Category: Interviews
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Interview: Fielded discusses their creative process and state of mind when making their excellent new album Plus One
Lindsay Powell, more commonly known as Fielded is just out here making the music they love to make with the artists they love. It’s as simple as that. The Brooklyn-based singer’s new album, Plus One, is a celebration of the incredible artistry coming out of the Backwoodz Studioz label, who…
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Interview: Fatboi Sharif & Steel Tipped Dove discuss the creative process behind their new masterpiece Decay
New Jersey emcee Fatboi Sharif and New York producer released what will likely be one of my favourite albums of the year in Decay. In my recent review of the album, I called it “a dark, disorienting and unassuming album, that takes twists and turns, both instrumentally, and lyrically, as…
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Joe Armon-Jones Interview: The making of his incredible new album Archetype with Maxwell Owin
London-based artists Joe Armon-Jones and Maxwell Owin have been making some of the most futuristic electronic and jazz music of the last 5 years, both separately as solo artists and a part of different bands and projects, and as a duo too. 2017’s Idiom EP introduced us to their hypnotic…
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Interview: Understanding the twisted, eerie and fascinating psyche of the tremendously talented Fatboi Sharif & Roper Williams
“Since a small kid I was always interested and attracted to what makes us scared in the human psyche and how it triggers others in different ways. It always influences my writing from the aspect of created the unknown” Fatboi Sharif One of the most eclectic, intricate and fascinating hip-hop…
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Music: LOELASH – Prisma EP + exclusive interview
Italian producer LOELASH comes through with his exciting, debut project titled Prisma EP. An exciting new prospect in the London electronic scene, the talented musician has crafted a focused album that’s fun, beautifully textured and engaging. His hard work and dedication really paid off, and I couldn’t be happier for…
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Music: Ella Frank – Sorrows Into Silk + Exclusive Interview
Ella Frank is a London-based soul and jazz singer who I’ve been following for a little while now through appearances on albums such as Intalekt’s It Is What It Is and Richie Saps’ But Who Cares Anyway. Her soothing, angelic voice has been a quality I have admired by the…
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Featured interview: Odeeno
Vincenzo Martinelli aka Odeeno was born in Naples, Italy on the 5th July 1991. Having been introduced to hip-hop music properly in 2003, he became interested in music production, experimenting with sounds on Reason and FruityLoops. This is where he began making music as Odeeno, and the rest is history. His…
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Music Revisited: Oddboy Ten – Ulogy + Exclusive interview
Knowing some of my favourite musicians personally and being surrounded by their talent is incredibly humbling to me and I’m blown away by how great music is right now. Ola ‘Oddboy Ten’ is one of those artists. I met him this earlier this month, sharing massive mutual words of appreciation…
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Music: Stay Cool – Altogether, Part 3 & exclusive interview with seangran
Though Sean has been involved with music in some capacity for years, it wasn’t until March 2017 when he released his first radio show that he really saw potential with Stay Cool, an idea and vision that connect music and art lovers all around the world through radio shows, compilations…
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Interview with Naye Fshr & new music – Rhodes To Success EP
*You can listen to the recording of this interview below the written piece* It’s a beautiful thing connecting with creatives out of the blue through social media. Nathan Fisher is a talented 26 year old producer from Enfield, North London. I connected with him over social media about a month…
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Interview with The Mud SE & new music – Home By The AM
It was a boiling hot 5th August in South East London. I travelled from Brixton to Greenwich with a rucksack containing all the essentials – laptop, microphone, mixer and all cables necessary to connect all things together, and probably most importantly (due to the heat) a large bottle of water.…
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Music: René Schier – Karma + interview
Hot off one of my favourite releases of 2017 with his album Seeds, (released on Urban Waves Records) René Schier is back again with a new project titled Karma. The German producer has created another gem, this time a slower, more atmospheric and jazzy project with a real boom-bap type energy…