Who.IAm & Thraxx | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: And right now we have who I Am and Thrax,

0:03 Speaker 1: who have both been on the show before multiple times actually,

0:08 Speaker 1: but in but in different, uh different configurations. This is

0:11 Speaker 1: the first time the two of you have been on

0:12 Speaker 1: together and you've got this new collaboration hot Wax, the

0:15 Speaker 1: brand new EP. Congratulations on that, thanks so much, absolutely

0:19 Speaker 1: absolutely what uh what brought this about? That the two

0:23 Speaker 1: of you working together? I saw you play live. I

0:25 Speaker 1: think it was at oh was that Jewel spelfy Fest

0:29 Speaker 1: spelfie Fest, and uh that was And that was the

0:32 Speaker 1: first time I knew that the two of you were

0:33 Speaker 1: working together when I when I saw you on stage

0:35 Speaker 1: together and what was that was at the beginning of

0:37 Speaker 1: this or they're working together.

0:38 Speaker 2: Prior to that?

0:39 Speaker 3: It was about our fifth I think that was our fifth.

0:44 Speaker 3: We're around there, I mean, at least from this side

0:49 Speaker 3: of the fence. That first of all, good morning.

0:51 Speaker 4: You guys, Yes, you guys. Good morning j J.

0:54 Speaker 3: Matt Well, thank you, good morning, good morning. I think

1:01 Speaker 3: this this was like a spur of the moment thing

1:03 Speaker 3: because I you can probably correct me if I'm wrong,

1:07 Speaker 3: but we were kind of like morphing the idea of

1:11 Speaker 3: like me filling in for a couple of like live shows, yeah,

1:15 Speaker 3: last year as let's see what would like what would happen? Yeah,

1:19 Speaker 3: and at least from your side of the fence. I

1:23 Speaker 3: think that's how it started. Where what was it? The

1:26 Speaker 3: first one at the Jungle, right.

1:27 Speaker 4: Yeah, it was the Jungle. I mean I was, you know,

1:30 Speaker 4: I was playing solo shows.

1:33 Speaker 3: And for a long time for yeah, I go, oh, yeah.

1:37 Speaker 4: So he's twenty eighteen. It's twenty seventeen. I've been Yeah,

1:40 Speaker 4: you even came here and playing, Yeah, did your whole

1:42 Speaker 4: great time here to playing solo set? And of course

1:46 Speaker 4: I have keyboards, so I have, you know, instruments that

1:49 Speaker 4: I backtrack, and so I saw that tracks was available

1:55 Speaker 4: and as far as looking to do stuff, and I was,

2:00 Speaker 4: I'm looking to, you know, bolster up my sound live

2:04 Speaker 4: and make it, you know, make it come out pop more.

2:08 Speaker 4: And so I reached out to Thracks and staid, do

2:10 Speaker 4: you be interested in playing live with me? And yeah,

2:13 Speaker 4: It's like sure, why not? Yeah? And so I sent

2:17 Speaker 4: him some some tracks and stuff, demo stuff to go

2:22 Speaker 4: over and you know, I kind of already was in

2:25 Speaker 4: my groove and so you know, thankfully Thrax leaned into

2:30 Speaker 4: it and really really picked up the songs like incredibly fast. Yeah,

2:38 Speaker 4: and then we like I like to say, you know,

2:41 Speaker 4: we're really born live because that's the first thing we

2:45 Speaker 4: ever did was play live together before we even practice.

2:48 Speaker 1: When you reached out to him, did you did were

2:51 Speaker 1: you confident that he was going to say yes? Or

2:53 Speaker 1: because obviously he's in Because I think there's that even

2:55 Speaker 1: a federal law now that every drummer has to be

2:57 Speaker 1: in like fifteen different bands at the same time.

3:00 Speaker 4: Is yeah, there is currently. Yeah, it's hard to get

3:03 Speaker 4: around that. Yeah, I was. I knew, of course, I

3:08 Speaker 4: met tracks and been on bills with tracks and several

3:11 Speaker 4: different variations Cosmic Bank, d H and so you know,

3:19 Speaker 4: I knew tracks. But you know, it was just the

3:22 Speaker 4: time when he did. He didn't have five.

3:25 Speaker 3: Yeah, I was in a wole period. I was only

3:28 Speaker 3: in like two projects.

3:30 Speaker 4: Yeah, it was so, you know, I was saying, so like,

3:33 Speaker 4: I'm an opportunist, I'm a di y queen. So that's

3:37 Speaker 4: how I roll. And I'm always looking around and saying,

3:41 Speaker 4: you know, and I want to you know, I've tried

3:44 Speaker 4: to play with other artists and I've you know, I

3:49 Speaker 4: have played with other artists in different situations, and it

3:54 Speaker 4: really never has totally worked out. Yeah, and so I

3:59 Speaker 4: was hoping, you know, that it would with tracks because

4:02 Speaker 4: I know he's a great drummer and and so so

4:07 Speaker 4: we we gave it a go, which it's just like, yeah,

4:09 Speaker 4: give it a go, see what happens, you know, do some

4:12 Speaker 4: live stuff, have fun deal.

