Mar 12, 2007 • 1 min read

SMD to hook up with Monkey and Klaxons

James Ford of Simian Mobile Disco says the band may collaborate with Alex Turner and Klaxons in future, though not on their debut album.

According to Gigwise, Simian Mobile Disco's James Ford has said that he and music partner James Shaw might collaborate with Klaxons and Arctic Monkey Alex Turner at some point in the future. Ford has recently produced for both Arctic Monkeys and Klaxons, and says that whilst they had no desire to include such collaborations in SMD's upcoming debut album, he wouldn't say never.

He's quoted as saying: "We didn't want to go too far down the vocal collaboration route because it starts going a bit like UNKLE or something like that where it's more about the singers than the actual group or the music. I mean obviously with me producing I've got opportunities of getting Alex (Arctic Monkeys) and Klaxons on it but we thought we'd stay away from that until a bit later in the game."

He continued: "Yeah I reckon we probably will because they're all really talented and I'm sure we could do something really good, but just for this album we thought we'd make it more interesting instrumentals at this moment in time you know?"

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