Sasha and Digweed are back together, touring the states for a Spring Club tour. Launching at Mansion for Winter Music Conference and hitting 21 cities before climaxing a month later at Coachella, this is the first time the duo has teamed up for a tour since Delta Heavy. Always the prolific producer, watch out for Sasha to release an EP of his Emfire tracks and a new Involver album in 2008.
DJ Ron Slomowicz: So, what's the motivation for the new tour? What brought you
two back together?
Sasha: We've been talking about doing it for a while. We'd done quite
a few shows together in New York and LA, but we haven't toured
together outside of those kinds of places – and Miami, of course, the
Winter Music Conference. We haven't toured outside of the major cities
since Delta Heavy. We've been talking about doing it for the last
couple of years. The time just felt right.
RS: Where are you two at, in your careers, that made it possible
for you to come together like this?
Sasha: I don't know – it's just that we've both been doing a lot of
work separately, touring separately and successfully, since Delta
Heavy. We definitely took a break from each other. It wasn't like we
fell out or anything, but we both had a lot of our own projects going
on, so we both focused on our own things. Then last year, our
calendars collided a lot more, and we ended up doing a lot of gigs
together. It was a lot of fun so we talked about doing another
American tour. It's going to be fun. We're going to be back on the
bus, doing four or five nights a week, stopping off in a lot of the
smaller cities in-between the big cities. We're looking forward to it.
RS: What kind of production are you bringing on the road with you?
Sasha: It's not going to be as big and dramatic as the Delta Heavy
tour. We made a conscious decision not to make it so grand. With the
Delta Heavy tour, we had the arenas in mind. When we actually put it
into a smaller venue, it was ridiculously large. To be honest, most of
the gigs on that Delta Heavy tour, where we had the most fun, they
were all the theatres, in the fifteen hundred to three thousand size
venues. They're the places we really enjoyed the most, where we felt
our sound worked the best. So on this tour we decided to concentrate
on doing those kinds of venues, and to do some smaller clubs as well.
The production reflects that. It's a bit more minimal.
We're using these really amazing new stealth LED screens, and building
our set out of them. We've got this amazing visual arts company doing
the programming for the screens and it looks pretty stunning. We did a
gig up in Montréal together, earlier on in the year, and these guys
were doing the production for that. I saw what they'd done, and I was
just absolutely blown away. So I asked them to do the whole tour with
us and they were really into the idea. We've already had a gig with
them and it just looks stunning. I think people are going to be
impressed.
