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Danish duo Delicious get interviewed before their imminent bid to conquer the UK’s clubs… We have to confess they’re new to our world, but when Delicious delivered some hot new production for our listening pleasure, they landed on the UK radar with a hefty thump. The Danish duo of Denise and Karina have been making music together since 2001. They’ve DJed at practically every venue and event in Denmark, hosted a house show on Kiss Fm Nordic, run Get Down, a house night at Rust, one of Denmark’s most established venues, and started up their own label, Lekker Records. Delicious have also been holding down residencies all over Europe, including daily sessions at Bay Bar in Ibiza for the entire 2005 season, and regular slots at the Parisian clubs Manray, Madam and Redlight. Their first single, a collaboration with Kid Massive, was released on UK house label Illegal Beats, then French label Paradise picked up Yours, a track which featured vocals from Tiger Lily. Their latest single, 3rd Floor, is a collaboration with Danish producer Jan W, released on UK label Soundslike. Now the girls are on the verge of moving to Britain – we caught up with them to find out why they are coming to the UK... : Hey Guys, can you introduce yourselves please. We are Denise and Karina - together the dj and producer team Delicious. We have been playing since 2001 and are originally from Denmark, but are currently living in Paris and are about to move to UK. : The last year has been pretty amazing you must be pleased with your progress? Yes we are very pleased. It has been a really amazing year, travelling and playing in so many different countries. When we first started DJ’ing we were only playing in clubs in Denmark. But the club scene in Denmark is not very big, so it was nice to play in new clubs and for people we had never seen before. : What has been the recipe to your success? We would like to think that it is our passion to music and our good ears for tracks, but there are a lot of good djs and producers out in the world, so down to all it must also being in the right places on the right times and meeting a lot of great people, who has all believed in us. We are also very lucky to have each other. We are childhood friends, and know everything about each other. It has been a big advantage both when working and travelling together. When we started DJ’ing in Denmark, there was not many girls playing, and as we were young when we started, people noticed us a lot, which probably helped a lot to start with, but we always knew that was not enough, we had to be good, and be able to deliver just the same as all the other DJ’s. We wanted to be taken seriously. We have always had a big passion for electronic music, from we were 14 years old, we went out together to techno and drum’n’bass parties in Copenhagen. We fell in love with housemusic on a trip to Ibiza, and that’s in a way what started things for us. : In your short career you’ve played at most of world’s top venues and clubs, is there anywhere you haven’t played that you’d particularly like to? We would like to play in Brazil and Japan, not any specific club or venue, just somewhere in those countries J we have heard so much about these places. It would also be a great experience to play in some of the big festivals in the UK. : You hold residencies at some of the top house nights in the Europe, do you feel you have to vary your sound much between them? No only a bit. Usually when the club books you, they know your sound, but of course we always adjust to each club, because not two nights are the same and there is a slightly difference in which tracks the crowd knows in the different countries. Some places you can take it more dirty than others. : What’s been the highlight of your career so far? It must have been our release of “Yours” featuring Tiger Lily in France. The track got on more than 20 compilations, and played in the main radio station Radio FG. It was amazing to know that our track was out to that many people. Having big support from a lot of respected dj’s. Also having regular gigs at Redlight, one of the best clubs in Paris. Playing Privilege, Pacha, Space and Café mambo in Ibiza and joining the Privilege World Tour. : What releases have you got coming up? One of our next releases will be on our own recordlabel Lekker Records. It is the track “A New Love” with vocals from Roxanne Wilde who is the sister of Kim Wilde. We will have some cool remixes done. : You use a lot of your own material in your sets but which other DJs and producers are doing it for you right now? We really like Axwell’s productions, they have so much energi and always makes the crowd go wild. We also enjoy the stuff from Mark Knight, Dave Spoon, and Swedish Ali Payami. : Do you play your music mainly off vinyl or CDs? We only play with cd´s. Until two years ago we also played vinyl, but that changed fast. When most clubs invested in the Pioneer cdj-1000 it became so much better and easier to play with cd´s and today most promos you receive through email. The bonus is that you wont get back aches and lose the records in the airport. : How did you learn to mix, was it vinyl decks or CDJs? We learned to mix with vinyl, it was not before 2 years ago we started to play mainly with cd’s. Everything changed a lot in the industry, and buying music online got easier. We love the Pioneer CD-J’s, the effects you can make on them, and how easy they are to work with. : What advice do you have for aspiring DJs out there looking to get into dance music? You have to be where things are happening and get to know people, but if you are really into it and have the passion, you cant help going to parties and clubs with dance music and listening to dance music on the radio and maybe go to record shops. Today the internet is definitely also very useful. You can buy all the music online, talk to other djs and producers in chatforums and have a Myspace profile, as an artist it will work as your own website. : If you weren’t DJing what would you be doing? Working with music in some other way then. Record label, nightclub, anything with music. Karina used to work for a label in Denmark called “Music For Dreams” and Denise was doing PR/Marketing for a nightclub in Denmark called Rust. We can’t imagine not working with music J : What is the best thing about this DJing lark? It is definitely the music and the travelling. To play all the music you like for other people and when listening to a track gives you goose bumps and then there will be a whole crowd getting the same feeling. We love the travelling, to see all the cities in the different countries and meeting some great people. : And the worst? It is sitting in an airport waiting for 10 hours with no sleep from the night before, lost luggage and flight delays or cancellation. Luckily we only tried once to call a club from the airport that we couldn’t come because of a flight cancellation. Also it can be very hard for the body and mind with no sleep, not if you are partying in a club, but when you have to be serious and make sure you catch your flight, we have tried lots of those where you have to go directly from the club to the airport. : What do you think of the UK scene? You have the most integrated dance scene in the world, we would say. Most English people know and like dance music and for example when a track hits MTV in the UK it will still be an underground track in some other countries. You are the leading in many things in dance music, magazines, radios, clubs, festivals and even your grandmother would know that you can have a carrier in being a producer and dj. : Will you be partying over here as well as working? Yes, we will definitely go out to a lot of parties in UK, enjoy our selfs and get inspired. We know that the English people really know how to party! We can’t wait to go out in UK. : What is your favourite thing about the UK? As we answered before, we think that UK has a great club scene, but not only that, we also think that English people has a great sense of humour and is always very polite J We hope that’s the case. : What’s next for Delicious? First of all we are moving to UK. We are very excited about that and are looking forward to play in some of your great clubs. We will be part of a club night called Audio Damage touring various clubs. We have some releases coming up and we are starting up our own record label called Lekker Records. And on top of our European gigs, we will play in China and on the Mauritius Island next to Africa. To find out more information on Delicious please visit www.delicious.dk and www.myspace.com/deliciousdjs Management www.whosyamama.com