by: Sami Weisband
Aug 15, 2021
Three years in the past, two of home music’s brightest dignitaries, Dombresky and Noizu, (Dombroizu, if you’ll…) got here collectively for “Rave Alarm“—a membership anthem that swept throughout dance flooring and airwaves the world over. Past formulating the 90s-inspired tech-house triumph, the 2 discovered greater than only a new sound however in tandem, the start of what would grow to be a blossoming friendship. As dance flooring started to open post-pandemic, the duo determined to strike earlier than the iron even had time to reheat, coming collectively to throw a brand new sort of social gathering strictly within the identify of making as a lot enjoyable as attainable, impressed by the place all of it started for the 2.
Increasing upon the groundwork laid on “Rave Alarm,” the pair have plotted a particular back-to-back headlining occasion at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Palladium on November 13. The raucous event will characteristic a contemporary, new sound from what followers have come to count on from Dombresky and Noizu individually, and Dancing Astronaut caught up with the 2 selectors to seek out out extra in regards to the impending LA affair.
Begin by telling us just a little bit about Rave Alarm on the Palladium this fall.
Dombresky: “We really began our friendship just a few years in the past. We made our collaboration, ‘Rave Alarm,’ and we’ve stayed associates since then. And after COVID, we now have this concept to hitch forces to deliver this present collectively. We talked about desirous to do one thing particular. So we tried to deliver a brand new sound, to deliver this rave-y sound which made me actually excited. It got here naturally, like let’s have some enjoyable and social gathering, and that’s what occurred.”
Noizu: “We tried to make the set that we’re doing completely different to what we do individually. We acquired to check that at Day Journey and that was actually enjoyable. It felt like that was a spotlight.”
You guys clearly take pleasure in being collectively a lot on stage, what’s the important thing to protecting it so mild on stage like that?
Dombresky: “We actually love what we do and to share a stage with a buddy in entrance lots of people, that’s why we’re doing this. Like I stated, once more, I’ll speak about this COVID stuff—it [sic] modified my thoughts, personally, loads. So now I need to have enjoyable and I need to take pleasure in it, I cannot do something if I don’t take pleasure in it.”
Noizu: “It’s only a pure response from each of us. That vitality on stage and I believe we each really feel so completely satisfied on the similar time. It’s like a celebration.”
“Rave Alarm” was an enormous success. Are you engaged on any extra tracks collectively proper now?
Dombresky: “Sure, we’re. Some demos actually. We’d have a shock earlier than the reveals, we’re engaged on new music and the [sic] music representing the sound of the back-to-back.”
Noizu: “We’re each from Europe, in order that, that sort of rave sound was so huge the place we’re from, within the nineties and stuff. It feels prefer it’s sort of one thing that we now have in frequent from each of our like cultures.”
What variations can we search for in your joint headline present as compared what you play as Dombresky and Noizu individually?
Dombresky: “I all the time [loved] the techno rave scene from the eighties and nineties. It’s not a brand new sound, however for us it’s new. We’re attempting to deliver this nineties rave, techno, dance sound.”
Noizu: “I believe it could have been simple for us to only play all our personal music…we made a aware effort to seek out what we don’t play usually.”
It’s much less frequent to see a headlining back-to-back set, how did that concept come to be?
Dombresky: “It was a mutual thought from [our] managers, the Insomniac group, and from us. We considered it earlier than, however we weren’t prepared, and since COVID, I personally really feel like we now have to share all the pieces we acquired, and we now have to only benefit from the second…There’s a whole lot of back-to-backs [happening] now…”
“I like to see two DJs enjoying collectively and I believe it’s going to be a brand new factor proper now—it’s going to be extra frequent. And we had been like, nicely, what about us? Let’s do it. And I believe just like the trade modified just a little bit after COVID. I really feel like everyone simply needs to have enjoyable and never take these items too significantly and make folks completely satisfied. In order that’s the aim.”
What different concepts do you may have deliberate for the Palladium?
Dombresky: “We undoubtedly need to do one thing particular for the visuals…It’s going to be a protracted journey, however we’re going to place all our vitality into it to attempt to make this second so very, very particular.”
Noizu: “We need to deal with extra than simply our ordinary reveals. Placing our personal cash into issues and ensuring the stage is correct. Every little thing’s completely different.”
Are you planning on headlining extra reveals collectively following the Palladium?
Dombresky: If we do that once more, it is going to be for the pleasure, only for the vibe, only for a phenomenal occasion…Perhaps there shall be some shock, [sic] I don’t know…I’m positive there shall be some particular occasions however I believe we need to simply make [the show] particular.”
How has quarantine shifted issues for you as an artist? What are some issues that you simply missed that you simply didn’t assume you’d miss?
Dombresky: Personally, it makes me understand [sic] something can occur…This was actual. Now we now have to take pleasure in our life greater than earlier than…I’m extra excited than earlier than…I’m not the identical as I used to be earlier than COVID, that’s for positive…Generally it’s onerous, typically we’re tremendous drained, that’s some stuff folks don’t see. They don’t see the stuff behind the stage. We’re drained typically when you may have like 4 reveals in a row, you don’t sleep, however…I noticed how a lot I like my job.”
Noizu: Yeah, that’s me in 2019, I used to be in all probability feeling sort of drained earlier than the pandemic. Simply very used to it. After which it simply disappeared for a 12 months, so with all the pieces coming again you may have a brand new appreciation for all these items…It may possibly so simply go.”
Put together for Dombresky and Noizu’s extremely anticipated back-to-back headline on the Hollywood Palladium on November 13. This one is certain to be a can’t miss.
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