Normally found saving the day at Coachella with his band The xx, Nicole Alvarez was joined by Jamie xx in the KROQ tent at this past weekend’s festival to discuss doing something a little different this year.

Later in the day, Jamie xx would be taking the stage to perform a three-hour DJ set in the new pyramid-shaped Quasar, a feat he says there’s no real way to prepare for. “I think the best thing about it is the jeopardy of not really knowing what anybody else is going to do. I mean, I found loads of music, I got loads of my new music to play… I know those guys pretty well and we've played together before, but it's all up in the air at the moment.”

Now in his mid-thirties, Jamie tells us that he first started experimenting with sound at the ripe age of nine. “There was a CD that came in a cereal box, CD-ROM, and it was like a very basic music remixing program where it gave you just little samples to put together,” he tells Nicole. “That kind of just made me fall in love with it -- and I worked out how to crack the thing so that I could make my own music in it instead of use the little samples and everything else just went from there.”

Looking ahead to new music with The xx, Jamie revealed that he’s caught as many of Romy’s shows as he could when they happened to be in the same town. “We've been in the studio once a month for a week, a month for a few months now and it's great, just sort of getting back into the rhythm of how to be with each other and work instead of just hanging out with friends. It's been lovely.”

Listen to Nicole Alvarez's full interview with Jamie xx above, and stay tuned for more interviews with your favorite artists right here on Audacy.

Words by Joe Cingrana Interview by Nicole Alvarez

Normally found saving the day at Coachella with his band The xx, Nicole Alvarez was joined by Jamie xx in the KROQ tent at this past weekend’s festival to discuss doing something a little different this year.
Later in the day, Jamie xx would be taking the stage to perform a three-hour DJ set in the new pyramid-shaped Quasar, a feat he says there’s no real way to prepare for. “I think the best thing about it is the jeopardy of not really knowing what anybody else is going to do. I mean, I found loads of music, I got loads of my new music to play… I know those guys pretty well and we've played together before, but it's all up in the air at the moment.”
Now in his mid-thirties, Jamie tells us that he first started experimenting with sound at the ripe age of nine. “There was a CD that came in a cereal box, CD-ROM, and it was like a very basic music remixing program where it gave you just little samples to put together,” he tells Nicole. “That kind of just made me fall in love with it -- and I worked out how to crack the thing so that I could make my own music in it instead of use the little samples and everything else just went from there.”
Looking ahead to new music with The xx, Jamie revealed that he’s caught as many of Romy’s shows as he could when they happened to be in the same town. “We've been in the studio once a month for a week, a month for a few months now and it's great, just sort of getting back into the rhythm of how to be with each other and work instead of just hanging out with friends. It's been lovely.”
Listen to Nicole Alvarez's full interview with Jamie xx above, and stay tuned for more interviews with your favorite artists right here on Audacy.
Words by Joe Cingrana Interview by Nicole Alvarez

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