How did Voyeur begin?<\/strong><\/p>\nBenson: I met Leo when moving up to Leeds, he had some nice hip hop tracks. We ended up working on a track together and it went from there\u2026<\/p>\n
What are the benefits of working as a pair? <\/strong><\/p>\nLeo: We make better tracks together, we are twice as thorough and we both have our different knowledge of music in general. Benson plays drums and I play guitar and keys so naturally we click musically.<\/p>\n
What are your influences?<\/strong><\/p>\nB: It\u2019s difficult to answer, probably Dilla, A Guy Called Gerald, Lauryn Hill, Kerri Chandler, MCDE, George Fitzgerald\u2026.but also going out and seeing a set which leaves me confused at the end.<\/p>\n
Have you always been making this kind of music?<\/strong><\/p>\nL: We started out making faster 2-step-py tracks.<\/p>\n
B: Yeh, then we were listening more and more to housey stuff, so our tracks drew influence from that.<\/p>\n
What are you working on at the moment?<\/strong><\/p>\nL: We have just finished some tracks for an EP for Kerri Chandlers new label MadTech. We wrote one of the tracks in a day but spent the next two months fiddling about with it.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s your favorite vinyl you own? <\/strong><\/p>\nL: All of them, but recently \u2013 N\/a.3 (Maya Jane Coles \/ George Levings \/ Alex Jones) – Juxtaposes<\/p>\n
B: At the moment, the new Dillatroit EP.<\/p>\n
How did you guys get into DJ-ing?<\/strong><\/p>\nB: My cousin was DJ-ing in clubs when I was young and he just got me into it.<\/p>\n
L: We were residents in Leeds at Absent Minds supporting DJ\u2019s like George Fitzgerald, Arkist and Scuba.<\/p>\n
Where would you most like to play?<\/p>\n
L: At a Roller Disco.<\/p>\n
B: I’ll second that!<\/p>\n
Who do you hold the most respect for in the music industry?<\/strong><\/p>\nB: Would be rude to pick out just one…<\/p>\n
L: Burial.<\/p>\n
How do you begin to remix a song?<\/strong> <\/p>\nB: We\u2019ll take a listen to the stems of a track, and then just start picking out the key parts of the track that we like. Once we got those, we feel it\u2019s about changing them up to fit in a track that we feel represents our sound.<\/p>\n
What is it you love about house? <\/strong><\/p>\nL: The soul music still left in there… <\/p>\n
B: … And that four to the floor.<\/p>\n
What DJ would you have at your party? <\/strong><\/p>\nB: Greg Wilson.<\/p>\n
L: Kerri Chandler.<\/p>\n
What have you got planned for the near future?<\/strong><\/p>\nB: Playing at Hackney Fringe Festival and Dimensions Festival<\/p>\n
L: The Dan le Sac remix and the EP.<\/p>\n
Where would you like your music career to take you?<\/strong><\/p>\nL: To the nicest places possible…<\/p>\n
B: \u2026With a big sound system!<\/p>\n