Disco Lines x Ship Wrek x Daya

Celebrating the release of their smash "Peace Of Mind", Disco Lines, Ship Wrek, and Daya join us for the first time on AD30, and share how the song was born, how long ago they started working on it, and if there was a big difference between all the versions they made of it!

We also get to know Thad, Collin, & Daya better w #FinkysFirsts!!

Find out about:

• if music was what they first wanted to get into
• the first artist names they were gonna go with
• the first songs they wrote/produced
• the first dance song that made them fall in love w EDM
• the first thing that brings them peace of mind

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Count down the biggest dance songs in the country every week with Brian Fink on America’s Dance 30; listen on stations around the world!

Episode Transcript

(00:00):
We have got a full house withus today on America's Dance thirty. And
I actually love when it's like thisbecause then we could truly find out how
a song was born. Disco Lines, Shipwreck, Deaya, Welcome to America's
Dance thirty for the first time.Dancey counting down the biggest dance songs in

(00:36):
the country. This is America's Dancethirty. It's great finally meeting all you
guys for the first time. Congratulationson your smash, Peace of mind,
God bless you. I'll take thatblessing. Yeah. Now, I can't
wait to find out how this songwas born with all of you guys.

(00:57):
But first, since this is yourfirst time on the America's Dance thirty,
let's get to know Disco lines,Shipwreck and Daya a little better with Thinky's
first. Let's do it all right, So, Disco Lines, I know

(01:18):
your love for EDM started really early, like in middle school, right,
Yeah, my homie and our computerclass showed me SCARLICKX Monsters or Scary Monsters
and I sprites and we put thaton on like the old MacBooks, and
I was like, Holy, thismost beautiful thing I've ever heard of my
entire life. That was such aclassic. But then you went to college
and got a degree in software engineering, right, I did somehow they let

(01:44):
me do that. So when youwere growing up, was there something else
you wanted to do first besides musicor was music? Yeah? My dad
was an engineer, is very strictand he wouldn't let me study with study
anything with the word arts in it, which is very interesting. So I
always love making music, so Idid that. And the parallel between computer
engineering and writing music is pretty similar, like you're both programming something. So

(02:07):
what does dad think now? Hestoked that you want to talk about making
your dream happen. By the way, you were doing your nine to five
job, And then I read thatafter that, from like five until three
o'clock in the morning, you wereworking on music, right Yeah, like
we were talking about earlier, someof the best songs we make like in

(02:29):
the mornings. And now I don'teven work as much as I did back
then, but having that job,like knowing what a nine to five felt
like, was super motivating me forme to get out of that and to
become like try my hardest at becominga producer. So yeah, yeah,
But that's an amazing grind. Imean I was kind of the same way.
You know. I was delivering donutsfor my mom in the morning.
Then I would go to high school. Then I would go to the radio

(02:51):
station to intern, just to makethe dream happen. So that's amazing.
I love the work ethic you have. Yeah, the dream is happening,
baby on my couch. Let's gowhat is the dream now? Shipwreck.
You guys are pretty new to thescene. You guys got together back in
twenty nineteen, right, Yeah,we had our own separate projects before that.

(03:13):
And was music the first thing youwanted to get into when you were
growing up or was there something else? Just like that? I heard scary
monsters, nice frights I had.But the thing is I had already gotten
into producing for about a year.I was making like hip hop beats,
like I don't know, I justwas like making I thought it was cool
making music, and then I heardscary Monsters and I was like, oh,

(03:34):
we can make dubstep at home,like on our computers. You don't
need like a whole Like I alwayswanted to be in like a band,
so I would like practice guitar andlike all and like and learned piano like
classically, and then I was like, dude, I don't even need to
be in a band. I couldjust make dubsteps. And then dubstep turned
into making house music. Like acouple of years after that, did both
of you guys ever share the storywith Skrillics about that ep? About the

(03:54):
song? And that's what got youguys into it. I don't talk to
Skrillics like that, but I loveit. Hold on the text him really
quick and get him in on trip. No, they skill choose to open
with one of their songs. Wow, what a full circle moment for you
guys. Then, Yeah, itwas crazy. That was like beginning to

(04:15):
that is so awesome. Now,Deya, you were pretty much a musical
prodigy when you were growing up.I mean you learned piano at three,
right, Yeah, I mean that'swhat my parents I don't even remember honestly.
But not only piano, I meanyou learned guitar, ukulele, sax,
and flute as a kid. Yeah. I was really curious kid.

