Emotiquon

"We could wear cement mixers on our heads"

Say hello to Emotiquon. A Glasgow based synthesizer-crazed duo specializing in genre defying electronica that would leave even Aphex Twin gasping for breath and without a clue how to describe what they had just experienced.

We spoke Shaun Dimensional about the pleasures of being an in-demand remix outfit and the perils of landscape gardening...

Hello Emotiquon. Why should people care about your band?

There are a 101 reasons why people should care about Emotiquon! It's dance music but at the same time it's really difficult to pigeonhole. We've had people say it's not quite house; it's not quite techno. It's just a crazy hybrid of pop ideas.

If we were to try to pigeonhole you, we might refer to you as a nineties rave Daft Punk.

Good grief! That's alright, we certainly like our acid smiley logos and the rest of it.

Who are you remixing at the moment?

We've just completed one for Heaven 17. After we'd finished the mix it took four or five months before we heard anything back from them and we thought that they didn't like it. But we got a message just before Christmas saying the track was being released and now we're waiting for the release date.

Do you have a day job?

I work for my father's business, a small landscaping firm. We work all around Scotland designing and building gardens. It's quite creative, very therapeutic. All of this is when I'm not sat in front of my laptop of course.

How long did you spend being rubbish before you got good?

A long, long time. I started when I was 14. I had an Amiga computer and I remember buying a copy of Amiga Format magazine and it had a free sample programme. I spent years mucking about with that, learning how to programme drum tracks. When I listen back to it now it's awful, absolutely terrible. But it was a learning process.

Is there an Emotiquon live experience?

We're still trying to work out a way to play. When you go to see an electronic band play live, a lot of the time it's a couple of dudes with their laptops in front of them and you just basically watch a video. We're not fully ready to play live yet, we could go out with the laptops but we want people to leave the gigs with a good memory.

Perhaps you could borrow Daft Punk's old helmets?

Maybe we could bring the landscape gardening thing into the act? Perhaps wear cement mixers on our head or something.

Do you have any famous mates?

We're talking to Shitdisco at the moment, they're absolutely off their heads. There's four of them and they're on the same label as Klaxons. It's good. It's screwed up rave punk or, as everyone is calling it, 'New Rave'. It's a tag that will fizzle out hopefully: what's wrong with old rave? There's nothing that makes me want to go and rave about New Rave.

What's the best advice you've ever been given?

Probably from my grandfather, who told me to make sure I was doing everything for a reason.

And what is your reason for doing everything?

World domination of course!
- Channel4.com

"We could wear cement mixers on our heads"

Say hello to Emotiquon. A Glasgow based synthesizer-crazed duo specializing in genre defying electronica that would leave even Aphex Twin gasping for breath and without a clue how to describe what they had just experienced.

We spoke Shaun Dimensional about the pleasures of being an in-demand remix outfit and the perils of landscape gardening...

Hello Emotiquon. Why should people care about your band?

There are a 101 reasons why people should care about Emotiquon! It's dance music but at the same time it's really difficult to pigeonhole. We've had people say it's not quite house; it's not quite techno. It's just a crazy hybrid of pop ideas.

If we were to try to pigeonhole you, we might refer to you as a nineties rave Daft Punk.

Good grief! That's alright, we certainly like our acid smiley logos and the rest of it.

Who are you remixing at the moment?

We've just completed one for Heaven 17. After we'd finished the mix it took four or five months before we heard anything back from them and we thought that they didn't like it. But we got a message just before Christmas saying the track was being released and now we're waiting for the release date.

Do you have a day job?

I work for my father's business, a small landscaping firm. We work all around Scotland designing and building gardens. It's quite creative, very therapeutic. All of this is when I'm not sat in front of my laptop of course.

How long did you spend being rubbish before you got good?

A long, long time. I started when I was 14. I had an Amiga computer and I remember buying a copy of Amiga Format magazine and it had a free sample programme. I spent years mucking about with that, learning how to programme drum tracks. When I listen back to it now it's awful, absolutely terrible. But it was a learning process.

Is there an Emotiquon live experience?

We're still trying to work out a way to play. When you go to see an electronic band play live, a lot of the time it's a couple of dudes with their laptops in front of them and you just basically watch a video. We're not fully ready to play live yet, we could go out with the laptops but we want people to leave the gigs with a good memory.

Perhaps you could borrow Daft Punk's old helmets?

Maybe we could bring the landscape gardening thing into the act? Perhaps wear cement mixers on our head or something.

Do you have any famous mates?

We're talking to Shitdisco at the moment, they're absolutely off their heads. There's four of them and they're on the same label as Klaxons. It's good. It's screwed up rave punk or, as everyone is calling it, 'New Rave'. It's a tag that will fizzle out hopefully: what's wrong with old rave? There's nothing that makes me want to go and rave about New Rave.

What's the best advice you've ever been given?

Probably from my grandfather, who told me to make sure I was doing everything for a reason.

And what is your reason for doing everything?

World domination of course!
- Channel4.com