Dalmatian
Coupdekat Interview
by Joseph McCain
13 June 2026
Who is your biggest style influence?
There's this shop in London called Waste. Everyone that works there is so well-dressed. I just go in there, and I walk around, and I don't buy anything; I just look at what they're wearing. And I'm like, "That works."
What's a trend you predict for the near future?
Dubstep. And I feel like we're already hearing that.
London dubstep or more Skrillex dubstep?
Honestly, Skrillex dubstep. Also, I think it's the end of social media.
How? The world relies on it.
Well, we'll just find something else to rely on. I think it's eaten its babies. I don't think Instagram's gonna exist in nine months. It's turned into just a marketing platform. And people have that, it wasn't meant for that purpose, and people have apps meant for that purpose.
I think the indie web is gonna be big. I'm trying to get this going.
What sites do you use?
There is this website that hosts all these mini indie websites called Neocities. It's such an opportunity to relive an early internet where people could just create a profile not meant for self-promotion. It was just an existence.
If you take the human side away from it, who is it for and what is its purpose?
What's your preferred way of listening to music?
Recently I've been putting together a DJ set, and that's pretty much all I've been listening to. So USB.
What do you think is the most underrated part of making music?
I think the most underrated part is the time in between making a song. Imagine this: you write half a song one day. Then you go and do something else, and then that time that you do something else, something is still writing. Subconscious. I truly believe this.
Sometimes problems that you were trying to solve are solving themselves while you're doing something else. And then you come back to it, and you have all these answers, and it's this magical solution. I think that's actually the best part of making music, is what the subconscious creates while you're tapped out for a second.
Do you enjoy making short-form visuals?
I enjoy it now because I truly am at peace with the idea that I will only make stuff I feel is truly a visual reflection of the music. And it actually adds something.
My goal is to make visual art that pushes my music further. I'm so motivated by that idea. It makes me really enjoy making little short videos. I try and not think of them in a social media sense; sometimes they just don't work because of that.
There seems to be a little bit of a template involved in the way people consume it, and sometimes art just doesn't fit that template. But sometimes it does, and then I'm like, "That's great, my work here is done. I've managed to add these ingredients together that I'm truly happy with and feel like I’m adding good substance to the world.” And if people react well to it, that’s sick.
It is really time-consuming though. The last four months, I've spent probably triple the time editing videos than I have making music.
But you're consistent with dropping, so I feel like that’s a byproduct, in a good way.
I've always made music in quick succession. When I was in New York, I set the goal of making an album in three months, and so that's all I did. I didn't go on my phone the whole time. I guess the last few months have been the opposite of that, where I've got all this music, and I've gotta make something come to life with it.
Do you feel dissonance between when you sing and how it comes out, like, on the record?
Yeah, I do. Especially as of late because I've been using a lot more effects and auto-tune on my voice... and also distortion. The further you choose to manipulate your voice, you have to be at peace with the fact that you're not gonna be able to recreate it in a live setting.
But I also love that. I love hearing my voice being manipulated and seeing where it could go. I love hearing my voice pitched up and down.
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