Who Made Who Interview

Nonostante ci troviamo a parlare di una quasi cover-band (non fosse altro perchè sono diventati noti nella cerchia dei clubbers per qualche cover indovinata), questi tre danesi hanno sviluppato un sound con delle loro peculiarità alla stessa stregua di quanto fecero i Kruder & Dorfmeister qualche anno fa. La tedesca Gomma ha recentemente proposto una raccolta dei loro lavori (in cui è incluso il celeberrimo remake di Satisfaction... quasi meglio dell'originale) e oramai il loro restyling ha sedotto numerosi illustri dj e producers di tutto il mondo (Mylo e Soulwax in testa a tutti, che gli hanno voluti come spalla nei loro tour europei). Se non vi spiegate la ragione di tanto successo, ascoltate le loro tracce e capirete perchè questo trio è diventato in poco tempo tra i più corteggiati in Europa nonchè tra i più brillanti innovatori dell'electroclash. Noi vi proponiamo una chiacchierata. Merita una visita il loro sito web: www.whomadewho.dk! Who Made Who "Who Made Who" (Gomma Records, Distr.Family Affair) 01.Rose 02.Space For Rent 03.Johnny Lucky 04.Hello, Empty Room 05.Got To Be There 06.Out The Door 07.Cigar 08.Small Wonders 09.Monkeys 10.The Loop 11.Shake Your Boat 12.I Love 13.Happy Girl 14.Manuelle Mittelwelle 15.Satisfaction (bonus track)

Hi folks! Compliments for what you’ve done,,,, some people already is making a comparison between what you made wih 80s soundings and what White Stripes made with rock... Then someone could exclamate: "What rascals these Danish boys!!" Your style in your own words: FIRST OF ALL THANK YOU FOR THE NICE WORDS! Our style in our own words...there is so many references to our music, it's a mixture between 60's, 70's rock tradition, 80's new wave and electro stuff, 90's house, disco, cosmic. The whole idea is to take a lot of the different music that we like and mix it up to something else, we do that in a positive and live-based way.

How do you explain your success? It's always hard to talk about success before you are flying business- class...but success meaning: 'we are making music we like that get's good feedback' can maybe be explained by different words: 'luck': we were lucky to get signed on Gomma, we were lucky that we met and had a good flow making music together. 'Hardwork', we have been touring, remixing, producing like mad the last 2 years. 'good karma' we are happy boys, sometimes that comes back to us...

You recently performed in Italy (Enzimi and so on). How did the italian audiences react? actually enzimi was cancelled, but we have been playing gigs in Milano, bolonga, Turin and we really like to be there, people are super nice and seems sincerely interested in music.

You’re like a very cute and elegant girl in actual showbiz. A lot of producers and performers are fluttering you. And generally flattery can do more than threats.. we like to be involved with good creative people - it makes us more creative to play together with and see other people with good thoughts about music and life.

What about your musical background? Tomas Barfod, drummer in highschool bands back in the 80s and 90s, have been into electronic music the last 10 years, producing and djing also.
Tomas Høffding, bass player in various danish bands including his own indie-rock band garbo where he sings and play bass, he likes songwriting and ol'skoll rock form the 70's
Jeppe Kjelleberg, from the danish jazz scene, have been living in New York were recorded some of his soloalbum, 'Go Out' together with Dave Tronso from Lounge Lizards among others.

I saw one snapshot in which you weared soutanes... Any references to Morrisey recent fashion style? Maybe, but we dress in all sorts of strange close: skeleton suits, german football close, toka's, womens dresses, everything that we find on our way.

What’s your favourite lyrics from 80’s planet? 80’s is ok. But what do you think about other decades (90s, 70s, 60s and evn 20s...) all the decades have something good to offer, especially the 60's and 70's, a lot of fun and exiting stuff happended that time and it's like you can feel that on the music.

Your favourite cocktail? Mojito or Vodka-Soda-Lime

One of the main reason you became famous at your very first steps is that cover by Satisfaction, which is even better than the original tunes... Is it a bit "frustrating" or not? Offcause it would hav been much more 'satisfeing' to have made the song that made us known in the clubscene we are also afraid of being seen as a 'cover-band', but on the other hand it was fun to do and it's still fun to play out live and maybe we wouldn't have had some of the succes if we didn't make the covers. So both yes and no.

Any future plans? Any other gigs in italy? Future plans: New album, a lot of touring and other secret stuff!