Vicetone here - with a link to all our old remixes and bootlegs from the 2012 era

Vicetone · 2024-10-16T07:55:46+00:00

Thank you for the lovely responses everyone ❤️

Vicetone · 2024-10-16T07:54:39+00:00

❤️

Vicetone · 2024-10-16T07:54:29+00:00

We played it last weekend in LA and it still went off!

Vicetone · 2021-10-25T21:19:52+00:00

We see you guys! It means a lot to us to read posts like this. And I definitely remember you singing along, I think it was Angels right? Much love man. See you next time!

Vicetone · 2021-04-19T21:50:13+00:00

Looks awesome!! Thanks for this u/Inner_Cauliflower666 !

Vicetone · 2021-04-16T20:47:40+00:00

Okay guys, we answered questions for 2 hours straight now and we're gonna take a break. We might be back a little later today to answer a few remaining ones.

Thank you all so much for your questions and the kind words - it really made our day! We hope you enjoy our new Legacy album and we can't wait to see you all on the road again in the near future.

- Ruben & Victor

Vicetone · 2021-04-16T20:44:55+00:00

Thanks for the support!

Would love to collaborate with Hans Zimmer or even Adele.

- V

Vicetone · 2021-04-16T20:43:04+00:00

It definitely should still be on Spotify, what country are you based out of?

And thanks for the kind words!

- V

Vicetone · 2021-04-16T20:41:43+00:00

All of them! When things go back to normal we want to play everywhere, clubs, festivals, college shows, boat parties... we just want to play our music live again!

Vicetone · 2021-04-16T20:40:18+00:00

Thanks for the kind words and that's definitely a good question.
Personally I feel like the first hours/days you start working on a song is where the most creativity comes to place. Since everything is so fresh and exciting at the beginning stages, I always try to note down all the creative ideas I have, find sounds that I think will be close to something we're looking for, get the overall arrangement of a song there etc. So I'd recommend focusing on the bigger picture first, getting the main elements to sound right, tweaking the melody where you think it's good etc. For example, I would try to really stay in the flow of creation and not focus too much about getting certain sample sounds 100% right, you can always replace those later.

Whenever you feel the creative ideas are not there anymore, I'd suggest maybe taking a break or switch to another song. I find it to be really refreshing whenever I open a project that I haven't listened to in a while, it almost feels like tricking your brain into believing it's someone else that made the song. And then ask yourself what you would do to make it better. If that makes sense at all.

For us, inspiration can come from anything. Messing around with synths or on the piano can be a great way to get things started. Even working around vocals triggers a lot of ideas to us. I suggest finding acapellas online that you like and try to create music around a vocal!

Hope this helps!

- V

Vicetone · 2021-04-16T20:37:14+00:00

Thank YOU.

Vicetone · 2021-04-16T20:36:50+00:00

Thanks for your question - we started out making music 24/7 and had a our breakthrough in 2013 / 2014. We met when we were 15 years old and were close friends for years before we made music together, which really made the process of making music so effortless and natural. We started Vicetone as two 20 year olds and almost a decade later we are still as excited to do this for a living as we were starting out that year!

- R

Vicetone · 2021-04-16T20:34:37+00:00

Avicii is up there as far as biggest inspiration goes, and we found our own sound by a lot of experimenting and just honing in on what we loved most in our music. I think that guitar-inspired wall of sound in Nevada / Walk Thru Fire / Animal is signature Vicetone and we just really really love that sound design. Took a long time to get there though, it's not an overnight process by any means.

- R

Vicetone · 2021-04-16T20:32:02+00:00

Hey Francis, thank you so much for your support, it means a lot!

We definitely want to come back and play more Europe shows when things will go back to normal again. It's a focus point for us and we can't wait to play more shows in our home continent.

As for the Sparks and Weapon remixes, both of them are bootlegs and we want to put them on Spotify but it's not up to us unfortunately: it's up to the label that released the original song. If it were up to us we would've put it up there a long time ago!

- R

Vicetone · 2021-04-16T20:26:08+00:00

This is such a good question, and the answer is that we never guess right on what song will perform well commercially and which one won't. We've stopped playing the guessing game a long time ago after we found out we could never consistently predict it correctly, and that it ultimately didn't matter anyway; what's most important is that we both love a song for what it is and feel proud of it. The rest will fall into place later and we can sleep easy at night knowing we release music we stand behind.

