Sound Revolt: Yeah! When I listened to your Essential Mix, I was pissed off because the track wasn’t full. However, when I heard it on Zabiela’s “Sound In Motion” it was mindblowing.
Nils Noa: Wow!

Sound Revolt: I also listened some the samples of the album and I think it might be really great. I want you to tell me everything about it.
Nils Noa: Actually, I have a copy at my room. It’s the only copy I have but you can get it.

Sound Revolt: Well, I can’t ask you that.
Nils Noa: If you liked it that much, it’s yours!

Sound Revolt: Wow!!! Thanks!
Nils Noa: No problem!

Sound Revolt: So when does it come out?
Nils Noa: In Norway, on October 6th. I don’t know what’s happening with the rest of the world. We’re trying to get a bigger record label to put it out outside Norway.

Sound Revolt: Tell me something about the rest of the gang? Arta, Jan-Tore...
Nils Noa: Arta is a friend Ariane – she’s a dj as well.

Sound Revolt: “Don’t Hang The DJ” compilation...
Nils Noa: Yeah. That’s also a really nice night. It’s a massive, jerk off kind of thing. All the djs in Oslo just show up with their records to play and act silly. Ariane and Jan-Tore are much older than me, so I’m just a litttle kind of mascot. Ariane is 31 and Jan-Tore is 32. They are much more experienced with music than I am but maybe I’m more extreme in what I do. So we have our own specialties. Jan-Tore has played piano for 25 years. He’s amazing! He can play anything.

Sound Revolt: I wanted to ask you about live instruments...
Nils Noa: Yeah. All the synths, all the pads in “Mooger Fooger” - everything is played in one take - from start to finish. So it’s not just a loop or anything. We worked like: “Oh let’s just take a line” and then we just used the lines that worked. That’s one of the things we wanted to achieve. It’s electronic music but with a live feeling. In “Tay Do 22”, there’s a live bass and the singer from opera school. She’s veeery big (laughs)

Sound Revolt: But there’s also another singer, the one in “Secret Pillow”. Who is she?
Nils Noa: She’s called Agnete - our Norwegian tallent. Jan-Tore is a teacher in a Norwegian school of art and music. Agnete was one of his students. He was so amazed about her voice, about the personality in her voice, so he just took her to the Bermuda studio. We did some vocal things and she started to write tracks. She wrote all the lirycs on “Secret Pillow”. She’s really deep.

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