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Utah Saints chat to I Like Music
Having sold over 2 million records to date, recorded with the likes of REM's Michael Stipe, and performed with U2 and others on mega-stadium tours, Utah Saints remain one of the most trail-blazing outfits within electronic music. Now Tim Garbutt and Jez Willis are back with a Van She Tech remix of their classic anthem, Something Good (08).
I Like Music caught up with the lovely Jez [pictured far right] to talk about the new single, video and forthcoming mix album, sampling through the decades, touring with U2, and what happened when they recorded Michael Stipe.
"I Like Music because… it's very good for the soul." JEZ WILLIS, UTAH SAINTS
ILM: Utah Saints, Something Good 08 - The Van She Tech Remix is out now to download and in shops 17th March 2008. I understand you stumbled across it on a blog about a year ago, got in touch and asked them just to not release it on the net, tell us more and describe its vibe?
JEZ: Yeah, you're absolutely right, we discovered it on a blog a week after Van She Tech had done it. Van She Tech is two guys out of an Australian band called Van She, and they've got this electronic arm, a bit like Too Many DJs and Soulwax. We've always kept an eye on new music that's coming up through the blogs and found loads of stuff that's started life on blogs that's become big elsewhere. So we emailed them and said this is a cool mix, but you can try and keep a lid on it and not unleash it just yet because we're planning our own mixes at some point. And they were really cool about it. And then the whole track gained momentum culminating with Pete Tong making it his essential new tune in September and Zane Lowe making it his hottest record in the world the same week.
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