song: shattered
linc
by lektrogirl
describe your street
my street is kind of an average street from suburbia It's got the two schools out of the three I attended.... pretty average by all accounts really/...apart from the fact that I live here...
gloucester
Gloucester is a cool city in some respects and craop in others, a lot of sleazy stuph goes on, guns are playing a major part at the moment, two rival crack gangs are fighting each other. and shootings have been going on crime is constantly growing, and heroin is easier to get than weed...pretty depressing, but the architecture is beautiful my mates are cool, and you can travel for 5 minutes in any direction, and you're in the countryside.... http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk
your home (i got no idea being from tasmania) i just imagine cow poo and fields
simple 3 bedroom house in suburbia..lots of noise and music prettymuch 24/7...must drive the neighbours wild/... no cow poo really....
is it with your family or is it a shared house or what?
I share my house with my Dad and my youngest brother, my other brother is in the Army, but it works pretty much like a house share......
what are your inspirations
I get most of my inspiration from ppl around me, drugz and life experiences...I usually release tunes about every 3 months or so when my inspiration gland is full.
so how do you write a track? (apart form your inspiration glands getting all full like a mouth full if spit it sounds...) like to you dream it? hearit in your head? start with a sample?
I start with a beat, or a melody then I just get a load of noises and play until I have something sounding along the lines I'm trying to achieve...I always feel that I'm compromising when I write a tune, getting as close as I can to the sound in my mind, but never really achieving exactly what I want...
other than your turntables what equipment u got?
a pc, and access to my friends studio at chemical records...they have : Nord lead 2 rack. Roland Juno 6, Novation bass station akai s3000, quad 4 fx unit and a biig fukking mixer...I also use my cd collection, and sample cdz i manage to blag....
how did you hook up with the metem krew cause you are all so far apart
I met them through Minusbaby...(Rich)...one of the coolest guys I've had the pleasure to chat to, then Mr Eel. and Orph...I was given membership of metem as a birthday present...on my 25th and was well chuffed with that...they're a good bunch of blokes, and highly creative peeps...a pleasure to be part of the organisation...
how comes they are all boys?
the world of Computers tend to be seen as a masculine environment, unfortunately. what do you think about the lack of girls who make electronic music? It's a shame less women seem to be a part of it, music is in my view genderless, and it has no bearing wherther you're a boy or a girl, it's all about the sound....
what do you think of the girls that do?
Neotropic's music on N-Tone is pretty spiffy, dj rap's spiritual aurora was an all time classic jungle tune for me..I'm not into the distorted bass noises, I think that bass should be a pure deep sound, but otherwise cool.....I haven't had a chance to hear your music yet (sorry) but I'm sure you're stuff is good......My girlfriend also writes music and I enjoy most of what she writes....expanding on my last answer...music is a personal thing, and all that matters is whether y7ou like the sound or not...same as whether you like a cow in a vat of alcohol, or believe it to be grotesque...an artform really...a creative outlet should be appreciated as long as you can identify with it.
are you a computer nerd
I'd say no...the computer doesn't rule my life, but it helps me be in contact with ppl I would never have had the chance to meet in any other situation, and that's cool as......kinda rewarding to be part of that... truly international.
it is lush isn't it cause i got friends all over the world becuase of it. but don't you ever find yourself thinking - this is truely weird - i am telling stuff to someone i never met - or never looked at in the eye?
No, people can be whoever they want to be on the net, I know some people who are far more outgoing on the net than in real life, and I believe that's a good thing, it destroys inhibitions..and has enabled me to meet lots of interesting people....
you wake up in themorning and you do what? make music?
Have a spliff and a cup of tea then work out what's going on.
ohhh!! you are one of THOSE are you :] lol how much does music fill your day?
about 90% I would've said, if I'm not writing I'm listening...and if there's no music, I think then that the ambient sounds of life fill my head, a car accelerating past me, ppl chatting in the street, a dorr slamming...the music of life I suppose...nature seems to have it's own rhythm....
what is your record collection like? do you collect records for samples n' stuff?
Yes and no, I buy records because I like them, or because there's a sample I can use, I tend to sample off cd or find sample sites on the net. I thoroughly reccomend the DJ rectangle ultimate battle weapon series ( available to buy from www.chemical-records.co.uk and the q-bert sealed breakz series...
i got a friend who uses a lot of samples in his work - his name is Tal and his album is called an evening with charlie on subrosa (his site is www.thatsoulthing.com i think if you are interested) and he samples the weirdest shit off everything and listens to everything looking for samples. do you find yourself doing the same?
yeah, I'll notice samples wherever, I'm well into film sountracks and sound bites, shame about copyright, but everone needs to make a living...I like to think that I use sampling well, but I don't know, how much of my stuff do u think is sampled....and I'll let you know the true extent.....
have you ever had a fortune cookie?
