Disciples Daylight

Over the course of a few short years Disciples (Nathan Duvall, Gavin Koolman and Luke McDermott) have been catapulted to mainstream success via high profile collaborations with two of the biggest names in EDM: Calvin Harris and David Guetta. Their latest release – and first crossover hit without a big-name collaborator – is the breathy, chugging Deep House groove Daylight. We caught up with them in their Shoreditch studio to find out how the track came about.

“We were out in LA earlier this year working on new music with quite a lot of writers, and this was the only day all three of us were in the studio with no one else there,” Gavin begins. “Actually someone else should have been there. We had a crazy night with MK having a few drinks and stuff, and we decided to cancel on this songwriter who had flown from Miami to LA to work with us, so it wasn’t ideal, but we made a decision to all go in together and write a tune… it was one of the only days we could do that. We actually started the beat as something else, a Streets, Mike Skinner influenced vibe we were going to get Luke to write poetry and spit on that. I don’t know what we were thinking! But through that came other stuff, the bassline and hook of Daylight. We were messing around and stripped back all the chords and stuff, and we threw away the drums. Duvall started playing the bassline, we started recording, and in the space of a few hours we banged it out.”

So the track was inspired by a night out with House legend Marc Kinchen?