It`s my first ever tag team Inside the IM and what a perfect duo to have on the wire together. Jokubas and Kaspius are fresh, fun, incredibly young and talented.
Cross border collaboration
Lisa: How did you make this mix together when you are in different cities?
Kaspius: I should say in different countries, most of times we exchange music, that helps a lot :0
Jokubas: Yeah the idea behind the mix was to compile it together, so we decided what tunes to put in it, and then I mixed it. So it’s pretty much like playing together despite thousands of kms between us.
Lisa: The first track is my favorite in the entire set, great opener.
Kaspius: Yeah, loving it too, something from inside, hehe, I actually always can’t wait for the break down of this track cause the plain beat annoys me a bit.
Lisa: You should have changed it then.
Jokubas: We let records speak for themselves usually, but yeah doing our special edits always helps.
Lisa: Have you experimented with remixing?
Kaspius: We always try to experiment but still it’s kept in our sound lab. Still loads of work needs to be done to get those ideas into the day light.
Jokubas: Probably that’s because we are perfectionists, better to work more and harder then put out a weak record.
Kaspius: It took a while to learn how to walk.
Lisa: How many tracks did each of you contribute to this mix?
Kaspius: It’s hard to say really cause we just put everything to one folder. This time it’s 70% of Jacob’s work, he is the main person in the project so this time I rely on him, the next time he relies on me, then we always come up with the result we both like.
Lisa: Nice jazzy vibe to this beat.
Jokubas: Yeah it’s becoming a bit groovy.
Do it Right the First Timers
Lisa: Did Jacob send the mix first to Kasp to see if any changes needed to be made?
Kaspius: Usually we don’t change anything, I hate changing mixes, it’s nonsense, once you’ve done something that’s it. Improvements are for your next mix, that’s how I think.
Jokubas: It’s the period for us between mixes to realize what was wrong in a previous one, and you do your best in your newest promo.
Lisa: Well sometimes things can be improved… like in this situation you want it to be your best work and sometimes that doesn’t happen on the first try??
Kaspius: True, but I have never remixed my mix, it’s better to do it from the beginning or so….
Jokubas: But yeah.. always depends on your mood and other things, you’re right brotha.
Lisa: Didn’t you say you restarted this 3 times Jacob?
Jokubas: To be completely honest I was doing three mixes at the time you contacted me, so I decided that the first one is gonna be for bringthebeats but it ended up being the last one (where I had compiled only the first two tunes by myself) so I called Kasp and said.. ‘hey man we should work on this one together?’, that’s how it has been done.
Lisa: How did you make this set different to the rest?
Jokubas: I should say “Cause it’s special to us.”
Kaspius: I would say it’s more influenced by Jacob, he’s got his sound, which is new to me. So at the end of the day it makes it special.
Lisa: What is your sound Kasp?
Kaspius: I love deep chords.
Jokubas: He’s into Detroit sounds recently.
Kaspius: Well…it’s just because I’m looking for something heavier, I love “Plastic City” stuff all the way, The Timewriter, Terry Lee Brown Junior, Lukas Greenberg…
Lisa: Ya thats a good label, like those guys too.
Kaspius: They’ve got that “DEEP” in their tracks, the deep chords.
Lisa: I love going off the deep end, haha!
Jokubas: I’m more into Milton Jackson, Spencer Parker, Radioslave, Ame, Dixon.
Kaspius: I can only listen to the beat, the chords and the bass line, I don’t need anything else in the track.
Jokubas: This track is a good one! Milton Jackson – Never Be Wrong [Dark Energy].
The Warm up
Lisa: I would say this is more of a good warm up set; I would need something heavier for getting into the night.
Jokubas: Haha, that’s what we enjoy the most. In my opinion it’s the most difficult thing to play a good warm up set.
Kaspius: Yeah, for sure, our mixes are bit different, they’re more for listening.
Lisa: This is great to have on to chill to, a really nice steady beat.
Jokubas: Of course you have to know what really bangs, but without a good warm up set the night can’t be astonishing.
Kaspius: Yeah, that’s what DJs in Brighton do, they just start banging…well most of them.
Lisa: That’s not good. I need to get into the club and relax a bit first, start off kinda bobbing my head then eventually my feet start moving and by 2am I should be in full dance mode.
Jokubas: Yeah, you’re right Lisa! We do like to play four – five heavier tracks at the end of our sets when we do warm ups.
Kaspius: What do you usually go for? I start my night with two shots of Sambuca.
Jokubas: Yeah, Sambuca is a goodie.
