June 3, 2024 • 12 mins
Trevor & Kyle, the guys of TELYKast, joined us again on America's Dance 30 to talk all about their upcoming EP, and what their fans can expect! The guys shared how "Free", the first smash off the EP, was born w x.o.anne, how long along they started working on it, and how many Vs there were of the song before its release.
As artists who not only release original music, but also remixes and mashups, the guys talk about how hard it is holding onto music and not releasing it right away, and what song they held onto the longest before releasing.
Trevor & Kyle also shared which type of show they prefer doing, between clubs, pool parties, and festivals.
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As artists who not only release original music, but also remixes and mashups, the guys talk about how hard it is holding onto music and not releasing it right away, and what song they held onto the longest before releasing.
Trevor & Kyle also shared which type of show they prefer doing, between clubs, pool parties, and festivals.
Follow: @AmericasDance30 on all socials!
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!
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(00:00):
Trevor Kyle. Uh, can youguys tell me why it's been almost a
year since we've chatted. I'll wait. Honestly, we've been like working on
so much new stuff and like tryingto really hone in on like this EP
dot is coming, and like,I feel like it's crazy when you see
how long it's actually been, butwe've been doing sessions every week and just
(00:22):
like, yeah, it's like oneof those things where you're like, all
right, sick top of the year, we're going to be ready to go,
and then here we are, butwe're really excited. Yeah. So
what you're saying is I am acasualty of your ep Yes, so fortately.
Well, what's so crazy to meis we've chatted a few times on
America's Dans thirty and if you wantto get to know the guys at telecast,
(00:44):
just search the past episodes. Youcan get to know them with Thinkey's
first and Thinky's favorites. But youguys are one of the artists that we
still have never met in real life. I think. No, we did
briefly in Miami two years ago.Oh yeah, yeah, yeah at the
table. Yeah yeah, yeah,so quickly. Oh my God, you
(01:06):
guys did come through radio row.It was really quick. Yeah, yeah,
it was really clear. Well,we have to make a proper in
real life meeting at at some point. Dance counting down the biggest dance songs
(01:32):
in the country. This is America'sDance thirty telecast. Welcome back to America's
Dance thirty. Thank you for havingyou. How are you? I'm good?
Besides this, besides that, I'mgreat. You know, you guys
have a lot of great stuff comingup, including the EP that we mentioned
and a brand new smash off ofthe EP. But before we talk all
(01:57):
about that, how have you guysbeen great? Yeah? I mean yeah,
I can't complain playing shows all dayswere good. At the beginning,
it was, I guess, alwaysa little slower like January February, and
now everything's like really cranking against inthe year. So yeah, absolutely.
And speaking of your shows, youknow, you guys have been playing all
over the world, doing pool parties, doing sold out club shows, doing
(02:21):
festivals. Do you guys have apreference what type of show you like to
do more? For me, it'slike all about the energy. But yeah,
yeah, I don't know, they'reall they're all so different in it,
but they're all fun in their ownways. My thing is always like
there's always like even if there's onehundred people, if like those people are
there for you versus like playing forten thousand people and they might not know
(02:44):
your music, I prefer the otherone having less people because those people are
like so much more engaged in singingthe songs. And like even like two
weekends ago, we were in DCand like we're third on Maine, and
we didn't really know what to expect, but I bought twenty minutes in it
was pretty slammed, and like allthe people were there like for us,
and that's like, that's like thecool feelings. So it's like seeing that
(03:06):
versus playing for a packed room thatlike maybe they don't know who you are
yet or like it's like always likethat kind of opposite effect. But yeah,
I totally get that mindset. I'mexact opposite though, Like when I'm
speaking to people, I would ratherspeak to a large crowd. It makes
sense, Yeah, instead of likea small meeting where there's like ten people
(03:27):
and everybody staring at the nerves andstuff. Yeah, that's because you can
see everyone's face. You can hearthem like breathing. Oh my god,
I'm having like PTSD flashbacks. Sowe used to have managers meetings where we
would sit in a conference room andwe would go around the table and everybody
would talk about their department. Andas it was going around the table,
(03:52):
getting closer and closer to me,I could feel my neck just tensing up,
like I would be like holding mywater, Like, oh my god,
it's the worst. It's so funnybecause like a festival, it's like,
you know, you're so far fromsome sometimes the people in the front,
(04:13):
they can they can't really see you. I mean sometimes there's cameras and
stuff, but like you don't worryabout that, like looking like you're sweating.
