18th
CFCF Leftovers
Has it been two-and-a-half months already? Boy, time sure flies when you’re avoiding the creeping guilt of giving up on your blog. As a peace offering to our zero readers, here’s what was left on the editing room floor of my interview with the mysterious Mike Silver, aka CFCF (Myspace page here). Dude’s 21 and he’s already remixed Crystal Castles, The Teenagers and The Presets - he has a new EP of old stuff out on Paper Bag, plus a scorching-hot split single with upstart Acephale, due out in 2009. Think Twin Peaks meets Maurice Fulton.
Crystal Castles: not much with the feedback
Mike Silver: I don’t know; it’s kind of strange with them specifically, ‘cause they don’t really communicate a lot with people. I don’t know if they give a lot of interviews, and they’re kind of notorious for their live shows being kind of last-minute. They definitely reacted well, they just weren’t very specific in their comments or anything. They just said that they liked it a lot and…uh, that was basically it.
Alan Parsons Project, Quiet Village, and the “Voyager” sample
Mike Silver: When I used it, at the time it sounded so familiar. It was only after that I found out about that Quiet Village song that is basically an edit of the original. I felt like such an idiot for not even realizing that I had heard this song before. But anyways, in the end I figured they’re two different songs, and pretty different in style and texture. I guess I was attempting to make some dancey prog.
Scary soundscapes and the italo connection
Mike Silver: It’s no coincidence that whenever you read about people who were responsible for the beginnings of italo, they always mention Giorgio Moroder or Claudio Simonetti, who was in Goblin doing horror soundtracks. It’s present in so much italo – that scary undertone.
