Muen magazine also an interview with the duo where they talked a little bit about working on Dead By Sunrise album and the 'Kick The Bass' video.
MUEN: We heard from The Delta Fiasco on interviewing them that they have utilized your home and studio Ryan for recording. Is that where most of your work was done on this CD?
Ryan: Yes. That’s where most of Dead by Sunrise, that’s were Julien-K, that’s where The Delta Fiasco, the Transformers “Revenge of the Fallen” was created. All of it is created at either mine or Amir’s studio. We live close to each other and have pretty decked out studios in our homes that are exact duplicates that are real live studios and not just a converted bedroom. We work so fucking much that I don’t know how we would do it if they were not in our houses. At some point maybe we will move them somewhere but right now it works to have ..Brandon.. working on some music and Chester up in L.A. tracking vocals and then returning here to work on combining them and writing more for Dead by Sunrise. Amir’s house is set up for programming and mixing and mine is set up for a lot of people to be there but the gear is the same and redundant. My house has no privacy mainly and is ground central or ground zero for all these bands to do these songs and say that shit will be on the radio next year so that is cool.
MUEN: Noticed there is no bass player in the live line-up so, other than those listed as “official” band members, who all have contributed to the writing and recording of the songs?
Ryan: Chester and Fu mostly but there are some other people. We both have friends that play on the record in some capacity.
Amir: I actually co-wrote a couple of songs with my cousin. Scott Cutler also wrote some things too. We purposely don’t have a bass player in the band. That is how it’s meant to be. What we are doing in Dead by Sunrise is the more typical lineup with Brandon playing bass and Fu playing keyboards. We really wanted to blur the line in this band and have the computer running that (the bass) in Julien-K. The bass is really important and so we use the technology to make it more prominent and different. Full interview.