Drezo’s bass and drums, blended with DJ BIJOU’s hip-hop vocals, make for a memorable twin effort on their punchy collaboration, “Goons.”

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The World Sequence might not have gone nicely for the Diamondbacks… however Arizona continues to be hitting it out of the park in plenty of different spectacular methods!

One pair of younger skills exemplifying that development is EDM duo DJ BIJOU and Drezo of Phoenix, AZ. They’ve been busy crafting music individually for fairly a while now and not too long ago launched their punchy debut collaboration, “GOONS.”

“We wished to do one thing completely different and distinctive,” they are saying of this monitor. “Whenever you hear the track, we wish you to really feel excited and blissful and wish to hold going.”

That elementary goal — of serving listeners a grand previous time through progressive home music — has been central to the pair’s artistic ambitions throughout the previous decade. When the 2 of them first met within the early 2010’s, they have been merely often known as Ben Dorman and Andreas Haglund. They hadn’t been enormous EDM-heads from start however they’d taken an rising curiosity within the style, which on the time was steadily rising from the underground rave scene in Phoenix and gaining extra mainstream consideration within the area.

“After I was 18, I began listening to every thing I may,” Dorman explains. “I didn’t also have a musical background earlier than that. I simply fell in love with it and I simply wished to do it.”

“For me it’s the identical factor,” says Haglund. “I simply went to a competition in 2010 and noticed the old fashioned guys like Aviccii, Armin van Buuren, Inexperienced Velvet [and] Porter Robinson. And I used to be like, “Yeah, that is sick. ‘I don’t wish to play baseball anymore, I simply wanna make music and rave.’”

As soon as Dorman and Haglund determined to formally enter the world of home music manufacturing— a call that led to them adopting the personas of DJ BIJOU and Drezo, respectively — they wasted no time getting began, each working at an area promo firm and acting at varied spots round Phoenix. Drezo ultimately made his approach to Los Angeles, however the two of them remained involved and infrequently joined forces for dwell performances.

“He was one of many first guys to take me on reveals when he was touring, which was actually cool,” acknowledges DJ BIJOU. “I’ve to offer Dre credit score— he sort of put me [out there] early on when nobody else was.”

Ultimately, the 2 determined it will be price pairing up not solely onstage, but additionally within the studio. Like Thomas Edison and his well-known lightbulb stash, BIJOU and Drezo needed to check out a substantial variety of merchandise collectively earlier than deciding on one they wished to launch to the general public (possibly not 10,000 of them, but it surely was nonetheless a course of). As soon as BIJOU produced the working demo of “Goons,” nonetheless, Drezo may inform that they have been only a few pickaxe swings away from hanging gold.

“He despatched the skeleton over to me,” he remembers. “It had a really catchy hip-hop vocal, which is simply Ben’s fashion, after which it had some horns. I’d by no means used horns, however I stated, ‘That’s nice for a bridge, that works very well.’”

Inspired by the template he’d been given, Drezo wound up stitching in a few of his signature drums and bass loops and sharpening the demo right into a completed challenge very quickly.

“Ben despatched me the thought, and inside 48 hours it was finished,” says Drezo. “It occurred tremendous organically.”

Each of the fellows have been happy with the result, feeling that it integrated vital parts of every of their artistic types right into a profitable mix—in Drezo’s phrases, “that catchy hip-hop enjoyable membership stuff blended with somewhat darkish bassline stuff.”

“It was the very best one out of every thing we’d labored on for positive, and you are feeling it, too,” he provides. “It simply moved nicely, and I assumed, ‘Yeah, that is the very best one.’”

As soon as the track had been declared completed, it was time to offer it the dwell therapy.

Once they first acquired to take action, on the Badlands Music Pageant in Calgary this previous July, it was clear that “GOONS” had received over the group. DJ BIJOU nonetheless appreciates the constructive response he acquired from the followers that day and was thrilled to carry out alongside Drezo in a twin method.

“One: not prepare wrecking is nice — that’s profitable,” he evaluates the expertise. “[Plus,] should you go approach again within the day, I keep in mind performing for, like, 5 folks generally. I nonetheless admire the truth that folks come to the reveals, and the reveals are doing nicely, and every thing is constructing and getting higher, you realize.”

With “GOONS” now formally launched, DJ BIJOU and Drezo hope to stay prolific in the home music scene and proceed collaborating with a few of its most outstanding members— Martin Horger, MC Slate and Dr. Recent are among the many ones they’ve teamed up with already, and certainly others can’t be far behind.They’re assured that their friendship will in the end generate the artistic productiveness they should perform their craft.

“Whenever you get to work with your pals, it’s simply enjoyable as a result of there’s simply not as a lot stress,” BIJOU explains. “It’s identical to, ‘Yeah, let’s simply determine this out and have enjoyable with it and see what occurs.’ Normally, while you’ve been doing it so long as we’ve got, one thing good comes out of it.”

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Stream: “Goons” – BIJOU, Drezo

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