…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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…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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…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….
Read more…d you say that’s true worldwide from what you can see? Why is that? Yes. People associate the golden era with people telling the truth, being unique among other artists, and with music and success being talent based rather than hype based. So whenever people are these things, these very good things, even if they’re hip hop is taking places that they’ve never gone they are still associated with the golden era because they share these positive tra…
Read more…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…
Read more…n front of their eyes, discuss ideas and see something fresh. Get a lot of people taking photos too. Worst – People who take photos but then don’t follow up on checking out who these people are that are creating the artwork. It’s important to know / find out who you are taking pictures of. Editor’s note – check the Out House site for information on the artists for each round. How do you feel about the growing internet attention to the Akse Heise…
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…ab involved taking responsibility for things I’d done in active addiction, people I’d hurt and choices I’d made. The only people I’d be concerned about hearing it would be my family but I had to be really honest with myself and the people close to me in order to move on, so my friends and family know everything now anyway. Once everything is out in the open, it’s a lot easier to talk about. Waking Up, out 8 May I already had the beat for Broke In…
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…work with my friends. I find it easier instead of thinking to reach out to people I don’t know for a feature. I actually want to make more beats for people but it would be for friends again. I’ve recently recorded a verse for a rapper called Jaroo, the song will be coming out on his upcoming album with Broomman this year. I’m going to be collab’ing with the producer Chilla Ninja who lives locally in my area and has his own record label called Lega…
Read more…yes. I have very high standards, not only in how I make music but also in people’s responses. When people criticise the music I look at their points and see if there is truth in what they say…. but there is so much more… Am I happy with radio? No. Radio 1 didn’t really support anything. Yeah, some plays from Gilles Peterson and some other specialised shows but in general it didn’t cause a stir, yet every time I turn the radio on in the daytime I…
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