4:14 Speaker 3: Yeah, And then that's where our coin our coin motto

4:19 Speaker 3: of uh, just like we rehearsed because we didn't really

4:24 Speaker 3: have time to get together the first time to rehearse

4:28 Speaker 3: anything really, so like I had to just listen to

4:31 Speaker 3: some of the songs that she had on for a list,

4:36 Speaker 3: and we we we met up at the well, we

4:39 Speaker 3: met up at the gig and then tried it out.

4:42 Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, Like the first musical thing we ever did

4:45 Speaker 4: was a live show at Jungle.

4:46 Speaker 2: Oh wow, no kidding. Where where's that by the way?

4:49 Speaker 4: Jungle Jungle that's the Summerville Summerville down in Boston music

4:54 Speaker 4: little music community stage. It's actually one of the one

4:58 Speaker 4: of the best under two hundred people places that you

5:03 Speaker 4: can actually you know, get a live stage, a real

5:07 Speaker 4: stage experience. Okay, that's my legit feeling about the job.

5:11 Speaker 4: They got a great sound in one of the best

5:14 Speaker 4: stages for under two hundred people.

5:16 Speaker 2: No kidding, Okay, I didn't even know about it, but

5:18 Speaker 2: that that's good to know. Yeah.

5:19 Speaker 4: Yeah, they're always you know, they're always putting people. I've

5:23 Speaker 4: I've played there several times. We played there about three twice.

5:28 Speaker 3: I think the last time we played was with what

5:31 Speaker 3: trash Robot and what was the that that that older

5:38 Speaker 3: gentleman's band.

5:40 Speaker 4: Shoot, I can't remember. It was uh oh the trees

5:45 Speaker 4: Fantastic Trees.

5:45 Speaker 3: Fantastic trees so good.

5:48 Speaker 5: Yeah.

5:49 Speaker 3: So like it's definitely eclectic out there for for the

5:55 Speaker 3: what indie scene, indie rock scene.

5:57 Speaker 4: Well yeah, and I feel like when we played, like

6:00 Speaker 4: after people would come up to us and like give

6:04 Speaker 4: us positive feedback. Yeah, you know, never got like just

6:08 Speaker 4: the courtesy feedback. It was always how long have you

6:12 Speaker 4: guys been playing together?

6:14 Speaker 3: Yeah?

6:14 Speaker 4: Cool?

6:18 Speaker 3: Someone actually show and said that, like, like, how long

6:21 Speaker 3: have you guys been playing? It sounds like years.

6:23 Speaker 2: Oh that's cool.

6:25 Speaker 3: Yeah, we ran with it great. Yeah, and and and

6:28 Speaker 3: then I think like, what after our third third show,

6:33 Speaker 3: that's when we had our practice.

6:34 Speaker 4: Yeah wow, right, and then we actually practice, We're like, yeah,

6:41 Speaker 4: we still doing good practice too.

6:42 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great.

6:44 Speaker 3: Figure, that's great.

6:45 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean it takes you know, a lot

6:48 Speaker 4: of effort. I know on traxis part because you know,

6:54 Speaker 4: some of my songs have already kind of predetermined, you know,

6:58 Speaker 4: how it goes, and so you know, it takes a

7:03 Speaker 4: special kind of drummer that can do that and then

7:07 Speaker 4: add their own you know, power to it. Yeah, and

7:13 Speaker 4: that's I feel like that's what came across, has come

7:16 Speaker 4: across in our album Hot Wax. Is you know, the

7:21 Speaker 4: the solidity, the solidness of the drumming elevates the songs

7:28 Speaker 4: and the music and everything I do. And it's like

7:32 Speaker 4: it makes me thrilled. I've listened to these songs on

7:34 Speaker 4: Hot Wax a thousand times. Yeah, and I'm listening for

7:38 Speaker 4: to critique myself, and I'm just like enjoying it every time.

7:41 Speaker 1: Is it just easier too, from a from a technical

7:43 Speaker 1: standpoint when you're playing live?

7:45 Speaker 2: Is just easier to have a live drummer?

7:48 Speaker 5: Uh?

7:48 Speaker 4: No, No, it would be really really no. It would

7:52 Speaker 4: be easier just to have my keyboards just follow into

7:55 Speaker 4: whatever the heck I want them to do. And that

7:57 Speaker 4: was easier, just like I could stop in the middle

7:59 Speaker 4: of my and as long as I held the right notes,

8:03 Speaker 4: the right chords, you know it would hold for me.

8:07 Speaker 4: I mean with humans. You know, you can't put humans

8:11 Speaker 4: in a holding pattern. You know, a song is a

8:15 Speaker 4: song and it moves along. It doesn't stop like because

8:19 Speaker 4: you know you feel like it to stop right unless

8:22 Speaker 4: you do. But otherwise, you know, you got to keep moving.

8:26 Speaker 4: And there's a there's a rhythm and a syncopation and

8:30 Speaker 4: a synergy that comes along with playing with a live

8:34 Speaker 4: person versus yeah, say my my drum track okay, yeah,

8:38 Speaker 4: okay yeah, And so it just takes it takes more

8:42 Speaker 4: effort to do that, to combine the two, but it's

8:45 Speaker 4: more rewarding two to have it, you know, come out

8:50 Speaker 4: or you know, people are like, oh my goodness, you

8:53 Speaker 4: guys come from right right.

8:57 Speaker 2: It does.

8:57 Speaker 3: It helps, no doubt.

8:59 Speaker 4: You know, we can tell things that people can't tell.

