via WYDU, who also had a chance to interview Luke Sick and DJ Eons One recently.
Grand Invincible – The Way We Revolt
DJ Eons One: It’s more in keeping the techniques rather than a specific sound. The art of cut n’ paste and making something out of something else in hip hop is dying. Kids today can buy a machine designed to make “beats”. They are overwhelmed with sound choices, virtual tracks, fx, etc. You don’t have to understand BPM’s or have any DJ skills. You can drop 2 completely wrong loops into a program like Ableton Live and it FIXES IT FOR YOU. If I walked into Cue’s (old Bay Area record spot) with a magic box and said “This machine will mix any 4 records together perfectly” I would have been heckled out of the store. It’s not DJing.
Look at how hip hop transitioned from the live original performance to wax: it went from cutting doubles of records to live bands trying to emulate Grandmaster Flash’s routines. It wasn’t right. Not until cats like Paul C and Marley Marl really started bugging out with sampling records did it start to come back around to that original sound. That, to me, is real hip hop.
Hell yeah, dope song.