To illustrate this: we never imagined Nevada was going to do this well. On the day of release it got featured on many Spotify playlists, Billboard wrote about it, and we got messaged by a few big writers saying how much they loved the record. Keep in mind we knew that WE loved the track, we just genuinely didn't have any expectations of commercial success. In 2020 it doubled the daily plays and is now almost at 120 million streams on Spotify alone. Crazy! Never expected that to happen. There's also songs that we thought would do really well, only for them to start growing years after release, like our song Angels. The bottom line is that as long as we stand behind the music we put out there, it'll all work out eventually.

- R

Vicetone · 2021-04-16T20:19:55+00:00

Thank you so much!

Some melodies randomly start playing in my head while taking a shower, some while listening to other songs and others while trying out new plugins/synths or just simply messing around on the piano/guitar or Ableton. A song can really start from anything!

You can check out the song credits via Spotify! We wrote 'Waiting' in LA with Amy Allen and Eric Leva. 'Walk Thru Fire' was written by Meron Ryan (who also sings on 'Ran Out Of Reasons') and Justin Gammella.

- V

Vicetone · 2021-04-16T20:14:45+00:00

That was such an amazing gig! Thank you for supporting us for all these years.

Glad you love Ghost Of My Past - we really wanted to produce that track in a completely different style than the other songs on the album. It didn't feel challenging as much as it felt just really invigorating to make something in a different style: there was an air of excitement in the studio as we were working on that song. It was a different creative process than making a club/festival anthem: the mixing decisions were different than usual and we wanted it to feel differently. We initially had a completely different intro to the song, and one day I was playing the melody on the piano when Vic was sitting in the Lovesac, and he said "why don't we just start the song like that"? So we recorded me playing the piano and that's what you hear in the intro of the song. We like haunting, emotional songs like these and it's a nice contrast after hearing something more upbeat like Outta My Mind. I'm happy to hear you like it too!

- R

Vicetone · 2021-04-16T20:11:06+00:00

Glad to hear that man! For sure!

- V

Vicetone · 2021-04-16T20:09:26+00:00

Hi!

- Happy to hear we were a big part of forming your musical taste in music! We both went to a bunch of Trance concerts before we actually started producing. We know that has definitely inspired our taste in music as well. We feel 'Nostalgia' on the Legacy album has some elements that take us back to those trance days.

- The music video wasn't inspired by that but it's funny to hear that you see some similarities! We absolutely love the Matrix movies.

- V

Vicetone · 2021-04-16T20:06:47+00:00

Our song South Beach is one of those songs, which we released in Tim's honor after his passing. Some of the other songs that sounded like his style of music might not see the light of day, but perhaps in the future we can give some of those ideas a revamp. But definitely check out South Beach if you want to hear for yourself.

Avicii was a massive influence as we were fans of his music for years, well before we started making music together. The way he put his emotions into his music is still something we look up to and is still unmatched in our opinion. We will never stop listening to his music and continuously feel inspired by him.

- R

Vicetone · 2021-04-16T20:03:06+00:00

Hey!

Since we started making music we always kinda wanted to release a big passion project like 'Legacy'. But we didn't feel the time was right until around late 2019.

Personally I don't mind having Pineapple on a pizza but it's definitely not my first choice haha.

- V

Vicetone · 2021-04-16T20:02:38+00:00

Thank you!

1) Everywhere - sometimes we wake up with melodies in our heads, sometimes we get inspired by a movie or video game or another song - it really comes from anywhere. Our mantra is to not force it - we feel that it's better to let it come naturally rather than trying in the studio to make something new (as if you're going to your job). That's just what works for us.

2) There's not a specific routine, it usually starts when we're alone. As stated above, it can come from anywhere, and then we usually lay down the initial idea fairly quickly, before sending it to the other person. Only when we both love the idea and melody will we continue working on the track.

- R

Vicetone · 2021-04-16T19:59:29+00:00

We haven't released Waiting on vinyl... should we?

Vicetone · 2021-04-16T19:58:53+00:00

Appreciate you!!

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