Their perfect day would involve a shag for Jimmy Page, a haircut with Bob Marley, another bottle of bourbon for Jim Morrison, and chasing Hunter S Thompson down the A12 screaming about devils and armpit hair.

Their set at Innovate’s 2nd birthday, on Saturday July 15th at The Fridge in Brixton, will apparently incorporate a sea turtle, an otter, three white elephants, a Bengal tiger and possibly nine three-legged dwarves from Sprakow.

Are you looking forward to playing at Innovate on July 15th?

Definitely!!!! Innovate holds a special place for us. It was our first really major gig in a major club (21st May 2005) and that night set a lot of things up for us. Six months later we were also asked to play the opening set at Innovate’s birthday in the main room, which was simply awesome as we had never gotten to play our sound of music on a rig that size. We’ve got the Addiction Boat Party during the day and then we follow on to Innovate at The Fridge for some more silliness & debauchery. This will be our third Innovate appearance so yeah, we’re psyched to rock it again!

You play mainly house and electronica. What kind of reaction do you think your music will get at what is one of the biggest trance nights in the country?

Well we’re normally used to having £50 notes thrown at us along with various ladies undergarments and there was this one incident with a Chihuahua wrapped around a bowling ball. But every crowd is different so the reactions might not be the same as the previous times we’ve played at Innovate. The regulars at Innovate seem to be quite up for hearing different music so we’ll just do our thing. Whatever the reaction, we promise it’ll be ROCKING!!! Nick Sentience once said to us that Innovate's music has always focused on creating an energy rather than just a bpm race - so it doesn't really matter if it's house or trance, if the music makes you move & you don’t have that “Deer in the Headlights Whiskey Expression”, we're all having a good time!

Is it important for you to branch your sound out through nights like Innovate to clubbers who might not necessarily listen to you otherwise?

For sure! It’s awesome to be able to play our music to people who would never think of listening to what we do at all just by judging what it says on a flyer. Our sound is house but to us house is not a single genre, it’s a description of a music that takes you and makes you move without conforming to a generally tagged formula of sounds. In the same way that some people find themselves losing it to music they never knew they liked, we also find ourselves exposed to a new crowd of people and the experience is just as refreshing for us as it is for them.

The whole ethos of Innovate as a night is to allow DJs to push the boundaries with their music and their set. Have you got anything planned for the night that’s especially innovative?

Of course! We’ve got a sea turtle, an otter, three white elephants, a Bengal tiger and we’re still waiting on confirmation from the nine 3 legged dwarves from Sprakow! We’ll be spinning a set of live Himalayan jingle bells while perfectly choreographing the three white elephants, juggling the nine 3 legged Dwarves that will be playing Bengal tiger in the middle with the otter while riding the sea turtle… And that’s just our intro… The rest is top secret though so that’s all we can divulge at this point.

You’ve recently played alongside some massive house names, including Tim Sheridan, Mike Monday and King Roc. Do you get awestruck?

All the time! Every now and then we have to stop and look around to ask ourselves if it’s all real. It’s not about kissing ass or whatever, it just comes down to respect really. All the guys at the top have put a lot of time and effort into the music and the scene and are not where they are for nothing. When we get a chance to be near them on a playing level, we just try to take it all in and not blurt out something stupid like “I love you and I want your children.” We act cool but really all you want to do is kidnap them and hold them ransom for their knowledge, contacts and to get on their promo lists!

What would be your perfect blissed & twisted day?

BM - Wake up next to my lady and both walk out the front door onto the beach while sipping a shot of espresso, talking and wading into the sea to welcome the day and to greet it good morning. Go back inside and cook a big ass breakfast of bacon, eggs, piping hot rolls (poppy seed ones), mushrooms, tomato, beans and all sorts… Champagne and strawberries to top it off and then into the studio with Jimmy Page, Bob Marley and Jim Morrison to start work on a new track for the next label release and Hunter S. Thompson is there to supervise the session… As you can imagine not much gets done and instead we just catch up and talk shite about the good old days for the rest of the afternoon before realizing we all need to be somewhere… Jimmy’s got some lady to shag, Bob’s got a hair appointment, Jim ran out of booze about 5 minutes ago and needs another bottle of bourbon and Hunter was last seen chasing a hubcap down the A12 screaming something about devils and armpit hair.

