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63 Minutes With Mount Kimbie Right Before Their World Tour

Our buddies at THUMP caught up with the duo to talk about life pre-Kimbie.

“It’s like a bunch of idiots barking at each other,” Kai Campos says over the heavy bass throbbing through the walls like an underwater earthquake. Thankfully, he’s not talking about our interview, but rather the current state of Dubstepforum.com, where Kai and his counterpart Dominic Maker fished for new ideas during earliest days—before they became Mount Kimbie.

We’re all sitting somewhat tensely on scuffed-up leather sofas in the dressing room of New York City’s Bowery Ballroom, where a sprinkle of baguette crumbs, some cheese and a bottle of balsamic vinaigrette are all that stand between us (Mount Kimbie apparently has bourgeois taste in snacks).

Downstairs, the notoriously mysterious “witch house” producer Holy Other has just started his opening set, playing to a packed house in almost complete darkness. And in exactly an hour, Dom and Kai will kick off the first show of their world tour—where they’ll dutifully trot out new material from their just-released second album, Cold Spring Fault Less Youth, night after night through December.

But for now, Kai is on a rant (as he seems prone to do) about the deteriorating state of Dubstepforum. “The level of conversation going on there now is very low," he says. "It’s like YouTube comments, where everyone’s talking at the same volume and it’s totally unfiltered.” Next to me, Dom—the strong and silent type—nods in agreement.

Read the rest over at THUMP and keep an eye out on You Need To Hear This for a short film with Mount Kimbie.