In this interview they talk about their new 46-track compilation album, which features artists like Dolly Parton, Royskopp, Salt n Pepa and Basement Jaxx in a bootleg-licious mash up of genres.

Do you see this as a mix album or a radio show on CD?
I like to think of it as a radio show on CD - everybody told us that we could not get clearances for 45 tracks but we put our foot down because we wanted to do it like the radio show.

We wanted to do it for ages, but we didn't want to put twelve tracks on their and mix the beginning and the end - we had a list of 200 tracks we wanted to clear and we just spent two weeks and just did it.

When did the radio show start?
Three years ago - we've been doing it a long time and now the bootleg thing is getting out of hand. (The station) is like the equivalent of Radio 1 in Belgium. It was one of those shows where they asked artists to send in their stuff and they liked our mix slot so much that they gave us a weekly slot.

The album has a rather perverse choice of tracks.
The case of Dolly Parton is that it mixes so well with Royskopp. I thought it was too obvious to put in but the two work so well and when we DJ it is so smooth.

Is the art the process knowing your records?
I guess it's just this thing that you can learn - there's been people who've been doing it for ages like the Dust Brothers. We are more melodically inclined. Someone like Norman Cook has that talent. Dub Be Good To Me is one of my favourites.

Ever thought something would really work and it sucks?
We wanted to do 'Where's Your Head At' with a Gary Numan track but it is so good that you'd never get anything with that nasty, dark sound. Everything we tried was s*** and one day we played a track and it worked. It takes time.

The nightmare of clearances.
That's the reason we did the website (http://www.2manydjs.org/) - we wanted people to know how difficult it is to clear it. We only started making the album after the clearances. Some tracks we didn't get, which are listed on the website.

Bootleg Jury - Soulwax give their verdict on 3 bootlegs

Freelance Hellraiser (you will need RealPlayer)
'We've met Freelance Hellraiser before - way before this one. We met him when he finished the track and he sent it to us , so to us that's the original. That one is really out there and definitely in the top 5'

Sorry Miss Smith, Alzo Venuci (you will need RealPlayer)
'It's done well but you can take any Missy acapella but. it's not extreme enough for me - there's not a clash. It's too easy but we have to give him credit because melodically it does work'

Picassio (you will need RealPlayer)
This is my favourite bad one - I'm sure it's a p*** take. You can see from the sleeve that it's someone's having fun. Have you heard the Sigur Ros and Celine Dion one? It's brilliant. If you play it people actually stop and go 'This is funny. Do I dance? Do I stop?' That's the value of it. It's very confusing for people.

Do people send you bootlegs?
Yeah and not many of them are really good and its getting worse and worse. The last thing we did was the Kylie thing and we played as a band.

When's the new single out?
We wanna release the single at the end of August.