9:01 Speaker 1: Ye, now tracts for you? Is this the most unique

9:04 Speaker 1: thing you've done in terms of music? You've done a

9:06 Speaker 1: lot of different different projects, But I mean, is this

9:09 Speaker 1: because because who I am? I mean, this is you know,

9:11 Speaker 1: it's unique. I can't think of anybody who sounds quite

9:13 Speaker 1: like who I am?

9:14 Speaker 3: Correct, And I think yes, because like I'm usually predominantly

9:20 Speaker 3: punk or rock metal something, so this is like a

9:25 Speaker 3: a first chance into like electro pop or something of

9:30 Speaker 3: dance music esque, like a discotheche type of genre. And

9:38 Speaker 3: like Lacy has a lot of different areas that it's

9:42 Speaker 3: not even just dance music. There's like messages and there's

9:45 Speaker 3: you know, uplifting stuff, and there's everything that you ever

9:49 Speaker 3: need or want out of like a dance song or

9:53 Speaker 3: a pop song. Like even even the song that reminds

9:56 Speaker 3: me of the Guerrillas. It's not on the on the EP,

9:58 Speaker 3: but like your other song, your regular song, than true,

10:00 Speaker 3: it reminds me of like something that the Gorillas would

10:05 Speaker 3: do back in the day, and like and that's like

10:07 Speaker 3: something that's not categorizable. That like the thing the uniqueness

10:13 Speaker 3: of at least coming out with something that's not traditional

10:17 Speaker 3: is kind of things that I gravitate towards no matter what,

10:20 Speaker 3: whether it be pop or rock or whatever. It is,

10:24 Speaker 3: Like I don't fall into traditional stuff, Like I like

10:29 Speaker 3: alternative stuff. I like anything that's a little bit risque

10:33 Speaker 3: or a little bit rough around the edge is case

10:36 Speaker 3: in points yes, but also case and point shout out.

10:43 Speaker 4: Shout out to.

10:44 Speaker 3: Frankie Frankie from the Melted Chapsticks, who we are performing

10:48 Speaker 3: with later at a Poty Saburn in Asna. But I

10:54 Speaker 3: like the way that he goes about music as well,

10:57 Speaker 3: that you know, he doesn't hold to a traditional standard

11:02 Speaker 3: of like I'm going to play punk music and this

11:04 Speaker 3: is what it is like it's its own feel, the

11:07 Speaker 3: own its own vibe. Yeah, the same thing, same thing

11:11 Speaker 3: for your for your music, La, seeing that, like you

11:14 Speaker 3: have a very confident, confident with what you're creating. And

11:21 Speaker 3: I and I I like a person that's willing to

11:24 Speaker 3: go outside of the box, willing to go outside of

11:27 Speaker 3: the the thinking pattern and like, oh what if I

11:29 Speaker 3: just do this? Or what would happen if I do this?

11:32 Speaker 3: So is it the most unique thing that I've done?

11:37 Speaker 3: More more than likely? Yes, as a as a broad statement,

11:40 Speaker 3: but I like this type of uniqueness that makes sense.

11:44 Speaker 2: Oh it totally does. Yeah, absolutely well.

11:46 Speaker 1: By the way, on Facebook, Andrea Dumont is in the

11:48 Speaker 1: Facebook LA chat and says good morning family. Good I

11:52 Speaker 1: love that Andre, of course, from Dad Harrison, whom you're

11:56 Speaker 1: in a band with. So why the name Thracks?

12:00 Speaker 2: Why use a different name for this and where does

12:02 Speaker 2: the name tracks come from? I'm super curious about this.

12:04 Speaker 3: Yeah, of course I know this is this is what

12:08 Speaker 3: happens when you have friends in the industry and they

12:09 Speaker 3: start asking you actual questions. Yeah, so my name is

12:14 Speaker 3: Axel obviously, Uh, everybody knows at least more more often

12:19 Speaker 3: than not, more people know me as Axel. Yeah, even

12:23 Speaker 3: before then if the real people know me as Smitty

12:26 Speaker 3: Smitty werbin Yiegerman Jensen.

12:28 Speaker 2: That's a long name. Is that Swedish or what.

12:30 Speaker 3: He was number one? Wow, it's a SpongeBob reference. Okay,

12:35 Speaker 3: but like only only only true o G. Manchester people

12:39 Speaker 3: would know that. But yeah, my name is Axel, and

12:41 Speaker 3: that's just how I was given that name. Yeah, but

12:46 Speaker 3: like I don't like it how it's associated with Rose

12:51 Speaker 3: every bleeping time.

12:55 Speaker 2: Every time, and you don't even spell it the same way.

12:57 Speaker 3: No, of course not. But I couldn't be associated with

13:00 Speaker 3: with actual Foley or anybody else. It has to be.

13:05 Speaker 3: But ever since I was a kid, ever since I

13:07 Speaker 3: was a kid, it's what's your last name? Rose? Like,

13:10 Speaker 3: I can't tell you how many times I've I've heard that,

13:12 Speaker 3: even to this day, even to this day, it's a thing.

13:16 Speaker 3: I'm kind of sick of it.

13:18 Speaker 2: I don't blame you.

