Welcome to Atlanta. You guys are from Mons, Belgium, so why don’t you tell us about home?

It’s called Mons because it’s a hill. It’s an old medieval town, really old. It’s a little town of ten thousand people. It’s where we were born. Underground music there is not that big, not as big as a lot of other towns in Belgium like Brussels and Antwerp. We are in the south of Belgium where people speak in French. Underground music is way more hype in the north of Belgium.

So Atlanta is a huge city for music, which can lead to more opportunities, but also more competition. Sounds like you have the opposite problems.

We’ve never been famous at home. 90% of our fans are outside of Belgium.

Why do you think that is?

It’s a really small country. It’s only 11 million people. They are making the biggest underground music party in Europe, called Rampage, but when you are an underground artist in Belgium, most of the artists are touring the US or sometimes the UK. The festivals in Belgium don’t really book local artists as much.

I know you guys refer to yourselves as a band, not as DJs. Where do you see that difference?

It’s a live set. We have two computers and we are loading samples and stems. I play piano on top of it, and we are running effects and loops. We are for sure not DJs. I don’t know where you can put the difference actually between a DJ and a live act. For sure for us in a live act, you just play your own productions the whole set. You can edit them live and re-create some stuff live with the samples you have. We’ll never play other people’s tracks, only a collab we’ve done. DJs more entertain people with their knowledge of music.

Do you think that because DJs are so popular these days, it’s harder for audiences to know what’s going on in a live performance and to appreciate the extra work you’re doing on stage?

Yeah, when you just play at a festival in front of thousands of people, for sure. They have no idea what you’re doing. For the fans who have been following us for years, they know. That’s the benefit that real fans can have. They can tell what we’re doing on stage, and they know if it’s not just the original track. Fans who listen to the album and then see us live, they can hear the difference.