The boys of Midnight Conspiracy have hit a dinger with their new remix of Chromeo's, "Night By Night." In honor of its release, LOUIS KHA, 1/3 of Midnight Conspiracy, was kind enough to answer some questions for the third edition of "Together Through Megabytes." Results below.
MRLT: How did the remix for "Night by Night" come about?
LOUIS KHA: Graham was actually working on another remix, and I took what he had and just randomly started playing with it, mixing it into other songs as part of a mix tape. And miraculously, it sounded fantastic with Chromeo's Night By Night. So it got reworked and we sent a rough copy to Dave from Chromeo and he loved it! It was funny because we had 2 remixes of the same basic underlying instrumental. We debated for awhile what to do with it, and in the end decided to release it as a Chromeo remix. We might go back and release the other remix one day. We'll see haha.
MRLT: What else does Midnight Conspiracy have cooking in terms of remixes, parties, shows, casseroles, etc?
LOUIS KHA: The next remix we'll release will be a dubstep take on Esser's Headlock. That should be out in a few weeks. After that we have on deck official remixes for MSTRKRFT, Editors and Cool Kids x Hey Champ to name a few. Plus Crystal Castles will feature a remix we did of Crimewave on their upcoming remix album, which should come out around the same time as their original album, whenever that may be.
In terms of parties, we've really been focusing on this new party called Delorean Nites on Feb 6 at Lincoln Hall. Headlining will be Designer Drugs along with Skyler, Broken Disco 1980 and Punky Fresh.
We've been trying to do less gigs in hopes of really focusing on making this a huge party. You know how all those other cities have giant electro parties at concert venues with stages and all you see is straight up crowd surfing mayhem from the likes of Steve Aoki and Le Castle Vania? Well, we're really trying to bring that to Chicago. We feel that's lacking in Chicago. And Designer Drugs is perfect for the first party. They play really hard, banging electro, so it's going to be crazy. Plus they've been gaining a lot of momentum. They recently sold out a 1000 plus venue in El Paso, Texas of all places!
And hopefully the size of Lincoln Hall will be able to support bringing in larger electro DJs that often overlook or skip Chicago on their tour because the market isn't big enough here. And we made it 18+. The kids tend to make it crazier, and plus it's good to expose the youth to the music and artists that you really want to push. They're more open minded and going to be the ones that determine the future of electronic music, or of anything for that matter.
We've made a mix tape for the party which features 2 of our remixes and should be representative of the kind of music to expect.
MRLT: You go by the name of Midnight Conspiracy, you play a night at Angels and Kings called "Disappear Here," and you're now doing "Delorean Nights" over at Lincoln Hall. I'm sensing a sort of "dark" theme here. What's up with that and are you guys open to sunshine and playing beach parties?
LOUIS KHA: I see you've caught on to the dark theme. The 90s were happy and full of sun-worshiping candy ravers. The 2000s kind of smacked everyone back and made them aware of the worlds troubles. If the 90s and 2000s were like the roaring 20s where everyone got rich off of the fed's excessive liquidity orgy, and everything came crashing down at the end of the last decade, then the 2010s will be like the depression of the 30s. Hence, the dark theme. That being all said, one of the set of Mikul's T-shirt and album cover designs for us is in the style of bright, colorful cartoony art. So that really set us back in terms of going for this dark theme. Ooops.
"Night By Night"-Chromeo (Midnight Conspiracy Remix) MP3 (Zshare)
Check out Midnight Conspiracy at "Delorean Nights" on 2/6 at Lincoln Hall. Tickets are going fast....
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