Love Automatic - Sound In The Signals Magazine Interview (PREVIEW)

Love Automatic will be featured in our May issue (which will be out in less than two weeks!). Since their new EP Organ Donor drops today I decided to give a preview of the interview. Click READ MORE to check out the first two questions of our interview with Mike Glita.

You just released your new EP Organ Donor. What was the recording process like for this EP? How was it different working on this EP than some of the bands you guys had previously been in (Senses Fail & Armor For Sleep)?
Mike: Well, it is a completely different animal than any of our previous bands. All of us are fans of dance/electronic music, but we mainly have all played in rock bands before this. Since it's Electro House music, it isn't the "typical" recording process of heading into a big studio and laying down tracks. We self-record and produce everything in Nick's room, where we have our home studio. Besides Brent's vocals, it's all electronic programming. As time moves forward, and we have more money, there is a possibility that we may incorporate some more organic elements.

I'm always interested in the writing process when bands incorporate a lot of electronic elements in their music. How do you guys write songs and will the songs be performed differently live than on the record?
We try not to have any set way of how we write music, but usually it starts with a basic idea/template that Nick will come up with in FL Studio (FruityLoops). Then I (Mike) will come over and we will build off that and try to arrange the music accordingly. Once we have a pretty good idea of where the track is going, we send it off to Brent, who then writes lyrics and melodies. When he is ready, he will come and lay down some scratch vocals (rough vocals), and we brainstorm and make any slight changes we think is needed. As far as live goes, coming from rock bands we wanted to bring something different to the table. Since we started this project, I had this vision of really putting on a show; I wanted to put on something more than just spinning our tracks. I figured people could come to our shows and dance, or they could also watch us perform as well. So live, I play the drums, PJ is on guitar, Nick glitches, and Brent sings. You can actually check out a live video of us on our youtube page: www.youtube.com/loveautomaticrock