And it's so funny. Everybody Italked to you there, they're really
surprised when I say, I'm morecomfortable getting on stage speaking of like fifteen
twenty thousand people more so than speakingin front of like fifty people, because
again, like you're not like feelingthe beady eyes on you. Oh yeah,
(04:36):
it is actually way different. It'skind of funny. Well, let's
talk about some amazing stuff before wetalk about the EP. Let's talk about
the first smash off of it freeHow was this song born? With XO
And Yeah, so we did asession with her and Sophie Simmons, who's
also a very talented writer, andwe kind of had the idea for like
(05:00):
sort of what we wanted the songto be about and kind of our EP,
which is like kind of like afreeing feeling and like the nostalgic feeling
of that dance music gave, youknow in the early two thousands and things
like that, and this song kindof just came out like really efforts naturally.
Yeah, that's really yeah, goinginto like this EP of like the
(05:20):
perfect single to describe. And thefeeling that we're like going for is kind
of like what Charev was saying,like the twenty twelve just like classic Golden
Age, like really meaningful music.And I feel like it's always been like
what we prefer to do, andI feel like it's kind of been like
missing in the scene as of thelast few years. And like all these
(05:41):
songs are great, great for live, but I feel like they're forgotten after
like a month or even a weekat some of them. So it's like
for us to bring back really big, meaningful anthemic feelings is like is the
goal. Yeah, And when wewrote the song too and she started singing
it, her voice just kind ofhas that feeling too, and we were
like, damn, this is likeperfect, and we kind of rushed that
one to the front of the EP. Yeah. She really did an amazing
(06:03):
job on the vocals. You know, not to compare singers, but she's
got that hala sound to her.Yeah. Yeah, Yeah, it's that
like big, powerful, kind ofemotional vocal that like we were just completely
looking for and kind of going inlike it just happened. It's kind of
crazy. Yeah, she did anamazing job. Well, you talked about
that, you've been working on itfor a while. How long ago did
(06:25):
you start working on the song?That song was actually not as long as
some of the other ones on theEP. Was it in January? Yeah,
but yeah, that one was actuallykind of sooner and like we kind
of were like, oh, damn, this is literally exactly what we've been
going for for the EP. Sowe're like, let's put this one out.
