Homemade Weapons Seattle, United States
Released by: Cyclone Recordings
Release/catalogue number: Cyc00
Release date: May 21, 2012
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Homemade Weapons Seattle, United States
We decided to catch up with our latest artist signed under Cyclone Recordings
1.Explain a little about yourself and your background and why you started to make drum & bass,
In the early 90's I was going to industrial shows and I was exposed to techno which led me to raves, which exposed me to breakbeat jungle. I loved the extremity and intensity of it. I was hooked from then on.
I started djing jungle / dnb in 1995 in Baltimore, MD and relocated to Seattle, WA. in 2000. I started to experiment with various computer music production software around that time, and hadn't made it a primary focus until a couple years ago.
2.who inspires you musically and for what reasons
As far as drum n bass, I'd definitely have to say anything in the 90's from Photek, Source Direct, Decoder - the drum programming is still incredible to me. The arrangements and presence of GLR/LGR stuff, and of course - the way techstep came along and crushed us all on the dancefloor. Otherwise, I'm inspired by different types of Hip Hop, Old Funk / Soul, and all sorts of rock - classic to death metal.
3.What was it that appealed to you about the minimal and experimental sounds?
I'm essentially trying to make what I would have made in the late 90's / early 00's if I would have had the resources and focus I have now. I took a break from dnb for awhile because there didn't seem to be an ear anywhere for the stuff that I really enjoyed playing. I kind of lost interest when everything seemed really lead driven so I became involved with other live music projects.
There was a brief moment when I made some insanely noisy, glitchy, hyper edit "tear out" stuff... I was in a death metal / hardcore band and I'd experiment with a lot of the same concepts we were using in the band - only with breakbeats and reeces instead.
Nowadays, I think the motivation is having better control of the sounds I'm using.
4.If you were stuck on a desert island, what two things would you take with you?”
Probably a solar powered laptop and a friend.
5. What else do you see in store and what should we be looking out for.
I have A LOT of collaborations with really incredible people getting wrapped up at the moment - mostly drum n bass, but a couple other projects at different tempos as well. I'm still doing a lot of stuff with Dubtek, Quadrant, and my Seattle crew too. I have forthcoming releases on Cylon, Inception, Adapt, Citrus, Rubik, and Seattle's Onset Audio, and plan to make my first trip overseas later this year.
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