Sextile on how The Prodigy, Underworld, Brian Eno and more influenced their new album ‘yes, please.’

LA duo Sextile’s 2023 album Push was an awesome embrace of ’90s club culture, and their follow-up to it, yes, please, barrels down the same path. Melissa Scaduto and Brady Keeh hit the ground dancing with “Women Respond to Bass,” a real stormer that you could imagine Lola running and running to, and the album doesn’t let up from there. Listen below.

For more on the album Melissa and Brady picked 10 songs that influenced yes, please including The Prodigy, Brian Eno, Underworld, MIA, and more. Check out their list and Brady’s commentary, below.

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SEXTILE – 10 SONGS THAT INFLUENCED ‘YES, PLEASE’

The Prodigy – Gabba
By no means were they the first to do hardcore, but this is the first gabber track I heard. That kick is unforgettable when it first comes in while you’re sitting in the back of your friend’s car with subs in the trunk.

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Ghost Town DJs – My Boo
It’s been a lifelong goal to make a beat as good as this. I’ve tried several times. ‘Hospital,’ on our new record, is my latest attempt at trying to capture this energy. Scaduto and Izzy took it to a new world. They really shaped it up.

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Push – Strange World
Between the ages of 11 and 15, I had a heavy trance phase. In Virginia, where I grew up, there was a teen club I would go to with my friends, and they would just blast trance like Push – lasers – smoke – it was sick. I really haven’t revisited trance till about a year ago, I had forgotten how good it is and how much I love the sound of the supersaw. I also realized I have never explored what inspires me and makes me feel emotional about that type of music. So you’ll hear a lot of sounds inspired by that style of production peppered throughout the record.

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Josh Wink – Are you There?
Man, I love Josh Wink. A pioneer in early breaks and tb303 production from Philly. A truely endless inspiration in dance music. The energy in his tracks feel like that of what you would expect at a nowave show – raw energy and an enthusiasm for experimentation. This track was produced pre-DAW. It’s all hardware and a live take.

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Panda Bear – Good Girl / Carrots
We really wanted to try to incorporate more melody into this record than any of our previous records. More melody in the vocals, in the instrumentation – everywhere. And for me, Panda Bear has some of the best melodies out there – just another endless sea of inspiration. I legit spend a lot of time contemplating how he arrives at the melodies he does over the samples he uses. I truly get baffled.

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MIA – Bamboo Banga
MIA sounded so tough during this era. It’s empowerment music. The Switch / MIA combo shines on this track. There’s a lot to be inspired by in this track. The arrangement, the percussion, and the use of simple repetitive lyrics that all culminate to create this huge dance track.

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Underworld – Two Months Off
B: Another undeniable banger – I think it takes a very skilled and refined taste for a producer to create a dance track that can simultaneously make you feel this bittersweet emotional energy, while joyfully dancing, not being self-conscious, and feeling free to express this warmth you feel bathed in those huge beautiful synth chords. The percussion is also incredible on this track.

Juicy J – No Man (feat. Project Pat) Remix
Always been a fan of the Three Six, love Juicy J, and Mel introduced me to Project Pat’s solo work. That track with La Chat, ‘Chicken Head’ – classic. For Mel and me, it’s the Memphis rap beats. The deep 808 kick, super tight snare, triplet hi-hats. This track is 160 bpm, but you’re not thrashing, you are swinging and bumping. We’ve been wanting to incorporate more of this palette into our sound, cause we love it and I think people want it rn. We were DJing in Berlin, playing techno and electro tracks. The response was whatever, cause I’m sure they’ve heard enough. And when I dropped this track, the whole room lit up. My suspicions were confirmed.

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Tony Rolando – Vaaaaanished
I’m going to shout out Tony Rolando, he and a crew in Asheville, NC, are a company of contemporary instrument creators called Make Noise. Their approach to music creation, sound design, and exploring all the possibilities encompassing those practices has been a great source of inspiration for this record. I feel that crew is pushing music into the future and effectively guiding us into rethinking how we create it in the first place.

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Brian Eno – Deep Blue Day
A classic track. The more Melissa and I tour the US, the more we realize how much we love the land and the people here. We love early country music, and Melissa is always showing me/ playing me the deep cuts. We love the MaMás and The Papas, and we love American folk music. We wanted to find a way to to incorporate our love of these genres, these sounds to ours. And when working on this record, we discussed ways of creating what we were coining “Future Country.” What did that sound like? What would the key instrumental elements need to be? Space and Pedal Steel. We thought Brian Enos “Deep Blue Day” was a perfect blueprint for this

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SEXTILE – 2025 TOUR DATES
May 23 – London, UK @ Wide Awake Festival
May 24 – Bristol, UK @ Dot to Dot Festival
May 25 – Nottingham, UK @ Dot to Dot Festival
May 27 – Glasgow, UK @ Stereo
May 28 – Manchester, UK @ White Hotel
May 29 – London, UK @ Rough Trade East Instore
May 20 – Brighton, UK @ Dust
May 31 – Birmingham, UK @ Hare & Hounds
June 01 – Margate, UK @ Where Else?
June 03 – Tourcoing, FR @ Le Grand Mix
June 04 – Paris, FR @ Trabendo
June 05 – Le Havre, FR @ Le Tetris
June 06 – Saint Point, FR @ Les Mouillotins Festival
June 07 – Saint Brieuc, FR @ Art Rock Festival
June 10 – Eindhoven, NL @ Altstadt
June 11 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso Upstairs
June 12 – Rotterdam, NL @ Rotown
June 16 – Vienna, AT @ B72
June 17 – Budapest, HU @ Durer Kert
June 19 – Istanbul, TR @ Blind
June 23 – Munich, DE @ Zirka
June 24 – Cologne, DE @ Bumann & Sohn
June 26 – Berlin, DE @ Modus
June 28 – Warsaw, PL @ VooDoo
June 30 – Krakow, PL @ Gwarek
July 03 – BE @ Rock Wertcher