And we were doing sessions like twothree a week and like trying to
(06:46):
find the EP's going to be fivesongs, and like every time we would
have a session, we'd literally likeone up the previous one and like like
we had like one or two slotsthat we knew were like available still on
the EP, and we're like,all right, let's just try for the
next few months while this everything elseis getting valveed into, like write songs
and come up with something good.And that one just happened to be so
like good that we were like thatone actually came together pretty pretty quick compared
(07:10):
to some of the other ones we'vehad for like a bit longer of a
time, well less more versions.Yeah, that's the first version kind of
of the song, which is cool. Oh okay, Well, I was
gonna say, you know, myfollow up question is always I love finding
out the V the final V ofa song. So was there not a
lot of tweaking that went on withFree? I should look at it,
(07:30):
but like it wasn't. It waslike at least the first like style of
production is the production that it is? It definitely, I mean, obviously
millions of little tweaks also learned threePM change. Yeah, actually that is
a good thing to point out.We did raise it from one twenty eight
to one thirty. Yeah, andthen like we realized that we almost submitted
(07:51):
the one twenty eight one for someof my things, so then like,
yeah, it's like a whole processdoing that because then you have to bounce
all the stems again at like onethirty. Like there's different ways to do
it to make it sound a certainway, and then we kind of decided
on like the best way to doit, which is also the longest way,
which is to like rebounce everything outlike that. That was actually a
lot of versions. Well, I'mglad you guys finally came down with the
(08:13):
version that you did because it issuch a smash. Let's talk about the
EP. What can fans expect?Uh? Something we for sure know is
a follow up to Unbreakable with SamGray were super excited about. We actually
(08:35):
posted it on TikTok a few timesand it's been like super super reactive and
I feel like he's like the perfectone. We've been like working on a
few with him, and like thisfeels just like a perfect like alignment of
the Unbreakable feeling, and we're superexcited about that. And then we have
another one with We're Allowed to BeYeah, yeah, with Wenona oak Oaks,
(08:56):
she's been on the on the Garrick'strack and she has a lot of
crazy stuff coming. Yeah, sowe're really excited about that. And then
another one called Feel Again, whichis with this girl Moa, an incredible
writer from Sweden and she's actually goingto be I think she has one song
out, but this is going tobe like kind of propelling and starting her
(09:18):
artist project as well. And thenthe final song is still somewhat in the
air. We're really really excited.It's like such a good problem to happen.
Cohesive body of work. Yeah,like we were saying, we kind
of like it's the same kind ofvibe that we were saying with the song
Free, which is nostalgic, kindof like music that makes you feel something
(09:39):
and just very much music that feelslike it's timeless in a way. It's
kind of like what we're going forsome Well, you mentioned Sam Gray,
So my next question kind of worriesme because when we chatted almost a year
ago, I think you had mentionedthat you had Sam Gray on another song.
How long ago did you start workingon this EP? That one was?
(10:01):
Yeah, horrid was that that's thissong we had for probably like two
years and it was never produced fully, yeah until I'd say the last like
seven six or seven months, yeah, which sounds like a long time,
but we just like never could geta production that we felt suited the vocal
how it. Yeah, production alsolike it's like you know, six months
(10:22):
go by and then you're like,oh damn, like this sounds dated.
We got to redo this. Sothat happens a lot with those kind of
older songs, but we knew thatsong itself was like really powerful. We
have another, I mean, wehave more with Sam Gray that are also
amazing come out eventually too. Asartists that not only put out original music,
but you put out remixes and mashupsas well, is it hard to
(10:45):
hold on to music and not justrelease it the second it's done. Yeah.
Yeah, that's the hardest part.I mean, especially if it's reactive.
Yeah, As like artists and likeproducers, it's like all we do
is that, and it's like you'reso excited about something like the day you
finish it, and it's like Iwas even looking back at some of our
texts, like when I was searchinglike an older song, and like we
were like this song so amazing,Like the hype was like so crazy.
(11:07):
I was like, I was like, wow, we really did love that
song when you like hearing it athousand times and like two years later and
you're like this is so good,like you know, but then you look
back in your text you're like,oh yeah it's God loved it. What
is the longest you've ever held ontoa song? You got for sure Georgia
(11:28):
And yeah you got me. Iwas like three four years or something.
I don't know exactly how long.Maybe I'm over example, for sure,
it was like well before COVID thatone happened any like as well, Yeah,
so well, I know Georgia isalso somebody that holds on to songs
for a long time, as alot of songwriters, do you know they
write so much that it never getsdone. Yeah. The thing about vocals
(11:50):
too, is like they're kind ofthey are kind of timeless because like a
good vocal can go over like anysort of modern production. I guess,
like, you know, so itdoesn't really matter how old it is,
like, if it's a good vocal, yeah, absolutely, age and be
a little different, but you couldfix that. I mean that's not a
problem. Yeah. Well, Ican't wait to hear this EP, I
mean free is such a smash,So congratulations on that. Congratulations on the
(12:16):
EP. You've got your upcoming showin New York, your first headlining show
later this year, which is amazing. Yeah, yeah, that's gonna be.
