt: So when do you think we are going to have the next media discovery that the dance music is dead?
Slam: Orde: It’s already dead.
Stuart: I have a problem with the dance music genre in general. You can listen to MTV Dance, know five records and think that you know what dance music is all about. It gives a bad reputation to electronic music, to people that are doing something different, pushing the boundaries. I think there’s a lot more that’s not visible to the general public. That’s why we have underground clubs and underground producers are making music. It’s going underground again, which I think is a great thing.

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