An Interview With Flight Facilities

With hope that we can bring you some smiles and quality in every post. Here is one to kick things off, our good friends (and firm favourites) Flight Facilities were kind enough to spend some time answering what we believe to be intriguing rather then intrusive questions.

Flight Facilities have done extremely well to keep their identity under wraps, do you think this has helped people keep an open mind when first hearing your music?

Without a doubt. It takes away any form of bias you can have towards the music. It's a natural habit for a lot of people to do that (us included). If you found out Nickelback produced some amazing dance or disco track, it's more than likely you'd hate it before you heard it. Either that or you'd hang yourself when you realised you were tapping your foot to it.

Being every girls favourite song at least once in their life, blogged by Perez Hilton and played by the likes of Aeroplane. Were you expecting Crave You to be such a massive success?

No way. We remember one of the Aeroplane dudes listening to it really briefly on his headphones in a club in September 2009. He came up to us and was like "this is big. it's really nice. I love it". We thought he may have been just acting nice about it. But every friend we gave it to had it drilled into their heads within a few weeks so it became obvious that it was kind of catchy. Then when it was on Perez we had one of those "My God. What have we done?" moments. But we had 3 months to chill out and get a bit level headed. Aeroplane we pretty instrumental in making it as big as it is - but they're also responsible for one hell of an agonising wait.

We've already heard about your next single with Louie Austen who provided the jazzed up vocals on your Bag Raiders remix. What do you have planned for the future of Flight Facilities, more singles and remixes?

The Louie track is in the works. Making originals is difficult. It's like an artwork. You get given a blank canvas and think "What am I going to draw today?" Remixes are so much easier. That's like being given a picture of someone and drawing a moustache and beard on it. We've finished a remix of a James Curd track called "Got To Have". We handed that in the other day. We've also done a remix of Like Woah! It's finished but just needs a little spit shine. More recently we collaborated with a good friend of ours, Tim Fuchs, on a Foals remix. Somehow it was done in a day? So we're 100% single #2 committed right now. All we have to do is live up to the reputation of Crave You

After hearing your recent DJ set on Triple J, and for Ministry of Sound UK. I'm sure we aren't the only ones eagerly awaiting your first club set. Do you have any tours/gigs planned that you can tell us about?

It looks like we're going to Japan in July so that should be exciting. Providing everything works out the way it should, we're doing a small Australian tour around it too. All the dates are yet to be finalised but it's definitely happening.

Each of your tracks have a similar vibe about them, and most of your recent tunes include some tasty Saxophone solo's, is there a particular recipe you follow when producing or does it get done as it comes to you?

The most common recipe we follow is listening to other songs we love, deciding which one we wish we made, then making something similar. But when we say similar, it usually ends up miles away from the reference just because we follow a tangent, get lost and wake up with a song in font of us. We tend to take a while.

With quite a unique sound to yourself, it's hard to see who you look to for inspiration. Are there any artists at the moment that you would look to for inspiration or guidance at all?

Lots of old music is the best because it's actually musical. Daft Punk is always good to look at. There's no better success story in the same sort of industry. Most of the guys we love and are inspired by are in our mixtapes. We don't treat them so much as a flexing of new music (because we have none hahaha). We use them more as a display of people we like and who have inspired us in one way or another.

Favourite producer/artist this year so far?

It's hard to go past Tensnake or the Swiss.

Would you rather never hear radio ever again, or have a pin in your jaw that picks up radio stations 24/7

Never hear radio again. I think fewer and fewer people listen to it anyway. iPods are probably to blame there - but who can blame the listeners. We can think of a few other things we'd rather have in our head before listening to Ke$ha.

If this isn't enough to tickle your taste buds, you should really start listening to them before they take off!  (No pun intended)
Although Crave You has brought massive success to these guys, they have been making exceptionally good music for quite some time now and this is what I would call, a jam. Sit back, and take it all in.

The Lowbrows - Dream In The Desert (Flight Facilities Red Tailed Hawk Remix) [Mirror]

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