Yeah, we're super excited about thosefirst week or second week of October.
Well, Trevor Kyle, let's notmake it a year until the next
time we chat. Please, yes, and we need to get together absolutely
(12:39):
in real life. Yeah, absolutely, Tellycas, thank you so much for
your time on America's Dance thirty thanAmerica's Dance thirties, counting down the biggest
dance songs in the country. America'sDance thirty
Trevor Kyle. Uh, can youguys tell me why it's been almost a
year since we've chatted. I'll wait. Honestly, we've been like working on
so much new stuff and like tryingto really hone in on like this EP
dot is coming, and like,I feel like it's crazy when you see
how long it's actually been, butwe've been doing sessions every week and just
(00:22):
like, yeah, it's like oneof those things where you're like, all
right, sick top of the year, we're going to be ready to go,
and then here we are, butwe're really excited. Yeah. So
what you're saying is I am acasualty of your ep Yes, so fortately.
Well, what's so crazy to meis we've chatted a few times on
America's Dans thirty and if you wantto get to know the guys at telecast,
(00:44):
just search the past episodes. Youcan get to know them with Thinkey's
first and Thinky's favorites. But youguys are one of the artists that we
still have never met in real life. I think. No, we did
briefly in Miami two years ago.Oh yeah, yeah, yeah at the
table. Yeah yeah, yeah,so quickly. Oh my God, you
(01:06):
guys did come through radio row.It was really quick. Yeah, yeah,
it was really clear. Well,we have to make a proper in
real life meeting at at some point. Dance counting down the biggest dance songs
(01:32):
in the country. This is America'sDance thirty telecast. Welcome back to America's
Dance thirty. Thank you for havingyou. How are you? I'm good?
Besides this, besides that, I'mgreat. You know, you guys
have a lot of great stuff comingup, including the EP that we mentioned
and a brand new smash off ofthe EP. But before we talk all
(01:57):
about that, how have you guysbeen great? Yeah? I mean yeah,
I can't complain playing shows all dayswere good. At the beginning,
it was, I guess, alwaysa little slower like January February, and
now everything's like really cranking against inthe year. So yeah, absolutely.
And speaking of your shows, youknow, you guys have been playing all
over the world, doing pool parties, doing sold out club shows, doing
(02:21):
festivals. Do you guys have apreference what type of show you like to
do more? For me, it'slike all about the energy. But yeah,
yeah, I don't know, they'reall they're all so different in it,
but they're all fun in their ownways. My thing is always like
there's always like even if there's onehundred people, if like those people are
there for you versus like playing forten thousand people and they might not know
(02:44):
your music, I prefer the otherone having less people because those people are
like so much more engaged in singingthe songs. And like even like two
weekends ago, we were in DCand like we're third on Maine, and
we didn't really know what to expect, but I bought twenty minutes in it
was pretty slammed, and like allthe people were there like for us,
and that's like, that's like thecool feelings. So it's like seeing that
(03:06):
versus playing for a packed room thatlike maybe they don't know who you are
yet or like it's like always likethat kind of opposite effect. But yeah,
I totally get that mindset. I'mexact opposite though, Like when I'm
speaking to people, I would ratherspeak to a large crowd. It makes
sense, Yeah, instead of likea small meeting where there's like ten people
(03:27):
and everybody staring at the nerves andstuff. Yeah, that's because you can
see everyone's face. You can hearthem like breathing. Oh my god,
I'm having like PTSD flashbacks. Sowe used to have managers meetings where we
would sit in a conference room andwe would go around the table and everybody
would talk about their department. Andas it was going around the table,
(03:52):
getting closer and closer to me,I could feel my neck just tensing up,
like I would be like holding mywater, Like, oh my god,
it's the worst. It's so funnybecause like a festival, it's like,
you know, you're so far fromsome sometimes the people in the front,
(04:13):
they can they can't really see you. I mean sometimes there's cameras and
stuff, but like you don't worryabout that, like looking like you're sweating.
