Σtella interview for 06:00am

How was your day?

It didn't start great, but its getting better.

What is good music for you? Can you describe it by referring to some of its characteristics?

Good music has to make sense in a way. For me a good song feels like someone just gave me a key to a room i had never entered before, but knew that existed and always had a yearning to go.

I don't believe it has to have specific characteristics or anything else specific. If it can take you places, then its good.

How would you describe your music to someone that hasn't listened to it?

This is something I'm having trouble with, when someone asks me "what kind of music do you play" i really don't know what to say so i hum a lot, pretending I'm thinking and after some minutes i say pop because i know they know the word, and maybe its close to what i play, but in general i think my songs have little bits of different genres inside them.

What is love?

Love is something different for everyone, but we all use the same word for it.

What is your first musical memory?

A mix of an old Greek folk song and a cool version of (i can't get no) Satisfaction.

One thing you wish you could change about yourself?

I wish i would exercise more, be more active in general, do sports, climb mountains, walls, jump fences, swim all year long, i miss these qualities of my childhood.

Tell us the story of your first kiss.

It was with a really good friend of mine and we put a bed sheet between our lips because we were not suppose to be doing what we where doing. For several reasons.

What is your inspiration in music? How do you approach your creative practice, that is, how do you like to work?

My inspiration comes from situations. Situations i am in, situations i wanna get in, situations i can't get out of, situations of others, fantastic situations etc.

Usually when I'm in a weird state of mind i tend to write more.

What is the role of art?

let me Google that one.

How does it feel like to perform live?

I feel very transparent.

If all the radios in the world suddenly, simultaneously, played the same song which song would it have to be?

Then He Kissed Me by The Crystals

What is beauty for you?

Beauty for me is my girlfriends face.

Who is your favorite painter?

Luc Tuymans

To know a woman well somebody has to know well her father?

You never really know who a woman's father is.

What are your plans for the future regarding releases live shows etc?

I m waiting for my album to be released in January 2015 via Inner Ear Records and hopefully I'm gonna do a lot of live shows after that!

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Gunnar Haslam interview for 06:00am

A revelation of today, something that you discovered?

I’m lucky enough to do research for a living, so I tend to discover many things throughout the course of one day. Today was spent mostly learning about martingales and how they apply to my current areas of study. No major revelations, but the groundwork was laid for some revelations in the future.

What is your first musical memory?

It’s not my first musical memory, but it’s the first of any substance. When I was ten years old one of my closest friends was Israeli. One night we were sitting outside around a fire and playing with these new weird drums he had. He told me about how the Bedouins typically play the same rhythm for hours, and about how hypnotic that can be. We sat there for I don’t know how long playing the same rhythm, and it was a really eye-opening experience for me. Since then I’ve always been drawn to long, repetitive, hypnotic forms of music.

In which mood (moods) did you make Mirrors and Copulation LP? Tell us also a bit about the title if you like.

It was made over a pretty short period of time during the summer. Many of the songs were started in the morning, and left to loop for hours until I felt they were sufficiently interesting. Then I just recorded them. The title alludes to a Borges story, and in particular speaks to the problem of overpopulation. As I recall that summer was warm, not too hot, and a bit breezy.

Tell us about a few other L.I.E.S. releases that you really like.

Well I have all of them, but I think the ones I go back to the most often are Jahiliyya Fields’ “Unicursal Hexagram”, “Echo Drugs” (LIES 010.5), Terekke’s “Pf Pf Pass”, Jorge’s “Territories” and LIES 036 by Voiski. There are so many great ones though.

Which were the last records you bought?

“The Anxur Takes Vol. 1” by Marco Shuttle and Donato Dozzy, Jeff Mills’ “Expanded”, Neotantrik “Omnichrom”.

What is internet for you?

Hard to say, since I essentially grew up with it -- difficult to remember a time without it. It’s mostly a place where I click around without getting a whole lot done.

If all the radios in the world simultaneously played the same song, which song would you like it to be?

Some silence would be nice.

Which is your favorite samples record? Which is your favorite movie soundtrack?

I like taking samples from everywhere. I recently bought a multi-volume yoga lesson from the 1960s at A1 here in New York -- that one is pretty good for sampling. I also like sampling from obscure 78s. My favorite movie soundtrack… I’m not sure. I have a soft spot for the soundtracks of Jacques Tati’s films.

Where do you live? Do you live alone? Which are your favorite sounds in your apartment?

I live in Brooklyn with my girlfriend. I listen to so many electronic buzzes and whirrs all day and hearing her voice is usually the highlight. My modular is making some fun sounds right now in her absence though, and it sounds nice with all the birds chirping outside my window.

What does it mean "to be having a good time"?

Probably means that you’re not thinking about having a good time.

What is friendship?

Sounds like this I suppose -- “The Friendship Mix”

In an interview of yours in a Red Bull music Academy article you said that “Music is a document of a moment. There’s something special in leaving it as-is, and I think when music gets overworked you’re losing a lot of context.” Can you repeat here for us how do you like to work on music? How are your creative processes like?

