For the fifteenth mix we decided to take it back to the club via our favourite Los Angelean producers of thumping electronic bliss: Acid Girls.

Known to their mothers and lovers as Gregory Bowler and Jamie McNeil, Acid Girls first surfaced on the Slutty Fringe radar via their superlative blog of the same name before embarking on a fruitful post blog production career. Despite only gracing our ears with a mere clutch of original releases for the likes of Kitsune and iHeartComix, the duo have obliged us with some additional remixes of \\Health//, Appaloosa, Sisters Of Transistors and more that remain the staple of a Slutty Fringe Dj set.

There’s been a smattering of Acid Girl mixage on these here pages over the years and they were two lines from the top of the list marked “Who Shall We Get To Do A Slutty Fringe Mix?”.

It’s a brilliant mix that veers with delight through various different ends of the electronic spectrum. We managed to nail Gregory down to answer some silly questions about Electrowars, the LA club scene (surpringly similar to DJ Girl apparently) and the perfect Acid Girls event.

Slutty Fringe:How did Gregory meet Jamie?

Gregory: I was working at a record store with my soon-to-be girlfriend, who was good friends with Jamie all through high school (we went to the same high school but to the extent that we knew each other at all, we had a vague kind of contempt for one another, for no reason in particular– he thought I was a snob, and I thought his Mohawk looked stupid). Eventually we both moved to the same neighbourhood and started hanging out and talking about music and movies and drinking herculean quantities of alcohol. I had been DJing at a local dive and I got sick of playing the whole night by myself, and he was the only other DJ I knew… So really, it was love at about the 500th sight.

Just like the Human League song! What came first Acid Girls the blog or Acid Girls the producers?

The blog came first, but only by a little bit. The blog was originally meant to be just a companion to the night we did together, a reflection of the tracks we were playing at the end of the night, and a celebration of new sounds in those halcyon days before we knew that this strange new thing would mobilize into a multi-front Electro War. Then pretty shortly after starting the night we started making edits together to play out, which evolved pretty naturally into making original tracks, most of the early ones (and a lot of the later ones too) being of questionable merit.

Who does what on an Acid Girls production?

Alcohol and weed do most of the work to be honest, which I guess is one of the reasons we work pretty slowly. Each track seems to have its own process, but most of the time I (Greg) will tease the track into various states of weirdness, usually going far beyond the limits of taste, and Jamie, being a somewhat more sensible gentleman raver, will bring it back down to the dancefloor, and I’ll volley it back again, until eventually we wind up with some kind of mutant musical progeny for people to scoff at or to cut a rug to.

You seem to be quite happy working on track at your own merry pace, with the odd remix thrown in as opposed to some acts who surfaced in the electro wars years who haven’t really achieved the success they’d hope from releasing an album etc, was this spreading yourself too thin something you were consciously wary of?

This isn’t entirely by choice… We’re not lazy, we work a lot, we’re just very judicious about what should see the light of day, as hard as that may sometimes be to tell by hearing the tunes that do surface. We like to do remixes, but somewhere between available time, budgetary humiliations and whether or not we like a given song, we do or do not wind up doing something with various remix offers.

We are working on an album, but who knows when that will be done. It will likely not be concerned much about working on the dancefloor… mostly because of the reasons you mentioned. I think it’s very difficult to make a dance record that doesn’t sound like a few strong singles with a bunch of filler… I don’t like to listen to that kind of album, and neither of us even listen to that much dance music at home to be honest. Jamie would rather listen to T-Pain and I would rather listen to Neil Young… So yeah, we’ll probably meet in the middle of those two things and it will be a painful listen and we’ll suffer a similar fate to that of our fallen peers in the Electro Wars. Nah, it’ll be trip hop. Or country music.

I’d also say that your sound is quite hard to pin down – like you’ve had some releases on Kitsune but you’re not the archetypal Kitsune Maison act and simply branding Acid Girls as electro house seems outdated – where do you see yourselves ?

