Thievery Chat

From: B. Allison (wuchip@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jul 25 2001 - 23:36:19 CEST

  • Next message: Elson Trinidad: "Paging Max Cat of Swope Transmissions/KUCI..."

       Caught some of this afternoon's Thievery Corp.
    online chat at washingtonpost.com. The idgits who run
    these websites never cease to amaze me. I'm submitting
    all these pertinent questions about their involvement
    with the Easy Tempo label and they're asking posting
    questions like, "boxers or briefs?" Regardless, there
    was some interesting stuff leaked out.

    * Desmond Williams is working on a full length and has
    been engineering some Thievery sessions along with
    working on a See-I solo project. No mention of release
    dates.

    * ESL just signed a guy from England who works under
    the name Broadway Project. "His debut is dark,
    emotional and very beautiful. It should be out later
    this year," Eric Hilton said.

    * The new Ursula album is alsmost finished and should
    have a release date early next year.
     
    * The new Thunderball record (to be released in
    September) is creating a big buzz with reviewers, the
    boys said.

    * As for themselves, Thievery is in the studio working
    on a new album. They hope to finish soon and have it
    released next Spring. "Coming From the Top," which
    will also be included on the duo's upcoming album, is
    based on an uncharacteristically assertive horn
    sample. Hilton: "Our style is always changing. We have
    stuff on the next album that's even more up-tempo than
    that. But then, we have stuff that's very, very
    chilled out."

    * To a question about beat matching and dj skills
    (which goes back to a previous thread here), Hilton
    said: "I can beat mix, but I don't think it's
    necessary to beat mix to be a good deejay. Rob can't
    mix a cake, but his selection is first rate. Giles
    Peterson doesn't beat mix and he may be the best
    deejay that I know. Remixes in general seem to be
    drying up. Perhaps record companies are cutting back."

    * In regards to the state of popular music, especially
    hip-hop: "I don't think much of the current state of
    music in general. This may the biggest draught that
    I've seen. We listen primarily to old music - reggae,
    bossa nova, soundtracks, etc. I really don't
    understand the appeal in any commercial hip-hop. It
    seems that the art of cutting up beats and using
    samples is almost gone. I miss Eric B and Rakim, early
    Geto Boys and Jungle Brothers. The fact that guys like
    Jay Z sell records confounds me."

    * "Who would you love to work with but didn't yet? Rob
    Garza: "Busta Rhymes."

    * "What’s your favorite remix of yours?" Garza: "I
    love the Nicola Conte remix we did of Bossa per Due. I
    don't know why."

    * "Anyone ever unhappy with one of your remixes?"
    Hilton: "Yes, the people from Island didn't like the
    Baba Maal mix and Courtney Love didn't like our Hole
    mix. The Baba Maal is one of my favorites."

    * Regarding Fat Boy Slim: Hilton -- "I can only say
    that I have enormous repect for Norman Cook and I
    think that he more than anyone deserves to cash in.
    And that's exactly what he's doing. But I don't dig
    Frat Boy Slim."

    * Hilton and Garza recently returned from a deejaying
    tour of Austria, Germany, France, Holland, Greece and
    Italy to promote "DJ Kicks." Soon they'll be doing
    similar gigs around the United States and Canada,
    visiting many cities where they've never worked the
    turntables before.

    *

    For the full interview go to:
    http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/01/music_thievery072501.htm

    -B-

     

    __________________________________________________
    Do You Yahoo!?
    Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger
    http://phonecard.yahoo.com/



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Thu Jul 26 2001 - 00:30:27 CEST