Video for unreleased MOR track above, unreleased track from MOR below for streaming pleasure.
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INTERVIEW.
DD: I wish I had heard “White xmas” back in December! Really, really kool.
MOR: thanks man. It was just stupid idea for a christmas present that didn’t involve getting caught up in the human traffic of the christmas shopping..
Master Of Ribongia, White xmas
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DD: Your sound is very different from the Australian artists I’ve featured in the past. How would you describe it?
MOR: O.. thats a tough one. Well some time ago someone said “adventurous early 90’s electronica..”. Although I don’t agree I kind a liked that description. Especially the adventurous bit.. I think I’ve evolved a lot in the last couple of years. These days I’d described as squelchy, bleepy and fun melodic beats.
DD: What was your introduction to electronic music?
MOR: I can’t remember exactly what was the first record but I can tell you what stuck in my collection.. Manitoba “Start breaking my heart”; Amon Tobin “Bricolage” and what blew my head off was Squarepusher with “Go Plastic”..wow. That shit was crazy.
DD: What plans are you making as an artist for 2011?
MOR: Become huge..ahahah! With my other project “idea idea” we decided to take a year off.. This will give me a lot more time to concentrate on my own project. I’ll be releasing remix Ep very soon showcasing all Sydney bands remixed by me. I’m starting to have enough new originals to do a 3rd release.. i’ll see. Overall the plan is to raise my profile as an artist. Of late I was fortunate enough to support guys like Vibesquad, Opiuo, Ant-enn-ae, the Nitin Sawhney Sound System, the Gas Lamp Killer and Flying Lotus. Hopefully 2011 will keep on bringing more great oppor’tune’ties like these.
I’m releasing some tunes on various compilations as of next month. I’ll be travelling to Europe in June, hopefully those releases will open up some doors for some European gigs..
DD: Favorite artist/song of the moment?
MOR: I just discovered n artist called Kelpe, very tasty!
Local Hip-hop artists land on Disco Droppings. Wizdumb has become a buddy of mine, and tonight I’ll be reppin’ his debut album with Grief 78. Pick it up on their bandcamp for a small bit o’ cash, and download these 3 unreleased tracks by Wizdumb!
Wizdumb, Spirit Bombs On Your Moms
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INTERVIEW.
DD: Whatsup wizdumb? Nice to spread out a bit from my usual electronic fueled blog. how you feeling about your debut album?
WIZ: Man……it was a long time coming..3 years almost…gotta give my respect to Grief for stickin’ with me thru the whole process and staying dedicated, if it weren’t for him it would have never happened. But yes, all in all I feel great about it. It’s nice to finally have an album under my belt.
DD: It is very, very smooth. How did you two get together and decide on making “Dope Definite”?
WIZ: Well, I’d love to say we met in the NY yards bombing train cars and trying to avoid the third rail…..hahaha…I actually stumbled upon Grief78’s myspace page one day when I was surfin’ thru my dude Pacoe The Illiterates comments. Noticed he was from Brooklyn, New York, so I took the time to give him a listen, not expecting what I was going to find. I heard his first track on there, and instantly fell in love with his music. I proceeded to hit him up via message, this was in 05 i think..told him I would love to do a song with him and sent him a track.
X Few weeks later he returned my email with some lyrics he recorded over my joint. For the first time ever in my life I felt like I had found the perfect fit emcee to compliment my beats..I had never worked with someone before and was sooo happy with the final product, his flow and my production seemed to go hand in hand.
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Wizdumb, My Dream
DD: So you two have a deep connection- this being the first artist to really compliment your style and bring it all out well yah?
WIZ: Yes, we stay in touch a lot. We call each other on a regular basis, you know brothers from another. Sharrieff (Grief 78) is a good dude. I got mad respect for him, not only for his dedication to music, but also his dedication to his family..it’s hard to stay true to music when your a family man. He has an impressive discography as well. I’m honored to have had the opportunity to work with him.
DD: Very cool. You choose them well! what artists inspired you to get started with producing?
WIZ: Oh man…Well when it comes to beats I could name all the generics, Dilla, Madlib, Showbiz, Primo, Pete Rock, Metal Face Doom…etc. But more realistically I gotta give props to Specswizard (http://soundcloud.com/specswizard) & Ezraw (http://www.reverbnation.com/ezraw) , the first 2 doods who really turned me on to beats and hip hop production. Both local cats, please check em out they are very sick……but yeah in the bigger picture..
Wizdumb, Foxy Brown (Get Ass)
I’m a jazz freak, nothing can really top a good jazz composition to me, so I gotta be real and say when it comes to music in general, I thank all the amazing jazz musicians on vinyl who have blessed my speakers and my ears with the best grooves of sound I’ve personally ever heard. Namely, cats like Sun Ra, Ahmad Jamal, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Miles, Wes Montgomery, Herbie….I mean the list goes on and on…Gil Scott Heron has definitively had a major influence on me as well.
DD: Very well said. With the jazz influence, are you into the beat scene explosion happening around low end theory in LA and Flying Lotus?
WIZ: I dipped my toes in a little bit when I was down there, I know Mr. Dibiase thru the SP forums and from linkin’ online with him, also have some connects with Samiyam, cant say I have really became part of it tho. I really feel those cats are the future of hip-hop production tho, they are living proof that quantization isn’t always dope.
DD: Cool cool. Do you have any plans for live shows soon? If people are in the NW area?
WIZ: Yess got one on March 3rd @ Tony V’s in Everett. Also got a radio spot on Feb. 13th on90.7 kser
DD: Well I hope they all go very well. Very nice talking with you. Hope all you blog readers check out Wizdumbs debut album w/ Grief 78! Any last words?
WIZ: Yes I wanna send love out to all the homies, Lurkmusic, Abom, Gamin, TMS, Gabre, gotta give a shout out to my good friend Pacoe The Illiterate and all the Zay cats, you know who you are, big shouts toGrandgood.com, yellowdog.com, kser.org, Sp-forums.com, Clout Magazine. Gotta give love to all my EVT heads, Madshroom and the BMN fam! Moth, Noc, Ara, Corndogg, T11, Jonnybeats, Brynn Eden, Alaina z and all the rest. Love you all. Oh yeah, and anyone who listens to what I have to say and create.
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.
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
Another free gift for my DD friends. And! look at this cute cat.
Vaiper Despotin, WAM Riddim
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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.
DD: What was your introduction to electronic music?
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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.
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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?
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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 🙂
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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:)
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DD: Last words?
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I wish you and me inspiring year and easy going future, full of work you like and experiences you live for:) Pow!
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!
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