“Jeremy came out on the road with The Motet for a tour,” recalls Lalli. Before long, Salken was on the road with The Motet as their merch guy, helping the band with whatever was necessary. The two became acquainted through the local Colorado music scene, where they both played regularly with numerous projects. The Virginia-bred Salken, on the other hand, divided his time between school, graphic design work and a variety of music-related endeavors in the Denver/Boulder area-from playing gigs around town to loading gear for Zilla (the now-dormant livetronica trio that featured Jamie Janover, String Cheese Incident drummer Michael Travis and Vibesquad’s Aaron Holstein) while he followed them on tour. For the better part of the early ‘00s, Lalli, a classically trained saxophonist from Las Vegas who holds a master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music, put his jazz background to good use as a member of the Rocky Mountain State’s premier funk band, The Motet.
Lalli and Salken weren’t always part of the EDM world. The same can be said of the American electronic dance music scene, which recently graduated to the mainstream after decades of being relegated to the underground or, at best, the periphery of pop culture. Lalli and Salken’s lives have changed dramatically since 2008, when the pair-who were formerly roommates-started making music together at Salken’s home in Boulder.
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The spacious home, complete with high ceilings and large living room windows that keep the picturesque hills at the foot of Colorado’s Front Range in full view, is a testament to Big Gigantic’s rise from local after-party sensation to the touring juggernaut they are today. “I haven’t really recorded anything here quite yet.” “I just moved in a few months ago,” adds Lalli while fiddling with a recently purchased synth pad in his new basement-turned- studio. “Dom lives in an adult house now,” notes drummer Jeremy Salken. Yet this is where producer/saxophonist Dominic Lalli has decided to settle down, to the degree that any touring musician can really do such a thing.
The calculated serenity of the development, in particular, is a far cry from the atmosphere at Rowdytown, the name of Big Gigantic’s annual party at the nearby Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Located about halfway between Denver and Boulder, the town-if you can even call it that-is essentially a cluster of open spaces and faux-idyllic subdivisions, with winding rows of mass-produced homes that all conform to an eerily similar size and aesthetic. Superior, Colo.’s suburban landscape is not the type of place where one might expect to find a pair of rising rockers who specialize in electronic music. In the meantime, here’s a look at our recent feature on Big Gigantic, which appeared in the January-February issue of Relix. We’re giving away a pair of tickets to that show, though Yahoo Live will also be streaming the concert for free. Big Gigantic will return to the stage this Saturday when they perform at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago.
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