Interview - Django Django

Across both their 14-year career and four albums to date, Django Django have been uncowed by the concept of categorisation, creating music and textures from recognised genres including house, art-rock, and everything in between. But with forthcoming album Off Planet, the four-piece are readying their most ambitious offering yet. All human life is indeed here, from 1990s trance-pop (‘Complete Me’, their collaboration with Self-Esteem) to tribal, Afrikan war marches (‘Black Cadillac’). Initially designed (and subsequently released) as four EPs, their eclecticism and musical diversity is displayed across its 21 tracks.

“Initially I wanted to make a bunch of EPs that were throwaway dance tracks,” explains Dave Maclean, one of the group’s founding members. “A lot of the stuff I listen to is dubs of house records where there’s not a lot going on, the whole thing of the track is just about what the snare sounds like. I listen to a lot of minimal, stripped-back music and I wanted to do stuff like that (but) inevitably, they became more like Django Django songs and took on a life of their own.”

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