In Depth with John LaMacchia : Making the album

In 2005 I had left Candiria for personal reasons for a time and decided I would pursue Spylacopa as a solo project based in electronic and experimental music. Around that same time, I went to see The Dillinger Escape Plan play at Virgin Mega Store in Times Square. Greg Puciato and I had become friends and he had asked me what I was working on having left Candiria, I told him about Spylacopa and he expressed interest in collaborating. We quickly began trading files and sharing music with each other. Not long after that, another friend of mine, Jeff Caxide of Isis (the band) moved to Astoria, Queens. I told him about working with Greg on this new project and he had some ideas of his own to contribute. Then I met Julie Christmas at the Tool/Isis show in New Jersey. Both guests of Isis, we wound up sitting next to each other and talked about being from Brooklyn. She then told me about her band, Made Out Of Babies. I gave it a listen and was blown away by her voice. I must have asked Julie about three times before she finally said yes to being part of the project.

(promotional image from 2008)


At that point Spylacopa began focusing more on writing in more of a rock / metal format and direction. I believe the excitement for us had become more about what the individual contributions would amount to. We began fleshing out the ideas that we were developing with drummer, Troy Young and soon enough we had a handful of songs sketched out. Greg, Julie and Jeff began developing their ideas further from the demos and before you know it we were ready to begin recording.

Spylacopa Redux is available for pre order HERE