DANCE ZINE SCIONAV.COM VOL. 3

D E L I V E R Y
If you’re looking for the sort of house music that brings
the catwalks of the early 1990s to the dance parties of
the present, the Los Angeles production duo Delivery
is what you’ve been missing. The pair are staples of
the scene surrounding the infamous A Club Called
Rhonda at El Cid in Silver Lake, and they recently put
out a collaborative EP for the song “Return To Me,”
with vocalist duo B.C., as the first release on Rhonda
International (in partnership with Scion A/V). Here,
Alex Perliter and Greg Shin give some background on
who they are and where they’re coming from.
How did you start making dance music together?
Shin: We both grew up in LA listening to a lot of rock music,
a lot of West Coast hip-hop and a lot of old electronic music
from Warp and Reflex Records. We met in college and decided
that we should explore making music together because we had
such similar but diverse tastes in music. Our interest in analog
synthesizers lead us to electronic music.
How do you think regular parties like Rhonda affect a
local dance music scene?
Perliter: Well, I wouldn’t call Rhonda a “regular” dance
party. Regular dance parties are lame warehouse, supposedly
“underground” raves.
Shin: I think that Rhonda introduces a lot of the people to
both cutting-edge house music and legendary artists that come
and play. A party like Rhonda actually cares about the kinds of
artists they book. There is a linear relationship between all the
artists that play Rhonda.
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What made you decide to collaborate with the
vocalists in B.C.?
Shin: It made sense to go and work with vocalists, because a
lot of the music we like is vocal music and vocal house from
the early ’90s. We didn’t want to exploit it, or copy it, but we
wanted to take it and apply it to today’s pop music and dance
music cultures. We eventually ended up meeting B.C. a year
and a half ago at Rhonda and we liked their style.
Perliter: They came to our studio two days after that, and
right there they showed us a rough version of “Return To Me.”
Instantly, we thought it was cool.
If you could collaborate with any recording artist who
would it be?
Shin: One of the main reasons why I make music is because of
Dr. Dre. I was enamored by his beats. I would collaborate with
his earlier, younger self.
Perliter: I think another person who one day we’d love to
collaborate with would be Philip Glass. He’s known as a great
collaborator, and he’s a huge influence for us, so we think we
could do something really interesting with him.
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Hear Delivery’s collaboration with B.C. on Scion A/V
Remix: Rhonda International at scionav.com/rhonda