Chatting Toolroom Knight Ibiza 2014 and No Honey With Graham from Audiowhores
Hello Graham and Adam thank you so much
for doing this interview with us, its such a pleasure to be speaking to you.
How are you doing?
All good thanks! We just got
back from a week in Ibiza, the Toolroom party at Boom was fantastic, such a
great sound system!
1. We know you guys collectively as Audiowhores,
tell us more about yourselves on a non-musical front?
We’re both married and from Manchester, Adam is a fanatic Man United supporter,
me personally I'm not too bothered about football! These days you’ll find me in
the kitchen cooking most week days, our favourite at the moment is Gnocchi with
lemon and chive pesto.
2. We are from South Africa and we have to ask this
what is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear South Africa?
First thing that springs into mind musically is the deep/afro sound you guys
have got going on! Artists like Black Coffee and Julian Gomes (who i heard
played fantastic sets at Suncebeat Festival in Croatia) We’ve never played in
South Africa yet, we’ve come close a few times so hopefully soon you’ll get to
see us!
3. As the story goes you guys met at legendary UK
club ‘Out In The Sticks’, so how exactly did this meeting take place? Do you
remember your first words to one another?
Adam was resident upstairs at the club, playing mainly down tempo/chill out
tracks, i was a regular at the club. I was chatting to Adam saying i’ve been
producing some tracks and he wanted to get into production, i told him to pop
round to my house, the following Monday he was there knocking at the door keen
ready to start! We made a couple of house tracks that never got released but
our first release “Destiny” on white label was a great success
4. AudioWhores was born in 2010 we are dying to know
the story behind the name, it’s errrr rather interesting name..
Haha! Well after we produced our first track we made an acetate (dub plate) for
Russ Marland at the club Out In The Sticks, but at the time the acetate didn't
have an artist name on it. Prior to that Russ noticed that my email was at the
time graham@audiowhores.com which comes from a group i made that stemmed
from the term Audio Warez. Russ said why not call ourselves Audiowhores!
5. The formation of Audiowhores was sort of like the
perfect marriage with Adam having seven years of experience behind the decks
and Graham having a wealth of musical knowledge and expertise. How well do you
feed off one another? Do you ever get sick of one another?
We’re both pretty chilled out characters so its quite rare for us to get sick
of each other. In the studio we tend to feed quite well off each other, 90% of
the time I'm on the mouse/keyboard and Adam is listening from a different point
of view, he gets a different feel to the overall arrangment/vibe of the track
whilst I'm more concentrating on the sounds/dynamics/technical vibe of the
track.
6. No honey has been blowing up our audio system.
What was the inspiration behind the track, and where do you typically draw
inspiration from when producing?
The track was built around some
Marvin Gaye ad-libs which i cut up, we later did the Deep Vibe mix to take it
on different journey. We get inspiration from various sources, mainly being
involved in the scene, listening to other DJ’s, checking out mixes on
Soundcloud, reading interviews etc
7. You guys have just mixed on of the discs on
Toolroom Knights Ibiza 2014; your mix is on the deeper side, how did you decide
on the track list for the compilation?
It was a combination of tracks that we’re available from the Toolroom camp and
some 3rd party tracks we were feeling at the time, we also wanted to keep in
the deep house / deep tech house bracet.
8. Other than Deep house you also known for tech
house and classic house, why the decision to mix the deeper disc of Toolroom
Knight Ibiza 2014?
I think Toolroom already decided they wanted us to mix the first disc of the
compilation as they had lined up Proc & Fitch to do to more techy disc and
Rene Amesz to do the more housey mix. Of course we’re pretty versatile behind
the decks and you can hear that on our dj mixes on soundcloud.com/audiowhores
9. The mix for us is reminiscent of summer in Ibiza
with its perfect blend of blissed-out Balearic beats infused with cool cuts
& killer hooks. What makes summer in Ibiza so special?
Ibiza has always been quite special to us, its a melting pot of all different
walks of life coming together for one thing, House music! Of course you’ll get
the people who say its gone commercial and its not what it used to be like, but
nothing stays the same! Ibiza will always be evolving, but in our opinion
always the place to go over the summer months.
10. Do you guys remember your first visit to the
while isle? What was your experience like?
My first time to Ibiza was back in 2003, i had strayed away from the island for
sometime as i got images of “Ibiza Uncovered” into my head, not a good choice
looking back now! haha. Of course Ibiza is nothing like that, we had a great
time. Cant remember much to be honest with you, i think the highlight of the
trip was wondering round Pacha and stumbling into the Funky Room! Great times
11. If we had to ask you to describe your sound using
one location in Ibiza where would it be and why?
Hmmm tricky question but it would have to be Ibiza Town, care free and lots of
fun!
12. How has the UK house scene evolved over the
years?
The UK scene went into a bit of a slump in 2005/2006 in our opinion, the whole
super club bubble burst and things went underground. The scene has improved
loads since then, London is where we play most these days and we always have a
great time down there! Egg LDN and Rhythm Factory are our favourite clubs
13. Since you guys go by the name Audiowhores, we
sure you know all about hearing damage something that isn’t stressed enough in
the scene. Can you guys share with fans out there how important it is to
protect their hearing while out partying?
Well both myself
and Adam have tinitus, basically if you’ve ever been to a party and gone home
heard a temporary ringing in your ears, this is a sign that you should be
really wearing ear plugs, if this keep happening there’s a good chance you’ll
have this ringing constantly in your ears, there is now way to change this!
14. You guys have had the opportunity to remix tracks
from some of the best producers. Which producers do you look up to and whom do
you think is the best producer out there at present?
Wow, so many great producers out at the
moment, Hot Since 82, Christoph, Noir, Ninetoes, Nice7, Weiss, Kevin Knapp,
Doorly, PBR Streetgang are just some of the guys we’re feeling.
15. Lastly you had to invite three people to dinner
who would they be and what would be on the menu?
Pete Tong, Brian Tappert & Jamie Oliver. I’d cook something from Jamie
Olivers books of course! hahaha, his veggie chilli is great
Do you have any last messages for your
fans?
Thanks for the support over the past 15 years! We’re looking forward to
releasing our debut album on Toolroom later this year also forthcoming in
September is our first sample pack which will be available on Loopmasters, its
called Audiowhores Analog Deep House Vol. 1
Thank you again for doing this interview
with us we look forward to hopefully seeing you play sometime soon around the
globe somewhere ☺
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