We don’t think about it very much, but we will take what you’re saying as a compliment. We pretty much just think of the stuff that’s come out as being dance music. 12″ music. Most of it pleasantly temporary pop variants of house, techno or whatever. I don’t think we’ve made anything that people will be listening to ten years from now, which is kind of the measure of what we’re working towards doing eventually, but who knows what will happen.

Speaking of Electrowars did you attend the recent premiere?

No sadly, we were out of town. We’ll bite our tongues because a bunch of our friends are in that movie, but suffice it to say that if aliens happen to receive a transmission of that movie, I suspect they’ll mark our planet for destruction.

I’ve seen YouTube footage of after parties Acid Girls play at which are set in some celebrities house and it all looks a decadent world away from some of my recent DJ experiences. So is what the LA nightlife like?

LA nightlife is incredibly decadent. Most of the people I know are hard-partying zombies awaiting the reckoning of 2012, engaged in the kind of conspicuous consumption that makes parents cry. There’s almost no good clubs to play as it were, maybe four (Dance Right, Rhonda, Control and Cinespace, I guess are the ones that come to mind, though they are all very, very different from each other). Maybe that’s a lot? I am not sure. There’s a pretty thriving after party thing happening here if you are into that sort of thing, which sometimes we are dumb enough to partake in. The best thing to do in LA though is to find a swimming pool and stay there as long as you can. And you know, it’s usually Warren Beatty’s pool, that guy’s an animal.

The excellent mix you have produced for us contains a smattering of new Acid Girls material, consider this a chance to pimp your forthcoming wares.

There’s more that we would like to have included, but we thought it better not to include things that are unfinished… you know, maybe somebody hears a track and really likes it, and then somehow down the road they hear it and you’ve messed it up and they want the old version… first impressions are important, I guess.

And you’ll be returning to our breezy shores soon?

Yes, just today we received emails confirming as much, but more on that later! Sometime in the early winter though, because we’re stupid.

We might finally get the chance to compare liver strengths eh?

It’s like the lottery, you got to play to win! I certainly hope this comes to pass, but I would perhaps start on a supplemental intake of milk thistle if you’d like to be able to compete at our level.

Fighting talk! It’s clear from some of the mixes you’ve done which have appeared on SF that your influences spread far and wide, what current artists are inspiring you to do better right now?

Emeralds, Oneohtrix Point Never, ARP, John Talabot, the Sound Pellegrino roster, DJ Koze, Bok Bok & L-Vis, LOL Boys, Nick Cave, James Holden and Border Community in general, Fennesz, Fuck Buttons, the Martin Brothers, Flying Lotus, Kink, J-Wow, Gavin Russom, Duke Dumont, Photonz, all our friends, plus a shitload of older music.

If Acid Girls curated the perfect club line up, who would be on the bill?

Room 1: David Bowie, The Clash, Augustus Pablo
Room 2: Larry Levan & Ron Hardy b2b, Mr. Fingers, Loose Joints (live), Daft Punk (DJ set)
Room 3: Us, all of our friends, and a crowd of history’s most beautiful women with an endless supply of champagne.

Tracklist:

Azari & III – Reckless With Your Love (Tensnake Remix)

Acid Girls – Steam

Lone – Pineapple Crush

Itamar Sagi – Selio

Nguzunguzu – Got U (Canblaster & Berou Remix)

Martin Brothers – Steal Drums

D-51 – Mi Trompeta

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Wafa – Ewid Disco (Drop The Lime Remix)

?????????? – ????? (Acid Girls Remix)

Hidden Cat – Get With It

Human Life – In It Together (Acid Girls Remix)

(thee) Mike B – Bourne Toulouse

The Shoes – Stay the Same (Harvard Bass Remix)

L-Vis 1990 – Forever You

24Hour Experience – Scatter

Mirror People – Night Impact

Midnight Magic – Beam Me Up (Gavin Russom Remix)

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