CATZ ‘N DOGZ

Interview by Dan Prince

 

Grzegorz, Wojciech a huge welcome back to DMCWORLD. Where on planet earth are you right now?

Thanks a lot! Actually we just came back from Argentina and we’re on the way to Riga in Latvia.

What is the best piece of new music you have heard today?

That’s a tricky question as there’s a lot of good music these days!  I’m in love in the new album of Das Komplex which we gonna release on STEP our vinyl-only label next month, can’t stop listening to it. It’s amazing for sunny days.

 June 26th-30th sees the return of the biggest festivals in the world with Hideout taking over Zrce Beach in Croatia. You must be looking forward to this incredible event?

Yes, definitely. It’s going to be our second year on Hideout. Last year we played 2 parties and both were very good. It’s always good fun, lots of friends and great weather.

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The scene in Croatia continues to explode. What is it about this part of the world that is so amazing for a DJ to play in?

Its not far away, it’s still cheap to stay and the most important it’s beautiful. There’s a lot of great festivals and parties and most of your friends are there. You got all the answers!

What are the 5 big tunes in your box this weekend, please give us a few words on each…

Patrice Baumel – dum dum (this is gonna be massive summer festival anthem)

Svida – Hectic (Daniel Troberg’s Rytm Workout Remix) (very energetic drums, will blow your mind)

Mathias Kaden – no Kick (no kick for 6 minutes, its gonna be released on pets this summer its massive)

Ian Pooley – A1 Cold Wait (Bicep Dub) (love the original and Bicep did a great job here, hit !)

Touch Sensitive – Pizza Guy (I:Cube Remix) (I Cube is one of my fav artists, this remix is pure summer and happiness)

You’ve had some cracking gigs of late, let’s have a highlight from…

Weetamix in Geneva

That’s one of our favorite clubs! The vibe there is fantastic, crowd is educated and crazy, we love to play there and we always play very special sets in this place. The party was very good.

Razzmatazz in Barcelona

Definitely the best club in Barcelona. We’re very happy that we are able to play there every few months. Our favorite room is The Loft, which is like 800-1000 people. Always great party, lots of people and the selection of the music in other rooms is always very good.

Bootleg in Tel Aviv

Sound there is crazy good ! Famous custom made mixer makes this club very special, we played there a 5 hour set and had a lot of fun. You can let your self go there for sure and people will follow.

Great Suffolk St Warehouse in London

Huge warehouse and tons of people. We played with our good friend Heidi on her Jackathon party. We love the warehouse raves in London, the sound was great and people are dancing like crazy.

Tell us about your Pets Recording Sonar Off party..

We are doing our party on Saturday in Razzmatazz club on 18 June. We’re very happy as the lineup is great: Maurice Fulton, Kim Ann Foxman, Jay Shepheard and us. Of course in our favorite room The Loft. We gonna play a lot of new music on which we’re working right now and also a lot of upcoming Pets and Step records releases.

A great bit of news for you recently with the announcement that your ‘Get It Right’ video has been nominated for an award at the Berlin Music Video Awards. It really was an incredible piece of film…

Thank you! We meet fantastic people in Warsaw Jakubowska and Gronowski from Shoot Me agency. They invited a lot of great people to work with them on costumes, makeups, production…there was like 100 people working with this video and it took 7 shooting days to record it. Huge project, lots of work and amazing crew! We’re very happy and thankful to all of them!

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Which famous person would you most like to see play you in a film?

Greg: Danny De Vito

Voitek: Antonio Banderas

What’s the biggest risk you’ve ever taken?

Peeing in the elevator

An up and coming producer to watch out for in 2016?

Thorsteinssøn

What accomplishment in your life are you most proud of?

That we still haven’t fallen apart!! But to be honest we’re very happy that music is still fun and inspiring for us.

Where are some of the big DJ dates in your diary you are looking forward to later this year?

Really looking forward for our USA tour, we are doing few and for the summer season. We play few great festivals, playing Ibiza couple of times, it’s always great to come back there. And also for our festival Wooded that we’re helping to organize in Wroclaw, Poland.

A dream studio collaboration?

Minnie Riperton

And finally, what is coming out next from you studio wise?

We have Upsi Bubsi EP coming out now, we were working a lot on some remixes and original tracks so some new EPs are going to be out this year. We’re also working on a new mix CD.

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Catz ’N Dogz’ new single ‘Upsi Bubsi’ is out now on Pets Recordings.

The guys also star at Hideout – Sunday June 26th – 30th at Zrce Beach, Pag, Croatia alongside the likes of Jamie XX, Skepta, DJ EZ, Gorgon City, Seth Troxler, Eats Everything and many many more…

http://hideoutfestival.com/