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1. ⁠Describe your sound in three words.

Tranquil, balanced, meditative.

2. So, Chaos In The CBD, what’s the most chaotic thing you’ve ever done?

Playing the game “Who Can Stay Up the Longest.”

3. ⁠If you could both save one track from A Deeper Life from a burning building, which one would you both choose and why?

None of them, I’ll just purchase a new copy of the record. My life is too precious to be running into burning buildings.

4. What’s one thing you learned about yourselves as producers since producing A Deeper Life?

Patience.

5. ⁠Midnight in Peckham is described as your coming of age – it’s midnight in Peckham, where are you going?

I’m probably in my bedroom building my lil Legos.

6. ⁠What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever seen behind the decks?

Someone proposing to their lil sweetie pie while we were playing. That’s a pretty crazy thing to do.

7. ⁠If you could curate your own festival line-up, aside from yourselves, who are you picking as your top three headliners?

James Brown, The Isley Brothers, Max B. 

8. ⁠What’s one track that always gets people dancing?

Cheek – Venus (Sunshine People) (DJ Gregory Remix). 

9. What’s your favourite thing about working with your brother?

Having your best friend every step of the journey. You are never lonely when you have each other. I couldn’t do this without Beans.

10. ⁠What’s one city you can’t wait to play A Deeper Life in?

Auckland.

Photography courtesy of Chaos In The CBD.

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In 1965, while the rest of his band was on tour, Brian Wilson, a founding member of the Beach Boys, who died this week at age 82, challenged himself to stay home and create a masterpiece. The results of that challenge, Pet Sounds, has become one of the most revered and influential works of pop music.

“Without Pet Sounds, Sgt. Pepper never would have happened,” recalled longtime Beatles’ producer George Martin in Rolling Stone. “Pepper was an attempt to equal Pet Sounds.”

Paul McCartney agrees, saying, “I’ve often played Pet Sounds and cried.”

In 2017, I became infatuated with Pet Sounds, and I have to admit — that’s a little weird. I’m old enough to have seen the Ramones perform live, but I’m not that old. To me, The Beach Boys was music that just kind of always existed in the background. Something my parents tapped their fingers to on the steering wheel when we were stuck in traffic. Not something that I loved or hated, something that was always there.

But lately, I’ve been giving a lot of thought to things that seem to have always existed — cellphones, Batman, America — and here’s the thing, they didn’t! Someone, or a group of people, created these things out of thin air. They had an idea and got to work.

I’m no music critic, but listening to songs such as “God Only Knows” and “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” with fresh ears, I couldn’t stop thinking, “What made him even think of doing that?” There are not many top hits before or after “Sloop John B” with lyrics about eating all of a shipmate’s corn that I can think of, can you? You start to understand why the “genius” word gets thrown in Brian Wilson’s direction, and why it sticks.

I jumped at the chance to see Brian Wilson in the fall of 2017, alongside Beach Boys co-founder Al Jardine and a tremendous backing band, play the entirety of the groundbreaking album track by track at Radio City Music Hall. (Additional Pet Sounds: The Final Performances Tour dates can be found here.) Hearing these songs live — more than 50 years after the guy sitting at the piano first heard them in his head — was incredible and inspiring. I left the theater not sure that in my lifetime I’ll be able to create something that remains relevant and groundbreaking for half a century, but certain that I am not going to stop trying.

Here are some quotes from Brian Wilson about creativity and the drive to succeed, pulled from great interviews he’s done with Jason Fine for Rolling Stone and Alison Beard for Harvard Business Review.

“I’m success-oriented. You have to program yourself to be successful. Kick ass at life.”

Wilson talks to engineers and other on-lookers while recording Pet Sounds in 1966 in Los Angeles.

“I still believe in that message — working hard is the way to go. I live by it.”

Brian Wilson and Al Jardine perform Pet Sounds at the Pantages Theatre on May 26, 2017, in Los Angeles.

“If you stick with it, things work out in the end. Not always, but sometimes.”

The Beach Boys pose during a portrait session at Pacific Ocean Park on March 10, 1966 in Los Angeles. Left to right are Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, Bruce Johnston, Mike Love, Al Jardine and Brian Wilson.

“The park helps keep me straight. I show up feeling bad, and I leave feeling good. It blows the bad stuff right out of my brains.”

Rolling Stone profile, as featured on Brian Wilson’s official Instagram page.

“Fifty years later, I’m doing a world tour, playing [Pet Sounds] live, and seeing and hearing the audience respond. That makes me very proud. That record brought and continues to bring love to the world, which was my intent when I wrote the music.”

Drumhead for the 2017 tour.

“Sometimes things happen, and sometimes they don’t, but you can’t force it. It’s frustrating, but I keep at it.”

Brian Wilson’s career retrospective Playback: The Brian Wilson Anthology is now available on CD, vinyl and digital.

“Some people are leaders, and everyone contributes in different ways. The Beach Boys were a family — three brothers, a cousin and a friend — which gave us a cohesiveness. But I think the key to our success was respecting one another’s ideas and opinions.”

Carl Wilson, Bruce Johnston, Brian Wilson and Al Jardine sing around a piano in the recording studio circa 1966.

“I’m getting older but I don’t give a goddamn. I can still sing my ass off.”

Singer and mastermind Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys directs from the control room while recording the album Pet Sounds in 1966 in Los Angeles.

“I wanted to be a center fielder for the Yankees. That was my ambition, but I got sidetracked into the music business.”

“To succeed in life, you have to put a little muscle into it — mind muscle.”

Brian Wilson at the San Diego Civic Theatre on May 24, 2017, in San Diego, Calif.