More than a year has passed since Berlin/DC duo Benoit & Sergio first broke through. Incredibly, they had released only two records by that time, but those two were enough to win over fans across the world for the way they told stories, paired the heartfelt emotion of acts like Paul Simon with the more electronic motion of contemporaries like those found on Hot Creations.

Midway through 2012 and there haven’t been that many new tracks, but the ones that did arrive on DFA, Visionquest and Spectral Sound fomented the duo’s position in a realm all their own. Now they are as likely to be playing to a small and intimate club in Italy as they are headlining a stage at DEMF or Mutek (as they will at the end of this month). As such, we caught up with them amidst a continually busy schedule (hence the interview title, see?!) to find out how life has changed, for better and worse, in the last 12 months…

Having emerged with the appropriately entitled “Entrance Song” in 2011, Dan Pearce aka Bristol based beatsmith Eats Everything has gone on to foment his position amongst the new school house elite in 2012. He’s continued to release on Claude von Stroke’s San Fran label DirtyBird, often tours with the same crew and continues to gobble up and spit out myriad samples in his bottom heavy house productions and often floor filling remixes. In this candid interview, just ahead of the release of a new EP, Jagged Edge, on Pets Recordings and a remix of Shiny Objects on Smoke and Mirrors, we talk about the fine line between fun and fromage, the inspiration of his hometown and about why cats are so brilliant.

After years of releasing a number of strong but varied singles on labels like Cocoon and Playhouse, Simon Baker realised his full musical vision last year. It came in the form of his Traces debut full length on Leeds’ 2020Vision and is still being plucked apart for singles. Most recently came ‘Let Me In’ backed with some great remixes from Lee Curtiss and Pezzner, but the now London based artist has already finished up plenty more projects which again ply his own brand of deep yet musical tech house for Saved and Hot Creations.