Ahead of their appearance at the Lovebox afterparty, Visionquest news correspondant Kercheval Speed decided to catch up with Washington based duo and Visionquest mainstays Benoit & Sergio to discuss weird fans, Dexter & what it feels like to write game-changing techno.

How important has NOT going to burning man been, inspirationally speaking, to your music?

Have you ever noticed how every year after burning man you get this exact same story from ten different people‚ about being lost in the desert on acid during a sandstorm and losing all your friends and not having water then coming upon a camp where there are all these amazing people from portland who give sustenance and then finally after 8 hours you make it back to your camp and everyone is going to robot heart to hear Nina Kraviz? I’m not interested in making that track.

What’s the weirdest thing a fan has ever said / written to you?

After a show at Rex, a girl came up and said she’d been a fan since she was 12. we haven’t been around that long. So… that was weird.

Having asked that, has it gotten weird enough for you yet?

You think it could always get weirder‚ and I’m actually watching Mr. Brownstone by Guns & Roses, live at the Ritz, 1988, on Youtube, and then you think: it got too weird for these guys. I’m glad it doesn’t get that weird.

If God exists, what kind of dog would he have?

I would say a rhodesian ridgeback.

Give me the first line of the new love song you’re working on?

Baby I need your phone number‚ getting so crucial I feel I have to get a crucifix.

Which one of you is the responsible one?

Benoit has definitely become the more responsible party goer. I’ve become perhaps less so.

You’ve been credited with writing three techno tracks that have changed the world. What does it feel like to wake up and put on giant shoes that no human in time can ever fill?

The world changes every day and we are all, save a few chosen ones, left behind amid the flotsam of memories.

What came 1st, the music or the heartache?

The heartache‚ it’s necessary to be destroyed emotionally by a lover or friend to make something. The guy who made Dexter must have been really sad about something. All the best stuff comes from sadness‚ even the happy stuff.

If you could give one piece of advice to up and coming DJs and producers, what would it be?

Familiarize yourself with the terminology of nautical life‚ the flotsam and lagan, the jetsam and derelict. There are many treasures to be found there.

 

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