R&B/JUPITER JAZZ DUO THE INTERNET IS TAKING YOU ON AN ALTERED ZONE AMUSEMENT PARK RIDE WITH THEIR SENSUAL-GREEN HUED JULIET & JULIET BAD TEEN SINGLE ‘COCAINE’… AND WHO IS TO THANK FOR THAT SPACE SENSUALITY and DRY VOCALS? SYD THA KYD! A PLATINUM BRAINCHILD OF SEVERAL TALENTS, INCLUDING PRODUCING/MIXING, DJING & DRIZZLING RAINY-DAY PEACEFUL VOCALS ON BEATS MADE BY ROOMMATE & SECOND MEMBER OF THE INTERNET, MATT MARTIANS.
THE INTERNET IS PRELUDING 2012 WITH A WARM WELCOME BY DROPPING DEBUT ALBUM PURPLE NAKED LADIES THIS MONTH.
P.S THEY ARE BOTH PART OF ODD FUTURE 
SS: Did you ever consider re-recording ‘Flashlight’ for the final track listing of Purple Naked Ladies?
STK: No,.. Purple Naked Ladies ended up becoming a timeline of Matt and mine’s experiences in the past year. It wouldn’t have fit.
SS: How did you decide on wanting to produce music? Is it more specific/reliving when you sing over your own beats?
STK: I grew up in a musical family, and when I really got into music for myself, I began wishing I could take credit for some of my favorite songs. That was when I started to make my own – I only began singing on my own songs when I really started writing. I recorded ‘Flashlight’ as a demo, but I could never find a girl with a voice similar enough to mine to make it sound how I wanted… so I suppose it’s both. It’s cool to be able to sing along to a song with YOUR voice on it. You feel a little more… entitled. I don’t know.
SS: What feeling did you want to emote with the Lana Del Rey ‘Blue Jeans (The Internet Remix)’?
STK: We just kept trying sounds until we found the ones that fit the vibe, and kept building.
SS: Why did you guys decide to name the group ‘The Internet’… It feels like a satire – with the music only surfacing on the web/being streamed.
STK: Left Brain came up with it. It was a joke at first, but we ran with it because it described the situation too perfectly.
SS: Do you think Timbaland/Missy as R&B/hip-hop innovators created the weird-ethereal, spooky ‘ahead of it’s time’ sound out of rebellion to the not-so-good mainstream music that was out at the time? Is your sound a rebellion in that sense, for our generation?
STK: I feel that was Missy and Tim’s purpose… Our sound is simply a reflection of our influences, which include people like Missy, Tim, and The Neptunes.
SS: What was the initial inspiration for your track ‘Cocaine’? Does it weird you out that many people actually are commenting on the YouTube video saying “This song makes me want to do coke badly..” #ThePowerOfMusic
STK: ‘Cocaine’ was inspired by what seemed to be a trend within some of my circles of friends – I’d recently discovered just how many of my peers were doing it, and it surprised me… It doesn’t weird me out that it makes some people want to do coke, but that wasn’t necessarily its purpose. Its purpose was to help people have a good time without it.
Words: Alex Kazemi
