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ALBUM OF THE MONTH Game – The R.E.D Album
EXCLUSIVEINTERVIEW
Issue 31 / September 2011
The RE-Dediction Come Back
The Game is back and back with power. This album has tracks on here that will have you thinking about were you are going with your life like the track ‘Pot of Gold’ feat Chris Brown. He has worked with an all star cast of producers from Cool & Dre to DJ Khalil to Pharrell Williams on ‘Mama
Knows’ featuring Miss Nelly Furtardo to name a few. This album is full of features from various artist like Dr Dre, Lloyd, Drake and his latest release with Lil Wayne ‘Red Nation’. This album is definitely worth a listen and we at the Guestlist recommend you Cop That ISH!
ARTIST OF THE MONTH J Cole
HUDSON MOHAWKE
Daniel Muldoon @selfishd
Without beating around the bush, Hudson Mohawke is one of the hottest producers on the planet right now. A tweet from hip-hop producer Just Blaze reveals the respect he is gaining: “I am listening to new @moanhawke and al- most just got moved to tears. Wow. These are the chords I hear in dreams that I forget when I wake.”
The Roc Nation rapper is spreading his wings in the UK and about to fly
First coming on the scene with the hit tune ‘Who Dat’, J Cole’s evolution has now taken him up to his next solo UK tour in No- vember and is seeing him sup- port Tinie Tempah on his next round of Britain. With his busy schedule he still found time to release ‘Work Out’, his massive hit for the summer featuring a sample taken from Kanye West’s track, ‘The Workout Plan’. His long-awaited produc-
tion, Cole World: The Sideline Story, is available to buy from the 26th with guest features from Trey Songs, Jay Z, Drake and even Missy Elliott.
Erick will be playing in Ibiza this summer; check him out at Subliminal Sessions every Wednes- day at Pacha.
With genius lyrics and fresh sound, J is blowing up with the UK loving his every move. He can only get bigger in the com- ing year and for that, he is our Guestlist artist of the month or maybe even the year!
So how did you get into music? My dad used to be a radio host in Glasgow in the ‘80s; he had a radio show and he had records in the house, and I guess that rubbed off on me. I used to just collect chart CDs and NOW albums when I was really young. I got a dubbed cassette tape of an old happy hardcore and jungle festival thing that I used to get different box sets of. One of them totally sparked my imagination and I became really, really interested in that type of music when I was about 10 or 11. I started buying all these, like, happy hardcore records and stuff. A lot of the guys that make that music came from hip-hop beforehand; there are a lot of sped-up breakbeats and a lot of scratching and stuff like that, and that caught my attention. From that I went into being really interested in the hip-hop side of things, and turntablists...
Did you have one turntablist
that you always wanted to see? I was a big, big fan of Mr Thing, the Scratch Perverts and Woody, a sort of Manchester-y guy... Who else? I’m still a big fan of A-track. I think he’s managed to make a much more natural move from what he’s done rather than ‘jumping ship’. Obviously people like Qbert... I used to go and see him. I can’t believe that things like that actually happen. Outside of the competitive sense, a thousand people would go to a club and just watch him scratch for, like, two hours non-stop as a club night!
The Glaswegian producer and DJ has been creating tremors in the music scene lately. The Guestlist Network finds out what all the fuss is about...
Jimi Tenor, even though he did one album. It was a couple of years ago. He does concerts where he comes out on a horse and stuff like that! [Laughs] I used to really like Beans, like the anti-pop and stuff. Prefuse 73, I really love Prefuse. There’s fucking so many artists I like.
Onto your release, the Satin Panthers EP. Is this a precur- sor to your second album? Basically, I wanted to experiment by going down slightly more of a dance floor route. I thought, because it is still something that I
“I got a cassette tape of old happy
hardcore and jungle albums. One of them totally sparked my imagination and I
became really, really interested in that type of music when I was about 10 or 11....”
Have you played at a par- ticular festival and felt quite connected with it? I had one a couple of weeks ago: it was a new festival in Amsterdam called Pitch Festival. This year they launched it, this smaller sort of boutique festival in this old gas factory in Amsterdam. I had the closing slot; it was probably one of my favourite gigs of the year, I think.
Do you have any artists that you listen to over and over again? Um, Boards of Canada, obviously stuff like Squarepusher, I really like Autechre... I really, really like
am interested in, that I would like for this EP to stand as my kind of foray in to that side of things. Not that it’s an out-and-out dance record or anything like that but, compared to my other releases, it is slightly more dance floor- oriented.
Have you got an album or an artist that you have been most inspired by and you feel has rubbed off on your music? Lots of little rave and hardcore stuff I just have permanently lodged in my brain at all times. Also Boards of Canada, Music Has the Right to Children...
Mahavishnu Orchestra, something like that... Kinda progressive-rock, jazz-fusion stuff. Their album Apocalypse I bought randomly on vinyl in 2004; that instantly be- came, like, my favourite record for ages. It’s such an amazing album; it goes from 16 minute-long tracks of big massive drum solos, and then into an opera part, and then into some fucking other bizarre solo. All really amazing musicians, all releasing stuff all in their own right, all signed as solo artists and then all coming together to make this massive supergroup of just amazing-ness.
If you had to be stranded on a desert island with someone, who would it be? Larry David.
Why? Just because I think he would be a complete bastard to have around, but he’d probably be hilarious! Um, fuck. I can’t think of that many people that I’d want to have around. Um, Quincy Jones or Prince, somebody like that. Who else? Maybe Armando Iannucci...
If you were invisible for the day, what would you do? Probably something that I can’t say [laughs]. Or go freak people out, like driving cars while you are invisible or something. I’d just go and scare people!
Hudson Mohwake’s Satin Panthers EP is out now. Keep up with the news at
myspace.com/hudsonmo and @moanhawke
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