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Tell us about the production techniques and don’t know anything about technology. It’s not D.KAY TELLS US ABOUT
guest musicians on the album (long-time col- easy to produce music properly, it takes years THE MUSICAL INFLUENCES
laborator Stamina MC also returns to add vocals of training. You don’t wake up one day to be a THAT WENT INTO MAKING
to ‘All That You Are’, by the way). “It was back to surgeon either. ‘INDIVIDUAL SOUL’…
basics really. I focus on the music and melodies,
not so much on technical aspects of production “Some people confuse the music business with “Every style of contemporary music we know
like the latest update or plug-in. Good musicians being rich or a star. They expect big money after today stems from the blues,” he explains.
and good instruments don’t need updates and a mediocre, often appalling, first 12-inch and are “Jazz, rock, rap, black, white, you name it, has
do so much more than any digital code could do. frustrated when nothing happens after releasing the same root, the same common denomina-
seven minutes of badly looped music on an tor, it’s just not so obvious to the listener.
“The earthy sound of instruments like a Ham- unknown label with no identity. Then they shout It’s like language. Even though there are so
mond organ or a 60-year-old drum kit cannot about how bad drum & bass is or whatever, many stems, it’s all based on what is called
be imitated – we did some comparisons with when it’s really their attitude and personality ‘universal language’ and that’s what music is.
plugs and the real thing, and always had to laugh which is not right for the music business. Since It’s a language everybody understands.
at what the box could offer! I had about 12 it’s quite easy to be heard and get some atten-
people working with me on this record, includ- tion these days, such people are exposed to the “Drum & bass today is more like jazz than
ing a famous German jazz guitarist. All of them public, which is useless, in my opinion. anything else; the way people use instru-
are professional musicians, playing in bands, ments and technology, how they break rules,
studio sessions and even the Vienna Symphonic “I might get turned off by the whole thing every harmonies – it’s all really similar to the think-
Orchestra.” now and then, but that never lasts longer than a ing of groundbreaking jazz musicians in the
day, then I’m back on it and ideas come by them- first half of twentieth century. I wanted to go
So how does David feel ‘Individual Soul’ sits selves. As I said, music is a language and once back in time a little bit and hopefully re-apply
within the current drum & scene? “It’s something you can speak it, it won’t stop haunting you!” what drum & bass is today to what the early
completely different in the current context of the jazz people would have done. Beautiful and a
scene but then again it really blends in, adding Now that the album is complete we can expect bit freaky, I think that describes it best.
another shade to the music. From an outside to hear David behind the decks more, including
perspective, I believe drum & bass really lacks trips to the UK, as well as signing new artists “Jazz is just crazy music by crazy people for
some organic flavours and there are so few to Brigand Music. As for ‘Individual Soul’, leave crazy people – you can do anything and
albums you could play to a non-drum & bass fol- your preconceptions at the door and give it a try drum & bass is so similar in its attitude. You
lower who would find them interesting. I want to – you might just surprise yourself. can make it with or without musicians, with or
stack up that pile and try to show them the way. without a computer; you can use any sample
Brigand Music releases ‘Individual Soul’ on June or any mood, and when you get the beat
“Drum & bass has many faces at the moment, 25th. For more information visit www.myspace. right, anything goes. You can change the
healthy ones and ill ones. There are some people com/brigandmusic or www.myspace.com/brig- concept of drum & bass and still call it drum
trying to be in the game who have no musical andtracks & bass – everything is possible.”
background; they don’t speak the language and
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