Lisa: I used to start with just a red bull depending on my energy level then bring out the vodka, but I’m trying to cut down on both ):
Kaspius: Recently I started with some mint-vodka (or something) and Baileys. It’s some sort of two layered shot called ‘Slow Fuck’. I know the name of it is crap, but it’s a nice one.
Lisa: Sounds yummy!
The Trax
Kaspius: Were you guys listening? “Underground…”
Jokubas: Underground, yeah!
Lisa: Exactly, “underground ……………DJs”
Jokubas: It’s an oldie, Kasp’s favourite.
Kaspius: You know the thing about this track? I’ve got a film when me and my parents were driving so I made a mix for that video and one of those tracks was underground, it’s so deeeeeeppppppp aaaaaaaaaaaa!!
Lisa: Haha nice! Great bassline, love that breakdown, just itching for it to come back up.
Kaspius: “Dark, and bright city lights.”
Jokubas: YEAH!
Kaspius: I’m always inpatient about the breakdowns.
Lisa: I love the anticipation.
Jokubas: It’s always a bit scary to me…especially when you are slightly drunk.
Jokubas: Ame ‘Setsa’, probably the best tune of this summer for me.
Lisa: It’s a trippy track. The violin is really cool.
Kaspius: It’s always gonna be a unique element.
Jokubas: Suits perfectly, you’re right mate. I love the violin sound… especially on a rainy day like today. For me rain is very inspiring, the best time to sit in the studio is on a rainy day.
Kaspius: I was thinking about this track Jacob, we should record Ieva’s vocal, cause I liked the live perfomance she did.
Lisa: Who is Ieva?
Kaspius: One of the vocalists of Out To Lunch.
Lisa: Ah cool, she sings when you DJ?
Kaspius: Yeah, sometimes when we prepare for that, our last performance was two weeks ago, it requires a bit of preparation.
Jokubas: I’m sure you gonna hear some of them by the end of the year, plus we had a live sax that time.
Lisa: Wicked, that’s the stuff that will get you noticed.
Jokubas: We do think so, cause you have to be different nowadays, especially when there are lots of artists around with pretty much the same sound. Not being like them is the only way to success I reckon. So now we have two girls Ieva and Maria in the production process and we are very happy about that.
The Introduction
Lisa: How did you guys meet?
Kaspius: We met on the internet and this was just when I started to learn beat-matching and stuff like that… at that time he started as well but we still didn’t meet up for a while. We met up “live” during our first gig at one birthday party.
Jokubas: And our musical journey began…
Kaspius: Was really funny, it was a little open air, it started to rain in the middle of my set so it ruined my mixer, shit just happens…
Jokubas: But yeah, after months spent practicing we had our first chance to play in the best club in our city Klaipeda
Kaspius: That probably inspired us to try and work together. I remember those days in Jacob’s garage practicing with pioneer CDJ 200 ordering pizzas and playing, I didn’t have decks at that time
Lisa: So you had been chatting a lot online and then decided to meet up to play together?
Kaspius: Yeah we didn’t think to play together at the start (it was just practicing together) and then it turned into some big thing.
Jokubas: Yeah! I remember probably the first gig we played back to back, oh my God, probably one of the best gigs ever! Full club, everybody’s shouting and we are playing Damien Strong – ‘Loveshop’.
Lisa: Did you immediately worked well together?
Kaspius: Yeah I think it was good we found each other as we played separately at the start and played different sounds. I was into Chicago, Jacob – progy, groovy stuff or somethin’ and I think ‘Deep’ was that sort of line that brought us together.
Jokubas: So we stuck to one genre of music – deep house.
Kaspius: It’s hard to say what we’re stuck on cause we play bit of techno, bit of tech house and whatever…
Lisa: I love it all depending on my mood.
Kaspius: Yeah, same here.
Jokubas: Exactly.
Kaspius: But we always keep that DEEP sound.
Jokubas: You can’t play ten sets of deep house, but you add tech, techno, Africanism or Detroit.
Kaspius: It’s not a genre it’s probably a life style – I think it was Jimpster that said that. I love that quote.
Jokubas: It’s the best genre of mixing moods not tunes.
Out to Lunch
Kaspius: Let’s talk about food. Do you know why we call ourselves ‘Out to Lunch’?
Lisa: I was just going to ask that (:
Kaspius: I read your mind, Jacob you tell the story.
Jokubas: Basically we were thinking of the name in a pub while having lunch and discussing all of our musical issues like we always do. Lunch time house music! And with me playing here in Lithuania and Kasp playing in the UK, we get one name for both of us and it works as double promotion for the name. When we’re playing together, it’s full lunch… haha.
