Her Mixtape, Sunday’s Best

Bago: “I’ve never recorded anything before so it was just me and Spit drinking whiskey, getting high in his room, and recording in my slippers.

“At first, we went and tried to look at different studios. We’re broke so we tried to go in and check out some studios. We were like, ‘This isn’t going to work. We can’t be creative and have a time limit.’ We had homies who intern at like this amazing studio that all these people have done amazing work at.

“But it’s like, on Tuesday at 2 o'clock you can come in for an hour and a half. You can’t even like smoke a blunt, have fun, and then get in the booth. So were like, ‘Whatever we are going to build this studio in our house.’

“So we started building a studio. We’d be working and we’d be like, ‘Okay we need to buy a new mic so we both have to come up with X amount of dollars’ or ‘We need this 2 Amp and this compressor,’ whatever it was.

“We would have to save up the money and then go get the equipment. We’d bring it home and figure out how to put it together. It was like we gotta write the thing, then we gotta get the money, then we gotta get the stuff, and then we gotta record the thing.

“Once we got it all together, we’d be like, ‘Fuck this 2 amp, we need another one.’ Then we’d record something else and it would sound totally different than something else you recorded. It seemed like it was never going to end. Like, this will just be the infinity project. I didn’t know what I was doing.

“One night it would be like we’d sit down and we would just be hanging out and then he’d be like, ‘Oh check out this beat.’ At first I was driving down to LA from Orange County, and I was like, ‘Okay what am I going to do? Am I going to get a job here?’

“I came down to LA with no plans so I’d come and hang out and Spit would be like, ‘Oh check this out.’ Once we started talking about making music and started working on things here and there. I’d start writing some nights or other nights he’d send me something and I would be in Orange County.

“We had this guy from San Francisco, Brian, he’s from this band called The Tambo Rays, and he’s amazing on the guitar. He came down and he brought this mic because we had this really shitty mic in the beginning. Spit was like, ’Alright he’s leaving tomorrow, you gotta finish recording like ‘Bad On The Bottle.’

“I was like ‘Okay, okay I’ll finish it.’ I go in there and I had eaten an ahi tuna sandwich and it was a bad ahi tuna sandwich. I end up being like, ‘Okay hold on.’ He was like, ‘You have to finish this, the mic is leaving tomorrow and you have to record this on this mic because it will sound bad otherwise.’

“I’m like, ‘Okay give me a minute.’ I remember running to the bathroom and barfing up this ahi tuna sandwich and being like, ‘Alright here we go, I gotta finish recording this fucking song.’ We did it and it ended up, we listened back on it, and they’re like, ‘Alright, do you want to re-record this? You can wake up in the morning and do it before he leaves.’ And I’m like, ‘No we’re leaving this as is.’ So ‘Bad On The Bottle’, was really, actually, not feeling too great. But I mean, you feel it.”