It was interesting to learn that you use a combination of Traktor and Ableton Live while performing. How you feel about being called DJs, as that term becomes something that some electronic artists reject these days?

Treavor: Well, we’re both DJs, first of all, outside of being producers. We’ve both been DJs for many years. What we’re doing is a combination of DJing and what would be considered live PA. We’re playing our own music, we’re adding sounds from our own music on top, especially our sort of classic sounds from our earlier albums are added on top of newer stuff. We did do a bit more DJing in our sets with other people’s music over the last year, but that was because we didn’t have a lot of new music.

Right now we’re in the middle of producing a lot of new remixes and new stuff so we’re heading into another zone where we will have a lot of new music to play. I’d say it’s a combination. We approach our sets as a DJ would, because we’re not really into this thing of tracks ending. We don’t talk on the microphone, we’re not trying to hype up the crowd by telling them that they should be hyped up or anything like that. We like to keep the set flowing from beginning to end, and create more of a journey with it, and keep the dance floor going. We create sections that are just beats of tracks so we can beatmatch and be able to do drastic key changes, but just keep it musically sound.

Personally, I don’t care if people consider it a DJ set or a live set. We’re playing our own music, we do it in a way that’s probably not done by a lot of people with Traktor and Ableton synced up together. I’ve never seen anybody do that. I know I’ve heard of people doing it usually on one laptop. I think we’ll probably switch over to Ableton Live fully in the near future because it works better with things like syncing visuals and having everybody with a click track in our live shows. You know, in-ear monitors and stuff like that as we bring in more live musicians and have performers that need to be hearing what’s going on. It probably would make sense to go to Ableton Live completely, but there is something nice about Traktor. It is a really nice-sounding piece of software, but it’s limited as far as what you can do with the live setup.

Armani: Ableton’s great for the adding of sound on top, and third-party effects, and easy MIDI mapping. So, Ableton has its benefits, but honestly, Traktor sounds a little better, so it’s really nice that we’re able to use both. We will probably use Ableton for the live show when we have musicians joining us, but I think we would continue this setup when it’s just the two of us because it works really well for us, and it sounds really good.

You’ve mentioned your friend James Lumb and his Neve summing amp which you’ve used in the past to render out stems of tracks for a warmer sound. Any plans to revisit that, since you’ll be in Atlanta this weekend?

Treavor: I’m sure we will. James is a genius. You know, James is one of the people that started Moontribe with me in 1993. He was a part of the band Electric Skychurch, that was hugely famous in the '90s and early '00s. He’s just one of those guys who’s really great at what he does, and he’s a good friend. So, yeah, maybe on the next album we might run it through him. We’ve learned a lot since the time that we did the last album too, so we could probably get even better results out of it. It probably will happen again, possibly on the next album. He’s so good at what he does, and it really creates a warmth and a sound quality that’s hard to match.

Is there anything you see in the scene that folks should have an eye on? Any undiscovered artists or trends?

Treavor: There’s so much music out there right now that’s really incredible. My favorites seem to change from month to month. There's this whole slower house music thing going on right now that’s really fantastic. There’s an electronica thing going on that’s really unique and fun, there’s great techno, there’s good downtempo. It’s actually impossible to keep up.