13:19 Speaker 3: So that being said, like I've been trying to more

13:25 Speaker 3: or less come up with a different moniker to get

13:28 Speaker 3: away from that. But that wasn't cheesy something that like

13:33 Speaker 3: at least it was mine that I can like step

13:35 Speaker 3: away from from that. So I guess, like worldwide, I guess,

13:39 Speaker 3: uh premiering this that that's my middle name. Oh thras

13:45 Speaker 3: is my actual middle name, no kidding, So it was

13:49 Speaker 3: given that wowweet And I mean you can you can

13:53 Speaker 3: summarize your own opinions about it, but like it literally

13:57 Speaker 3: came came from the band Anthrax. Yeah, that was my

14:01 Speaker 3: my mom's favorite band, or no, that was my my

14:04 Speaker 3: biological father's favorite band. And Axel Rose because my mom

14:09 Speaker 3: loved guns and roses appetite for destruction. I swear to

14:13 Speaker 3: you that with with with those two, like I've been

14:18 Speaker 3: using axel for so long. Yeah, I'm like, Axel is

14:22 Speaker 3: a cool name. I guess, I guess.

14:24 Speaker 2: And you don't spell it the same way as axel

14:27 Speaker 2: rose even right, it's a X I L E S.

14:29 Speaker 3: Yeah, but either which way you say axel phonetically?

14:34 Speaker 2: Yeah?

14:35 Speaker 4: Yeah. When I first I think the first time I

14:38 Speaker 4: met you, when I think you came on my show, yeah,

14:45 Speaker 4: and you said, you know, I was asking like, okay,

14:50 Speaker 4: who is everybody? And you said, I'm gonna go with

14:55 Speaker 4: You're like, okay, I'm gonna go because you know, not

14:59 Speaker 4: ever buddy is ready to be asked that question, like okay,

15:02 Speaker 4: who who's what's your name? Ask a creatile what the

15:05 Speaker 4: name is and they're like, hold on, let me think

15:09 Speaker 4: about this. And so you said I'm going with Tracks

15:13 Speaker 4: and I was like Tracks, Yeah, that is a great name.

15:18 Speaker 4: That's such a great name. And so it stuck with me,

15:22 Speaker 4: you know. I mean we didn't get together like a

15:25 Speaker 4: couple of years later, a few years later, but yeah,

15:28 Speaker 4: but always stuck with me. So I was like, when

15:31 Speaker 4: when we started playing, I was like, you know, people

15:34 Speaker 4: want to have us on a bill and stuff. I

15:36 Speaker 4: was like, okay, well, well what are we? What are we?

15:39 Speaker 4: You know who I am? But but I'm not just

15:42 Speaker 4: who I am. Now, there's that's that's not that's not

15:45 Speaker 4: really it's not just who I am. So that's why

15:47 Speaker 4: I was like, well who I am in Thracks? I

15:50 Speaker 4: mean it's got a nice bring to it.

15:52 Speaker 2: Yeah, it does. It really doesn't.

15:53 Speaker 3: And I like how you came up with the name

15:57 Speaker 3: for the album itself. Oh yeah, wax because of how

16:02 Speaker 3: who I am Thrax you put them together.

16:05 Speaker 4: It's wax.

16:06 Speaker 2: Yeah.

16:06 Speaker 3: I was like, oh that is and it is perfect.

16:09 Speaker 1: And it's hot with two t's and wax with two x's,

16:11 Speaker 1: right yeah hot wax Yeah yeah, yeah, no, I dig it.

16:14 Speaker 2: Oh we should talk about too.

16:15 Speaker 1: Just before we go to front, I'm gonna put the

16:17 Speaker 1: camera back on me for a minute so I can

16:18 Speaker 1: hold this up for people watching online. If you're watching

16:22 Speaker 1: on Facebook or YouTube or LinkedIn, believe it or.

16:25 Speaker 2: Not, actually stream to LinkedIn you Oh no, pull this up,

16:30 Speaker 2: this whole package. So uh so this there's a I

16:34 Speaker 2: like the glasses.

16:35 Speaker 4: Yes, glasses.

16:36 Speaker 2: And this USB drive has the EP on it.

16:40 Speaker 4: Yes it does, it does. We We have dropped our

16:43 Speaker 4: album unaccustomized USB world wide, worldwide.

16:48 Speaker 2: Very cool.

16:48 Speaker 4: And on the USB you can hear the complete album,

16:53 Speaker 4: all four songs YEP, and they if you put them

16:56 Speaker 4: in any USB place that plays music, your car, your computer,

17:03 Speaker 4: it'll automatically play the album from beginning to end. Very cool. Yeah,

17:08 Speaker 4: it's four songs EP and on there is a bunch

17:12 Speaker 4: of bonus materials what I'd like to call waxtros, and

17:19 Speaker 4: that's a five minute collage video of us playing Hot

17:22 Speaker 4: Wax songs live cool and the song information, bio information

17:29 Speaker 4: about who I am in Thrax. Also pictures and fun

17:34 Speaker 4: images that were created for song art, album art album

17:39 Speaker 4: liner notes.

17:40 Speaker 2: Oh so there's a lot in there.

17:42 Speaker 4: There's a whole bunch of that's really cool stuff in

17:44 Speaker 4: there that you can listen to and look at and

17:47 Speaker 4: have fun with.

17:48 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, that's awesome.

17:50 Speaker 4: We'll have them at the show.

17:51 Speaker 1: And it sounds like it probably plays more places than

17:53 Speaker 1: the New Lord CD. Does y'all know about that? No,

17:57 Speaker 1: we talked about that last week with the New Lord CD.