No, but I'm open minded....:0)
have you ever been in hospital?
Yeah, first time I went was for a tonsilectomy and then various times for broken bones...usually as a result of playing Rugby.....My earliest memory is getting told off by the sister in the childrens ward for something I didn't even know I had done, then a black baby girl with a tube up her nose in the cot next to me, and some kid juggling his pillow in the middle of the night...the bad memory I have from hospital was seeing my m8 on life support after an overdose, his lifeless body looking like a paper doll lying there, they turned the machine off the next day....:0( not an experiece I can reccomend.....
mc hammer or vanilla ice?
Vanilla Ice, cos Ice Ice baby is a classic....just compare it to u can't touch this...and I think you'd agreee.....
what was the first record you ever bought?
The first record that I personally went out of my way to buy.. when I became aware of my own music intersts was the Tougher than Leather album by Run DMC....and the breakbeat has stayed with me ever since..... The second was Into the Dragon, by bomb the bass, the 3rd Appetite for destruction by Guns n Roses....
what made you decide to make music - instead of be like a baker or something?
I suppose it's 'cos I'm a musical person, I used to play the piano and trombone when I was younger....and music has always been a part of my life, I remember my mum listening to John Lennon, and my Dad into Johnny Cash
what is your idea of a good night out?
There are various "good nights out" Clubbing isn't as important to me as it once was.....intelligent conversation is cool as well, so is going to the cinema, I used to be a complete wreck head, and getting blasted was the key to life, but now I'm older, I suppose I can have a good night out whatever, but music is usually the catalyst for me...
do you think there is a huge difference between what music comes from the us and england? do you think that social/environmental stuff has an effect on the kind of music you are going to produce -like me being from tasmania and you gloucester or someone in san diego...
I see american music as being more effect based as opposed to melodic, the US seems to be more open minded towards experimental music as opposed to the uk, a lot of the music in the uk has a cutesy cutesy feel, like happy hardcore, handbag house, and happy techno, I'm much more an afficionado of the early moving shadow stuff like Blame, and the helicopter song, I think Rob Playford was an excellent producer, and Sonz of a loop da loop era on Suburban Bass records....Danny Breaks has since moved on into Jungle, and also Urban Shakedown, they released some impressive stufff....and stuff which I also aspire to, many people seem to agree with me when I discuss this with them....Of course people are going to be influenced by their environment, I just see the Uk being less serious about the music, and more into 'AVING IT LARGE....
when you lie in the grass and look at the clouds what do you usually see?
Depends what drugs I've taken...I remember being on acid and seeing a giant cotton wool hamburger which made me giggle for hours, but normally I look up at the sky and think It's great to be here...It's truly wonderful to be alive....so many experiences are available to us Humans...
have you got plans to update your website?
Most definately, my other site has gone down now due to something I had no control over, I've got to sort HTml out, just another thing to line-up in my things to do box....
what do think about mp3's?
they're great for ppl who don't want to make money out of music, but a real pain in the ass to ppl who see themselves losing money from it....another format...like tape really, good stufff, better than minidisc....if I liked a tune I downloaded enough, then I'd buy it on vinyl.....(even though I've started to use my pc with my decks)
napster?
good for finding thoise tunes you would never normally hear, I've got some stuff off there....mostly classic stuff like bomb the bass, ansd tunes that I like but would never buy....a good place to be able to appreciate music you would not otherwise listen to.....
do your parents like the music you make?
they show interest, but I can't expect them to like something that is pretty much alien to them.... and they also put up with my noise...:0)
have you got any pets?
A dog, a hamster that should've died by now, and a cockatiel that's got a personality disorder
what kind of music do you HATE?
There is nothing that I actually hate, but some poppy charty stuff grates on my ears
if your music was visual, which artists work would it most resemble?
I found it hard to answer this question, so I asked my friends opnion, he reckons Salvador Dali, eye catching--->ear catching....I'm not sure..I could say something contemporary like The Artful Dodger...the graffitti artist, not the garage artist......but now on reflection, I love both minusbaby and mr eels work and would like to think that they would represent my music...difficult question for me....so that's why it's not really much of an answer.... I'm not really an art lover, the flyers from the eaarly 90's were some art that I enjoyed.
describe your music in your own words
hmmm...cool and groovy, I'm not too serious about my music, if I was I'd take all the negative criticism to heart and get all flustered, it's a hobby I really enjoy, and if other people like it...well then I'm flattered if not.....oh well oh yeah, and whatever tune it is, there's always a break in it....percussion is one of the sweetest sounds...and rhythm can have so many variations, even if it's based around four beats.
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