'Endtroducing'

Groundhog and his Be The One EP

- Hi guys, how are you and how does it feel like releasing music on Apparel Music?

We are great! We have been really letting our creative juices flow and been working on lots of music. We are incredibly excited to be releasing an EP on Apparel music, we have been following you guys for a while and have used a few of your track releases in our recent sets. So it feels like a full circle moment now being a part of the Apparel Family!

- Talk us through the creative process behind the making of this EP. How did it come about and how did you work on it?

Both of us met up for a studio session and laid the foundations for Be The One first. We had been making a lot of demos with samples and got stuck into that workflow for this track. Chandeliers and Whats That? were made by us both at separate times, but we found they fit so well together they had to be included as a package. When we work with a sample, we avoid trying to add too much so that the sample can shine through, and that mindset is at the core of this project; let the sample do the work, and only add something if it enhances it. If It's the sample that caught your attention in the first place, why take away from it?

- Which are the main music influences that you brought in your EP? Can you share with us three tracks that inspired you during the making of?

For Be The One we wanted to create a song that avoided more typical club sound and emphasised the organic and had a stripped down feel when listening. Inspired by ANOTR and their music style. The song relies on a guitar that plays throughout the whole song guiding the track, with chopped vocals that give the track some feeling. For Chandeliers we wanted to play with vocal chops and have then a main part of the track. I had been hearing a few tracks that played around with a lot of vocal chops and I loved the concept. I wanted to recreate something like this, using 6-7 different voices to make it sound like one singular person. Then boosting it up and giving it a Jackin House feel. For What's That? I was inspired by many recent releases in Beatports jackin house charts, especially Tiptoes and his very shuffled style. I wanted to recreate that feel with a track of my own, and the blues sample I used, once sped up, had exactly the feel that I wanted. I then added a nice compressed bass and a synth to play on top to give the song more life and make it more of a Groundhog tune than just a copy of Tiptoes: