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How Long Gone

845. - Jamie xx

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Jamie xx is a musician from England. He's one of our favorite DJs, and his band, The XX, is currently recording an album, with the hope of releasing it before their Coachella appearance next year. We chat about Chris & Jason's wildly varying Euro trips, early days XX producing with Diplo, our love of Portishead, TJ dives deep on his live show setup, the physical demand of 10-hour sets, Drake went to Berghain, how he deals with weed smoke in the studio, he lived in LA for 5 years and surfed a lot, doubling down on the British accent can get you out of situations, remixes through the years, all the times (2) we've played together, and a breakdown of his new home studio. twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right. How long gone back at you. It's Chris Black coming to you from Silt, Germany, at the Lanzerhoff Retreat. Them jeans, you're still in Italia, if I'm not mistaken.

0:31.3

Yeah, I'm in the island of Iskia. I was just talking to Charlie 10 minutes ago. She was saying there's rabbits all over in iskia

0:41.3

the way that you know grease in italy they got kitties everywhere oh she's saying keep an eye

0:47.3

peeled for the rabbits and i said you bring your i might be i might discover a rabbit that's been slow roasted in the oven all day long by the

0:58.3

nonas and served up with a little fetichini on the side and as soon as we finished recording today.

1:03.3

Is a rabbit pasta thing that people like? I have never thought about that before.

1:07.9

I get, I mean, you know, it's a reasonable thing here in iskia it's a small island that's very

1:13.9

coastal obviously seafood is king but then there's there's hills and mountains it kind of has like a

1:20.1

hawaiian like okay topography going on and it has that humidity and a little tropical energy

1:26.0

which is really cute and fun.

1:28.1

It's like if Hawaii was 18 hours away instead of four for me.

1:32.5

But if you go up into the hills and the mountains, you've got fresh porcini mushrooms and then the rabbits.

1:39.4

And then also they make some great wines here as well.

1:43.3

So I've been told you kind of combine it all together and you've got the Iskian one, two, three punch.

1:51.8

You get a little porcini, a little bunny rabbit, cooked three ways, wash it down with some wine.

1:58.1

Are there still Italians there, though?

2:00.2

There are Italians everywhere. Well, that kind of takes me out of the running then. Just wanted to make sure, because otherwise it sounds like paradise. Don't worry. There's tourists here as well. I've got, you know, we went over to, we're staying at a hotel that's right down the street, or I guess it's not, it an it's an hour I mean it's a mile away but

2:19.0

the mezzatore it's the the pelicano hotel group you know what I mean yeah yeah and we we went and

2:26.3

went over there and and had a little day pass and swam around and hit the been doing a lot of

2:32.2

thermal baths how do you feel the amount of thermal

2:35.7

bath time is it's good it's crazy you went to hold on is that when you is that when you put on your

2:40.5

vintage thermal shirt and get in a bathtub or is this something different it's very similar

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