While he works on completing his new song for the next installment of the Pleasure & Pressure series on Solid Bump, Laberge takes time to re-imagine one of the more beautiful tracks from Daft Punk’s epic second album, “Something About Us”. The original had amazing songwriting and one of the most endearing use’s of “daft” vocals. Here the tempo is increased a tad and the sample bed is laid on top of a bit of a breakbeat.
This is one for warming up your night… or warming up your after, after party… if you know what I mean.
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In celebration of Solid Bump dropping Laberge’s debut, “This Feeling EP”, we took a minute to pick the next generation of disco house’s brain on process, funk, and kittens…
Solid Bump Records: How old are you?
Laberge: I am currently aged 22.
SBR: How did we meet?
Lbrg:It was a lonely sunday, I posted on “casual encounters on Craigslist” you replied… actually I think I added you on myspace and you sent me a message about my track.
SBR: Describe your sound. What sets it apart?
Lbrg:I like to think of my sound as warm and mellow. I like to remind people where the sound comes from, vinyl.
SBR: How does the current “Disco House” revival distinguish itself from the style of a decade ago?
Lbrg:More compression and not many people getting their music properly mastered. There are lots of dudes doing great things though – Hugo van Dyck, Get Famous, Le Pimp, Skingz and Snolan.
SBR: Vancouver has a lot of up and coming artist that seem to be similar in musical vision to you with people like U-Tern and the White Light Mix series. Is Vancouver developing a sound?
Lbrg:I don’t think Vancouver has ever had a true “sound”. If you look at the pool of talent in a city like Toronto, Vancouver never has really had much of an influence on music itself. Though there is plenty of talent in Vancouver, I have to think our best artists export themselves.
SBR: What is the process of a Laberge track? Where does it start? When is it done?
Lbrg:There isn’t so much a process as a “happening”, things usually come together over time rather then in a processed form. The idea for the EP was to create a warm, consistent sound throughout all 3 tracks.This was the project from the very start.
SBR: What attracted you to Solid Bump Records?
Lbrg:The fact that your previous releases were awesome. I bought that Chat Noir tune the day I read about it, before I had even contacted you guys.
SBR: On a certain internet music forum you have been known to post Lulz cat pictures. Give us the death blow of all Lulz cat pics.
SBR: Favorite canadian snack treat?
Lbrg:While it’s not a snack or treat, the single greatest piece of food on the earth is a Croque Madame. Make one today.Its basically a sandwich with special cheese sauce, mustard, black forest ham. you top it with more cheese sauce, and put an egg on top of it. The french are gluttons.
SBR: Give us a link to a song that you consider “one of the greatest”.
Lbrg:Absolutely one of the best funk tracks ever. Few people can come close.
