On this episode of Mind Massage, Tyrone from RÜFÜS DU SOL takes us on a sound journey using some of his favorite items such as a Coconut, Seaweed, Popcorn and more!
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00:00Hi, I'm Tyrone from Rufus DeSalle.
00:17Welcome to my mind massage.
00:47I'm going to start with a massage that I've been wanting to do for a long time.
00:54I'm going to start with a massage that I've been wanting to do for a long time.
00:57I'm going to start with a massage that I've been wanting to do for a long time.
01:00I'm going to start with a massage that I've been wanting to do for a long time.
01:03I'm going to start with a massage that I've been wanting to do for a long time.
01:06I'm going to start with a massage that I've been wanting to do for a long time.
01:09I'm going to start with a massage that I've been wanting to do for a long time.
01:12I'm going to start with a massage that I've been wanting to do for a long time.
01:15I'm going to start with a massage that I've been wanting to do for a long time.
01:22This is like a core memory for me.
01:25I grew up in a little town called Lightning Ridge in Australia.
01:29I grew up in a little town called Lightning Ridge in Australia.
01:32My parents are opal miners.
01:34One part of the process of looking for opals is a tail out,
01:40which is where they sift through rocks on like a tin sort of surface
01:49and and you're just moving rocks through water. That's really soothing for me for some reason.
02:10While my parents were opal miners trying to find little gemstones, whatever, I didn't really
02:21get the hands-on skill for digging the dirt to find these gems but
02:28I did find a love of finding gems in music.
02:33I spend most of my life just looking for a melody or a lyric or a feeling that I can capture
02:47and bottle it up in a song. I'm fortunate enough to do it with two really close friends.
02:53We are a three-piece band and we essentially have a studio just as a playground
03:03where we'll use anything at our disposal to make noise.
03:08We'll rip coconuts, light matches, anything really to create an atmosphere.
03:23Atmosphere for us in music is really important and it's just a fun place to play.
03:31We're in an electronic band but I feel like it's really limiting to box yourself in like that.
03:40I feel like we're really just kids in a studio playing with toys, making songs
03:48and we're about to put out our fifth album.
03:54So we've been doing it for 15 years so it's been a good time.
03:59So our album's called Inhale Exhale. It has 15 songs so it's our longest album we've ever done
04:07before. We had so much fun making it. We did I think probably about eight two-week trips
04:17to different studios across the country and in Ibiza we wrote the most material we've ever written.
04:24I'm so stoked with it. It's the opening songs called Inhale, the closing songs called Exhale
04:35and everything in between is a fun ride. We love cross-referencing ourselves in terms of lyrics.
04:44There's a lot of lyrics in in the album either hint at air or breath but realistically they're
04:53all just versions of love songs.
05:14Right here we have a coconut. I had to hack at it to open it up this morning.
05:21It wasn't a pretty sight, looked like a murder scene but uh I picked this thing because
05:28I think on our third record we recorded the ripping of the coconut and it sounded like space-time
05:37being torn.
05:52Now just imagine lots of delays and effects and you've got a song. Radiohead has to be
06:00one of our biggest inspirations as a band. They felt really creatively free and uh
06:07bold in terms of what they do. When we started the band we shared a love of an act called Booker
06:13Shade. They had an album called Movements and it's just an incredible album. I could time travel
06:23to any era of music. The late 70s. I love disco. I love the fashion. I love the music. Makes me
06:35want to dance. It probably will never happen but a Rufus Dussault disco album would be pretty fun.
06:45If we could make the soundtrack to a film what would it be? That's tough because I love films.
06:54I love scores and uh I love soundtracks. It'd be something maybe something like Fight Club
07:03or maybe a sci-fi. Some twisted sci-fi.
07:09So
07:31Feels weird to have holidays like this. I don't cook often but
07:35I have been cooking pasta a lot more because I've been
07:41training for a marathon which means I need to eat a lot of carbs.
07:48But I've really enjoyed breaking
07:53spaghetti.
08:05If I could bring one album to a deserted island it would probably be Okay Computer by Radiohead.
08:16It just feels like a really timeless album. Climbing Up The Walls is probably one of my
08:23favorite songs. It just feels like a really wild and free album where they were just
08:30having a good time. I feel like that's our goal as a band is just to have fun in the studio,
08:36not be too serious. It's easy to get serious in there. If I could switch lives with anyone for a
08:45day I might switch with my son actually. I have a five-year-old son and uh I just I love the way
08:56he sees things and I'd love to see through his eyes for a day. Just think what he thinks.
09:04Move around the world like him. I think my favorite way to spend my day with
09:10my family is probably by the beach. We live like five blocks from the beach.
09:15I don't know we could just lose hours there. It's nice.
09:45There's a big popcorn here because I love going to the movies. I love movies.
09:54If we're not touring or making an album or there's a day off I often go to the movies by myself.
10:02I've got two movies that I've seen recently that I really loved. One was Dune part two.
10:18There's not a lot of talking in it which is cool because I don't know it's an epic story and
10:26I'm engaged the whole time and sound is a huge part of it and music. I think there's a kissing
10:33scene and there's just a big chord that's just like so euphoric. I haven't felt like a kissing
10:43scene feels so heroic for a while probably since Titanic or something and then Furiosa.
10:52I love the Mad Max films. They're just so out there and arty like they just it's wild choices
11:03and I love it. It's just fun to watch any artist make some wild calls and I feel like they do that
11:12a lot in that film.
11:17So
11:36this was more personal curiosity because I really wanted to hear what
11:41seaweed crushing would sound like. I feel like it'd sound cool.
11:59I feel like we're in our studio. We definitely do a bunch of this.
12:11And the whole reason we do it is because we're trying to emulate the crackle from vinyl.
12:19So we'll like rip paper or we'll light a match. I think we've crushed prawn crackers before.
12:28Not good because it smells like prawns after you do it. Don't try that one.
12:33I think one of the most surreal moments for us was probably when we got a Grammy award.
12:45It just seemed so ridiculous at the time. We're from Australia and
12:53I don't think you ever really think about success outside of Australia when you're starting out
12:59and yeah fast forwarding like 10 years or whatever it was after we started getting to be on like a
13:09stage to accept an award was weirdly like a lucid dream. I can't remember hearing them
13:17call our name out and being like wait what's going on? And you're wearing you know some sort
13:25of fancy outfit that you're like what? It was strange and also amazing. Felt a lot of euphoria
13:37and gratitude and for the people that had gotten us there.
13:43That's definitely one of the most surreal moments. My one bit of advice for an aspiring artist is to
13:52dive deep down the rabbit hole of whatever it is that you're excited by. If it's finding the
14:02crackle of a vinyl however you can emulate that or if it's you know a specific chord or
14:11song structure or a lyric or a tone of a vocal I think it's really important to follow that
14:19rabbit hole as far as it goes and you'll know when you need to take a step out of the hole.
14:28I'm Tyrone from Rufus Dussault. Thank you so much for tuning in to my mind massage.