David - LMS tv

Hi, This is LMS TV. I'm Elaine Malone. We're talking with Daithí here in Cyprus Avenue. So Daithí, do you wanna tell us about yourself? Ah,yeah, I'm an electronic musician who's been playing for the last kinda 4 or 5 years but, in the last few years its gotten a lot dancier I think The live show that I have is kind of very very big full kinda dance show with lots of flashing lights and visuals and stuff, so yeah, it's good fun! And who would you describe as your main influences? At the moment I think Diclosure are doing really amazing things. I'm kind of like, on the cusp between looking for pop music and looking for dance music so I think they kinda get that balance really really well, they write really good pop songs and then build them around really good dance music. Other than that guys like Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs are a big influence for me and in terms of looping and stuff there's a guy called Owen Pallett from Canada who's really amazing, he did all the strings for Arcade Fire, so I try to listen to as many different things as possible. Irish acts as well, Le Galaxie and Young Wonder and there's a whole pile of really good acts here as well that you can take a lot of influence from. You started on The All Ireland Talent Show, do you feel you've progressed a lot from that or have you taken a lot from it? Yeah, I think its changed a lot. When I was doing that, it seems so long ago now, it's about 5 or 6 years now, and when I started there I was only just the fiddle and just doing loops and loops like that, now it's much more kind of a big, full dance music show, so I think the sound has almost changed completely, almost 100%, but I don't think it's a bad thing, I think it's kinda change for the better, and I think I get a very different crowd to what I used to get. You mentioned people like Disclosure, so would you be open for collaborations and thing? Is that something you've got planned in the future? I do a fair bit of collaboration with singers. I can't sing at all so I kind of try and get as many singers as possible to come along. So for the new album which will be coming out in the new year, there's an awful lot of guest singers on it, so I do a lot of collaborating like that. I'm only just starting learning how to write lyrics and stuff like that so I get a lot of help with people who come along, and it's great to see people put their own take on your music as well, you can be really surprised what people come up with because they come from a different angle. That's brilliant, I really love doing that and you learn a lot from that. What do you have coming up in the next few months? Ah, the next few months? I have this gig tonight! That's as far as I'm thinking! I have Hard Working Class Heroes at the weekend. That's the IMRO showcase? Yeah, basically, it's a big kind of industry show in Dublin where they have, I think its 101 acts playing. I'm really looking forward to that. Then in November I plan to go on a big, proper tour with Le Galaxie and Funeral Suits, so we'll be doing 6 dates across Ireland. I'm really, really looking forward to that now, they're gonna be really good fun. So you play violin, were you classically trained or was it something you just picked up yourself? I learned it traditionally, my family have a strong traditional background, and I got taught fiddle from my auntie, so she taught me everything! And then I stopped playing fiddle when I was about 13 years old, and started playing bass guitar for a couple of different bands, and then after that I came back to the fiddle and started doing this loop station stuff, so most of the stuff that I write with the fiddle kind of has a traditional feel by accident, just because I learned it that way, which I think is a good thing, it kind of makes it a bit wilder and less straight down the line. And how do you feel Irish traditional music transposes into electronica? You've to be very careful that it doesn't become a cheesy mess! You don't wanna be the next Cotton Eyed Joe or anything! But I think there's a massive library of music that people haven't really used yet. I see a lot of electronic producers going finding Chinese and Asian samples. Not many people are actually looking on your doorstep and seeing all these amazing singers, like Sean Nos singers that nobody's really used for dance music yet. I've been kind of dabbling in that as well getting a lot of samples from those guys and I think that works really ***' well! It's just a really amazing, unique kind of take on something, and if you can put that into electronic music, it makes it really interesting! So I've to try and avoid the cheese! Thanks a million for coming to meet us, and I wish you the best of luck tonight! No problem at all!