We had the chance to chat with the influential electronic band Information Society (known to some as INSOC) about their latest album release Oddfellows. This is their eighth album which dropped on August 6, 2021 and can be found here.
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Check out what they had to say about their music.

How does it feel to be pioneers in the genre of electro pop music?

I wouldn’t necessarily call us “Pioneers”; I feel like the generation we grew up listening to were the real pioneers: people like Kraftwerk, Devo, Numan, Eno, DAF, Fad Gadget, et al. It does feel good to have one’s contributions validated though. We’re sort of genre-adjacent to so many styles, Synthpop, Electro, Miami Bass, Freestyle, it feels like we were never really preeminent in any of them, but we did make some waves in all of them.

What do you think about all the genre bending and experimenting happening in music right now?

I think it’s a lot of fun. It’s always hard to get across the exciting feeling of creative freedom we all felt in the New Wave / No Wave years, but I think the current crop of artists is making a good argument that this current period is equally rollicking.

How exciting is it for ODDFellows to be rendered in THXⓇ Spatial Audio?

Doubleplusgood exciting! The THX Spatial mixes are actually my favorite way to listen to the album.


Did you always know that music was something you wanted to pursue?

It dawned on us over time. Personally, I kept going back to college every time the band had a setback, but by the time we all moved to New York in 1986, I guess we realized that was what we were pursuing.

What advice would you give to aspiring musicians?

I guess the main point is the same, regardless of what creative field you’re pursuing: Don’t save ideas, don’t spend time reworking ideas, just produce as much work as you can on an everyday basis, and wait for your craft to catch up to your aspirations.


What is your favorite song to perform live?

Funny to say, but I think we all have the most fun when we do some of our instrumental jams like “A Knife and a Fork,” “Seek 200,” or “Hack 1.”  It’s just really fun to rock out (we mostly use percussion controllers for these kinds of songs) and bang on the pads with the rest of the band like a troop of shrieking gibbons.

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