JASON DONNELLY: Standing here with one of the artists today who performed at the Seattle Decibel Fest. We’re in Seattle, Washington. It’s Suntzu, is that correct?

J. JUSTICE: Suntzu Sound. Seattle, Washington

JASON DONNELLY: Suntzu.

J. JUSTICE: Suntzu Sound from Seattle. J. Justice, Atlee.

JASON DONNELLY: Atlee.

ATLEE: Atlee, yeah.

JASON DONNELLY: Atlee, Jason, J. Justice. All right guys, great set by the way. I did get a lot of footage. I hope you don’t mind. You’re not going to sue me.

J. JUSTICE: No, it’s all good.

ATLEE: Not a problem.

JASON DONNELLY: Okay, no. I’ll send you a link to the interview, too. So, you know, when it’s ready. So just tell me a little bit -- I’m going to hand the mic over, we just can pass it around. Tell me a little bit about your music and your approach to music and then a little bit about the gear that you use. And then we’ll let you be on your merry way. Thanks.

J. JUSTICE: All right. Well Suntzu Sound, we represent I guess all flavors of soul music. We kind of originally came together out of discovering the kind of West London vibe that was coming out, broken beat scene. And that’s kind of what brought us together as DJs. And since then, we just kind of made an effort of exposing people to soul music from all corners of the world, whether it’s Hip Hop or Latin or House or Techno with the running thread as that soulful music. And as DJs, that’s what we try to bring to the floor. For our gigs, we try to hit as many different areas as we can because as music fans, you know, we listen to all different kinds of music. Whether, you know, we’re at home or in the car, whatever. So we bring every influence we can to the table.

As for gear, as time has gone on, we’ve -- it’s all about the CDJ. We haven’t made the switch to Serato, but honestly, like the CDJ Pioneer 1000, whatever it’s called like that’s --

JASON DONNELLY: You know, a lot of people will still swear by that, that piece too. Pretty Bones.

J. JUSTICE: Right, right.

JASON DONNELLY: It’s like that’s all. He uses that and the turntables.

J. JUSTICE: I mean the CDJ, now that we get, you know, with the Internet, you get music sent to you from producers all over the world and it’s, you know, it’s instant access. You burn the CD and you go play it. And the cool thing is the more we use them, the more you learn about all the tools and kind of tricks that you can do using the CDJ. I mean, I understand that you can do with similar things with Serato. Haven’t made that leap yet. It’s all good. But like --

JASON DONNELLY: So you shouldn’t need to worry about a computer crashing on you.

J. JUSTICE: Exactly. It’s only one thing you got to worry about. So, you know, like tonight I was looping an a cappella or you know, what’s really helpful sometimes is if the beginning of the track is really short. Before the vocal, you can just loop that beginning part and then use that for your mix and then once you’ve finally completed --

ATLEE: Don’t give up all our tricks.

JASON DONNELLY: Yeah. Watch out.

ATLEE: Don’t give up all our tricks.

J. JUSTICE: Hey, you know, ultimately, we all learn about it from someone else. So it’s all good.

[JASON DONNELLY AND SUNTZU SOUND LAUGHING]

JASON DONNELLY: What you’re saying is it’s a good tool for looping stuff like samples, a cappellas and stuff?

J. JUSTICE: Yeah, yeah. I mean, you can do so much with it and then --

JASON DONNELLY: [INDISCERNIBLE]

J. JUSTICE: Honestly, the thing that pushed me to figure it out is Karizma. He’s a producer and DJ from Baltimore. And if you want to see a man put a CDJ through its paces, that stuff with the CDJ you didn’t even know you could do. So you go home and you’re like all right, I want to learn how to do that, you know. But in the crew I primarily just DJ. Atlee is one of the producers so he could give you a little more idea about what he rocks in the studio.