While listening to Holosound’s March promo for the first time I begin to find out who these guys are both on and off the decks…
Lisa: This mix is very sexy so far…
Alex: 
Lisa: … my head is bopping… great mixing.
Alex: Thank you milady, that’s what we’re working for.
Alex: Just putting the finishing touches on the bringthebeats mix.
Lisa: That’s what I like to hear!
Lisa: How are your production sessions going?
Alex: Not bad. We’re working on a new track called “Touch Your Toes.” It’s a bit “off color.”
Lisa: Very nice… will it make it me dance on my toes?
Alex: We’re making sure it does.
Breaking the Ice…
Lisa: Are you jeans and t-shirt kind of guys or do you like to mix it up?
Noah: 7, Diesel, or Joe’s jeans with an Unlabeled plain white shirt, hoodie and cool kicks.
Alex: Jeans and t-shirt guy for playing always. I read on a forum that someone overhead another person at a trance show say that “tech house DJs look like they’re homeless - I took pride in hearing that
Lisa: What is your biggest pet peeve?
Noah: People who correct my grammar and vocabulary and are frequently wrong.
Alex: Probably people who make jokes about global warming or dumb Americans (read: government) that give us a bad name, it sucks.
Lisa: It’s so funny for us Canadians to see all the American propaganda, like CNN, what a joke!
Alex: Well Fox is the biggest joke, and then the others are different shades of biased.
Lisa: What is your favorite animal?
Noah: Dog, Australian Sheppard, Blue Merle
Alex: Hmmm, let me think…
Lisa: A fish?
Alex: I’m definitely a dog guy - but I used to have loads of fish, like 4 tanks, LOL!
Lisa: Excluding being a DJ, if you could have any other job what would it be?
Noah: Having a long past in sports, I would love to work with training professional and up and coming athletes.
Alex: Screenwriter/Director
Lisa: What kinds of movies would you make?
Alex: I’ve shot a few music videos. If we get to where I want to be I will shoot a few videos for some of our tracks.
Lisa: Did you take film in school?
Alex: I majored in film and lived and worked in LA for three years
Lisa: Why did you get out of it?
Alex: Because film was supposed to be the “legit” creative path. It was born out of me being too scared to follow music, but I couldn’t avoid it when I was playing clubs in LA and San Fran.
Lisa: You have to follow your true passions; that’s what you will be best at.
Alex: I have to agree. I’ve never worked so hard at anything in my life and it’s the only thing that gets this level of dedication and consistency out of me.
Lisa: Me too, I wish I got paid to dance.
Lisa: If you could travel to anywhere in the world tomorrow, where would you go?
Alex: Tomorrow? Maybe Switzerland, I love the Alps. But that has nothing to do with music - I’d probably defer a few weeks and play at Sonar, in Barcelona.
Lisa: Nice, never been to either of those places but sounds great, do you snowboard?
Alex: Yeah Noah Skis and I snowboard - a nice yin yang balance.
The Scene…
Lisa: What is your favorite set or CD at the moment?
Noah: That’s a tough one, gonna have to take the 5th, I’m loving too much right now.
Alex: I’ve actually been enjoying Jody Wisternoff’s sets quite a bit of late. I just got the John Digweed Transitions - whatever the new one is - and though Hernan has actually never caught my ear, his weekly Metrodance sets have been coming along quite nicely.
Lisa: What was the best party you ever went to, not as a DJ?
Noah: The Saw Party, WMC 2004 or the first time I saw Sander K at Club 1150, Atlanta in 2001.
Alex: It could easily have been SOS at the Fifth or the Desyn & Demi boat party at this year’s WMC.
Lisa: Nice, I love how the more recent parties just keep getting better
Alex: They seem to be - the harder we work and the more people we know and the more fun these things get.
Lisa: When you are at a party, are you a guy that likes to dance with his fist pumping or do you like to stand back and chat?
Noah: What happens most is I sip scotch and talk to ladies. I usually am pretty chatty, but if the music is just right, nothing else matters.
Alex: It depends on how good the DJs are. In Miami I often found myself with my fist in the air. In general though, just hearing what comes through town every weekend, I’m usually talking.
Lisa: Ha! A music snob of course… I find myself doing that more and more too.
Lisa: So who was the last DJ that made you dance your ass off?
Noah: Me?
Lisa: Nice, I love DJs that dance behind the decks.
Alex: The last? SOS. These “the last” questions are going to be overwhelmed by SOS, so it may not give the most objective.
Lisa: I love them too, I totally understand. When they came to Toronto Demi wasn’t with them unfortunately, but it was still great. Even though the venue was weak, I managed to zone that out.
Alex:
Beginnings…
Lisa: How old were you when you first got into this scene and how did it happen?
Noah: 19, Oakenfold - GU 007 cmoooon!
Lisa: Haha nice, we all have an Oakenfold stage at 19!
