☰QUILATERAL RECORDS

Travis (Snails) Shields, im 27 and I live in Brandon (Dead Dreams) Manitoba

Snails have been around since a while, how long have you been producing as Snails? iv been “Snails” since 2010  What DAW and/or live instruments do you use for Snails? I record line in with Cubase, my usual hardware consists of: MicroKorg, MicroKorg XL, Korg R3, Casio CT-470, Casio SA-10, Atari Punk Console, Korg Ds-10, and the Korg Electribe ER-1 Rhythm Synthesizer  Some of the Poverty EP was recorded using Acid Pro. Your music seems to have a lot of inspiration from sub-genres, kvlt and post-internet influences, how were you introduced to Witchhouse music? My homie Mo Keachie(Scatterpattern) in like 2004/2005 maybe. It was like finding a home for myself<33

Would you name us one Witchhouse music influence and one non Witchhouse music influence? GuMMyBeAR, Tears For Fears  How many songs and eps have you released as Snails? 2 EPs, 1 album and 23 songs  What are your non musical influences?Video games.. movies.. ect.

Death and coping with it, my day to day life in general. Where I live people don’t really care about music, there isn’t any music scene of any form so here most people don’t see making music as anything special.  It is a desolate hole that sucks in creation and I find how desolate it is here is very influential. All of my art is inspired by those old ass arcade shooter games that is why I only use MS paint to do everything. How did you come into contact with Equilateral Records? Lucifear<33  Equilateral is all a very spiritual label, what's your stance on extra terrestrials? <33  What songs would be on a Snails party mixtape? Joy Division, Project Pat, prolly 3-6 Mafia, Prayers SD, Samedi, Kontravoid, Real Life, The Units, Futurisk, Daughters. What kind of music did you produce before making Witchhouse music? I was a vocalist for a few grindcore bands, but Darkwave has always been where my heart was. What is your favorite Snails song? Sky Castles, or maybe Villains Never Rest cause that song has allot of personal meaning to me, the lyrics are about how after my dad passed I never slept as I was living in his house. I would just wonder the streets with this fucked up mental image of running into my dad even though I knew it wouldn’t happen. There is so much strength in darkness<33 Your from Canada. Do you feel that other Canadian Witchhouse has a defining sound? we all seem to embrace the darkwave or gothwave scene, im not really sure why that is.  What's your favorite synth? Korg R3 even thou mine is possessed cause if have an arpegiator goin it will change tempo the whole time. Or maybe the microkorg XL them keys are nice to play.