Melb artist, Strange Talk, released a huuge track called “Young Hearts,” on independent overseas record label Wind-up Records (locally they’ve released for Allday) on August 19th. To celebrate the release, we got down and dirty with Stephen Docker and Gerard Sidhu to find out how, where and what Strange Talk is all about!
So the chainsmokers remixing your material is pretty impressive! Care to spill the beans on how that happened?
This was actually set up by our US label Wind Up Records. We had just finished up the original version of ‘Young Hearts’ and they knew the guys and their management, so they sent them the track which they loved and agreed to do a remix, which they killed! We actually caught up with the guys when we were in NY back in 2014 and Steve tracked a topline for them, but I don’t think they’ll use it.
How long have you been cooking up Young Hearts? We’d love to know a bit about the writing process.
It appears your sound is moving towards a new direction. What spawned this?
Yeah, thats correct. Its heading towards a more electronic/disco/french house direction, but still with those Strange Talk toplines. We actually both come from an electronic/dj background, thats what we did for years before we started Strange Talk. So this is us just returning to our roots, its what we love to listen to and to write. As an artist you’re always evolving and changing to stay fresh and inspired, and thats whats happening to us with this new direction. We completely understand that some fans aren’t going to like it and people are going to say ‘what are Strange Talk doing writing dance music’, but we don’t really care about any of that. We’re just gonna write what we love and what makes us happy and hopefully people enjoy it!!
What impact do you think it makes being an Australian artist?
What are the highlights and lowlights of your careers thus far?
Some of the highlights are opening for artist like Pink and Foster people and being lucky enough to have tour extensively through the US/Canada and other parts of the world. The lowest point would have to be the last few years, having to come back to Australia (after living in LA for a few years) and mange ourselves while we developed our new sound and put together a new team. It was the toughest time financially we’ve ever been through, but as hard as it was we wouldn’t change a thing and now we have great new management, music we absolutely love and a record we can’t wait to drop!
We’re really excited about our new record. It doesn’t sound like anything out there at the moment and we’ve had a great time making. We love djing and playing live, so can’t wait to get back out on tour as well.
Where do you see yourselves in 2020?
Comments