And it's so funny. Everybody Italked to you there, they're really
surprised when I say, I'm morecomfortable getting on stage speaking of like fifteen
twenty thousand people more so than speakingin front of like fifty people, because
again, like you're not like feelingthe beady eyes on you. Oh yeah,
(04:36):
it is actually way different. It'skind of funny. Well, let's
talk about some amazing stuff before wetalk about the EP. Let's talk about
the first smash off of it freeHow was this song born? With XO
And Yeah, so we did asession with her and Sophie Simmons, who's
also a very talented writer, andwe kind of had the idea for like
(05:00):
sort of what we wanted the songto be about and kind of our EP,
which is like kind of like afreeing feeling and like the nostalgic feeling
of that dance music gave, youknow in the early two thousands and things
like that, and this song kindof just came out like really efforts naturally.
Yeah, that's really yeah, goinginto like this EP of like the
(05:20):
perfect single to describe. And thefeeling that we're like going for is kind
of like what Charev was saying,like the twenty twelve just like classic Golden
Age, like really meaningful music.And I feel like it's always been like
what we prefer to do, andI feel like it's kind of been like
missing in the scene as of thelast few years. And like all these
(05:41):
songs are great, great for live, but I feel like they're forgotten after
like a month or even a weekat some of them. So it's like
for us to bring back really big, meaningful anthemic feelings is like is the
goal. Yeah, And when wewrote the song too and she started singing
it, her voice just kind ofhas that feeling too, and we were
like, damn, this is likeperfect, and we kind of rushed that
one to the front of the EP. Yeah. She really did an amazing
(06:03):
job on the vocals. You know, not to compare singers, but she's
got that hala sound to her.Yeah. Yeah, Yeah, it's that
like big, powerful, kind ofemotional vocal that like we were just completely
looking for and kind of going inlike it just happened. It's kind of
crazy. Yeah, she did anamazing job. Well, you talked about
that, you've been working on itfor a while. How long ago did
(06:25):
you start working on the song?That song was actually not as long as
some of the other ones on theEP. Was it in January? Yeah,
but yeah, that one was actuallykind of sooner and like we kind
of were like, oh, damn, this is literally exactly what we've been
going for for the EP. Sowe're like, let's put this one out.
And we were doing sessions like twothree a week and like trying to
(06:46):
find the EP's going to be fivesongs, and like every time we would
have a session, we'd literally likeone up the previous one and like like
we had like one or two slotsthat we knew were like available still on
the EP, and we're like,all right, let's just try for the
next few months while this everything elseis getting valveed into, like write songs
and come up with something good.And that one just happened to be so
like good that we were like thatone actually came together pretty pretty quick compared
(07:10):
to some of the other ones we'vehad for like a bit longer of a
time, well less more versions.Yeah, that's the first version kind of
of the song, which is cool. Oh okay, Well, I was
gonna say, you know, myfollow up question is always I love finding
out the V the final V ofa song. So was there not a
lot of tweaking that went on withFree? I should look at it,
(07:30):
but like it wasn't. It waslike at least the first like style of
production is the production that it is? It definitely, I mean, obviously
millions of little tweaks also learned threePM change. Yeah, actually that is
a good thing to point out.We did raise it from one twenty eight
to one thirty. Yeah, andthen like we realized that we almost submitted
(07:51):
the one twenty eight one for someof my things, so then like,
yeah, it's like a whole processdoing that because then you have to bounce
all the stems again at like onethirty. Like there's different ways to do
it to make it sound a certainway, and then we kind of decided
on like the best way to doit, which is also the longest way,
which is to like rebounce everything outlike that. That was actually a
lot of versions. Well, I'mglad you guys finally came down with the
(08:13):
version that you did because it issuch a smash. Let's talk about the
EP. What can fans expect?Uh? Something we for sure know is
a follow up to Unbreakable with SamGray were super excited about. We actually
(08:35):
posted it on TikTok a few timesand it's been like super super reactive and
I feel like he's like the perfectone. We've been like working on a
few with him, and like thisfeels just like a perfect like alignment of
the Unbreakable feeling, and we're superexcited about that. And then we have
another one with We're Allowed to BeYeah, yeah, with Wenona oak Oaks,
(08:56):
she's been on the on the Garrick'strack and she has a lot of
crazy stuff coming. Yeah, sowe're really excited about that. And then
another one called Feel Again, whichis with this girl Moa, an incredible
writer from Sweden and she's actually goingto be I think she has one song
out, but this is going tobe like kind of propelling and starting her
(09:18):
artist project as well. And thenthe final song is still somewhat in the
air. We're really really excited.It's like such a good problem to happen.
