Feb. 09, 2011 - Issue #799 : Valentines Style
Prevue
Skrillex
Thu, Feb 17, Oil City Roadhouse
"When your necessity level is up, you just have to do it, and some of the best products come up when you're on fire and you have to," Moore admits, explaining that nearly all of Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites was created front to back in only two weeks. "I actually got a call from my manager two weeks before the first of October and he said, 'Hey, I just got a call from Deadmau5's manager. Mau5trap wants to release an EP and put you on tour.'
"I was like, 'Fuck, man, I have a rough of [the song] "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" that I sent to Joel a long time ago.' He'd mentioned to me that he wanted to release it, but we were just hanging out at a party so I took it with a grain of salt," he continues. "Then we randomly get this call a couple months later saying, 'The tour starts October 2 and we want to fly you out that day and release the record to correlate with the tour.' And I'm like, 'I don't have an EP!' and I literally had two weeks to make it, mixed, mastered and done."
The result reveals the craftsmanship Moore has honed since he was 14 when he was still producing tracks at home on Fruity Loops. The proof is in the pudding: the new SKRILLEX EP has no two songs that sound alike. Dancey enough for clubs and dynamic enough for headphones, Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites has a wild centrifugal force born of Moore's spontaneous method.
Thu, Feb 17 (7 pm)
With Tommy Lee
Oil City Roadhouse, $24
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