Here’s an interview for Rub Radio brought to you by Scion A/V that I did with my friends Oliver Goldstein and Vaughn “U-Tern” Oliver, collectively known as Oliver (of course.) Los Angeles based Goldstein and Vancouver born and bred U-Tern had been working together for a long while, collaborating on music by sending files back and forth between their two cities. When U-Tern decided to relocate to LA, well all sorts of funky shit started to go do. Check the interview and peep for yourselves, as two of my favorite producers go in on how they make the magic happen.
These two guys, with more talent individually in their pinkie toes than most people in the world could dream of having, form like Voltron to make some of the funkiest new music around. You can check more of their work here on their SoundCloud page, and check out one of the latest pieces from them, the Morodor on Jupiter sounding “Memories Of The Future” below. Also, shout to Oliver for having crazy vintage rock & roll t-shirt game, including an original Ronnie James Dio shirt that he was wearing in the video that I was salivating over and we talked a lot about, but couldn’t show because of “rights” or something to that effect. Anyway, enjoy the interview and the tunes.
I did this joint really quick a few years ago after grabbing all the “Mind Power” stems and literally threw this together in like 15 minutes or less. After playing it out a bunch people started really hawking me for it and I put it up on the Music section of my site. Well, my Music section is kind of a mess and I’m hoping that me and my cousin (who did this site for me) can sort that out – even though him and his wife are having twins not too long from now…
But because recently I’ve had so many people ask me for a re-up, I figured it was time. So with no further ado, I give to you…
I am in the market for a personal assistant. If you’re young, hungry, motivated, focused, enthusiastic about learning the ins and outs of this business, are open to meeting new and exciting people, traveling to far away exotic lands and possibly being put in life-threatening situations, this is a job for you!
Applicant must be New York City / Brooklyn based, be computer literate / internet savvy and relatively mobile. A more detailed list of requirements will be discussed when we get a chance to rap, but it’s not rocket science. And this is a great opportunity and the time is now.
If interested, please email me at info (at) cosmobaker.com for details and let’s see what we can do about making something awesome happen.
There are some things that I just love. And when I say I love I mean like I extra-extra full on go blind L.O.V.E. love with a capital <3 complete with funny little cupid arrows through it. What do I love? Well there’s a lot of things. I could run down the laundry list of the things that I just absolutely am nutso about, but here are just a few. For example:
I love olives.
I love baseball. Particularly, I love my Philadelphia Phillies, win or lose.
I love the entire Addams Family series. Raul Julia as Gomez is suave as it comes.
And I love the music by the French electronic duo Cassius.
I got hip to them under the guise Cassius back when the first big wave of French electronic music had already been a couple years old, but actually I never realized until recently that I was a fan of their work under the pseudonym La Funk Mob. This is back in my acid-jazz adoring, baggy houndstooth print trouser and floppy apple jack wearing, “everything sounds better with a flute on top” loving halcyon days of youth in the early 90s. But when I was a tad bit older and a quite a bit more in touch with my soul, the dance music that Cassius was making struck a particular chord with me. It was fun a playful but not trite. It was funky and moving but it was also somewhat very emotional to me. I don’t know why I was able to tap into the particular emotion of the right combination of samples and synthesizers and patterns from various drum machines. The “soul in the machine” per se…
One of the things that I find most interesting in the way that modern day hip-hop has progressed with sound is with the way it has incorporated modern day dance music. Two of the songs off of the Kanye West & Jay-Z “Watch The Throne” album really serve as perfect examples of this trend as it stands in 2011. The two are the “Dubstep Run Through A Carwash In East Texas” sounding “Who Gon’ Stop Me” and “Why I Love You,” both produced by the legendary yet somewhat unheralded in the mainstream genius Mike Dean.
It’s just so refreshing to hear these two worlds collide in the way that it does. And also refreshing to hear Cassius “I <3 U SO” re-envisioned in this way. This is one of my favorite songs, and it brings up such deep emotion for me. Why, I’ll never know. But nonetheless, I love you so. And why I love you, I’ll never know…
Dante’s Hifi – Miami – April 20 
