100 gecs - Money Machine

Song Exploder

Hrishikesh Hirway

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4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

100 gecs is a duo, made up of Laura Les and Dylan Brady. In 2016, they put out an EP called 100 gecs, and three years later, they released their first album, called 1000 gecs. It was named the Best Album of 2019 in Vice and in The New York Times. It was also on year-end lists in Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Stereogum and more. Dylan lives in Los Angeles, and Laura in Chicago—they work remotely, sending files back and forth to each other. In this episode, the two of them break down how they made the song "Money Machine."

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0:00.0	You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. I'm Rishikesh Herway.
0:10.5	This episode contains explicit language.
0:15.5	100 Gex is a duo made up of Laura Less and Dylan Brady. In 2016, they put out an EP called 100 Gex and three years later
0:23.5	they released their first album called 1000 Gex. It was named the best album of 2019 in Vice and in the New York Times.
0:31.0	It was also on year-end lists in Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, StereoGum and more.
0:36.0	Dylan lives in Los Angeles and Laura in Chicago. They work remotely and send files back and forth to each other.
0:42.5	In this episode, the two of them break down how they made the song Money Machine.
0:54.5	My name is Dylan Brady. My name is Laura Less of the band 100 Gex. We both produce both right the songs.
1:09.5	Dylan lives out in LA and I was just recording out of my bedroom in Chicago. So we emailed the files back and forth.
1:19.5	We know each other really well and we're super close.
1:22.5	Me and Dylan first met at a party in St. Louis when we were in high school.
1:27.5	A few years after that we were like let's work on a project.
1:31.5	We would send songs or ideas and kind of just like talk music occasionally.
1:38.5	Probably took five or six years to do the first EP from meeting each other.
1:43.5	We really liked what we had done for the EP. But we had both been doing our own things for a few years.
1:51.5	We had been planning on coming back to 100 Gex for a while. And then we started doing these Minecraft festivals.
2:01.5	It's like a big server that multiple people, like thousands of people can go into this designed online world as their avatar.
2:12.5	It's like a real festival layout. There's stages, there's booths, there's huge sculptures that you could walk around and interact with. But it's all online.
2:22.5	There's stages set up so artists can perform virtually.
2:27.5	One of the people who runs that he had asked me to do a site and I thought that was the perfect opportunity to give Dylan and myself an excuse to start up the project again.
2:38.5	That's when we made money machine.
2:42.5	Dylan started the project.
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