Adelaide’s own The Carter Bros have just dropped their second CD this year A Time To Cherish. This city’s favourite underground house, disco and techno siblings jumped in the Onion hot seat to talk about their hermit crab and club hopping ways…

The A Time To Cherish CD seems to embrace the disco albeit with other influences (kinda sounds like Detroit disco) is disco the music drug of choice for the Carter Bros at the moment? Yeah we love the rare disco! We're getting fat on disco right now! With so many quality re-edit labels and loads of represses happening, it's quite possible to pick up just about anything on vinyl right now. We love Detroit. Detroit means soul. A timeless loop. It goes further though, Detroit legends like Omar S, Theo Parrish and their rejection of the digital realm and focus on vinyl is a big influence on us.

You also had another CD out earlier this year, Short Term Policies, so have you boys just been going crazy in the studio this year? We found shells earlier in the year and after becoming hermit crabs it's just clicked! Our work rate is up, we're in the studio everyday. We've been trying to capture our favourite dancefloor moments in our trax and A Time To Cherish has already been getting a good caning in the clubs. It drops like an old techno dog that knows how. Tuff drums, synth wanders and intimate looped out moments.
I know you guys love the Adelaide innovators like HMC and Bold plus many others, do you think a dancefloor education in Adelaide is vastly different from other Australian cities, and do you think you have an Adelaide flavour? Absolutley. We listen to Adelaide's best DJs most nights a week and being full time DJs ourselves you can't help but be influenced directly by the likes of Sanjii, HMC, Driller, Moto, Bundi, Amoeba, t-Bot etc. These guys humbly go about smoking internationals on a regular basis. They play a vast spread of quality music over many genres. Most notably perhaps they play disco, house and techno. Naturally our music and flavour is a product of this environment.
Underground dancefloor flavours seem to be embraced by Adelaide again, do you agree? And do you think the techno, quality house and disco scenes are healthy in this city at the moment? Well being hermit crabs and fulltime DJs, we would have to say yes. Our existence is a blurred one. A phobia of crossing the terraces, we move under the cover of night from bar to club and back again. This can subvert your reality somewhat. Objects in mirror appear bigger than they are. There are some truly talented young DJs coming of age at the moment. Everytime they step to the plate the scene grows stronger. Take local duo Flower Pot, they just won the Mos' Ferry remix competition.
Many years ago you had the techno label Thrill Seekers, what happened with that label? And has that experience taught you well for future ventures? Hell yeah. We thank Charlie [Bold] and Jorge [Watts] for taking us under their wing all those years ago. We were plumb crazy and we must have driven them insane! The label was more than just a couple of twelve inches, it was a spring board for DJ Bold to return to Berlin and was the identity of a huge crew of wild and untamed techno kids who loved to party. Unfortunately the two biggest distributors of techno/house at that time went bust… We're very patiently organising our next series of vinyl.
David Knight
The Carter Bros launch A Time To Cherish at Cuckoo on Sat Sep 20 with Sanjii. You can purchase A Time To Cherish at B Sharp and Tape Deck Razorblade. For more info on The Carter Bros head to <myspace.com/thecarterbros >.