Lisa: Haha eat those beats! How did Jokubas become Jacob Jeffs?
Jokubas: It was my previous DJ name. Kasparas and Jokubas are our real names in Lithuanian.
Lisa: Tell me a little about Lithuania, seems to be a great place to party.
Kaspius: First thing – amazing food. Second thing – cheap drinks, cheap cigarettes and….WE KNOW HOW TO PARTY!
Jokubas: Lithuania – the paradise of girls.
Lisa: Haha really?
Jokubas: I think Ricky Ryan told me, “Best girls are Brazilian and Lithuanian.” No offence to other ones though, I know very nice girls from all around the globe
Kaspius: What else do you need? Food, drinks, girls and parties!
Jokubas: And parties are really good too, world famous DJs come here every weekend… but it’s recession period down here so not as often as they used to, but it’s still a place where the club scene is still growing.
Kaspius: The capital of House is Kaunas, which is 200 kilometers away from our town.
Jokubas: Klaipeda is more like a DnB, Hip Hop, Funk city and the capital Vilnius is the best place to party I reckon.
Kaspius: Our town is more into Drum n Bass but we still used to keep up the House sound even though it was hard to get people involved.
Jokubas: We used to play in Klaipeda but these months I get booked to play in the capital Vilnius, that’s why I like it so much. I’m really happy about having the chance to play all around Lithuania really, but Vilnius is definitely the place where all the buzz happens.
Lisa: What happened to doing your own parties?
Kaspius: It’s hard right now as the credit crunch affected everyone.
Jokubas: We’e still doing them twice or three times a year.
Kaspius: Yeah, we still do them.
Lisa: Like when you brought Tom Morgan?
Jokubas: One day, we called him during our lunch time and said ‘Hey Tom! Wanna come and play?’
Kaspius: Yeah, I remember that phone call, was great feeling.
Jokubas: The first time we brought him was amazing, really liked his stuff, the first time was definitely the great one.
Kaspius: And after a year we brought him again and it wasn’t the same, just because of the fuckin’ credit crunch which really sucks!
Jokubas: I remember we were struggling to understand his Scottish accent.
Lisa: Hahaha everyone has trouble with that!
Lisa: Tell me about your radio show.
Jokubas: Our regulars are on Proton Radio and Ensonic fm.
Kaspius: Bed & Breakfast, baby!
Lisa: Who have been your guests?
Kaspius: Gabriel Sordo, Steve Marx, Spencer Parker, some Lithuanian guys
Jokubas: Gonna have another guy from Discoteca in the next episode!
Lisa: Do you work with any labels?
Jokubas: Actually we’re launching our own; we have been busy with it all summer. It’s called ‘La Cadence’ which is “rhythm” in French.
Kaspius: It’s not that easy tho 
To start the label it’s pretty easy, to get the people involved… it’s hard.
Lisa: What do you hope to get out of it?
Jokubas: The future looks bright now, we are signing some quality deep house/techno artists… Chris Woodward, Spencer Parker, Martin Virgin, Pierre Santino, Onur Ozman. We always wanted to have some kind of control of music, and present our favourite genres to everybody. So we are trying to get Lithuanian producers on board with the goal of presenting the Lithuanian electronic music scene to the globe. To build a community of artists who are amalgamated by the indistinguishable music vision. So it’s more about breaking even and the enjoyment of having a label not focused on earning lots of money.
Lisa: That’s great, so are there a lot of good local there?
Kaspius: Quite a few 
I’m talking about ones that you should take your attention
Lisa: Are you going to release any of your own work to the label?
Kaspius: Yes we’re workin’ on it. Once we get something worth releasing.
Under Age
Lisa: When did you first party?
Jokubas: We were DJing before we were out partying; I think it’s the same with Kasp.
Kaspius: That’s because of our young age. 17 was the first gig in the best club in Klaipeda and officially we couldnt get in 
Jokubas: I was 16 and the legal age you can enter a club here is 18.
Lisa: What do your parents think of your music?
Jokubas: Haha you’re the first to ask that kind of question. I could write a book about it. I remember in the early days of DJing I wasn’t allowed to stay longer than 3am. Now I’m telling them where I’m having a gig and with whom I am playing, but still they don’t understand my music. It’s an endless fight hearing their son playing music and hunting for tunes at 5 am. (I bet I look like a stranger). But last weekend they had been listening to the radio show on one of the best stations in Lithuania, they called me straight after the set and interview and told me “Wow, good music, we really liked your thoughts!” And they`re happy that I want to get a degree at university not in audio engineering, I’m more into international relation things, politics and stuff… my parents are really happy about this.
