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Being DD/MM/YYYY

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We interviewed experimental indie rock band DD/MM/YYYY (Date-Month-Year), asking for illustrated answers, and their imaginative responses prove a picture really is worth a thousand words. We don’t know if we liked the drawings or the explanations better, but after we’d seen both, it felt like someone had just stuffed our brains with ideas we wish we’d thought up ourselves. Their band name now also makes complete sense. It’s abstract, unconventional and futuristic, not unlike their thinking. Drawings and written responses by Tomas Del Balso.

1. You seem to mix rock, punk, experimental and indie. Can you describe your music and what influences it?

This is a drawing of a magic radio that plays all the music ever made at once. The good the bad and the ugly, it probably just sounds like static.

Answer 1: Craze Radio

2. Your music has so many layers and facets. Can you describe your creative process and how you pull the songs together?

DD/MM/YYYY represents honest rock n rollers at battle with our own tastes and sensibilities, its an unending war between luck and fate! We are children of the future, half electric half digital monster!

Answer 2: 777

3. You have worked with many unconventional instruments in the past. What are some instruments you would like to be able to work with in the future?

On our recordings we like to experiment with four tracks and amplifiers, boom boxes, tape cassettes, pedals, keyboards, VHS, nintendo midi, found music, which generally render our bedrooms unlivable. I would love to see the most raw parts of DD/MM/YYYY collide with the most spick and span parts on our upcoming recordings….

Answer 3: Recording Device

4. How did you guys get into music and how has DD/MM/YYYY evolved into what it is now?

We have known each other since we were young rocks playing hall shows and we tried to turn into a cloud together so we could fly! Maybe we are too heavy to get off the ground just yet but give us time and we will become a weird looking mountain!

Answer 4: Rock Cloud

5. You recently released Black Square. Is this album different from your previous ones, and if yes how so? Was there anything new you were trying to accomplish?

Conceptually I think Black Square is an album about the future city, overstimulation and progress from less ironic stance then Are They Masks?. We have been affected by our four years of touring, have a larger sphere of experiences to deal with….more streets to explore than ever before!

Answer 5: Future City

6. This year’s World Routes festival theme is “laboratory of cultures”. If you could create anything you wanted in a lab, what would it be?

I would want to make an instrument that changes the chemical structure of your body based off the frequencies your produce playing, the more tumultuous and ambient the more cloud like you become! If you play a real heavy distorted jam would turn to electricity!