Idea that he’d send over and I’d write a vocal. Hopefully it stays that way! Sometimes Gareth would have a beat You seem to have very strong cohesion between rhythm and vocals, they seem to interact in a very natural way. In the end we made an album’s worth of songs (and shot a video for a song on our next EP) but decided to put the music out over two EPs instead of an album. I got a grant from the Artists’ International Development Fund to fly out to South Africa so we could properly get into making an album. We were already five or six songs in by that point. GB: We met about seven months after we started talking over the internet. You have a very strong symbiosis, how did you guys meet and what made you decide to start a music project together? Working with Gbenga was an opportunity to try a different tack musically.once we started it gelled pretty quickly. GJ: I was in a hardcore band when I was a kid and after that I moved into kinda weirdo electronic music and then once I moved to South Africa, the Jumping Back Slash stuff started to happen. Gareth and I clicked, I guess, because some of our musical touchstones are the same - Kate Bush and Anime soundtracks, particularly - but also because when I started really digging into contemporary South African electronic music 5 or 6 years ago for DJing, his Jumping Back Slash tunes would come up again and again in my sets. I still have some of the files from those first attempts to be Aphex Twin. When I got a little older myself I started having a go at that too. My older brother (who also went on to study music) was the first one I saw making music on a computer. That was my first way in, mainly singing. My mother studied music and my dad played guitar, so we played music at home too. GB: I grew up in the church, like lots of Africans and black people around the world, really. Gareth Jones (GJ) and Olugbenga Adelekan (GB) Hi guys! First of all, tell us about your musical background. Originally meant to be a one-song, cloud-based collaboration, Olugbenga Adelekan (Metronomy) and Gareth Jones (Jumping Back Slash) found a musical chemistry that has blossomed into a longer creative partnership, their methods defying distance with the help of Ableton and messaging services.įollowing the release of their EF1 EP, the duo spared some of their time to give us this interview about differentĪspects of their music, their life and what inspires them.
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