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Utah Saints chat to I Like Music
ILM: Well, it's good you did persist. I read that Kanye West even mentioned you on his blog…
JEZ: Yeah, it's very strange when that happens. I've no idea how that happens. We're just two blokes from Leeds who make records. It's humbling and we're honoured to appear on Kanye West's blog because it's not the most obvious thing in the world.
ILM: Well, I guess it's because your music is part of the soundtrack to so many people's lives, including celebrities?
JEZ: Yeah, maybe. When we started we pressed 1000 copies of What Can You Do For Me which was our first single and thought we might sell 2000 if we were lucky, so it was all a bit of a happy accident. [They sold 170,000 copies in three weeks and bagged a top ten hit in the process.]
ILM: You were ahead of your time, fusing sampled guitars with dance beats way before anyone else, like the Prodigy or anyone did so… Do you feel like pioneers?
JEZ: It's funny. People have said that in the past and it's very kind, but we took the baton up and were influenced a lot by Public Enemy, KLF, Simple Minds, The Human League who started with that electronic sound and we took the baton from them and used the technology that we had at the time. We were lucky that when we started it coincided with the sampler coming out, which changed a lot of things. You make your own luck but we also realise that we were in the right place at the right time.
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