‘Dirtyloud‘ could not be a more fitting name for the duo from Belo Horizante, Brazil. Dirtyloud’s distinct hard hitting style has influenced a herd of producers in their wake and has shaped what is now Complextro or Brazilian Electro. We got the duo, Eduardo and Marcus, to sit down and answer some of our questions; no doubt becoming the most exciting interview we have done. With perfect timing we did this interview at the same time that them releasing a new track, a remix of Afrojack’s Selecta; which you can find after the break.
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Crash-It: First of All, how did your recent AU tour go?
Eduardo: Amazing! In some of the gigs we had the best crowd reactions of our whole careers, we learned heaps of things, and made lots of friends.
Crash-It: How did you meet? Did you each have a background in music?
Marcus: We met in a common friend’s studio.
Eduardo: I’ve played bass guitar since I was 16, so it’s been 8 years already. Before
Dirtyloud I used to perform in rock bands, but I have always been infatuated with all kinds of music.
Crash-It: How did both of you start producing (what made you take the leap from DJing to producing)? What did you first spin when you first started DJing back in 2005?
Marcus: I started in 2005 after taking DJ lessons. Since I always been in love with EDM and loved what I did, I decided to study music production right after meeting my partner Edu. I used to spin stuff like Cirez D, Vandalism, Phatjak, TV Rock etc.
Eduardo: Back in 2007 I started to produce my own music, because I never wanted to be a Dj, but didn’t have any ways to get tracks to play. So I spent lots of money buying CDs online and producing stuff on FL Studio, aiming for the day I no longer had to buy them. (Which was wrong, because I still spend some bucks on music). I used to spin psytrance music, so I played lots from labels like Mind Control, TIP World, HomMega, Phantasm Records, Space Tribe Music, 3D Vision, Nexus Media.
Crash-It: Do each of you have a certain skill-set that is unique to you that you bring forth when producing, do you split different tasks between each other?
Eduardo: Yes, but after a while we learned all of each other’s skills, so both of us do a bit of everything.
Crash-It: Did your residence in Belo Horizonte influence you as artists? Is it safe to say that most of the Brazilian Electro House scene is focused there?
Eduardo: No! When we started making electro house music there weren’t any prominent artists within the same genre on our city. There were already Chrizz Luvly (but on an Hiatus kind of thing) and Funky Cat (Who used to make electro but I believe they do techno now). And only a few producers, like Tropical Science, Magma Ohm, Artech, Pin, Patchbay, Puzzle, Pin and they were all psytrance/techno guys (All of these on our city, Belo Horizonte) Oh yes, there were the Digitaria guys, but they’re on a totally different scene, so not sure how to mention. But when we started, Felguk and Bruno Barudi were playing on big open air parties, and becoming very very popular, but Felguk are from Rio de Janeiro, and Bruno is from Foz do Iguaçu (Iguazu Falls)
Crash-It: What was the best decision you made regarding producing and career?
What was the biggest obstacle you guys overcame in your career?
Eduardo: The best decision was to branch out, to produce other genres of music, to not be limited to electro house only, to release techno, dubstep, drum n bass music too. Obstacles? We overcome them every day, it’s so hard to deal with people from the dance scene, there’s a huge lack of professionalism, fake people that only approach other people to seek glamour and all this kind of things..
Crash-It: You guys have some of the grittiest synths and the most aggressive plucks and stabs along with some of the most distinguishable drums/percussion in electro house. Did you take influence from somewhere when developing your unique palette of sounds?
Eduardo: Wow, thanks! After our first remix was released, “Cold Blank - Breakdown (Dirtyloud Remix)” we decided to have our own identity and then influence other producers. We always had this infatuation with grimey and hard hitting music, and all we did was doing the music we wanted to hear. When selecting drum samples, we could spend weeks choosing a fine combination of kicks and snares then hats. They need to sound right with each other. You can have the best kick and the best clap sample, but if they don’t sound right together, it won’t work. I think sense of aesthetics are really useful on this matter, to deal with taste and try to sound unique. But after we find the right combination, we use it on soo many tracks until people start complaining about it lol.
Crash-It: You use Cubase correct? Why is it your DAW of choice and not any other current DAW?
Eduardo: Correct! Because cubases ease of chopping, resampling and real time processing is what most amazes us, and we couldn’t find anything like that on other DAWs.
Crash-It: Do you use hardware synths along with software? What are your favorite pieces of hardware or software?
Eduardo: Access Virus TI, but lots of massive and vanguard. I had once the opportunity to work with the Nord Modular and the Thermionic Culture Vulture at Tim Healey’s studio and it was stunning!! Cubase Native plugins such as Reverb A and B, Ohmboyz Delay, Elemental Audio Eqium for filtering (You can see it’s pretty old stuff)
Crash-It: What do you think is the most overused technique used in todays electronic music?
Eduardo: Definitely the decimated YAYAYAY synth (We ourselves used it a lot, I confess).
Crash-It: How do you feel about your signature Electro House style getting emulated by many other artists? Has it made you want to move towards another sound?
Eduardo: It’s good to know that we’re influencing other artists, but like us, they also need to find their own. After so many other artists doing the dirtyloud sound, we became obsessed with finding new sounds, so we can sound unique like we once did.
Crash-It: Out of all your tracks what is your all time favorite?
Marcus: Can’t choose only one, but Big Booty Bitches I think is the banger!
Eduardo: Unleash the F*ckin Dada Remix
Crash-It: Who are your favorite other artists right now?
Eduardo: Porter Robinson, Phace & Misanthrop, Noisia, Chris Reece, Trolley Snatcha, Skism.
Crash-It: What was your favorite gig so far and why?
Eduardo: XXXperience Curitiba was amazing, we played for over 20K people and we
had a great crowd reaction.
Crash-It: Do you guys play foot volleyball?
Eduardo: Lol no, this sport is common in beach cities like Rio de Janeiro; we
don’t have beaches in Belo Horizonte.
Crash-It: What do you do when you’re not in the studio?
Eduardo: Nothing, life’s pretty boring. Kidding, we love playing videogames, our favorite instruments (Bass, electric guitar and keyboard), Headbanging to loud dubstep while driving to get food, especially when we stop at traffic lights, (that’s definitely a hobby) and collectibles (Matchbox cars, action figures, Keyrings).
Crash-It: What is next for Dirtyloud, besides touring in USA of course!
Eduardo: We got a new single with B.Y.O.B. wich is coming out on Dim Mak and
loads of remixes.
Crash-It: Does Brazil really have the most beautiful women?
Eduardo: Tricky question. Brazil’s definitely got beautiful women, but you can find them all over the world.. I’ve had the opportunity to go to Britain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Canada, United States, Australia and New Zealand, and could see amazing samples of female humans (I’m actually an Alien).
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They have been waiting for their Afrojack remix to hit 10,000 hits on YouTube before releasing it for free. Now that it is out they are trying to have it hit the top tracks chart on soundcloud; help them out by favoriting it on soundcloud here.
Selecta (Dirtyloud Remix) – Afrojack
Download – Right Click Save As Soundcloud Page
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-Aleksey