(04:38):
I don't know, I wanted tolearn everything. Man, Thanks for making
me feel like I did nothing withmy childhood, holy crab. But I
mean you started at such a youngage. Was music what you first wanted
to get into or was there somethingelse? Yeah, music has always kind
of been my thing. My parentsare both engineers, so it's kind of
outside of their realm of thing music. Now are they cool with the career

(05:02):
now? Definite? No. Now, of course, Deya isn't your real
name. But when you were tryingto figure out artists names, was there
some other name you were gonna gowith first? Or was Daya always it?
Well, my real name is Graceand so we kind of played around
with like some iterations of that anddoing my first and last name, and

(05:28):
yeah, there were a bunch ofGraces at the time. Yeah, I'm
glad you went with Daya. Nowwhat about Shipwreck? I got my scuba
diving license when I was younger,and it was right around the time that
I started making house music specifically,so I kind of just lined up.
I was like, what am Iinterested in? I like diving. My
dad was a big diver, butI don't die anymore. So that's where

(05:49):
Shipwreck came from. And disco lines. Dude. I used to make tropical
house and my old producer name wasShady Nasty, which doesn't really a lot,
right, Brian, that makes nosense this music. And I have
the worst name too, So howto make a quick switch over? So
where did disco lines come from?It was at a college party. It's

(06:12):
like a drug reference. But I'mnot proud of it right now, I
don't really do it. But itwas a thing back in Boulder and freshman
year of college. I thought thatwas dope. So is that why you
wanted me to call you Fattius?Throughout the entire interview, it all makes
sense now now. You produced yourfirst song back in twenty nineteen. Wasn't

(06:43):
like first one. I put iton Spotify. I was making a bunch
of music before that, but itwasn't just like remixes. And do you
remember the first ever song you produced? Yeah? I do. Actually,
how bad was it? It wascalled Enigma and I put it on my
Spotify or I put it on mySoundCloud at the time. I showed it
to my baseball team and I rememberthis kid coming to me after practice.
He's like, Yo, did youmake that? And I was like yeah,

(07:05):
and he's like, that was oneof the worst songs I've ever heard.
Well you need that, I mean, you need people to tell you
know what to start, get usedto it absolutely and look where it led
to. So who cares shipwreck?Do you? Do? You remember the
first song that you guys produced,The very first song that I would have
produced would have been back in middleschool. And I remember I had a

(07:29):
similar experience actually as bad I ranacross country when I was growing up in
one of my one of the likevarsity kids on the team used to like
point at me and be like,you's a dope step kid, Like make
it fun of me, right,and I'll never forget that, Like he
used to always tease me throughout middleschool and high school. And then I
remember, like two years ago nowor maybe last year, I got a

(07:51):
DM on my personal Instagram and it'sthe same guy asking for like lists for
DC. I thought in my head, I was like, each this man.
I love hearing stories like that becauseI was bullied in high school too.
And I remember, like it wasyesterday, being on the radio and
having one of those kids call inand want a shout out, and I'm

(08:13):
like, are you kidding me?Right now? This is amazing that you're
reaching out to me. I didn'tgive him a shout out, but that's
beside the point, Daya, Whatabout you? Do you remember the first
song you ever wrote? Not really? I mean I feel like I was
writing like bits of things for along time, and I like I loved
writing like lyrics in my thro Butyeah, I think I like blocked it

(08:35):
out of my head, probably forthe better now, Daya. Of course,
you have been on some amazing dancesongs. One of the biggest Chainsmokers
songs ever. You've worked with GriffinA, Llennium, RL Grime, Alan
Walker. Do you remember the firstdance song that made you fall in love

