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Level Mix 002 is brought to you by Brooklyn-based Dekalb Works, the collaborative project of Austin Peru (Vision Fortune) & our very own Daniel Creahan (Alien D). In Dan's words: "Last summer, we were invited by our loveable Level family to bring the project upstate for the yearly Glen Falls House weekender. Fortunately - the Tascam was running, and I’m so thrilled to release this one... [It's] got it all - guitars, heavy drones, a Tricky sample. The sky’s the limit."

Q: How much of your performances would you say are planned and how much are improvised? What's your setup look like and how often would you say it varies from gig to gig?

Our sets are almost completely improvised. We started experimenting with this for our Euro tour last summer for our last record, using Traktor to assemble, process and sequence loops. That program has a very sick effects bay and the mixing capabilities really makes for a nice system for assembling and flowing through stuff while also responding in real time to what's playing. 

Some of it was pulled from finished tracks (stems, loops, one shots etc), some are written between sets, so it's always evolving a bit. Dan will use those to move through different sets of arrangements, with Austin playing guitar and processing effects over that. There's also some other tracks we've used regularly for live sampling and grooves to sort of alternate between moments that feel very loose and open-ended and then more tracky, complete ideas to work off. Since then we've written a bunch of newer ideas and bits to work with. We'll also work in some more fully composed backing tracks to sort of reset or give a moment of cohesion to balance the flow out a bit. This has sort of become the default for how we've been playing live, but it's always an open-ended process based on how we're feeling.  

Q: How did you approach this set in particular? 

I think with this set we were pretty comfortable with the format described above as we'd played quite a bit in the month and a half before the set. We sort of got into the habit of this idea of a slow, building tension that occasionally resolves into moments that were more groove focused, so I think we had a nice template that we were working from for this one. 

Q:  Were there any surprises along the way?

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