17:59 Speaker 1: It's a clear it's a completely clear CD. It's completely transparent,

18:02 Speaker 1: you can look right through it. But it doesn't play

18:04 Speaker 1: on a lot of players.

18:06 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not even a CD. It's it's that plastic

18:12 Speaker 3: piece of CD that you get when you have blank

18:15 Speaker 3: you have the blank CD, the tower of blank CDs

18:18 Speaker 3: that that top that sits on there.

18:20 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what it is.

18:21 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly. No, but this is a cool concept

18:24 Speaker 2: with the USB.

18:25 Speaker 4: I feel like this is the future. I give the

18:27 Speaker 4: credit to my wife Chan. Yeah, and but I'm always

18:32 Speaker 4: looking for futuristic things to do, something different, something new,

18:36 Speaker 4: something that hasn't been done, something that's not being done,

18:39 Speaker 4: and something that's like makes life easier. Like just put

18:45 Speaker 4: that in your USB in your car, Boom, you'll have

18:48 Speaker 4: four great songs from who I'm in tracks.

18:51 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, I love it, popping out. I love it.

18:54 Speaker 4: So it's very fun. You can wear it as the

18:55 Speaker 4: necklace too.

18:56 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, that's cool. We should we should play

19:00 Speaker 2: another track.

19:01 Speaker 1: And we were talking off air about this, so one

19:02 Speaker 1: of these, one of these tracks has has a guest

19:05 Speaker 1: startist on it.

19:06 Speaker 4: Yes, open your eyes and.

19:09 Speaker 2: We're going to play that in a moment. But tell

19:10 Speaker 2: us about this. So Brad to Palma is on this.

19:13 Speaker 4: Yes, the great Brad to Palma is on this as

19:17 Speaker 4: a featured artist.

19:20 Speaker 3: Homie.

19:21 Speaker 4: Yeah, but we both played on many bills and he's

19:25 Speaker 4: playing bands with Brad, And of course I love Brad

19:28 Speaker 4: so much. Yeah, big fan. I feel like he's possibly

19:33 Speaker 4: the best guitarist in the region.

19:35 Speaker 2: Kidding.

19:35 Speaker 4: I would like to know who's better, because I've seen

19:39 Speaker 4: most of them, and I don't know who I haven't seen.

19:41 Speaker 3: Okay, that's all order.

19:42 Speaker 4: Yeah, I've heard, I've heard every you know, because I

19:45 Speaker 4: had my radio show. But I think Brad. To me,

19:48 Speaker 4: Brad is the best guitarist in the region, and so

19:50 Speaker 4: I reached out to him. I said, hey, would you

19:52 Speaker 4: be interested in dropping a lick for this song? It

19:55 Speaker 4: really needs, you know, something like what you got And.

19:59 Speaker 2: We would know him from Dog Eate Dog.

20:04 Speaker 3: Earth Mark earth Mark.

20:06 Speaker 4: I first saw him in National back in the day

20:11 Speaker 4: and uh, yeah, I've been following him for a long

20:14 Speaker 4: time and legend he's you know, he's intertwined in the

20:20 Speaker 4: the southern New Hampshire Merrock Valley region as you know,

20:25 Speaker 4: the one to go to if you need guitar. And

20:29 Speaker 4: so yeah, so he did, he dropped that forth. You know,

20:33 Speaker 4: Thracks did the audio engineering for the the entire album. Okay,

20:38 Speaker 4: so you know he Brad dropped that track and and

20:47 Speaker 4: Thracks worked magic to get it from that Peace of

20:52 Speaker 4: Descent and then put it on the songs and it's

20:56 Speaker 4: just like it's it's perfect. It's basically I'm not ashamed

21:02 Speaker 4: to say it's the one take that he sent us

21:03 Speaker 4: in Boom.

21:04 Speaker 3: It's perfect.

21:05 Speaker 2: Why not awesome? All right? So yeah, we love it

21:08 Speaker 2: all right, let's give this a listen.

21:09 Speaker 1: So this is who I Am and Tracks featuring Brad

21:12 Speaker 1: to Palma on guitar. And this is called open your Eyes.

21:33 Speaker 6: In the time we as and mousters.

21:38 Speaker 7: See shifting time, love to wee free.

22:00 Speaker 8: Say going back to the.

22:04 Speaker 5: See ye.

22:31 Speaker 9: Say, say.

22:44 Speaker 10: You got and what did you say?

22:56 Speaker 6: So it's around waste his time.

23:10 Speaker 9: Living.

23:15 Speaker 4: Let see what you can.

23:34 Speaker 10: Shop.

23:57 Speaker 8: No, that is open your Eyes.

24:41 Speaker 1: That is who I am and tracks And yeah, that

24:44 Speaker 1: sounded great with brad to Palma.

24:45 Speaker 2: I'm guitared, very very very right. So Max, you you

24:51 Speaker 2: engineered the the EP.

24:53 Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, at least fifty percent of it, Okay, the

24:57 Speaker 3: other obviously the other fifty percent teams from you. Lacey y, Yes,

25:03 Speaker 3: I did. Uh did most of the puts together thingies

25:09 Speaker 3: and all those things.

25:12 Speaker 2: Yeah I did.

25:12 Speaker 3: I did everything myself. Drums was definitely obviously my my area.

