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We’re very excited to have some time today with acclaimed experimental Techno supergroup extraordinaire, CVCHE; greetings and salutations gang, and welcome to Vents Magazine! Before we dive into the Q&A mosh-pit, could you say ‘hi’ and introduce yourselves to our ever-inquisitive reading audience?
Sure. Hi. We’re CVCHE. Some longtime friends who like making music together. All of us have worked together in different bands and projects over the years, and eventually we ended up in the same room with a pile of epic synths, drum machines, and questionable ideas we wanted to explore.
Major kudos and accolades on the debut CVCHE album Get Fluffy which is electrifying the ever-loving world even as we speak! Can you talk about all the things which went into inspiring one of the very best LP releases of 2026?
The honest answer is that it didn’t start as an album. We weren’t sitting down saying “let’s make a record.” We were just making tracks because it was fun. One led to another, then another, and eventually we realized we had a body of work that hung together in a strange but satisfying way.
A lot of the inspiration came from the tools themselves. Vintage synths, drum machines, weird textures that show up when you’re experimenting. Some tracks start with something serious, others start with someone saying “what if we tried this completely ridiculous idea.” Sometimes the ridiculous idea wins.
Who handled the producing honors on the Get Fluffy LP and what did the in-studio collaboration between artists and producer look like while fashioning and shaping the album?
CVCHE produced the record collectively. No one person was sitting in the big producer chair telling everyone what to do. The process was much more fluid than that.
Typically, someone would start an idea: a synth sequence, a beat, or a texture. Then it would get passed around the room and everyone would start pushing it in different directions. Sometimes a track came together in an hour. Other times it would sit there for slightly over an hour until someone stumbled on the missing piece, but we didn’t futz around much. We just made it happen. Generally, we built ‘stations’ of 4-5 synths each. Then got a beat going, a bass line…some chords…and dialed in sounds on all the synths in our stations that worked. Then we ran the track for 20-30 mins, laying everything down live, then found the best bits and edited it down to the current lengths. A fun and fast way to work really.
We’re big admirers of the tune “CVCHE or the Highway” which stands front-and-center on the debut Get Fluffy album and which has also warranted its very own single release – Congrats! What’s the story behind this gem of a ditty?
There wasn’t some grand strategy behind that one. Someone started a groove, someone else piled on a synth, and suddenly we had a track.
Later we realized it shares the same signature swell from “Welcome to CVCHE,” which ended up bookending the album. Completely intentional, obviously… Or at least that’s what we’re claiming now.
In your humble opinion what differentiates the Get Fluffy album from the Distinguished Competition on the 2026 music scene?
Probably the fact that we weren’t thinking about competition at all. The whole thing was driven by curiosity and experimentation rather than strategy.
The record moves around stylistically. There’s techno in there, but in a very rural Canadian sense… Which makes very little sense and is ultimately open to interpretation. It’s hard to categorize, and we’re perfectly fine with that.
In the wake of the March 6 release of Get Fluffy, can music aficionados look forward to catching CVCHE on the touring/performing circuit?
We’re talking about it. CVCHE started as a studio project, so translating that into a live environment takes a little thought. But we’re interested in building a live show that captures the spirit of the record while still leaving room for things to go slightly off the rails.
So yes, the intention is to get out there. Just not in a way that feels forced.
What’s the VH1-Behind the Music origin story on how CVCHE came together to form the tight, playful and altogether raucous assemblage which we hear to such full effect on the debut LP Get Fluffy?
The origin story is pretty simple: a group of friends who’ve known each other for years ended up spending more time in the studio together.
We started making tracks for fun. After a while there were enough of them that we realized that maybe this is turning into a record, because we weren’t ready to stop.
Who are some of the folks both in and out of the world of music who have informed and inspired your own professional pathway?
Musically, the list is long. To name a few… Boards of Canada. Aphex Twin. The Field. Jon Hopkins. Everything from early electronic pioneers to bands who treated sound like a playground and not fit neatly into a specific genre. People who were willing to experiment.
Listening to CVCHE, we get the awesome impression that everyone in the band is having a great time between not just the music, but also amongst clever bits such as your very own meme coin $FLUFFY and the band’s custom-designed video game! Was this always the intention of the band, to take a page out of the early days of bands such as The Beatles and just have a fun time being performing artists while delivering phenomenal music?
Completely. Making records is almost always fun. Whether the record is intentional or not, that part tends to take care of itself.
Where things can get tedious is everything afterwards. Promotion, strategy, all the machinery around releasing music. So, we made a decision early on that if we were going to do that side of things, we’d keep it fun. Otherwise there’s really no point.
That’s where things like the pixel fish mascot Fluffy, the meme coin, and the video game came from.
At the end of the day what do you hope listeners walk away with after giving many-a-spin to the best LP of 2026, Get Fluffy?
Hopefully the same sense of curiosity and enjoyment that we had making it. If someone puts the record on and it makes them smile, dance in their socks, or just wonder “what on earth is going on here,” then we’re pretty happy with that.
Stream: https://vyd.co/CvcheGetFluffy
