Long interview with Spekt, almost a mini-doc actually, talking about his influences, rap music, comic books, new album, womenz, etc…
Archive for the ‘Interviews’ Category
VIDEO: “Walking with a Champion: Marq Spekt”
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011VIDEO: Tame One For Wax Poetics TV
Friday, August 26th, 2011Tame One from Wax Poetics on Vimeo.
Tame One drops some interesting tidbits of Artifacts history and some views on the music industry. The video is actually an addendum to a thorough informative article on Tame’s history, which you can (and should) read over at the Wax Poetics site HERE.
Chicano Batman – Chicano Batman
Friday, July 29th, 2011
A great summer album and beyond that one of my favorite albums of any genre in the last few years. The band’s music is hard to describe or neatly classify, it’s a unique take on Latin psychedelia and American soul. However, while the genre tags are hard to pin, the distinct feel of warm weather music is immediately obvious; images of blue sunny skies, lush greenery and waves gently crashing on white sandy beaches all come pouring out of the speakers from the very first notes.
Through tremendous good graces of Jeff Weiss from Passion Of The Weiss I got a chance to interview Bardo Martinez, the lead singer of this band. Bardo and I talked a bit about their influences and origins, as well as the band’s aims and philosophical outlook. I think in the process we did a pretty good job of parsing Chicano Batman’s singular musical stylings. You can read the interview HERE.
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VIDEO: G-Side on Huntsville 1 Locals Only
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011A nice little interview.
If you care to watch this you probably have the album already, but you should revisit it anyway.
Steven Seagal: The Hustler Interview
Friday, September 10th, 2010Highlights Include:
- A profanity-laced defense of Steven’s blues chops
- A fantastic discussion of Seagal vs. Van Damme
- An offer to expose a make-up girl’s vagina
- Seagal being the coolest motherfucker on the planet
Alaska’s Interview with Tyler the Creator from OFWGKTA
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010Our friend and occasional contributor Alaska aka Tim Baker did an interview with Tyler from OFWGKTA. It’s featured on Alaska’s own Shutyourfuckingfaceandlisten.com (syffal.com works too if you’re lazy). Go read it here.
Headland & Delowe: ATL Hip Hop from ‘79- ‘til (Documentary by Dominick Brady)
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010The city of Atlanta has a complex and long history with Hip Hop going back into the late 1970’s.
Much of this history pre-LaFace records, pre-Outkast and GooDie MoB isn’t known.
Headland & Delowe is a documentary series attempting to weave together the story lines of the artists, managers, promoters and journalists of Atlanta Hip Hop over the past three decades to get an understanding of where Atlanta Hip Hop has been and where it might be going.
Big thanks to Dominick Brady for putting this together, I’m looking forward to more episodes. Dominick’s direct download link is below, you can also stream this on his tumblr page here.
DOWNLOAD: Headland & Delowe: ATL Hip Hop from ‘79- ‘til
First spotted at Tumblinerb.
The Source and Rakim carry on a thrilling dialogue
Thursday, July 15th, 20101993 Aphex Twin Interview
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Via Blissout we get a blast from the past. Remember when your cousin’s best friend’s sister-in-law wasn’t dating a guy who “made beats”? You can judge for yourself how well this interview stands the test of time.
“I’m quite a people person, actually. I hang out with strange people a lot. I like mentally ill people. I’ve always found schizophrenia fuckin’ excellent. I think it’s the next evolutionary stage of humanity. My father worked in mental hospitals, so I got interested in it from all the stories. I like the idea of people having voices in their head that operate independently. I consider that to be an advantage, not a handicap. I see these people as having two minds, and two minds are better than one. It’s just a shame that, with schizos, it’s working against them rather than for them.
“We’re really only supposed to use a small part of our brains, so maybe these people are evolving towards using a large amount. I reckon they should get a load of schizos and breed ‘em, it could be the next stop for humanity. It would be great to be a schizo, you’d be able to work on two tracks at once!”
Peace,
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