Hip-hop artist, producer, and one-man musical Swiss army knife Kokayi sat down with TMS to talk about his 2010 record Robots and Dinosaurs, and to share his thoughts on hip-hop and the music business in the 21st century. His latest record, 8Bit ubermentals, covers almost a decade of electronic and instrumental hip-hop produced on his venerable Roland W-30. It’s free and well worth your time, as is the latest free remix EP R3TS&DNSR5 RE1MAG1NED.
TMS: The first thing I wanted to ask you about was the title of the album – Robots and Dinosaurs. Can you talk about where that title comes from, and did you set out to make the album with that theme in mind?
Kokayi: I asked my son what he wanted for Christmas last year, and he said, “Hey dad, I want robots and dinosaurs.” And I was like, oh, ok, because he was five at the time. And I went to work on some music, and it hit me – I was like, wow, robots and dinosaurs. You’re either a robot or a dinosaur. I was listening to a song I was working on, and the longer I sat there and thought about what he said, the longer it all started to play into it.
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Broken Records’ 2nd LP Let Me Come Home is released in the UK today. Last week TMS had a chat with Ian Turnbull from the group about the new record, and what’s been going on in Broken Records’ world since their first record Until the Earth Begins to Part came out in 2009…
TMS: Let Me Come Home is out soon: how do you feel about the new LP?
We’re all really pleased with how it’s turned out. It feels like a definite step forward.
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Simon Iddol is the first interview subject we’ve had to journey around his city and take photos for us to include in his post, which is all about the music scene in his hometown of Budapest. But that’s Simon, groundbreaking. In April of 2006, Simon started blogging and producing mashups incognito as the mysterious “DJ from Vatican City.” During his three ‘Vatican Years’, Simon Iddol became one of the key figures of the mashup scene and culture as well as the most influential music blogger in Eastern-Europe, beginning Mashuptown.com (co-owner fall 2006 – May 2007) and AudioPorn Central (founder August 2007 – present), voted as the 26th best blog on the BT Digital Awards People’s Choice 2008 and one of the Top100 music blogs in the world. Now, AudioPorn Central is a collective of DJs and producers from all over the world who apart from blogging about music daily, regularly creates cutting edge mashup and remix compilations and mixtapes.
Simon’s latest mixtape is called INFINITY, “a five part dreampop minimix series, the story of one day.” The mix includes Doves, La Roux, and Midnight Juggernauts to name a few. Check out the full track listing here and download the entire mix right here.
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Glen Brady, aka DJ Wool, is a DJ and Music Producer, co founder of Berlin based label We Collect Enemies and a founding member of Indie Dance duo The Glass with Dominique Keegan of Plant Records (co-owned by Hip hop pioneer Stretch Armstrong). A Dublin native and Berlin transplant via Brooklyn (did you get all that?) Brady has been tearing-up the Berlin music scene with his original music and remixes.
His latest release, The Dark Snuggler with remixes by Lars Moston, Boeos Kaelstigen and Jetlag, is available on Beatport and iTunes on We Collect Enemies. Brady jet sets back and forth across America and Europe touring at a near constant rate but was kind enough to take a breather and let us in on the secrets of his Berlin…
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In the piece she sarcastically lists ‘Ten Things I Hate’.
Here’s the upper tier:
1. Gays
2. Black people
3. Indian people
4. Jews
5. Americans
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M.I.A.’s fashion line debuted in September.
MP3: M.I.A. – Pull Up The People (Brad Walsh Mix)
Enjoy Part 1 of Friday’s Q&A below. Watch Part 2 here. MP3 at bottom.
MP3: Grace Jones – La Vie En Rose
Enjoy the Q&A session with Josh Garza (drums) below. TSM MP3 at bottom.
MP3: The Secret Machines – Dreaming Of Dreaming
Enjoy this week’s Q&A below. Visit TPOM on MySpace. MP3 at bottom.
MP3: The Physics Of Meaning – Aeroplanes & Hurricanes
Check out the full Q&A session from Tuesday’s episode of Lately below.
MP3: T.I. – Collect Call