The rest of the night I just sit twisted and torn in the moonlight trying to get my head round what went down in the studio that day before coming to the realization that California Sunshine mixed with strawberries and Champagne should be taken in smaller doses *grin*

GK: Not gonna beat Balt’s perfect day here but I’d definitely wanna be there to witness the damage! Pretty boring on my side I’m afraid, as it pretty much entails everything involving SLEEP. Being my favourite pass time. Maybe throw in a couple of Blissed & Twisted dreams for safe measure but considering I’d be drooling on the side of my pillow, snoring & breathing like a Grizzly in Hibernation – it wouldn’t be pretty either way.

The Dreams of a perfect day would be along the lines of lying with my lady on a Costa Rican Beach sipping Amarula Pedros served by the velociraptors from Jurassic Park. There’s always two sides to every pillow! Wouldn’t mind borrowing one of Roman Abromavic’s 15 million pound motor boats & traveling from Costa Rica to Hawaii with loads of our mates & a few of the oldies from back in the day – Levan, Mancuso, Knuckles & Terry, listening to all the stories from way back in the day. In closing you gotta have a sunset in there somewhere. Watching the sunset with my lady from the inside of a giant see-through beach ball while floating on top of the ocean as the sun goes down.

What are the pros and cons of DJing, producing and putting on nights as a duo?

GM: No real cons really except it’s sometimes hard sharing the groupies – sometimes one of us has to settle with the bloke while the other gets the lass. Just kidding! Both of us edge each other on & our biggest inspiration is probably each other. We wouldn't have as much fun playing if it was just one of us. It's a big help when it comes to putting on a night though. Promoting, as most will tell you, is a full time operation so with 2 of us working & bouncing ideas off each other, it takes some of the pressure off. When it comes to producing, we're really new at this so it's a bit early to tell.

BM: Greg is afraid of the PC and the mouse and doesn't shut up after a few pints. ;-) We both know what we like and with two heads operating, you get a mix of sounds that one of us would otherwise not really have added or adjusted. Like Greg said, we're still very new on this so we're pretty sure there will come a time when we'll both be head butting the midi controller working on our own sounds, but right now we're enjoying the studio time together & learning from some great engineers. Another great thing about there being two of us is that when times are bad for one, the other is there to take over and in some ways we can be in two places at once networking etc or one can have the night off while the other goes out to events and it’s still like showing your face if you know what we mean!

Do you play out individually at all?

Not really, we have a few times and this may sound a bit naff but there is a different kind of energy when we play together. It’s like deodorant, on its own is cool, but when you spray that mofo over an open flame it just gets a whole lot better!!!

Do you think that dance music has become too fragmented?

We reckon so. The genres nowadays are so blurred that one person’s house is another’s techno. Everyone has their own description for certain sounds and it has led to a lot of segregation and snobbery. People won’t associate with those people because they listen to that music and dress a certain way. There has always been class snobbery but it has been taken to quite a limit with genre snobbery. There is no use in saying that we wish it was like the old days when it was just all like one maaaaaan… as the new days have something really awesome to offer musically, the only thing we can hope for is people to leave each to their own. If someone likes something that you don’t then fine, that’s just not your bag, no reason to mock them or turn your nose up at them for it, they obviously don’t get your taste either so it’s a two way street.
This is such a rehashed subject and it will go on till the end of time. House as a whole is blowing up in a big way. One of the biggest things, that has been labeled the Electro House/Tough House/Dirty House/Enter-your-own-word-for-fetal-matter-House-here Sound, has really brought in a lot of different people from different music scenes, especially the hard dance scene. It has the energy without the high BPMs and this is what people like, energy and music you can shake it to! We’ve said it before and it’s true that a lot of people are fed up with just wanting to listen to the newest freshest minmalelectrotechfunknofartinacan music, people want music they can party to!

How’s your promotion Comfortably Numbed doing?

Our promotion, it’s going very well. We’ve just had our second event of the year at Inigo with Deepgroove this past weekend and it was OFF THE HOOK!!! People were screaming and chanting for more and there was general messiness. Unfortunately there was not enough room for everyone to join in though and we had to turn people away. The first one with D.Ramirez was much the same with people queuing till closing time and having to be forcefully removed. It’s a pity it ends at 2am.

It’s always great to be able to bring in some of our favourite artists and we put a lot of work in for them so that they go away saying DAMN, how good a party was that. We believe we have achieved that. The success of Comfortably Numbed relies on its people though, we have the most up for it crowd and we know everyone says that but anyone who has been will vouch for that statement!!!

Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd or Scissor Sister’s version?

Pink Floyd - The Original - no denying!