25:18 Speaker 3: But I engineered that whole entire thing. Yeah, uh, mixed, mastered,

25:22 Speaker 3: and semi engineered. It took a while. This wasn't like

25:27 Speaker 3: a oh, let's just spur the moment do this like

25:30 Speaker 3: this was meticulous planning over weeks, over weeks, like every

25:34 Speaker 3: song had its own session for for things. So like

25:39 Speaker 3: we uh Lacey is very precise, very uh not even particular,

25:46 Speaker 3: because that's that's in my eyes, just putting down your music.

25:51 Speaker 3: You have a very uh knowledgeable thing of what you

25:56 Speaker 3: want to happen because obviously this is your music. So

25:59 Speaker 3: there was very here's this, here's this, let's go back

26:05 Speaker 3: to this, let's see if we can change this, And

26:06 Speaker 3: it's very you know, touch and go of what can

26:09 Speaker 3: we make better? Yeah? Yeah, so I had I had

26:14 Speaker 3: fun the whole entire time.

26:15 Speaker 2: Yeah.

26:16 Speaker 3: We we were both like ecstatically happy every time we're

26:21 Speaker 3: on the other end of the making of every single song. Yeah,

26:26 Speaker 3: because the process was just so fun.

26:29 Speaker 2: Yeah, really was.

26:30 Speaker 1: It's good that you enjoy that too, and you embrace

26:32 Speaker 1: that because some some musicians hate that part. Some musicians

26:35 Speaker 1: just want to play, you know, and they hate the

26:37 Speaker 1: everything that goes into recording.

26:39 Speaker 4: Yeah, like building a song, yeah, you know, building a

26:42 Speaker 4: studio song. Oh yeah, you do kind of build it. Yeah,

26:46 Speaker 4: you know, you're not just playing it live to tape,

26:52 Speaker 4: which means you know, you just play everything all at

26:54 Speaker 4: once and then you know you just say, okay, that's

26:57 Speaker 4: the song. Yeah. We did one of the things that

27:02 Speaker 4: helped me a lot was you know, we we worked

27:04 Speaker 4: with stems as far as the individual tracks of the song,

27:11 Speaker 4: you know, so that kind of that upped my game

27:15 Speaker 4: a bit because I needed to like have those separate

27:19 Speaker 4: things for tracks to really make it, you know, sound right,

27:27 Speaker 4: and like that's something that it's nice to have, you know,

27:31 Speaker 4: to two ears and and and again tracks as it

27:35 Speaker 4: got a knowledgeable ear. So so it's like, I know,

27:39 Speaker 4: I can you know, get it kind of most to

27:42 Speaker 4: the top of the hill, and I'm like, here, can

27:44 Speaker 4: you take it to the top of the hill right?

27:47 Speaker 4: And and he was able to do that easily easily. Yeah, Yeah,

27:52 Speaker 4: it was. It was a great It was fun process.

27:54 Speaker 4: It wasn't easy, and we yeah, we really put some

27:58 Speaker 4: thought and time into you know, how the song should sound.

28:03 Speaker 2: And why do an EP?

28:04 Speaker 3: What?

28:05 Speaker 2: What went into that decision?

28:06 Speaker 1: This is something I'm always curious about because a lot

28:08 Speaker 1: of artists now they just singles or yeah, or they

28:10 Speaker 1: insist on doing an album or why do an EP?

28:13 Speaker 4: Well, I think in my mind, I was I think

28:20 Speaker 4: what we have and had going prior to the EP

28:25 Speaker 4: was was really good and fun, and I think I

28:30 Speaker 4: felt like we could progress to the next step of

28:34 Speaker 4: like giving these songs that we were doing live two people. Yeah,

28:40 Speaker 4: like in a form you know, and so that just

28:44 Speaker 4: seemed like the natural progression. At that point, I was like, shoot,

28:49 Speaker 4: you want to do darn, I says, you know, why

28:56 Speaker 4: don't we do some songs together. You know, there's studio,

29:00 Speaker 4: you know, the studios thing, and then the EP. I

29:03 Speaker 4: think it's it's nice just to have a quick shot.

29:08 Speaker 4: And I think in my mind EP was it's quicker

29:12 Speaker 4: to do an EP than a full album. And the

29:15 Speaker 4: single thing is fine, but I'm I'm assuming nobody's just

29:21 Speaker 4: doing just a single. They do five songs and they

29:24 Speaker 4: released the one song at a time, which is fine, yeah,

29:27 Speaker 4: and I have no problem with that. But I just

29:29 Speaker 4: felt like, you want to get a full shot of

29:31 Speaker 4: who I am in tracks like you want it. You

29:34 Speaker 4: wanted to hit you full force, a nice sample of everything.

29:38 Speaker 4: Because we got other songs that we played live. We

29:41 Speaker 4: can play you know, up to an hour live, no problem,

29:44 Speaker 4: just roll right through it. And that's with no covers.

29:47 Speaker 4: It's just you know, but we do do a covert

29:49 Speaker 4: we do we do Born this way? Did we do it?

29:56 Speaker 4: A chick pea ride?

29:58 Speaker 3: That's where we we tried.

29:59 Speaker 4: That's where it that's where it happened first.

30:01 Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, great responds and that that was that was

30:03 Speaker 3: a great show. That was very welcoming experience.

