Given the growing popularity of Infectious Grooves, how did you approach the recording of Groove Family Cyco?
For our first record, Epic gave us a very small budget–but they didn’t even know we were doing this one. The decision to make it was pretty spontaneous, and we figured if we had to wait for the record company to give us an okay, it would have taken forever. Mike Muir did the initial financing, and we went in with our co- producer, Michael Van Blum, and started cutting tracks. When we were done, our managers went to Epic and said, “Here’s the Infectious record,” and they said, “Hey, we can’t argue with that.” In fact, we just signed a new contract with Epic to do a couple more. I think people are starting to realize Infectious Grooves is a real band, not just a Muir/Trujillo side project. The new record is a total collaboration between everyone in the group; it wasn’t just me and Mike, like the first one. Why did you decide to record it on such short notice? It’s interesting, because we had already finished 17 songs about a year ago, and they were supposed to be for the third album. Th
