MSTRKRFT co-mastermind Jesse F. Keeler was on the cusp of breaking big with his former band, Death from Above 1979. But boredom - and a fear of winding up like the Rolling Stones - led him to ditch the electro-punk crew and turn his sights to producing.

“We played the same songs for like two (expletive) years,” Keeler said this week from a hotel in Minneapolis. “It’s like the Rolling Stones still playing those songs. I really can’t imagine having to do that.”