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From humble beginnings spent building their own musical scene in Chicago, IL, Josh Young and Curt Cameruci, aka J2K and Autobot, aka Flosstradamus have steadily gained critical and commercial acclaim to the point that they are now desrevedly hailed as a leading artist in the new wave of Electronic Dance Music which is currently exploding all around the globe.
With an encyclopedic awareness spanning musical genres and an unquenchable thirst to keep pushing beyond any critical expectations, Flosstradamus have spend the past 5 years issuing a constant stream of quality remixes and original EPs, while also never shying away from performing for a crowd of any size, whether it is tens of thousands in festival massives to happy hundreds in packed clubs, or even to delighted dozens at intimate backroom bar gigs roaming from Atlanta to Amsterdam, from Detroit to Dubai and from Chicago to Copenhagen and beyond.
Alongside building a worldwide reputation as party starter extraordinaires, Flosstradamus are also famed for notable collaborations with like-minded Windy City family like The Cool Kids, A-Trak, and (actual sibling) Kid Sister, and for their shrewd remix work for international superstars including Lana Del Rey, De La Soul, Bloc Party, Major Lazer and many, many more. On a recent hot day in Austin, TX, Buzzine’s Andrew Shaw sat down with the endlessly energetic duo to discuss their artistic roots, the ways they have learned to make music as a team, to collaborate with other artists and perhaps even talk a little about that oft-rumoured debut studio album…
Andrew Shaw: Starting out together in Chicago, you weren’t originally being signed by managers or engaged by bookers, you were hosting your own homegrown parties, developing your music in a truly independent way: How much of your musical style today stems from the fact that you grew so organically from the very beginning?
Josh Young: Honestly, it has everything to do with our career that he and I joined forces and started our own party. And in Chicago, which is a city that has a gigantic population, but with this sort of small town mentality where everything can be word of mouth. So when we started our parties, there were maybe...