(08:58):
with DM? Yeah? I thinkit was like a Troy Boys. Oh
so you were into dubstep two earlyon? Yeah, little now Shipwreck.
Do you remember the first dance songthat made you fall in love with or
was it Scrillics' is? Yeah itwas. It was Skrillics's EP, but
got me into house music and mademe completely switch. Was definitely like early
Disclosure. I remember just like hearingthat and being like, Wow, like

(09:22):
this like emerge of electronic music that'swritten so well and like has such beautiful
melodies and like such a cool groove. I was like, this is so
so different than what I'm used toman classic Disclosure is just so good,
like Latch was just so amazing.Now finally in Finky's first in honor of
your new smash, Peace of Mind. What is the first thing that gives

(09:45):
you peace of mind? That heis being in nature? Like surfing,
skime in away from the city ofLos Angeles, good choices, shipwreck?
Uh, not being in an airportanytow I'm not on a plane or an
airport in an airwork feel that thatis so true? How about you,
Dana? Yeah, I would probably, I would say probably writing or being

(10:09):
maybe yeah, with family friend.That's a great escape. Well, let's
talk about this smash. How wasPeace of Mind born? It started when
my manager set up a session withday and I and I was a big
fan of Daya because she's done somany like great dance tracks, legendary voice.
And we went in this dude's studio. I was just asking about his

(10:31):
names whatever, I forget his name, but he's really good producer, has
a big complex in Malibu. Sowe were at this farm, this beautiful
studio, and yeah, she justkilled it. To be honest with you,
we didn't really have to do thatmany vocal takes and then how did
shipwreck come into it? We wereshowing each other a bunch of music one
day and I had shown an earlydemo of our other song that we put

(10:58):
out of, Where Do I Long? And I remember Dad was like,
I hadn't really showed anyone that songexcept for like one of the person I
remember he was really stoked on it, and he was like, the idea
here is so good, like Imet I can take this like to another
level. And then around the sametime is when you showed me like the

(11:18):
early we like the demo version thaty'all had had made. We basically had
projects and just swapped them. Butsomething about where Do I Belong? That's
the other one we put on thisEP. Colin said, well, one
of his basically someone had said itwas one of her favorite songs she's ever
heard, And I feel like that'sa very influential, Like if you hear
that from someone, that's a bigthing, absolutely outside of the producer mindset,

(11:41):
and being like, what would anormal person think of this song?
Now? How long ago did youguys start working on a DAYA. I
think it was like a year agothat we met at that studio, and
yeah, we did like a fewother I think it was one of those
sessions where we just like started anda bunch of different projects. And but

(12:03):
I feel like I remember like walkingaway from the studio being like, there's
something cool about that chorus. Ifeel like, and it just feels like
different and like in its own kindof world, and yeah, I really
like that about it. And thenI think it was like months later that
he DM me with the with thenew version, and I thought it was

(12:26):
really cool how like they are likeall the vocal chops and everything. I
feel like you did after the factand that it was just yeah, cool
to hear remember doing the vocal thingfor a second and we were in the
studio, You're like that's cool andI was like, yeah, oh yeah,
and then he just like took itto one hundred. I feel like,
and yeah, Captain Colin over here, and yeah, I mean it's

(12:50):
an amazing But you know something Ilove to find out, speaking of versions,
I love finding out how many differentv's there are of songs from when
you start working on it to whenyou finally put it out. When I
looked at the master it said Vsix. Was there a lot of differences
between the versions. Yeah, thefirst one had a different baseline and then

(13:11):
call and switch it over, andthen we had a problem with white noise
on a lot of the stems,and we oh mysions because there is like
this one child with white noise thatwe couldn't get rid of. That's the
point. Oh my god, that'sgot to be so frustrating. Yeah,
well, congratulations on this smash.It's absolutely amazing. It's awesome finally meeting

(13:33):
you guys. Thank you so muchfor your time with us on America's Dance
thirty. Yeah, thank you,Brian. Was there anything that I didn't
mention that you guys wanted to talkabout? Yeah, I'm six four and

(13:54):
just a random question, Fatty ishow tall are you? Eleven and three
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