We recorded ‘A&E’ in a church in Holborn, literally with the mic that was built into the M-Audio field recorder. The strings we did using churches and things like that. “We recorded the vocals in Grace’s bedroom. “‘Mozart’s House’ was the first one that we’d actually managed to record in a decent way, I guess,” Patterson says. The result was the band’s first two singles, ‘A&E’ and ‘Mozart’s House’. “I wrapped up a MIDI controller in a blanket and put it on the plane,” he laughs. There, he continued to work on Ableton on his laptop, refining the tracks he’d recorded with the nascent Clean Bandit. “The deal with my mum was that if I passed Grade 4 clarinet I could get a sax.”Īfter university, where he was studying architecture, Patterson transferred to film school, and he and Grace Chatto moved for a time to Moscow. “Piano was basically the first thing I played, and then clarinet,” he remembers.
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At 12, Patterson was given a PC for Christmas along with a MIDI keyboard which included a copy of Cubase and a demo of Fruity Loops, both of which he began to learn. It was an inventive and unusual way for a band to begin life and in some ways reflected Jack Patterson’s upbringing as the son of a mother who’d studied French horn at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and a DJ father who’d run a mobile disco in the 1970s. I’d be hammering out rhythms for chopped-up effects.” So they’d be playing chords and I’d have a MIDI controller and it’d be like a gate that was triggered by my drumming. “I was dubbing it up,” he says, “but doing some other mad stuff like rhythmic gates. Patterson and Ssega’s ideas for the band included mounting piezo pickups onto the string players’ instruments that could be fed directly into Ableton, meaning that their performances were manipulated live by Patterson before they reached the front-of-house PA. We just got a load of material together really quickly and put on this club night.” Clean CutĪnd so Clean Bandit were born, initially performing at their National Rail Disco club night at the Fez Club in Cambridge. We basically decided to make a band and try and do a performance. “I played it to another friend who was a singer, this guy Love Ssega, and he had some ideas as well. Then suddenly I had all this string quartet stuff in Ableton and I was just dicking about basically and started adding drums and bass. Sometimes in Ableton or sometimes just on a field recorder, but bringing it into Ableton to edit it, just to help them with their web site and stuff like that.
“I was helping out with Grace’s string quartet and making recordings of their concerts. “I’d been using Ableton for a while,” says Patterson. Originally a four-piece comprising keyboardist/programmer Jack Patterson, cellist Grace Chatto, drummer Luke Patterson and violinist Neil Amin-Smith (who quit the band in 2016), Clean Bandit first bonded at university as a result of Jack Patterson dabbling in recording Chatto and Amin-Smith’s string quartet. They’ve come a long way since forming back in 2008 as a Cambridge-based musical experiment meshing classical music with dance music. Their six top-five singles included two number ones in ‘Rather Be’ and ‘Rockabye’, while their 2014 debut album New Eyes reached number three, and they have sold 13 million singles and more than a million-and-a-half albums worldwide.
Not many dance acts start life as string quartets - but Clean Bandit’s fusion of classical and electronic music has powered them to worldwide success.Ĭlean Bandit have become one of the UK’s biggest acts of recent times. Jack Patterson is the main production mastermind behind Clean Bandit.
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