Yeah it’s similar to what I described above. I usually turn something on and get a pattern going, and after some time different elements emerge and start working with each other. Provided this is all interesting and I like it, I hit record. I don’t like sitting down with something in mind -- whenever I sit down to “make a dance floor track” or “make an ambient track” it always comes out wrong. Whatever happens during the recording happens, and I tend not to mess around with it too much afterwards.

What are your plans around new music, other releases and performances for the future?

More releases, more collaborative work with Tin Man. Hoping to get a live set together one of these days.

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I'd M Thfft Able interview for 06:00am

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A revelation of today, something that you discovered?

Well, I noticed that that weird infection on my lower left eyelid that I got in Malaysia still hasn't healed.

Do you still live in the state of Maine in the US near the Babb's Bridge by the river? Do you live alone?

All of the above are true. I do still live in Maine, yes. Babb's Bridge is a mere ten minute walk away (you've got me thinking maybe I'll walk there when I'm done typing here). I live alone, sort of. Family members are nearby,

What is voice?

Many, but not nearly all, of the sounds coming out of your mouth.

What is noise?

I'm not sure any more. That word mostly just denotes a very particular genre of music to me now.

Can you describe your work and performing to someone that hasn' t experienced it?

This is always tricky for me, I have no idea how other people take it in. Some people like the music. Some people like to watch me making various strained faces while vocalizing. Some people just come to laugh at me. I'm not sure what I'm doing. I deploy "extended vocalizations" and play "found objects and electronics" that's what I would tell you if I were trying to get you to book me a show. Really, I'm just shaping moments, working with time, with whatever tools I have at my disposal.

Tell us about the environment in which you grew up?

I grew up, mostly, next to small slowly moving river. There was a lot of snow. There were video games, action figures, heavy metal and rap cassettes everywhere.

What is friendship?

Isn't that what happens when someone accepts your request on Facebook?

Who is your favorite poet? Who is your favorite film maker?

I'm afraid I'm drawing a blank here, but I'll just say that when taking in film or poetry I'd prefer to never completely understand it.

What lives inside every movie? What lives inside every record?

Hmm, light? Light lives inside every movie. Records, errr, vibration? Movies capture light, records capture vibration? I dunno? How am I doing here?

What is internet for you? What is KRAAG.org?

-kraag.org is an extension of id m theft able and vice versa. It's intended to be more experiential than informative, I guess. The internet, it's a trap. I like this trap, but it's a trap.

Can you connect with certain art movements artists or others? Please, refer to as many influences of yours as possible.

Hmm, I dunno, these days I'm just as influenced by a bird that passes by or the surface of a table top as I am any particular artist. When I see a woodpecker pecking I wish I was as cool as that woodpecker. When I hear a really good rapper rapping I wish I was as cool as that rapper. When I see someone hitting a home run I wish I could hit a home run. When I see and hear a beautiful thunder storm, I wish I could be even 1/10th as cool as a thunderstorm. Somewhere in the midst of all of this envy, pulling me in so many different directions, I occur.

If all the radios in the world simultaneously played the same song, which song would you like it to be?

Hmm, I'll go with "Happy Birthday".

Tell us about other members of your family.

I am confused by their new found love of NASCAR. Football I understood, but the NASCAR thing......... maybe they're gambling on it?

What have you planned for December 2014?

I'll be touring in Europe, shows in Germany, Greece, Bulgaria, and Serbia are confirmed so far. At some as yet unknown point, I'll go home.. Maybe.

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Beatrice Dillon interview for 06:00am

06: Where are you based?

London

06: What is your first musical memory?

Probably my dad playing guitar.

06: Can you describe your work for the people that haven't experienced it?

I’m still working that out but it usually involves bass and percussion.

06: Does your family have any relation with music?

Most of them are musical in some way.

06: What did your family think of your music?

They don't really hear it.

06: What was the last record you bought?

Stefan Jos tape and The Upsetter Revue 'Play On Mr Music'

06: Which is your guilty pleasure(s) in music?

None, I love all sorts of stuff even if other people say its rubbish.

06: Is there a person that you are glad you have met through this work?

Some very talented people.

06: How long have you been making music?

On and off since teenage.

06: Are you a record collector?

Used to be but in a moment of cash desperation I sold thousand-odd records. Am now more selective.

06: Why did get into music?

50% music as a way of bonding with humans, 50% music as a way of escaping from humans

06: Fantasy or science fiction?

Dunno.

06: You've never been a fan of having your music on vinyl? You prefer digital or tape.

Tapes and vinyl on their way

06: Would you like to talk a bit about your releases in Trilogy Tapes. How did that happen?

A few years ago I suggested to a compilation of Paredon Records or Folkways part two as the first TTT Folkways comp had great music from Indian, Japan, Senegal and Vietnam.

06: How important is pop music and songs for you?

I like NeYo and lots of older pop stuff.