How’s it going getting your website fixed? It must be frustrating for it to be down because it’s obviously the easiest way to stay in touch with clubbers trying to find out where you’re playing and what you’re up to. Where else can people find out about you on the web until you get it fixed?

Yeah, some bastards actually kicked the door in and stole the damn site! Well the whole server actually. They left a few size 9 Nike footprints on the door. It’s been such a set back as there was info on there that we never had any copies of and so will never recover. That’ll teach us to back up our Server next time. We’re in the process of planning the new site but won’t start work on it till around August. It’s going to be a full on affair but you’ll find out more as it goes on. Right now we’re busy with www.2phunkedup.com which will be ready in July and is going to offer something for the whole family. A site in true 2 PhUnKeD uP style. Until that is up you can keep up to date with our randomness at the following places…

www.myspace.com/2phunkedup
www.dontstayin.com/parties/2-phunked-up
www.dontstayin.com/parties/comfortably-numbed

Erm, according to your Don’t Stay In profile www.dontstayin.com/parties/2-phunked-up, you were separated at birth by a freak hurricane which you blame on a kryptonite belt running round bee hives in the Mogadishu Valley. Luckily you were reunited 24 years later after Lex Luther removed the kryptonite belt to use for his own personal interior design purposes. How much of an effect do you think this rather dramatic and potently traumatic start to life has had on your music?

Well – the trauma seems to have affected us both physically & mentally. The twitching seems to get worse when we’re playing as well & since the accident, we were also both left blind in both ears so it’s all just a loud blur really. It’s the kind of experience you come out the other side thinking, WOW, my life could have been so much different, we could be the kids of a rich playboy who gave us everything we needed, toys, babes, cash but no, we were lucky enough to be put through hardships and learn the real meaning of life and things and stuff and…

Nah, seriously it’s all bullshit. We’re just 2 normal dudes from two different mothers from the Yayzon asteroid belt about a trillion refractions away from Uranis but the chicks love the separated at birth line…

What made you both up sticks and move to the UK?

To party and see a different side of the world. South Africa is great but it is also so far removed from the rest of the world. We both came to here to party and play music & just ended up living a bit of the dream. People don't realize how lucky they are here, to be able to go to countless different clubs and hear music of the highest quality from your favourite artists on any given weekend. Back in South Africa, there are some top local talents but you have to wait months for the big international names to come out. Also because there are not that many clubs, the DJs protect their ground by any means necessary and you see a lot of the same week in week out. So instead of waiting around for the party to come there, we decided to up sticks and hit the party here. Simple!!!

If you could make it big as DJs in either the UK or South Africa, which country would you prefer and why?

Good one and we’ve thought about it plenty. The South African crowds are fantastic & some of the clubs are really unique. Our family is back home as well as the friends we grew up with, which makes a difference, but making it big in SA would not be enough as the market is too small for most DJs to sustain a decent living.

Even though it’s more difficult to make it big here, it would definitely be the UK. Dance music is in people's blood. It's part of the culture and even though we’re in a time of “Everybody’s granny wants to be a DJ” it means you are forced to raise your game because there are so many people trying to make their mark. We’ve also met some awesome people of all backgrounds here and we’ve found a new family of friends who have supported us through all the crazy times. So yeah – we’re in this for the long haul here!

You describe your home town of Johannesburg as being a place where "the locals carry giant water guns that have been re-worked by the guys at Pimp my Weapon". If you could Pimp My Club, what would be the end result?

2 words: nitrous oxide in the smoke machines! Okay so that’s more than 2 words but hey! Fat Bastard & Chuck Norris would definitely be the bouncers on the door for any troublemakers but no one would really make any trouble unless they wanted a Double Round House from Chuck Norris. It would be Pimped out with so much cash that clubbers wouldn’t even need to buy a drink or pay cover charge.

Above the main floor, would be a number of sound-proofed see-through pods holding 10 people in each. It’s more for social interaction and you’d be able to select whatever soundtrack you like for you and your friends during converse within the pods. Waitresses would be on standby serving cocktails at will. The Chillout Room would be kitted out with so many couches, beanbags & trippy-ass-shit and it would be so comfortable that even Osama Bin Laden would forget about the airstrikes after his ass outside. It would also be filled with giant fish-like creatures hanging from the ceiling to make it feel like you’re at the bottom of the ocean. Oh – and Kruder & Dorfmeister would be the residents in the Chillout Room.

Have you got enough cash for us to carry this on in the main room? …