FUSE TV - Q&A: Morgan Page on His Fourth Album and First Book

L.A. producer and multi-talent Morgan Page is celebrating the release of his new album, DC to Light, streaming exclusively on Pandora until it drops on Tuesday, June 9. It's his fourth release on Nettwerk and the follow up to his critically acclaimed In the Air. Pressing questions circulate among fans about whether or not Page can top 2012's dance smash—after all, success places artists in a delicate position—but he just isn't worried. With a cool confidence, Page breezed through the Fuse offices to expound on the calculated differences between his impending project and his last, the various ways he diversifies from book writing to home improvement, and the best method to extract honest replies to new material from always-fickle music fans. 

How does DC to Light differ from or compare to In the Air?

It’ll be a little clubbier. The meaning behind DC to Light is full frequency. I called it that also because I recorded it all with solar power; I put solar panels on top of my home studio before I started. When I started this album I wanted to do something that was a little different than In the Air, something that was a little clubbier, a little more electronic, and had a little more aggressiveness to it. So it’s got that, but there’s definitely the core component of good songwriting and the core of the songs are there. It’s still synthetic sounds—layers of synths—but also guitars and real instruments.

Can you expand on what the 'DC' is in DC to Light?

It means zero hertz, which is the lowest frequency. And light is the highest. It’s kind of an audio-geek term, or even a radio-geek term.

Well on that note, since you're a self-proclaimed audio-geek, what’s the status of your book for aspiring producers, Morgan Page Quick Tips?

We’re working on it! It’s been a long time in the works. Now we’re just getting all the illustrations done, and finding the right publisher. Right now, online there’s about 500 tips you can get. So it’s been just a matter of distilling the best tips and then expanding a little bit on those.