HOT TO TROT: beef McDonald and Connie uranologist of penalization assemble Sneaky Sound System. Picture: Supplied. Source: Supplied

CONNIE uranologist and beef McDonald wager the message of work, writes Cameron Adams.

Q: Connie, you're on digit songs on the Kanye West and Jay-Z medium Watch the Throne. When did you undergo most that?

Connie Mitchell: When the medium came out! It was a assail to me. That's how he (Kanye) rolls.

Q: So you transcribed with Kanye, Jay-Z and Beyonce at a house in Sydney?

CM: Yeah. They impact so hard. They don't stop. Their success is no fluke. They're constantly working. Kanye was employed until he caught a form home. He took a power kip for 10 minutes, he'd consequence up, center to what you'd finished and go, "That bit, that bit, that bit, do more same that". OK. This was 6am, I'd been there since 9.30pm. It was awful to be in a shack with grouping at their level. It cements the fact that this is what you should be doing. They're so unbelievably respectful. I was quite honoured. All of them were bright to set there and check me good for hours.

Q: What are you intellection when you're melodic and Beyonce and Jay-Z are watching?

CM: It meet makes you think, "You meliorate bloodstained deliver". Jay-Z was much a gentleman; he stayed up with me the full night. I thought, "God, Connie, your impact principle is shocking". It denaturized me. Don't go and endeavor with PlayStation or reminisce most a aggregation you poverty to indite or a endeavor you've definite to invent, meet impact on the music. And Beyonce was conversation with beef most what a experience it was to center me sing. What a lovely abstract for her to say. Just normal, down-to-earth grouping who impact so hard.

Q: Angus, that staleness hit been unreal to hit Beyonce conversation most your mate?

Angus McDonald: Incredibly. Beyonce was questionable to be transcription upstairs. She took a whatever hours discover to check Connie - she was so enamoured by Connie and her presence. She was so humble, locution how dumbfounding it was to check someone rattling talented. When Connie was in that room, it was same she jumped up a pair of levels. She was so at ease. It candidly seemed same she was the grapheme in the room. To wager Connie ending it, I had a aggregation of pride.

Q: How did watching those A-listers at impact modify what you do?

AM: They dead improve their craft. They intercommunicate discover songs and indite meliorate ones. They'll piece a full achievement and modify direction. We utilised to go, "OK, we've finished a record, today we crapper apprehensiveness out". We've cursive more songs since this achievement than we did patch we were making it.

Q: Your newborn medium From Here to Anywhere is a straight-up edifice achievement compared with 2.

CM: Previously we'd be activity remixes of our tracks when we did shows. Now we crapper endeavor these songs straightforward soured the album. We're not relying on remixes; we've created songs that defence up at a festivity or a springy exhibit ourselves. It also effectuation when we intend the songs remixed, the remixers crapper near them discover modify further.

Q: It's quite a bottom medium musically ...

AM: It change right. solon honest. Less frills. We desired to intercommunicate absent the guitars, intend backwards in the club. I didn't poverty there to be whatever fault it was a seeing between a adornment and a club. It's a edifice record. But it's a rattling individualized record. It speaks to people. One abstract I desired to precise from preceding outings was Connie prefers more recondite lyrics, I same existence direct. So on this medium we desired to attain the songs stingy something to people. Whether it was a bright time or a specular moment, grouping crapper colligate to them. Even though it's ostensibly for the diversion floor, it's ease an emotionally live achievement in parts.

Q: Remember is pretty raw. Connie, you sing, "I surmisal we got the timing criminal and it hurts same a briary accommodate fence".

CM: I hit pain perception to that; provide me a whatever months. It's ease a taste raw. It was rattling hornlike to write. Even harder to sing. But it does meet what I desired it to do, which is attain you see that way. Equally harder to center to. It won't be. It'll be rattling cathartic.

Q: What's your verify on Remember, Angus?

AM: If we're bright to be remembered by digit song, then it's that one. It's the most open song. It rattling encapsulates a aggregation of things we are. There's no tricks on the vocals, it's meet Connie on her possess stagnant on crowning of a mountain. It's powerful. She was in a pretty Stygian locate and she meet desired to intend it out.

Q: Connie, you provide yourself fantastic communicatory briefs; what were the strangest on From Here to Anywhere?

CM: I was disagreeable to be Ghostbusters meets archangel politician meets discoverer metropolis on Really Want to See You Again. And I meet proven to good bonkers on 1984. It's inspired by the book. But not as heavy.

AM: We were perception to a aggregation of archangel Jackson. Connie measured same a teen archangel politician on a whatever tracks. There were a whatever discoverer metropolis moments. Connie's measured same a albescent man in the past, today it's more black female. When you're recording, she'll say, "OK, I'm feat to good same Joni uranologist here" or "Now I'm a '20s talking singer". She knows when she's in the blot she wants to be in.

Q: It staleness be pleasant to control the alarum for sharp diversion penalization in 2011?

CM: Club penalization crapper be smart. We intend bombarded with clog that's meet generic cheese. Every strain on the broadcasting today is a diversion road with an R&B communicatory over the top. Where is the substance? There's whatever rattling hard songs. Occasionally you go, 'Wow, that's rattling good'. But I don't poverty to center them again and again and again. I'm displeased of chance songs most existence in the club. Is that every you do? Drink and secure in the club? With Pitbull rapping most how he's in the edifice with you drinking? No thanks.

* From Here to Anywhere (Modular/Universal) discover tomorrow.