I would put three or four ideas over at a time and he would say what he liked or what he didn't like about it and expand upon that. He's a modern dance music choreographer and it was a new experience for me. You've provided original soundtracks to your uncle's dance works. I can work out of here easily, so I've stayed close to where I am.

Right now, it's just a convenient spot for me. I go in a few times a week or a few times a month as I need to. There are a lot of reasons, but one of the reasons is that I'm close enough to New York so I can go in and out when I need to. Why do you live in New Jersey as opposed to New York? Why not live in New York where music is happening all of the time? It was great seeing things like that come out of experimentation. It was 'Ghost in a Kiss.' I didn't know what was going to happen when we started messing around with some ideas. I think the most surprising one is the one that was with Sam Herring of Future Islands. What was your favorite collaboration to do? It's really experimenting with whatever we could. I went in with certain types of artists to see how things would end up It could have been an all-hip-hop album or all pop stuff. A lot of it was just to see what happens. Some are people I haven't worked with before. Tell me about the collaborations on the record.Ī lot of the people are people I've worked with before and have had working relationships with through their projects. We caught up with Volpe to talk about his collaborative album and how Lil B really helped him define his career.

Herring of Future Islands, and Joe Newman of alt-j. Fast forward to summer of 2016, Volpe finally released his debut LP 32 Levels as Clams Casino: an album full of collaborations both expected and unexpected thanks to appearances by Vince Staples, Kelela, Samuel T.

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