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Interview: Bleed Electric
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What got this band together and started in this business?
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Bleed Electric started when Silk and Siege came into my recording studio in
Cardiff, Wales, UK ( Screamadelica.co.uk)
to record their debut mixtape. I was really taken by their abilities and
organized a meeting with Silk and his Dad. After much debauchery we decided to
work on an album that I had already written (The Butterfly Effect - released
end of 2010) and that has turned into a lot more. Now Bleed Electric are a
family, a collective and it amazes me how things like this happen in life.
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Who writes and produces all the material for the band?
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I am always the underlying producer because that's what I do for a living.
Maybe call me the Executive Producer if you will. However, we all write and
produce everything we do. I have written the majority of the music to this point
However Silk is also a very good producer and he has also been responsible for
coming up with a bunch of our newest tracks and is becoming more and more of a
force in the studio.
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As far as production goes we all play a major part in it
and it really is a collective. I executive produce things to make sure it's all
to industry standards but we all produce it, plus we have been working with
other producers and bands lately too. What is awesome is that when we get to
sessions lately we will all have new beats to play each other and we choose
which one to work on on it's merits alone. Bleed Electric are grassroots and
we write and produce everything you see and hear (from music to artwork to
music videos).
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Has the band played in front of or with any acts our readers would
know from the mainstream?
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As it stands we are still very much a studio based project. We have done a
handful of gigs but never alongside anyone always on our own, to packed clubs
that don't actually really care about us. We always win them over
though! At the moment live is not our forte or what we are concentrating on.
These days everyone is forced into playing live for money reasons but we
aren't doing Bleed Electric for that.
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One of my biggest bands of all time is
The Beatles and my favourite period they ever produced was when they
officially became a studio band because it allowed them to look at things
much differently and to produce the best music that has ever existed thus far.
I wouldn't say that we are a studio only band. We will gig and we will gig
hard when we do but, for now we are happy keeping this studio based.
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I don't
want this to sound cocky but I see Bleed Electric as a stadium band. Our
show wouldn't suit the small gig circuits. I would rather our time be spent
in the studio than do that. We have huge plans and hopefully it will all
come to life as we have dreamed (I'm talking modern day musicals etc).
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