Late Night Sessions: Chromeo

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🗓️ 27 May 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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The 8G Band's Eli Janney sits down with Chromeo backstage at Studio 8G.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome late night sessions. I'm Eli Janney from the AG band and my guests today are Dave one and
0:14.8	Pete hug from Chromio. Guys thanks so much for sitting down. Thank you. Thank you. First of all,
0:20.6	congratulations a new record. It sounds so great. I was we were talking before about Go Go because I was
0:27.0	like I'm from DC. It's like anytime a good funk record comes out, I was like I got to check this out.
0:31.4	And also congratulations. You got Grammy nominated. Yeah. That's engineered record. That's
0:37.6	for the nerds. That's so great. Yes. It's on brand. Did you make it all in your studio in LA?
0:46.0	Most of it. Most of it. Yeah. And the production at least a lot of the vocals. Yeah, 90% of the
0:51.3	production. Yeah. Wasn't mixed there, but you know, everything else. Yeah. That's really cool.
0:56.7	Yeah. Well, let's dig back into the album. Your career seems to be kind of moving. You can
1:02.6	disagree with this, but I always felt like you guys were sort of moving from basement every album
1:07.3	getting sort of bigger and broader and sort of getting more to a broader audience and stuff.
1:12.3	But at the same time, you've never lost this sort of like humorous attitude towards your music
1:18.8	and all the lyrics and stuff like that. Is that something, you know, is it just that you can't
1:22.0	take the fun of the very dear to us? Yeah, it's it's got to take the fun out of funk. Yeah.
1:28.9	Exactly. It's part of the brand. It's kind of our signature. So we can tweak it and we can give it
1:34.0	a different sheen or a different angle, but it would be like Wu Tang now talking about like,
1:38.5	you know, martial arts or something. You know, you have to have some of it in some form.
1:43.5	The DNA, it's funk and humor. Yeah. Funk and funk and humor. Yeah. This one word,
1:48.4	funk and humor. Yeah, it's a very starting. Dr. Funk, a humor. Dr.
1:53.4	Bucketologist on the accent in Avenue. So Chromio started in 2002. Is that right?
2:01.2	Somewhere around there. So you've been doing just this version of Chromio for 17 years. Yeah.
2:06.7	That's crazy. And that, but before that, you were still doing you would make him music to have
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