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“I take all of our songs and I break them down into individual stems — like bass, drums, guitar, keyboards, horns — and I run them through Ableton Live,” says Card (who edited video for Wired.com in a previous life) in the Wired video above. “I programmed this mixer interface so I could do dub mixes on the fly, kind of like Mad Professor does, but all digital.”
The resultant sound is a reggae-soul hybrid with just a little bit of ’80s kick, though singer/songwriter Shock Mama Cherry notes, “We’re not fakin’ Jamaican. We’re American.”
Esprit De Corps was founded in 2011 after producer Neal Pogue introduced Cherry to Card and suggested they work together. The duo is currently finishing an EP with the help of Pogue that they hope to release this summer.
Learn more about the group’s style in the video, then head over to the Esprit De Corps Bandcamp page to grab a download of the track “Is It Too Late.”
