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Mount Kimbie: "You Took Your Time" [ft. King Krule] on SoundCloud.
Guest List features some of our favorite artists filling us in on some of their favorite things, along with other random bits. For this edition, we spoke with UK production duo Mount Kimbie, whose new album Cold Spring Fault Less Youth is out now via Warp.
Last Great Film I Saw
Dominic Maker: Glengarry Glen Ross, particularly the notorious Alec Baldwin scene. There's something about that film-- it’s very closed off and you don’t get a sense of what time of day it is, so it draws you into the desperation.
Favorite Ringtone
DM: We both lost our phones recently, at exactly the same time. This well-dressed, 50-year-old guy nicked mine on Friday in the studio. It was crazy. He just walked in and was talking to us-- he used a little distraction technique and waved goodbye. I said, "Have a good weekend," and then the fucker had my phone. Not much I could do about it.
Last Book I Read
Kai Campos: While we were working on the album, I started reading a lot of very cheesy self-help books, like Steven Pressfield's The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles. The writing's awful, but they were really useful.
Best Purchase I Made This Year
KC: A memory foam mattress. It makes it difficult to get out of bed. I'm pretty fussy.
Favorite Venue
KC: Elephant & Castle's Corsica Studios in London. It doesn't have the best sound system in the world, but it’s a no-bullshit place. I don't really like many venues in London.
Dream Merch Table Item
DM: Fridge magnets with words on them that you can rearrange-- that's where the album title came from.
KC: I’ve got friends that collect fridge magnets, so I try to pick up really disgusting ones when we’re on the road. We’ve got really shitty ones from Japan with national stereotypes on them.
Favorite Song of All Time
DM: Talking Heads' "Animals". I’ve always been an animal lover, and I love the comedic lyrics in that song. You can tell they think of animals as evaluating beings. It really gets to me.
Favorite Video Game
DM: I recently went from being in a relationship to being single and decided that I couldn’t bring the Xbox with me. It wasn’t a good look. Before that, we played a lot of FIFA, and now we got our manager into it. I made a bet with him that if he started playing it, he wouldn’t be able to beat me for an entire year. I’ve never seen anyone dedicate themselves to something in such a short period of time-- he has a Japanese sensibility about dedication and discipline. Now he’s just one level below us. He beat me in the first game we played, which was crushing.
Favorite Day of the Week
KC: I'm not into weekends, because everyone’s off work, but since we don’t normally work on a regular schedule, we're busier. I’m more into weekdays. I like getting stuff done.
DM: I really like Monday, because for the past four weeks now I've been getting up, making a coffee, having some breakfast, and having a cigarette with a guy who lives a couple of doors down from me. He does dialogue for films, he’s quite interesting.
Favorite Beverage
KC: I like this ale company down near my parents' place in south England called Harveys. It’s a dark ale. You can only have one, but it tastes really good.
Favorite Radio Program
KC: NTS Radio, which is a station based in East London that you can listen to online, has a show called Morning Marauders with a DJ called MarshmeLLo, who's wicked. Someone should give her a break on a bigger network.
Most Enthusiastic Crowd
DM: Boulder, Colorado. The dressing room was underneath the floor in front of the stage, and we could hear the crowd stomping on the floor like, “We want more! We want more!”
KC: We don’t do encores at all, but they kept going to the point where we had to do one. We didn't have any more material to play, so we just came out and played one of the songs that we played already. Everyone went crazy.
Favorite Songs from the Last Year
KC: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti's "Baby" and Tame Impala's "Why Won't They Talk to Me".
Favorite Holiday
KC: I’m into Christmas. It’s a chance to go out and see my family, which is probably the only time of the year I get to do that.
DM: Yeah, being near family for a prolonged amount of time is quite rare these days.
KC: All the swag, too-- the merchandise.
DM: Yes, all the merch. All the gifts.
Chicken or Shrimp?
KC: Shrimp. It's got more to it.
DM: Yeah, you get a lot of bad chicken in London, too.