Alex: I first got into EDM in Israel when I was 15 while trying to buy hash at a bazaar. The guy asked me if I wanted to go flying and I said yes, thinking he had hash. He handed me a tape of psy-trance, which in ‘93 was pretty far out there.
Lisa: Why were you in Isreal? Are you Jewish?
Alex: No I’m not. Noah is, and many of my friends back home in Boston are. I was there with a good friend whose dad took us.
Lisa: Did you every have a trance phase?
Alex: Noah and I got our starts (both separately of course) playing trance in college - God bless what trance was! It’s lost its luster now.
Lisa: Trance was my gateway.
Alex: But back then it was so fresh and beautiful
Lisa: Yes… so melodic.
Alex: I’m still happy it’s around though because it’s like pot is the gateway drug to other drugs or so “They’d” have you believe!
Lisa: All in moderation of course… except the music… totally addicted!
Alex: Right I hear you. Nick Warren once said, “I never trust a DJ that doesn’t get totally wankered on occasion, because they just don’t know how it feels.”
Lisa: I can think of some that could use that advice 
Lisa: Do you listen to any other types of music?
Noah: Not so much lately but I have strong roots in all different genres.
Alex: Not really, pop and hip hop because of friends and the fact that I live in America. I don’t mind some of it, but I used to LOVE Pink Floyd. They’re legends!
DJing & Producing…
Lisa: If you could choose one DJ/producer you wanted to collaborate with, who would it be?
Noah: Roman Pushkin or Gui Berrato
Alex: Hmmm-a while back I would have said Trentemoller hands down - right around the time his “Du What U Du” remix first dropped.
Lisa: Thats a wicked track!
Alex: But now I’d probably say maybe someone like The Timewriter. Whoever it is, really seems to have a handle on the smooth tech house sound. Also I’d never say no to time with Eric Prydz - the man knows how to make hits!
Lisa: Who would you want to DJ alongside at the decks of a BIG party?
Noah: Tom Morgan and Alex Fish
Alex: I’d probably say Desyn - he’s a bit deeper than us but I think we’d compliment each other nicely. Maybe warm up for SOS some time?
Lisa: That I would hate to miss!
Lisa: What would be your #1 venue to DJ at?
Alex: Hmmm-the energy at The Egg in London was absolutely mental
Lisa: Ya that set was awesome
Alex: But I’d like to have a look see at some of the other clubs to see how the crowds stack up. From what I’ve seen… maybe the clubs in the Greek islands, like one in particular that overlooks the ocean - I’m spacing on the name - but that would probably be my most coveted venue.
Noah: For me it’s definitely Cielo NYC or Privilege Ibiza.
Lisa: How do you get most of your tracks?
Alex: IMing with friends and scouring Beatport. I’ve tried the other sites but I just don’t dig their interfaces. Beatport allows you to follow labels and artists and remixers so that when you see a track on a label you’ve never heard of, or an artist you like but didn’t know until then, you can follow them into their area of the site and see all the shit they’ve done. Beatport allows me to find artists that I wouldn’t normally.
Lisa: Do you think there is a big uprising of tech house at the moment or do you think it has always been as big?
Noah: It’s coming up fast but also metamorphosing as people are starting to feel a little battle torn from all the aggressive electro as of late.
Alex: I think right now people are starting to tire of full on electro but still have the love of those types of sounds. The electro movement awakened, so tech is stronger now on the heels of electro.
Lisa: For me, I used to love it years ago with the likes of DJ Dan, and then I stopped listening to it for awhile when I got into darker progressive… but I feel like its back with a vengeance.
Alex: Tech is going deep, taking good aspects of progressive and good aspects of electro.
Lisa: I love it deep!
Alex: I’m glad you do! That’s the “thrust” if you will, of our first single, “Damn That’s Deep;” although the track is very electro, and not very deep.
Lisa: I love to hear how this music is constantly evolving but bringing the best of the past with it at the same time.
Alex: I’m sure there’s a really profound analogy to represent what’s happening - I’ll let you know when I find it
Lisa: Why do you think this scene is so dominated by males?
Alex: That’s a loaded question, especially when asked by a woman
Lisa: Don’t be shy…
Alex: Well I sort of feel like it takes a certain type of person to live on the Internet and troll electronic gear and programs and dark loud places. And in order to be really good you have to be predisposed to living in these places (practically). I mean u can’t be relevant now without a significantly above average understanding of software.
Lisa: I agree. I love dark places with lots of crazy lights… but I have no patience for software.
Alex: I also think women aren’t pushed as hard because sometimes how hot they are lowers people’s expectations and they’re not held to such a high standard. This makes them not work as hard to be different.
Lisa: Again I agree. It seems the best girl DJs aren’t that hot, but they have a lot of character. The really hot ones are usually the boring ones that just stand around and look pretty.
Alex: The hottest chicks are the hot ones who love it!
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