30:08 Speaker 4: That was it was really nice. But yeah, that's our yeah,

30:12 Speaker 4: born this way, it's our cover and it's so it's

30:16 Speaker 4: super fun to do. I roll out the auto tune

30:19 Speaker 4: on my my vocal effects. Yeah yeah, yeah, so it's fun.

30:23 Speaker 4: I'd like to play with those. Yeah, but it's you know,

30:28 Speaker 4: it's it's good what we do. Love the live experience.

30:32 Speaker 4: So I think that's what really drove Hot Wax is

30:35 Speaker 4: like we want to put these songs, you know, in

30:39 Speaker 4: somebody's car listening to it driving down the road.

30:42 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense. Let's play another one.

30:46 Speaker 1: Let's see, so we've got what we have left between

30:51 Speaker 1: the between the other two, I'll let you pick.

30:54 Speaker 4: Well, let's do Moon Run. It feels like a good

30:57 Speaker 4: time to talk about Moon Red. Yeah.

31:00 Speaker 2: What should we know about this?

31:02 Speaker 4: It's an instrumental Okay, it's.

31:04 Speaker 3: A it's a live jam that we quantified to uh

31:10 Speaker 3: to studio and uh it's it's a it's a jam

31:16 Speaker 3: that we we kind of like morph every single time

31:19 Speaker 3: that we do. So like live is completely different than

31:22 Speaker 3: than what's on the the album. But what's on the

31:25 Speaker 3: album is a is a perfect like uh I guess

31:28 Speaker 3: demo of what you usually get from Moon Run.

31:32 Speaker 4: So okay, right live live. This is the famous foot

31:38 Speaker 4: on the keyboards move, which you you know can see

31:43 Speaker 4: on our album cover.

31:46 Speaker 3: Painting painted by Crafty k.

31:49 Speaker 4: Our album cover was inspired by paintings she did and uh,

31:54 Speaker 4: you know that's that's one of the signature signature moves.

31:59 Speaker 4: Who I am is played keyboards with my foot, okay,

32:03 Speaker 4: and that happens in this song, and so it happens

32:06 Speaker 4: at the beginning of the song.

32:08 Speaker 2: Oh okay.

32:08 Speaker 4: So the song is like a you know, in my

32:11 Speaker 4: head when I kind of came up with it, it's like,

32:16 Speaker 4: you know, you're on a rocket ship. You're flying to

32:19 Speaker 4: the moon and you get there and you're circling around

32:24 Speaker 4: the moon in this rocket ship and then something starts

32:27 Speaker 4: to go wrong and then everything just goes crazy and

32:32 Speaker 4: you're like trying to put your brain into gear and

32:37 Speaker 4: figure out what's happening. And by the time you figure

32:40 Speaker 4: it out, this song is over all. Right.

32:43 Speaker 1: Well, let's give the suspense. So This is Moon Round.

32:46 Speaker 1: This is of course Who I Am and tracks from

32:48 Speaker 1: their new EP, hot Wax.

32:50 Speaker 11: Check this out was to.

33:39 Speaker 10: Terrors, rose More Sorter, Corser Stores, Towards to Wars Joy war.

34:17 Speaker 9: Wise War.

35:53 Speaker 2: That is Moon Run.

35:54 Speaker 1: That is Who I Am and Thrax and the new

35:56 Speaker 1: EP hot Wax and uh, we've got Who I Am

35:59 Speaker 1: and tracks are both here in studio with us live

36:03 Speaker 1: on this uh Saturday.

36:05 Speaker 3: In real life, in real life.

36:07 Speaker 2: Yes, I r l is yea, these kids.

36:14 Speaker 1: So we are gonna play. Uh, We're gonna play one

36:16 Speaker 1: more in just a moment to finish out the segment.

36:18 Speaker 1: But before we get there, I want to make sure

36:19 Speaker 1: so for people listening live on Saturday, you've got a

36:22 Speaker 1: show tonight, correct.

36:23 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, we have a show tonight at Photiestes,

36:29 Speaker 4: Nashua Bodies Tavern National with.

36:33 Speaker 3: The fine Bergs and Melted Chapsticks.

36:37 Speaker 4: Yes, Okay, two of our favorite music friends who we've

36:41 Speaker 4: been on bills with before, and so we're gonna play. Uh,

36:46 Speaker 4: they're gonna open fine Bergs drum and piano, jump jive

36:50 Speaker 4: boogie kind of music. Okay, So they're gonna get things started,

36:54 Speaker 4: open it up. Who I'm In Tracks will roll in

36:57 Speaker 4: ten forty five eleven forty five, and we will drop

37:01 Speaker 4: an hour of uh songs and our Hot Wax album

37:07 Speaker 4: in its entirety. We will play very cool with special

37:11 Speaker 4: Gusto since it's the release.

37:13 Speaker 3: So if you like, if you like all this music,

37:15 Speaker 3: now come see come see it live tonight.

37:19 Speaker 4: It's a it's an energy that you know you hope

37:23 Speaker 4: to capture when you do a thing like this where

37:26 Speaker 4: it's kind of studio quote unquote studio songs, yea. But

37:32 Speaker 4: the energy we're trying to capture is the live show.

37:35 Speaker 4: So come to the live show because that's where you're

37:38 Speaker 4: gonna understand what the music is, how it feels when

37:43 Speaker 4: it's all over your body, just in your ears. So yes,

37:48 Speaker 4: come to the live show and uh then we're gonna close.

