Can you share any interesting or unique musical elements or production techniques used in 'Reality Spaces?'

For ‘Reality Spaces’, we focus on minimalism approach, how we can strip the elements of each underground electronica genre, and mix them together to create something new and interesting. With this minimalism approach, all the drums, the synth, and the vocal need to shine with a lot of intricate detail, so we mostly use analog synth and drum machine and let their sound cut through together with the vocal. Even with the video footage and pictures, we used mostly analog cameras to capture the grittiness of monochromatic images.

What was the initial spark or idea that led to the creation of 'Reality Spaces?'

We started with a collection of photographs and videos first. We tried to capture the midnight nocturnal feeling post-lockdown in Shanghai, but realised that the experience is incomplete without an accompanying soundtrack. So we created this “Monochrome Midnight Traveller” audiovisual project to give our listeners a complete experience of after-midnight city wandering.

Have you noticed any particular interpretations or connections that listeners have made with 'Reality Spaces?'

I think they particularly comment on the combination of the heavy bass and downtempo vibe and how the sound can let them zone out and just wander their mind for a bit, giving that late-night escapism vibe.

Can you tell us a bit about yourself and how you got started in music?

We started as a pair of visual artists slash audio engineers and slowly branched out to making our own original music. I guess we are just tired of browsing through stock music that fits into the vibe we want to convey with our visuals, so at the beginning of this year, we decided to form MMT and started making our first EP which resulted in this ‘Reality Spaces’ EP.

How do you approach creating something new and different?

We come from audio engineer and designer background, and currently into this minimalism ethos which we consider a track “finished” when you can’t remove any more audio elements without compromising the story you want to deliver. So with this ethos in mind, we combine bare-bone elements of something we like and mold it in an oddly minimalistic way to create something simple but new.

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