Cohesive body of work. Yeah,like we were saying, we kind
of like it's the same kind ofvibe that we were saying with the song
Free, which is nostalgic, kindof like music that makes you feel something
(09:39):
and just very much music that feelslike it's timeless in a way. It's
kind of like what we're going forsome Well, you mentioned Sam Gray,
So my next question kind of worriesme because when we chatted almost a year
ago, I think you had mentionedthat you had Sam Gray on another song.
How long ago did you start workingon this EP? That one was?
(10:01):
Yeah, horrid was that that's thissong we had for probably like two
years and it was never produced fully, yeah until I'd say the last like
seven six or seven months, yeah, which sounds like a long time,
but we just like never could geta production that we felt suited the vocal
how it. Yeah, production alsolike it's like you know, six months
(10:22):
go by and then you're like,oh damn, like this sounds dated.
We got to redo this. Sothat happens a lot with those kind of
older songs, but we knew thatsong itself was like really powerful. We
have another, I mean, wehave more with Sam Gray that are also
amazing come out eventually too. Asartists that not only put out original music,
but you put out remixes and mashupsas well, is it hard to
(10:45):
hold on to music and not justrelease it the second it's done. Yeah.
Yeah, that's the hardest part.I mean, especially if it's reactive.
Yeah, As like artists and likeproducers, it's like all we do
is that, and it's like you'reso excited about something like the day you
finish it, and it's like Iwas even looking back at some of our
texts, like when I was searchinglike an older song, and like we
were like this song so amazing,Like the hype was like so crazy.
(11:07):
I was like, I was like, wow, we really did love that
song when you like hearing it athousand times and like two years later and
you're like this is so good,like you know, but then you look
back in your text you're like,oh yeah it's God loved it. What
is the longest you've ever held ontoa song? You got for sure Georgia
(11:28):
And yeah you got me. Iwas like three four years or something.
I don't know exactly how long.Maybe I'm over example, for sure,
it was like well before COVID thatone happened any like as well, Yeah,
so well, I know Georgia isalso somebody that holds on to songs
for a long time, as alot of songwriters, do you know they
write so much that it never getsdone. Yeah. The thing about vocals
(11:50):
too, is like they're kind ofthey are kind of timeless because like a
good vocal can go over like anysort of modern production. I guess,
like, you know, so itdoesn't really matter how old it is,
like, if it's a good vocal, yeah, absolutely, age and be
a little different, but you couldfix that. I mean that's not a
problem. Yeah. Well, Ican't wait to hear this EP, I
mean free is such a smash,So congratulations on that. Congratulations on the
(12:16):
EP. You've got your upcoming showin New York, your first headlining show
later this year, which is amazing. Yeah, yeah, that's gonna be.
Yeah, we're super excited about thosefirst week or second week of October.
Well, Trevor Kyle, let's notmake it a year until the next
time we chat. Please, yes, and we need to get together absolutely
(12:39):
in real life. Yeah, absolutely, Tellycas, thank you so much for
your time on America's Dance thirty thanAmerica's Dance thirties, counting down the biggest
dance songs in the country. America'sDance thirty
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