Jason: Haha, I don’t think we’ve ever even had a cup of tea in the studio have we mate, lol??! You eat & drink healthy these days, it’s all fruit & Lucozade! I do make a mean cup of tea though

In terms of future collaborations, any plans you can give us a hint to?

Jason: Well, Kev & I are definitely going to be hitting the studio together again regularly because we’ve got a good thing going on & we’re getting some good interest from some wicked labels on our collabs. It makes sense to keep it up for sure. And aside from Kev, I’m also doing a lot of work with the My Digital Enemy boys right now, that’s been going really well & they’re good friends too. I’ve got a new collab with Sonny Wharton out next month on Wazzup? Records and I’ve also got some bits I’m working on with my good buddy Rio De La Duna and a couple with Dj Eako too. There are a couple of other big collabs in the pipeline but I’m keeping them on the down-low just for now! And I guess Kev and I should be thinking about a follow-up collab/single for Stealth too actually, now that “Crack House” is finally out!

Kevin: All said above that the formula works between me and Jas, so I know we’ll definitely continue to produce more bits and fingers crossed continue to get on some great labels. Away from Jason, I’ve done lot’s of collabs with Leisuregroove and we’ve still got a few releases coming out later this year, including “Just Listen” on Stealth (which I’m really looking forward to!). I’m also working on some other collabs, but it’s still too early to mention as the tracks are not quite finished, so you’ll have to wait on those!  

What was the inspiration for “Crack House”? How did the track come about?

Jason: Again, this was one of those times where we played each other a load of stuff at the start of a studio sesh and I liked some of the bits Kev was playing me. So we bounced ideas back & forth, got our inspiration and started building the track from there. We had a vocal we were playing around with and originally, we actually left the “Crack House” bit out, thinking it might sound a bit wrong calling a track “Crack House”! But it was such a cheeky, dirty, funky sounding track, that towards the end of the sesh we decided to put the vocal hook back in. We thought it made it stand out more and gave it identity. If clubbers could hear it coming in at a club, we wanted them to think, “Aaaah, it’s that Crack House track!!!!”. I think it fits the vibe on the track nicely & I’ve had loads of peeps saying they dig the name LOL! Clubbers always go nuts when the drop kicks in, so I love playing it out.

Kevin: Yeah as normal we started the day throwing ideas at each other and both decided we wanted to have a track that stood out but fitted into what we were about. We spent a long time working the bassline and getting the right sound but as Jas said, we’d come across the “Crack House” vocal and knew we wanted to get it in there. We were just unsure how people would react. Looking back it was a no-brainer and we shouldn’t have even doubted it! The track is a favorite in my bag and you can’t describe the buzz you get as people go crazy hearing it for the first time. It simply JUST WORKS!!!!! 

 
Have you ever played a live DJ set together, or are you planning to do this in the future? Or are you going to keep your working relationship strictly in the studio?

Jason: We’ve not played a set together yet, although I’ve DJ’d on the same bill as Kev when he played with Gary at an SW4 afterparty in Brixton a few years back. We’ve mentioned the idea of playing together sometime (maybe to tie in with a future collab) but it’s not been talked about seriously. Kev is obviously quite busy with his Hoxton Whores & personal gigs. We’re definitely carrying on doing more collabs though, so I guess we’ll just wait & see if the gig idea happens one day!

Kevin: As Jason says we have spoken about it but I still have my priorities very much with Hoxton Whores. Jason is a great Dj so it would be cool to do it, maybe we should make our debut at a Stealth party…. I wonder how Roger feels about that????

If you could pick one super power, what would you choose? Why?

Jason: I’ve always wanted to be Dash from “The Incredibles” – I love that he can run so quick he can run on water!

Kevin: I’d just have to be Superman. He’s got it all and the boy is a legend! I loved him when I grew up. How cool would it be to just fly into your gigs, turn up, do some amazing shit, and then shoot off again?!

If you could pick the line up for your dream festival (any genre of music/dead or alive artists allowed) who would be your headliners?

Jason: Jimi Hendrix, Groove Armada, NWA, Faithless, Prodigy, Bob Marley (for the morning after, when my head hurts!!), and maybe Queen, Freddie Mercury working the crowd at Live Aid = legend.

Kevin: It would be a long festival to fit them all in, so I’ll have to leave it short. In the VIP tent I’d have The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Queen, Oasis, Rod Stewart, Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, The Supremes, and Elvis to finish with a quick little shimmy!

Jason: Yeah I forgot about Jacko – he’d have to be in my line-up as a late addition too then. Cheers for the inspiration Kev mate!

What’s your “hair of the dog” preference (what’s your method to curing a hangover)?

Kevin: Sometimes I think Vodka is my lifeline and it’s great to chase it down with a Sambuca. But for the hair of the dog I love a Tia Maria with lime and lemonade, which sounds a touch lightweight, but how refreshing and sweet on a hot sunny day! A few of them and I’m ready to go again! 

Jason: A Jaegerbomb will usually blow the cobwebs away too, but as hair of the dog that usually means a messy end to the day is coming up! A really spicy bloody mary can do the job, but I mean REALLY spicy. Or if I literally just can’t handle any more booze on a hangover then a good hammering of Coconut Water seems to be a good cure. I’ve got those crazy Stafford Brothers to thank for introducing me to that at ADE last year. They told me they swear by it as a hangover cure. And if coconut water can cure those boys’ hangovers then it must do the trick, because Matt & Chris Stafford party HARD!