Currently on tour, I take some time out of their busy schedule to see what Flosstradamus is up to..
What’s up Flosstradamus! First off, introduce yourselves.
Hello Bloggers and Friends! We’re Flosstradamus! We’re two guys from
Chicago who DJ a LOT and sometimes make a remix or two here and there.
How’d you guys come up with the name ‘Flosstradamus’?
Curt and I were djing in my room one night when he played a Lil’ Jon
record on 45 and it got me so hyped that I took the record off the
turntable and broke it over Curt’s head and knocked him out and when
he woke up he told me of all these visions he had about us becoming a
DJ MEGA GROUP and playing music for kids who love the party as much as us all over the world and together at the same time we looked into
each others eyes and said… Flosstradamus.
When did you guys start DJing/producing music?
Curt started about 9 years ago and I started about 7 years ago.
How would you describe your style?
Fun. Honestly we started out throwing parties in Chicago because we
wanted to give our friends a place to go and dance without having to
worry about feeling weird, or judged, or looked at for the way they
dressed… i.e. not a club. It’s always been about giving our people a
place to go have fun for cheap.
What are some of your influences musically?
Right now it’s our friends man… Chicago, Kid Sister, Cool Kids,
A-Trak, Chromeo, Yuksek, Treasure Fingers… lots of people are
killing it and they all seem to be really cool too so it works out.
Cajmere has always been a huge influence personally, even though he’s
super Christian now which is a bit weird, dude has HITS. Would love to
work with him.
Curt, talk about your Flossy FX sampler. What’s it all about?
Flossy FX is a little “stand alone” application I designed to play
sound fx, vocal drops, or any audio file along with Serato. I
designed it when money was tight for us. I was going to purchase a
sampler to use in our sets to play the “Flosstradamus” robot sample
along with a few air horns and other things to heighten the night. Me
being a cheapskate and a nerd I figured out a way to do the same thing
with the program I designed. What it does is it stays on top of Serato
when we DJ. It has a row of buttons on it that you can use to drag and drop
any file to mp3, wav, aif. Once you drag and drop the file onto the
button, you can either click the button or press the key on your
keyboard that corresponds to that button. There are other features in
the app that allow you to let the whole sample play from beginning to
end, or as long as you keep the button pressed, or layer samples.
Once we finish version 2, I will have it up on our new website I’m
designing. We will give it away for free with a donation. Eventually I
would like to have Serato pick up on this feature. I also have a huge
grocery list of features I would like to work with Serato on. I know
that some how DJ AM was able to get his own version of Serato made.
Maybe we could have our own version of serato. You know, for the
‘hipster’ DJ crowd!? Maybe even our own release that has special colored
vinyl? I would also like to be able to integrate midi so i could add cowbells drums etc into more of a live performance with Serato.
What does 2008 hold for Flosstradamus? Any future
collabos we can look forward to?
Our album is going to drop this year. We’ve been talking about it
forever, but it’s actually starting to look like it’s really going to
happen which is exciting to say the least. The whole album is going to
be based around some serious collaborations… it’s all teamwork man!
We wouldn’t be where we are today if it wasn’t for the help of all our
people, so we’re going to return the favor and put them all on our
record.
Any last words?
The only two that matter right now… Chicago and Illinois.
Enjoy this mix that they did for Modular Records….
MP3: Flosstradamus Podcast for Modular Records
Tracklisting
DJ Khaled - Introduction
DJ DLG - Paramount (Rogerseventytwo)
Rye Rye - Wassup (Crookers)
Bag Raiders - Fun Punch (XXXchange)
Cut Copy - Lights & Music (Boys Noize)
Treasure Fingers - Cross The Dancefloor
Count and Sinden feat. Kid Sister - Beeper (A-trak)
Buy Now - Body Crash (Laidback Luke)
Surkin - White Knight (Blaqstarr)
Puzique - Don’t Go
Three Six Mafia feat. Amanda Blank - DIsco Sizzurp (U-Tern & Kutcorners)
Kid Sister - Pro Nails (Bag Raiders)
Midnight Juggernauts - Into The Galaxy
Robert Kelly - Outro
Bonus - Slow Jam
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