C: We’ve been reflecting a lot lately now that we have a little bit of time, and it’s been crazy to go from the Floss 1.0 stuff to now. All of the whole 2.0 version with this new movement that’s growing, we haven’t really had much time to sit back and reflect and, I don’t know, absorb all of this.
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J: We’re fortunate enough to have the privilege of experiencing an up and then a down and then another up. The perspective that we gained in falling off really helped us to mature a lot and prepare ourselves for this next level of whatever Flosstradamus is. Because this time around is way bigger than the first time we thought we were really doing it. If we just went from zero to where we are right now I know my head wouldn’t be right. Now it feels like we’re ready to hunker down and get straight to work. We were given this awesome opportunity and we know how valuable it is, so instead of pissing it away we’re just grinding one thousand percent.
J: I think it was when we put “Total Recall” up and it started to get some traction. Both of us had gotten really deep into production on different levels. I got into beat-making and Curt got really into engineering, like mixing and mastering. So it ended up working out really well for us. We put out a couple EPs before just to kinda get our name back out there and they hadn’t really done much, and then we put up this song on SoundCloud and it got a ton of plays. Then obviously the cease and desist came. But shit just took off from there.
C: We’ve done a lot of different campaigns where we’ve tried to use the Internet in ways that people hadn’t tried. When we released the X EP we set up Twitter so when people tweeted at us with a certain hashtag it would send them a direct message right away, like this little bot, and it would send them an exclusive link that gave them one share and it would go dead, and that was the only way the EP was distributed. We ended up breaking Twitter. They banned our account and stuff. We’ve released tapes as BitTorrents and our next tape is the first album ever to be released on a vape pen. We just try to use technology to push things forward.
J: Every night we go out we really try to bridge the gap between EDM and hip-hop because those are the two genres of music that we enjoy the most. We want the cultures to mix, we want the people to mix, we want everything to be completely mixed and integrated, and I think that speaks to a lot of people. Now we’re seeing a lot of rap acts coming into the raves that weren’t there a few years ago.
