Nearly four years after tearing onto the underground music scene with her 2006 EP “Pop The Glock,” Uffie gets us into a groove with the mixed-beat, genre-bending tracks of her recently released album, Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans.
In the dressing room, just before performing at SOS Music Festival in Murcia, Spain, we managed to take a peek down her barrel and find out a little more about the up-and-coming artist.
Vanessa: Why the name Uffie?
Uffie: It’s what my dad has called me since I was born. He would always say, “enuff, enuff, enuff!” when speaking to me.
Vanessa: Where’d you grow up and why the move to France?
Uffie: I grew up between the States and Hong Kong. When I was fifteen, I visisted my dad in Paris and decided to stay… I really prefer European lifestyle and culture.
Vanessa: Do you play any instruments?
Uffie: Not yet.
Vanessa: Has music always been a part of your life or did you discover it when you grew up and started to play a part in the night scene?
Uffie: I have always loved music and my parents were always playing it in the house. I just never thought of being a musician until DJ Feadz got me into it.
Vanessa: What do you sing most about?
Uffie: My life. I think that these days I tend to write about things that confuse me. It’s as though, if I analyze them in the song, I will somehow figure them out. A night out… love… loneliness… Whatever it is that I’m feeling in the moment.
Vanessa: Are you more about lyrics or rhythm and beat?
Uffie: Depends on the song.
Vanessa: What artists are you working or planning on working with in the near future?
Uffie: That is a surprise that you will have to wait for!
Vanessa: Your music has been described as “anti-flow”. What does that mean? Where do you get your flow?
Uffie: I have no idea, actually (laughs). The flows just come naturally, through the rhythm, beat, and words. It just sort of comes out a certain way that fits.
Vanessa: It has been some time since “Pop the Glock,” and some of your earlier projects and collaborations got the underground scene’s attention. Tell us about the making of Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans.
Uffie: It was important for me to make something other than club tracks, to go deeper, and push myself more outside of my comfort zone, so the album criss-crosses a lot of moods and genres.
Vanessa: Do you have any plans to tour in the US?
Uffie: Oh yes! We should be on tour in late October and early November.
Vanessa: Name the top three artists on your mp3 player these days.
Uffie: The Flowers, The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem.
Vanessa: Any artists that not enough people know about but should?
Uffie: The Flowers are really great…
Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans was released June 14, 2010 in Europe and June 22, 2010 in the US by the French electronic music label Ed Banger Records.
Check out one of our favorite tracks off of the new album here.
