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Interview with Adventure Club During Death or Glory Tour

4/17/2019

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Thanks to ListenUp, we were able to talk with Adventure Club during their Death or Glory tour stop in Atlanta. We talked about their latest single, parallels between the rock music scene, and connecting with fans on a deeper level. If you want to learn more about their show, you can read our recaps on Respect My Region and Atlanta EDM. 
I wanted to start off by going back to when you were into rock music. You've previously said that your first festival experience was at Warp Tour and so I wanted to ask the differences in energy and vibe between the festival scenes for both rock and EDM. 
Christian: There are some obvious differences but also a startling amount of similarities. Most communities that come together like that to celebrate music tend to all look out for each other when it really comes down. Whether it's the metal scene or the dance scene, there's still a lot of respect within the actual fanbase. People are typically caring and careful of each other which is great.


Leighton:  And as far as energy level goes, I feel like they're pretty parallel. There are of mosh pits in both. But when you look at Warped Tour in 2003 or EDC in 2018, I think the energy levels are pretty much the same.
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One thing you mentioned was the fans. Since you both have been in this for over a decade and have amassed such a passionate fanbase. From your experience, what are some of the biggest factors in creating a genuine fanbase that will go out to your shows and support you?
Christian: I mean I think it just comes down to how genuine and sincere your music is. When you're speaking to someone through your music, and you're saying something that's real to them and speaks to them. Well then they're going to have that stronger connection with your music and with you.
Leighton: That's definitely a giant chunk of it for us.  

Christian: But there are also acts that just make fun music that have die-hard fans. But for us, we try to have that deeper connection with what we make. I feel like the more of my soul that I put into the music as well as the details, subtleties, and profundity of emotion that you put into your music resonates with fans and listeners on a deeper level. 

Leighton: On a more superficial level, we try to have as many open communication channels as we can with our fans. They support us, we support them. We're easily reachable on groups on Twitter and other social feeds. 

DJs get asked to do a lot of odds and ends performances and so I was wondering what was the last gig where you felt most out of your element? 
Leighton: The Wakeboarding Afterparty. 

Christian: Oh yeah, that was the worst.  So early in our careers, we got booked for this "Wakeboarding Afterparty," and I wasn't even even sure what that was. When we got there and felt this disconnect immediately. I mean you can have a fun bottle service, but it was like the not-fun kind of bottle service. I don't think people were accustomed to the music we were playing or just having a DJ play music for you in that way. It's almost like we were crashing their party. I feel like normally they just had someone hiding in a tiny little glass booth off where you couldn't see them and they're the one playing music.
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Leighton: It was a Top 40 Club that you could tell listened to Top 40 music that was popular two years prior to that time. When we got up there, we just starting playing out heaviest stuff and no one seemed to know what to do with themselves. 

Christian: And then in the middle of the set, the promoter brought out a chair and tried to have the dancers dance on us-

Leighton: -On you

Christian: On me. God was that uncomfortable.

Leighton: By all accounts, it was pretty much a trainwreck.

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From past interviews, it's always been great to hear about people's tattoos and the story behind them so I was wondering if you guys could share a few anecdotes about some of the art you have on your body. 
Christian: I have a Magic the Gathering tattoo, a Minecraft tattoo, and a Diablo tattoo  a lot of gaming tattoos. I don't know if there's anything meaningful behind them but there's a pretty bad story behind the Diablo tattoo but I don't know if I should share it.
It's up to you! If you're willing to talk about it, we'd love to hear it!
Christian: Well the day I decided to get that tattoo was the day I got that tattoo. I just went to whatever shop would take me in and so I popped into the shop and got it. It was a small tattoo so I got it done in like a half hour and then left. That was the end of it until like a couple weeks later, it came out in the news that the person I got a tattoo by I was actually not even a tattoo artist. He was only doing the tattoos because all of his artists quit on him for having some unsavory dealings. You can probably tell by looking at the tattoo that it just seems a little weird.

Leighton: If you saw the original stencil, it would probably put it into more perspective into why we should have been more skeptical of him.  

You've talked about your work with Electric Family before and so I just wanted to catch up with your non-profit endeavors. 
Leighton: We've always been working with Electric Family with things like food drives and donating a significant part of our merchandise proceeds to Fuck Cancer which is a nonprofit focused on improving health outcomes related to cancer. We're a big supporter of both of these causes and have been working with them for the past ten years now. 

Your latest single called "Next Life" is out now with Krewella & Crankdat! Tell us about how this collaboration came together and what went into the making of this track.
Leighton: We've always wanted to work with Krewella again. They're some of our best friends  and we just never really had the chance to do it. So now, aftter four or five years, it was like the perfect time to come back and do something that was a bit more 2019 and Crankdat really helped with that. There are still a lot of AC elements in there but in the end, we just wanted to make a nice little reunion song.
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You also have another song that you teased with QUIX and badXchannels on your Facebook page.
Leighton: That's a song where we wanted to go back to our hardcore roots. Craig Owens from badXchannels is one of our idols. He was the lead man in Chiodos and our song pays homage to that musical period in my life.

Given where you are now, do you still experience a disconnect between your career and passion and the mainstream population's understanding of EDM?
Christian: You mean like if people like friends and family not understanding what we're doing and asking, "Where are these guys going every weekend?" Oh yeah, definitely. However, I think the perception has been slowly changing. I think it's much more accepted as a staple genre now. Sometimes we'll get picked up in an Uber or we'll be driven by an older gentleman who you would wouldn't expect to have any idea about what's going on and he just starts talking about VST and synthesizers. Just shows that you're never too old to start!

Thanks so much to Christian and Leighton from Adventure Club for taking the time to answer our questions. Thanks also to  ListenUp for making this interview possible! Be sure to follow Adventure Club using the links below!

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