Gold Chain's musical
inspirations are varied. He formed his first band when he was
fourteen with his little brother and a friend doing Joy Division
cover songs. Then he formed a two piece act in high school that
was heavily influenced by Front 242, Laibach and electro type
sounds. He likes all kinds of music but how has this affected
his music? Has he got his own style or is he still diversifying?
"Kit Clayton mixes tracks with me as well. I could do it
all by myself but he's super talented, He's one of my best friends
and we have a lot of respect for each other. When we talk about
what music we want to make together, it always comes from the
fact that we love music and want to make music that we want
to hear. There's an album track called 'Break Or Be Broken'.
I had this Euro trance version and Josh was talking about making
it a ballad. Now I fucking hate ballads. So I started talking
about making it into a 'funeral jam' and he starts talking about
making it a 'New Orleans funeral jam'. Those are some of the
terms that we speak in but it's never conscious. Some people
are like 'oh you want to mash it up and you're intentionally
trying to cross all these genres.' We're just making music that
we want to hear. For us when we talk about it, it's always pop
music, even if it is progressive pop. If you live in San Francisco,
Gold Chains is the most pop band in our scene. Everyone else
is just noise and super far out improv."
So the fact that you have a melody makes you popular?
He grins with like the Cheshire Cat, "That's what it comes
down to, the melody."
His music makes people dance but when does he get time to dance?
"When do I get time to dance? Is that what you said? When
my foot heals up."
Earlier in the evening during the show, Gold Chains could be
seen manoeuvring around the tables on stage with the aid of
walking cane.
"It was the morning after the Fabric show," starts
GC. "I was coming out of the flat, the stairs were really
steep and I had a really heavy suitcase full of merch and I
just rolled my foot. We had to go catch the train so I didn't
have any choice. But there was Dawn, the train manager on the
Virgin train and she took care of it. She wrapped it up in ice
and told me what to do she was sweet. In America that shit doesn't
happen. Anyone in the service industry for the most part that
you have to deal with is as rude as fuck. " >>
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