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Interview: Werkha – pushing the raft out

9 June 201511 June 2015 agentj BRYONY JARMAN-PINTO, colours of a red brick raft, front, NOW THEN MAGAZINE, Tru Thoughts, WERKHA

…d stuff. I think it would be dangerous to think of it in terms of, what do people want? People don’t what they want, I didn’t know what I wanted when I started. The first track I started, I wrote on the piano and it was really jazzy. I thought, how the hell is this going to work, compared to all this bouncy, 140 bpm or housey stuff I’ve been doing? I suppose the premise is, I’ve done this loud stuff, now I’m writing jazz piano, how am I going to b…

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Interview: Super-Helpful Kwame

1 February 20152 February 2015 agentj BIRACIAL BASTARD, chuck strangers, DOPAMINE, front, Joey Bada$$, joey badass, lee bannon, pro era, SUPER-HELPFUL KWAME, THE HELP EP

…ties are still impacting and feeding families today and energy never dies. People are hearing Steez for the first time everyday and learning and the further it grows the more people I think will be better off because of the power in his message. Also being in NYC I know there’s a lot of talent from rappers to producers that just haven’t gotten a real chance yet who are iLL. When I hear Erick Ark Elliot’s music it sounds miles ahead of anything on…

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Interview: Apollo Brown, Verbal Kent and Red Pill are Ugly Heroes

9 March 20149 March 2014 agentj APOLLO BROWN, band on the wall, interview, manchester, mello music group, RED PILL, UGLY HEROES, VERBAL KENT

…based out of Tucson, Arizona, run by Michael Tolle, and a couple of other people involved with it as well. Myself, Oddisee, and a couple other background people. It’s something that started from an apartment, a living room, to now it’s one of the top five indie hip hop labels out, period. That’s pretty dope. Has tour life brought you closer? AB: We’re all friends, no doubt. We all know each others’ personalities, we know how to push each othe…

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Groovement Interview / NoSpace

24 January 201825 January 2018 agentj contact theatre, front, manchester, nospace

…e only low I felt was me getting impatient! It makes a change being around people older than me as I’m so used to the people I surround myself with being my age, this has made me grow and bring the great, positive energy that NoSpace gives into the rest of my life outside the studio. Being around their confidence, talent and appreciation for creativity has made me more so much more confident and therefore let me appreciate the music I create. The…

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Interview: DJ Jazzy Jeff’s first 45s set for 20 years – RBMA UK Tour / Wax Works

21 April 201526 April 2015 agentj dj jazzy jeff, front, RBMAUKTOUR, RECORD STORE DAY, RED BULL, VINYL DESTINATION

…ying from club to club across the world, is there a lack of turntables? Do people have to hire in turntables now? You can’t hide technology, so people are gonna use whatever is new out. I think as long as you have DJs that make sure they show the importance of the turntable, then that’ll never go away. You’ve pioneered Serato and played around with all sorts of technology, you ride the wave of new stuff, but with Serato did you have any pangs of g…

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INTERVIEW: PAUL WHITE // MARCH 2013

20 March 20132 June 2013 agentj 1 Comment alex chase, danny brown, interview, KRAAK, manchester, mind on fire, now again, one handed music, paul white, SEAMING, SEAMING TO, this city is ours

…s now? Do you make your music imagining what it will sound like in a club? People always come together, similar minded people, just naturally I think, so there will always be scenes and groups of people, hopefully a lot more I think we need more people coming together, the internet can be dangerous in the sense you can connect without actually meeting which is always better, so the internet changes things I suppose, but also can enable those scene…

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Preview: SPEECH DEBELLE // Freedom of Speech

10 November 2011 agentj 0 Comments big dada, freedom of speech, speech debelle

…ecurity breads hate it’s a fact find, In fact im sure it’s incurable, Some people positive while some people are negative and totally oblivious to the harm they cause, For every Malcom X there is a president bush, For every ambitious soul, there’s a coach potato, Real said turn off the arcade man the games over, This is the takeover taking the haters over, Maybe if they had something else to do they wouldn’t watch you, Too busy with they bizz but…

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Out House respond to criticism of Akse Breaking Bad art

3 September 201323 September 2013 agentj 0 Comments AKSE, AKSE P19, BREAKING BAD, BREAKING BAD ART, BREAKING BAD GRAFFITI, HANK, manchester, northern quarter, OUT HOUSE

…r than they be used as criminal hotspots or schemes to line the pockets of people who have no interest in the area or the community. People who will let the area fall into ruin, so that they can turn a profit after other people have done something to regenerate the area and make it a place where people want to go again. It makes sense that, in the process of handing these places over to peoples’ artistic expression, the artists will comment on and…

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Illa J with Kaytranada & Potatohead People – Strippers

5 May 20155 May 2015 agentj front, illa j, KAYTRANADA, POTATOHEAD PEOPLE, slum village

…You may have just missed the extremely limited 45 release of this single, previewing Illa J’s upcoming album on Bastard Jazz. Panic not though, as you can buy the digital from Bandcamp. Boost the signal: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)…

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Groovement Interview // DJ Yella

12 January 201612 January 2016 agentj bonafide magazine, DJ YELLA, front, interview, N.W.A., NWA, STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON

…one everywhere? And there’s still a few markets it hasn’t got to yet. Some people may speak more freely now, a lot of people are rapping about… whatever they rap about these days. We just rapped about what we knew. That’s what we really did. And we did what we wanted to do. And we didn’t let nothing change us. Nothing stopped us. So you know, hopefully music will change again, go back to the old school style. I hope (laughs). Do you think it’s…