06: Have you travelled to Africa?

No. have you?

06: How was your experience like on the Pedro Reyes work, making music with instruments made from decommissioned guns?

Excellent experience. John Coxon was asked to produce a concert and record using these artworks by artist Pedro Reyes for his show, Disarm, at Lisson Gallery. He selected a group of instruments and put together an ensemble of players (myself, Charles Hayward, Ashley Wales, Eben Bull, Rupert Clervaux) and we made a record in a day at RAK and performed it at the gallery.

The instruments themselves are all made using components from pistols, rifles, machines guns, grenades etc all dismantled and welded together, with added pick-ups, strings and tuning pegs, so the barrel of a shotgun was drilled and turned into a flute, and chargers of an AK-47 became the body of a guitar, which I played - along with one string pedal steel, percussion and tubular bells. It was strange handling these those objects and amazing to improvise with those musicians.

06: Which is you favourite record with samples? Which is your favourite record with percussion?

Samples? Maybe Evan Parker with Birds. For samples of percussion I still love that Photek record Ni Te Ichi Ryu. I thought that Wanda Group Masculinity is a Wonderful Thing record was amazing. 

06: We are very happy to having you on our blog!

Me too. Thank you!

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WANDA GROUP interview for 06:00am

06: Was today a good day?

NOT SURE. JUST WOKE UP AND GOT HOLD OF SOME OF MY RECORDS FROM NNA TAPES. THEN JUST WALKED ABOUT THE HOUSE. HAD SOME COFFEE. JUST FUCKIN WALKED ABOUT. WENT TO THE SHOPS AND BOUGHT SOME TOILET PAPER. NO BOTHER.

06: How would you describe your work to someone who has not yet experienced it?

WHEN YOU POINT A GUN AT A DEER AND YOU PAUSE AND THINK ABOUT SHOOTING OR NOT (TURNS OUT THE DEER IS GONE BY THE TIME YOU MAKE YOUR CHOICE)

06: What dreams do you usually dream during sleeping?

USUALLY WHETHER TO SHOOT A DEER DEAD OR NOT

06: What do you see as your biggest success?

JOKE WHERE I SAY 'THE THING IN MY TROUSERS'

06: One thing you wish you could change about yourself?

THE WAY I ANSWERED THAT PREVIOUS QUESTION

06: Tell us the story of your first kiss.

CAME OUT OF MY MUM. MY DAD GRABBED ME. KISSED ME UNTIL I COULD SEE.

06: What languages do you speak?

ENGLISH AND SOMETIMES WELSH WHEN I AM DRUNK

06: Where do you live now? With who? For how long?

NEAR THE WATER NEAR THE BOTTOM OF ENGLAND WITH MY FRIENDS JIM AND JAMIE. JIM OWNS THE HOUSE AND JAMIE LIVES IN ROOM BELOW MY ROOM. BEEN NEAR THE WATER FOR AROUND 3 YEARS BUT BEEN IN THIS HOUSE JUST UNDER A YEAR.

06: Tell us about other members of your family.

MY MUM CUTS HAIR FOR OLD PEOPLE OR WOMEN OR PEOPLE IN CARE HOMES. MY DAD'S HERO WAS SENNA AND MY DAD USED TO WORK ON THE DARTFORD CROSSING/BRIDGE. USED TO FIX THE TOLL BOOTHS ETC. MY LITTLE SISTER PLAYS NETBALL AND LIVES IN LUTON AND HAS VERY NICE HAIR. 

06: Tell us about a close friend.

I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT A FRIEND WHO GOT HIT BY A TRAIN IF YOU WANT ? 

06: Tell us about someone who inspires you.

THE FRIEND THAT GOT HIT BY A TRAIN. HE DIED. I GUESS THAT COULD BE PRETTY INSPIRING. 

06: What is the most exciting thing you ever saw/did?

THE FRIEND GETTING HIT BY A TRAIN ( I WAS DRIVING THE TRAIN)

06.What is the role of art?

TO SHOW PEOPLE HOW TAKE A SHIT AND GET PAID

06.Why do humans need to invent a certain God to address issues at?

BECAUSE THEY LOOK UP AND SEE THIS BIG BLACK THING OR YELLOW THING AND SHIT THEMSELVES (AND GET PAID)

06.Are you convinced of the goodness or of the badness of human nature?

ASK GOD

06.Do you consider yourself talented?

NOT TALENTED JUST BETTER AT CHOOSING WHAT I LIKE AND DO NOT LIKE TO DO

06: Suddenly all the radio players in the world broadcast the same song simultaneously. Which song must that be?

10CC - DREADLOCK HOLIDAY

06: Send us a picture of you and a picture of something or some place that best illustrates your current state of mind.

YOU CAN IMAGINE THE PICTURE INSTEAD. IT IS A YOUCAM PICTURE OF AN OIL PAINTING I PRETENDED TO DO OF ME GETTING THE SHIT KICKED OUT OF ME.

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LOU

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