![]() ![]() The very first time I heard it, I remember being literally glued to the speakers repeating to myself: “Damn, it's been a long time I heard something as good and original as this”. HHC: You made quite an impact with "Primitive Plus". It's very easy to fall into that trap and to say that something sounds like something from that particular era, etc. Who cares if it's eighties or nineties or sixties? All that stuff is really closely connected. Speaking about the samples, let's not look at all the years. A lot of people want to use it to divide but they don't know what the fuck they're doing. I love music from all over the map and hip-hop offers you the ability to express all these different influences at once. Are trying to put together sounds from different periods of time that you like or does it just come out naturally?Į: I think that both of these options that you gave me represent something that just comes about naturally. HHC: There is a duality in your production style between addictive 90's-style melodies and abrasive early 80's-sounding tracks. To get that dirty sound, I'm just rubbing my hands threw sewage before I start any project. HHC: What material did you use to get that often raw sound and those dirty old-school drums?Į: I threw a chicken sandwich against the wall and I recorded it. So that's not really about lo-fi, it's about… pro-human. The records that I here now, it's like you know the dude did it up on a keyboard in a clean-ass studio and there's no mystique or whatever to how the shit came about. I'm just trying to get that time-travel quality with my shit and to take you to strange and bizarre and beautiful places. Like where did they record this shit? What did the room look like? What did their pants smell like? You know what I'm saying. When you can hear the room in a recording… Certain records have a mysterious atmosphere, a very strong vibe and it makes you almost try to picture the scenery. I don't really care if it's lo-fi or hi-fi, I just like the sounds and the tones in the recordings to have a certain humane feel to them. ![]() You know, you go through phases… Each different sound that you can achieve, regardless of how you achieve it, is a different form of expression. I'm using the same exact equipment on this record that I used for the other ones. I didn't really do anything that differently as far as samples and everything. Was it a conscious choice of yours?Į: Everything is conscious to an extent. HHC: By the way, this new album has a better sound quality than the previous ones. I used to just rap about rapping' but I gotta grow up and evolve. I wanted to craft something with a lot of care and to be a little bit more conceptual with it. The last album, I was just goofing off, making songs as fast as I could and trying to make myself laugh. I was a lot more careful this time around and everything came together with a lot more attention than with my previous projects. Just find the most tasteful way for them shits to come together. Like a pure hip-hop mentality, like Cold Crush or Rakim or G Rap, could sit on top of something that sounded like early Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath or Hendrix. HHC: What did you want to accomplish with this new album? The sound is heavily influenced by soul music and sixties pop music.Į: I just wanted to prove that all these things could co-exist and unify. I'm not trying to spark any sort of revolution by bringing that sound in my production, I'm just trying to do it myself. Concerning psychedelic rock, I feel like it's a period where, whether it's drug related or not, people were really going for it as far as the creative process is concerned. ![]() ![]() But "psychedelic" is just an easy way out to explain all this shit but basically it's just trying to make the records more interesting. What led you to do that? Did you stumble upon a bunch of psychedelic rock records?Įdan: I just needed to come up with some shit to reflect where I was going in a way that I think would make it a little bit more apparent for people. Hip-Hop Core: The sound and artwork of your last few releases and of your new album "Beauty and The Beat" is a lot more psychedelic than before. ![]()
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