new nin & a good mix
2007 keeps gettin' better n' better...
What's the concept?
"I'm trying to avoid getting too detailed about this but i will tell you that this is a concept record, and it's part of a bigger picture of a number of thing's I'm working on. Essentially i wrote the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist. This album is a bit more electronic and I'd say rhyme plays a bigger element in it than in the past and it's veering away from concern about song structure and getting played on the radio."
Are you talking about some kind of multimedia event?
"My goal is that the music can be interpreted with the richest context. So what I'm immersed in is a way to achieve that. Now that albums have gone from 12 inches of real estate with artwork and a whole aesthetic, to CDs, which are ugly and disposable, to nowadays just being a file on a computer, it's led me to putting a lot of thought in to ways to present music that still makes it feel important and that has depth and purpose."
Will it be a heavy album?
"It's not heavy in any kind of metal tyoe sense, I'd say a big inspiration sonicly would be early Public Enemy records, a collage of sound type of thing, not heavy in a metal guitar kind of way."
On 'The Downward Spiral' and 'The Fragile' you blended together an extreme amount of disparate sounds and layers - is this moving further in that direction?
"Well Alan Moulder (long-time collaborator) was stunned when he first heard it. Normally a Pro-Tools session has a lot of tracks and this time he was like 'You're kidding me, it's only this much stuff?'. The end result has a bit of racket to it, it's much more improvisational, less refined. With this record i feel a lot less concerned about what people think about it - especially the dying record industry. I couldn't care less about that right now."
His last album wasn't really what I wanted, but this sounds like it could be right on the money.
unrelated: this mix is da bomb... "An acid house pile up of bashment, booty bass, baile funk and general rave." download here.
What's the concept?
"I'm trying to avoid getting too detailed about this but i will tell you that this is a concept record, and it's part of a bigger picture of a number of thing's I'm working on. Essentially i wrote the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist. This album is a bit more electronic and I'd say rhyme plays a bigger element in it than in the past and it's veering away from concern about song structure and getting played on the radio."
Are you talking about some kind of multimedia event?
"My goal is that the music can be interpreted with the richest context. So what I'm immersed in is a way to achieve that. Now that albums have gone from 12 inches of real estate with artwork and a whole aesthetic, to CDs, which are ugly and disposable, to nowadays just being a file on a computer, it's led me to putting a lot of thought in to ways to present music that still makes it feel important and that has depth and purpose."
Will it be a heavy album?
"It's not heavy in any kind of metal tyoe sense, I'd say a big inspiration sonicly would be early Public Enemy records, a collage of sound type of thing, not heavy in a metal guitar kind of way."
On 'The Downward Spiral' and 'The Fragile' you blended together an extreme amount of disparate sounds and layers - is this moving further in that direction?
"Well Alan Moulder (long-time collaborator) was stunned when he first heard it. Normally a Pro-Tools session has a lot of tracks and this time he was like 'You're kidding me, it's only this much stuff?'. The end result has a bit of racket to it, it's much more improvisational, less refined. With this record i feel a lot less concerned about what people think about it - especially the dying record industry. I couldn't care less about that right now."
His last album wasn't really what I wanted, but this sounds like it could be right on the money.
unrelated: this mix is da bomb... "An acid house pile up of bashment, booty bass, baile funk and general rave." download here.