37:52 Speaker 4: We'll close. Have the Melted Chapsticks to do that, and

37:56 Speaker 4: they're awesome. They're awesome like lamb punk and and other stuff.

38:07 Speaker 4: Frankie Frankie Milton Chapstick's Hollywood is a wild character and

38:13 Speaker 4: so it's a wild show. Twelve to one, Like be

38:16 Speaker 4: there because you know you're just gonna want to be

38:19 Speaker 4: like checking your brain after it's done, like what did

38:23 Speaker 4: I just experience.

38:24 Speaker 3: I mean also also, if you want to hext your

38:28 Speaker 3: ex tools for the British, yep, just talk to him.

38:33 Speaker 3: He has the tools for you to have that done.

38:37 Speaker 3: Because that's also.

38:38 Speaker 4: Yes, he dabbles in the art, the in the arts

38:41 Speaker 4: and the mystiques and the mystiques in the arts. I

38:44 Speaker 4: don't want to say it wrong, but.

38:47 Speaker 12: They have an album called Yeah and the Satanic his

38:53 Speaker 12: album Yeah, he's also that song, and then he's got

38:55 Speaker 12: album Satanic six Pack, that's what it's called.

38:59 Speaker 4: And they're such great songs. My favorite song is say

39:02 Speaker 4: Hi to stay on there. It's so good. I just

39:06 Speaker 4: dance all over when you start singing that song.

39:07 Speaker 2: Yeah.

39:08 Speaker 4: But yeah, so you know it's all gonna be aesthetically

39:15 Speaker 4: amazing and the music is going to match the aesthetic, okay,

39:20 Speaker 4: because we've all played together on the bill, so we're

39:24 Speaker 4: just gonna have a nice energy and then I'm bringing

39:27 Speaker 4: in a little some lights and things to make it,

39:29 Speaker 4: you know, nice and glowy for us. And of course,

39:34 Speaker 4: so that's photis July twelfth, all right, Yes.

39:39 Speaker 1: Very good, very good? And where should people go? Where's

39:41 Speaker 1: the best place for people to go online to keep

39:42 Speaker 1: up with everything that you're doing all the show.

39:44 Speaker 4: There's a website, right, there is a website, but I

39:48 Speaker 4: would say go to our Facebook page, Instagram page tracks drums,

39:57 Speaker 4: or who I Am Live or who I Am in tracks. Really,

40:01 Speaker 4: if you just type in who I'm in tracks like

40:04 Speaker 4: you know, anywhere, you'll see us pop up, very googleable,

40:09 Speaker 4: very googleable, like any you know, YouTube, band camp if

40:14 Speaker 4: you want to go check out the songs, download and

40:16 Speaker 4: resource us, we would love it.

40:18 Speaker 3: We have a very good se o.

40:19 Speaker 4: Yeah right right, yeah, band camp. Go to band camp,

40:24 Speaker 4: I got you know, the songs are all up there.

40:26 Speaker 2: So you're saying there there aren't. You're not going to

40:28 Speaker 2: accidentally find a different who I Am in thrax is

40:30 Speaker 2: what you're saying, right.

40:31 Speaker 4: Will not? You will not if you do tell us, yes, yes,

40:35 Speaker 4: I'd be curious. Yeah, no you won't.

40:39 Speaker 3: Yeah.

40:39 Speaker 4: It's the best place to find us online like that. Yeah, yeah,

40:42 Speaker 4: check us out. And we we're always posting stuff. And

40:47 Speaker 4: again you know, we have our album for sale five

40:49 Speaker 4: bucks at the show and so you know, the while

40:56 Speaker 4: supplies last, you'll get a free heart glasses with the album.

40:59 Speaker 4: Yea and all. So we have a pop up store

41:03 Speaker 4: Hot Wax pop up store with merch okay, and so

41:08 Speaker 4: if you go to one of our socials, it's all

41:14 Speaker 4: over the place. I got it posted. You can go

41:16 Speaker 4: there and if you buy something from our pop up store,

41:19 Speaker 4: we'll give you the album for free.

41:21 Speaker 2: Oh very cool, very cool.

41:23 Speaker 1: Well we're going to close out in a moment with

41:24 Speaker 1: this track, New Love. But thank you both for coming today.

41:27 Speaker 1: This has been wonderful. Congratulations on the EP and everything

41:30 Speaker 1: that you're doing.

41:30 Speaker 2: And thanks so much absolutely for having.

41:32 Speaker 1: Absolutely we will do it again in the future. And

41:35 Speaker 1: if you are listening live on Saturday, make sure you

41:38 Speaker 1: stick around. Coming up an hour three. Are they in

41:41 Speaker 1: the building? Jenny Grin, Caleb and Darling Hill from the

41:45 Speaker 1: listening room at Prayers of Nature, So looking forward to that.

41:48 Speaker 1: But we will close out this segment with this is

41:50 Speaker 1: New Love. This is from the EP is called Hot Tracks.

41:54 Speaker 1: I'm sorry hot Wax rather hot Wax.

41:56 Speaker 3: Right, I mean they are hot tracks.

41:57 Speaker 8: They are hot tracks, Hot tracks from Hot Wax.

42:00 Speaker 4: There works who I am in thracts