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Interview: J Chambers on Escape The Kingdom

26 February 202126 February 2021 agentj

…issues from a British standpoint. This is deliberate as I hope it will get people to perhaps open themselves up to conversations around discrimination, profiling and police misconduct. Also perhaps the optimist in me hopes that it will lead to people perhaps conducting their own research and learning more about what is going on at the moment, like Moyeid Bashir and Mohammed Hassan, who were two men of colour in Wales who have died after being in p…

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SUBSTANCE ABUSE // Exclusive interview and ‘Frontrow’ video

29 October 201330 October 2013 agentj 0 Comments

…. Anyone who could create a profile was a rapper, which made it harder for people who really had made it a point to master their craft. People were jaded from getting a billion friends requests a day. It’s like a girl getting hit on twenty times at a bar. You could be Mr. Right, but by the time you get to her, she’s over it. Subz: that’s why you have to be interesting, original, and at least slightly familiar, you dig? What made LA special in the…

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Groovement Interview / Starkiller’s C.E. Garcia

4 January 20179 April 2017 agentj ALFREDO FRATTI, AMORINE, CE GARCIA, front, HARLEIGHBLU, STARKILLER, Tru Thoughts

…this drug in the story called Amorine, and it’s the idea that all the rich people live at the top layer of the city, kind of like Judge Dredd. The poorer people take this drug to make them feel happy. The story progressed over a day or so then I sent her the synopsis, and said we’re going to be scoring this love story, this movie, and that’s how she approached the lyrics and we approached the music. ‘It took about six months maybe, we went back an…

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Interview: DJ Boba Fatt in a pre-Soundwave mood

20 July 201531 July 2015 agentj DJ BOBA FATT, front, interview, ROUGH TRADE, soundwave croatia

…selection with more scrutiny, or creating more of social environment that people want to be in, hosting instore events where they can etc, enticing people away from just clicking ‘buy’ on a website – there’s no doubt at all how important it is to cover all those elements. With the internet, every record shop is a global player nowadays, but the need to keep their grassroots physical punters happy is still just as important, if not more so. Moody…

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Interview: Scor-zay-zee picks up the pieces

5 May 201513 May 2015 agentj AEON: PEACE TO THE PUZZLE, front, interview, NOW THEN MAGAZINE, SCOR-ZAY-ZEE, SCORZ, scorzayzee, SCORZILLA

…redited as executive producer, runs a permaculture association and teaches people how to sustain themselves and grow their own food. The track that means the most – there’s two – Penny For My Thoughts and Live Free. There’s a lyric in Penny For My Thoughts where I say, “You saw the light on the farm and you grew your own food while the police were being rude to ya”, which was about the struggle of people who wanna get out the system and sustain th…

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M20 Collective’s Pop-Up this Friday, Antwerp Mansion: Interview

9 July 20149 July 2014 agentj ANTWERP MANSION, bedos, beef, CHRIS JAM, front, m20 collective

…ep. Ideally we would have got funding, found a base and a hub, a space for people to come and connect and enquire about connecting with other people in a creative way from construction of urban spaces, to putting together of live creative arts festivals, and a nationwide presence. Perhaps expanding into food cultivation and other such creative skills that just a bigger a creative social space with a prominent place in the northern environment. But…

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Groovement Interview: Son Little + new track Lay Down

17 August 201517 August 2015 agentj CROSS MY HEART, front, LAY DOWN, son little, THINGS YOU FORGOT

…maturing the more time I spend there. And chances to make connections with people, too? Some, yeah some. Probably not as much as I would like. I very much like being in a new environment, meeting new people and seeing how they think about things, how they’ve lived. Those things are really interesting to me so in these instances where I go to a place I’ve never been, and then don’t actually have time to do anything is kinda frustrating sometimes….

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Interview: GROOVEMENT X MidaZ the BEAST

30 June 20102 June 2013 agentj 1 Comment blakout, IMAKEMADBEATS, midaz the beast, orlando

…. Its how you promote with zero dollars, when you cant get in front of the people. So you gotta respect the net and the people on it. Thats the way info is passed now, especially info on hip hop. Have you found it hard to get people to see past their established tastes? Umm… I think peoples established tastes help more than they hurt. The hurdle is getting them to LISTEN. Its a little easier to get them to do that when have something to compare yo…

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In Conversation: Fumaça Preta

10 January 201511 January 2015 agentj 0 Comments front, FUMACA PRETA, fumaça preta interview, music with soul, soundway

…you want, as long was it sounds like jazz. If it doesn’t sound like jazz, people will go, ‘Oh, this isn’t fucking jazz, I’m pissed off now. I’m a purist.’ Loads of people have that problem in the jazz world, and they think, ‘fuck it’, and they give up and just do straight jazz, and go, ‘yeah, I respect the greats,’ and it’s a shame. Stuart: There’s a certain radio show that specialises in funk music. The first album they were all over, it was pre…

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Interview: HIDDEN ORCHESTRA

14 October 20122 June 2013 agentj 0 Comments hidden orchestra, interview, Tru Thoughts

…ve paid good money I often don’t feel like I actually own those ‘records’… People really seem to appreciate having something physical to represent/objectify/substantiate their ownership of or relationship with music that they care about – and so it’s nice to try and make this object as beautiful as you can, particularly as we frequently sell it to people who don’t even own a turntable – and all our vinyl sales come with a free 320kbps mp3 download…