WL 377 - Sunday, August 26 - 11pm
Purveyors of: Making you dance like it's 1986.

Borrowing from equal parts Beastie Boys, Super Mario and Duran Duran while adding their own flair for the ridiculous, TD and Mac of Big Digits have been creating their own party soundtracks for the past five years. They call the college town of Cambridge, Massachussetts their home but are further from educationally driven than Lindsay Lohan is from... well, educationally driven. Coincidentally, TD and MAC have their own opinions on the aforementioned "superstar" as well as 50 Cent's new girlfriend. They expressed these thoughts and feelings along with much, much more via e-mail correspondence with Matt Pilgrim.

What moved you guys to start playing Electronic/Dance music as opposed to say, Indian Pop Throat Singing or Third-Wave Ska Revival?

I think both of us would go to a lot of shows and while we'd really enjoy ourselves, we'd feel like they were a bit drab. We wanted to make something fun and exciting to hear, watch, and experience. We aimed at getting people out of that just-standing-around kind of mood. Besides, neither of us can throat sing, and while Third Wave was my jam in high school, these days first wave is the only Ska for me.

What can we expect to hear from the full length record?

You can expect to hear a melange of sounds: lots of beats, some shouting, some rapping, and the occasional bit of singing. The record has a lot of things going on, a few short songs, a stab at an epic (for us) five minute number, a few samples here and there, themes ranging from not wanting to do anything, to cops, to wanting to do a lot of things, to advice-giving ghosts, to how wall sockets are the new pick-up spots.

Celebrities like to party in clubs. You make music that could be played in clubs. Do you like to gossip about celebrities? If so, what headline has you all riled up?

Both of us work in offices so there is a fair amount of celebrity gossip sites to be found in our URL caches. I'm personally pretty tired of the whole Lohan thing, don't think that girl will live to see 30. Mac just recently found out that Ciara is dating 50 Cent and his opinion of her just went down about, 50 percent.

Do you enjoy being a twosome or would you like to someday add a third (human or sub/non human) member to the mix?

Around Boston, we sometimes play with an awesome DJ, Mark E. Moon (www.myspace.com/djmarkemoon), who has been a pal of ours for a long while. He'll play our tracks through his machine and add extra samples and snatches of whatever he can get his hands on. We're actually going to release a live album with him on the decks right before we head up to Toronto, so hopefully we'll have copies available at the show (unless they are confiscated at the border). He doesn't like to travel much so on the road it is pretty much the two of us and we're cool with that.

What's your opinion of Canadians?

We've enjoyed meeting every single one.

By Matthew Pilgrim