Archives for the month of: February, 2011

Bass Trooper Sphyramid & the youtube. 4 songs up ++ his Burial-Tipper-Ebola dream showwww

2011/02/07 //

First things first, Sphyramid has just sent me a new track of his – get it for free! I’m feeling it!

Sphyramid, Steppa Chipz

If all ya’ll don’t know, I manage an electronic label called 7 Deadly Records. Sphyramid is on this label, and he’s got some songs up on youtube. I asked him to talk to the world about each of these..

(Stereoglyphics) I was going for a dark mysterious organic hip hop kind of thing..sample cred to the amazing band, YES.

* Photo by Joe Dyer

(Gohma) For a while I was into this slightly sped up grime beat that I haven’t been able to get back in the groove of. This was me when I was in it and decided to make something chiptune-esque.

(Greenwashing) This is an interesting track one of my first that I ever recorded in more than one take. I ran it through my kaoss pad twice for extra effects. The beat is super weird and I don’t think I can make anything like it ever again.

(Music Sounds Better With You / Sphyramid Remix) This is something in between a remix and a cover. I have always like the idea of combining breakbeat & dubstep elements with disco and house and would love to do more stuff like this.

DD: How do you feel you’ve grown artistically since these earlier songs,compared to “NAUGHTYNAUGHTY” and some of the new tracks people are yet to hear officially released?

SPHYR: I have become more aware of dance floor dynamics and music history. Basically, I have been minimizing and deepening the sound. attempting to create something more emotional and timeless.

DD: What would your dream show be?

SPHYR: Me, Burial, Tipper, Untold, Ebola, Venetian Snares & Aphex Twin would play in some sort of awesome tree-house in the forest somewhere with Chris Cunningham doing live visuals and Alex Pardee doing live painting as well as dancing from Turf Feinz and the Les Twins. Oh yah, and a bar/ hookah lounge is involved somehow.

http://soundcloud.com/sphyramid

7 Deadly Records Facebook: http://on.fb.me/e6iEbL

P.S.! If you wanna catch Sphyramid live, he’ll be performing at the Cobra Lounge on Feb. 19 alongside Data Junkies, myself and DJ Dorsia. Here’s the facebook event: http://on.fb.me/hmvdLO

luvvv –

jimijaxon

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Vaiper Despotin

2011/02/02 //

Another free gift for my DD friends. And! look at this cute cat.

Vaiper Despotin, WAM Riddim

INTERVIEW.

DD: Oh my goodness! Such a pleasure listening to your music. How would you describe the sound your forming?

VD: I’m excited for having this interview. Its one of the first with the foreign press or blogs at all :). I Would like to believe that my music has a kind of funk in it :). Love the groove of a boogie and electro funk from 80’s, g funk era. So I think I try to reach a couple worlds at the same time..hip hop roots with the playful synths and filthy noises. I really would love to believe that. Actually, my music is just a form of urban music, I’ve started with the golden era of hip hop and still love it. Gang Starr, Betnuts, Lootpack, Black Star and etc. After 12 years in the making and lots of searching, I found so much musical material created in the past and present. There are so many styles and grooves I can move to, have fun hearing or just rest to. All that easely inspires me to do something on the edge.

Emery & Mikee Liks – Chordsjam (Vaiper’s Fungrime Remix)

DD: What was your introduction to electronic music?

VD: I think it was Cassiuss 1999 and early The Prodigy albums, heavywight longplayers in my soundsystem, when I was a youngster. Plus some oldschool rave/dance music at the school discotheques. But when I started studying (university), I visited mostly every electronic music genre parties my city Vilnius, from underground hardcore drum and bass or liquid funk to electro, to progressive house and IDM. I had really joyful journey.

DD: You have an significantly well-rounded production style. Everything bounces off the headphones and feels full. How long have you been producing? What was your sound like in the beginning?

VD: I started so called producing in my bed room back in 1999 – 2002, it was first try-on’s with the hip hop. After that I left my parents home and started a local hip hop music career with my partner. In 2004 we released now kinda classic album, full of pure hip hop joints in lithuanian language. Its look’s like this 🙂

Since then, I cant stop at all :). I produced a huge number of local produced hip hop tunes from various artist in period of 2004 – 2007. Then i started to find out, that i have really impressive collection of unreleased beats (downtempo mostly), big part of it seems away from straight hip hop sound. I didnt know what to do with all that stuf. But on my way i found bunch of people who pushed me to do something fresh, they became my crew. One of them is Serumas, we released two instrumental jazzy, hip hop, electronic sounded albums. The project called Cafeteria. We still have some unfinished and unreleased material. I hope we could release something in nearly future.

Thank you for your compliments and that you dig it. Sometimes I think that I could make the same production in a more minimalistic way, I like it when the music sounds simple and beautiful. But at the same time I can’t fit into a minimalistic frame, and my music probably sounds too complicated for the listener. Anyway its my clue to the personality of sound.

DD: What plans are you making as an artist for 2011?

VD: I have lots of unreleased solo material. I haven’t had any serious releases outside my country, except some remixes and freebies on a couple compilations and mixes. I’m preparing my solo album, there is still lots of work to do. I would be really happy to release my solo album and remixes on a serious label, because managing things with releasing is kinda annoying :). We have our small community, Renegades Of Bump ( www.rob.lt ), where there will definitely be some E.P.’s and separate tracks released. Just check out our latest Lithuania Beatmakers compilation! Lithuania got power, I tell you.

DD: Any shows your dying to see this year?

VD: In Vilnius it happens pretty much every week. Live performances and extra projects also very often. I have some plans to go to Berlin, Minsk and Ukraine. Really looking forward to visit Amsterdam once again, even just for traveling, who knows:)

DD: Last words?

I wish you and me inspiring year and easy going future, full of work you like and experiences you live for:) Pow!

http://soundcloud.com/vaiper-despotin

luvv –

jimijaxon

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Get Your Crystal Power! Courtesy Of Mother Earth Allies

2011/02/01 //

Interview with my young, purposeful buddy Kotome. She’s started an online store for aboriginal dreamtime quartz crystals, and has the largest selection of them in the whole wide world. whoa!

http://motherearthallies.com/

* The song in this video is called “Crashing On The Shore”, by Jay Sprouse.

– jimijaxon