A face made of laser slime, Dirty Noise is back once again like the big floaty head from Power Rangers
BASSFACE/GRIMEWAVE/FUTUREDUB/SMELLTECH/MEPHCRUNK
This Month we got Hugs 4 Thugs residents Lyall & Martin What? A tag team to rival the Legion of Doom, both their faces are continually grimaced in disgust at the tunes they play. Afterwards, these thugs will need a hug.
Dirty Noise resident fairycakes Digital Stitch & Go-Dirty won’t stop until they have slashed your tires with fidget, panned your windows in with wonk and filled a bag of techno and set on fire in front of your house. Afterwards they will apologise using future crunk
Dirty Basement are two of the best DJs in glasgow, with releases on R&S, Ultra, Crux, RuNT, Erase, Sovereighn House, Push-It Recordings, Atomic Zoo, Audio Planet & Tharsis
Larry Tee:
“I have always been fans of the boys from Dirty Basement, a production team that has been
making really amazing post-funky electro-house, so it was awesome to see them do their
thing live. Their mix of ‘Lets Make Nasty” featuring Roxy Cottontail, totally gives the
Afrojack mix of the same song, a run for its money. They are real talents to watch for.”
Bryan Cox/Shax – Owner Crux Records:
“Dirty Basement is a bad ass duo set to make 2010 their bitch with their awesome combination
of electro and balls in your face tracks that melt the face off your dearest grandmother.”
There is not a shadow of a doubt that these two monsters will hurt your tiny mind with horrorfidget and slimewonk
And of course the Fantastic JOE CROGAN on visuals, who the Skinny described as:
“roughly classed as that lesser known genre as ‘fucked up’ with a cut and paste, art school Aphex Twin mentality “
And joining him is the ever hospitalised Mediaheroic, who has never been mentioned in the Skinny, but has been mentioned many times in Catworld magazine who said :
“Mediaheroic doesn’t like cats…..he LOVES them! LOL”
This month we is partying with Digital Stitch and Dirty Kid, who will be having a competition to see who can play the most filthiest disrespectful messed up sheeaaatt and upset you people into dancing and falling over
Also joining us are those wee jobbie pirates Pasty and Twonko from Level 32, like two techno Bill and Teds but with less Keanu Reeves and more Buckfast
If you don’t already know how good Kidda is, you are a moron. But don’t worry, I can help educate your sorry excuse for a brain.
How did you get into music ( and what noise makes you bite your bottom lip?)
Olivia Newton John, Wings, Michael Jackson, Run DMC, Beastie Boys, The Clash, Stone Roses, A Tribe Called Quest, Big Audio Dynamite, Gangstarr, Wu Tang…that’s the boring bit out of the way. Hip hop made music accessible to ungifted ingrates like me who had neither the time nor the energy to sit and learn chords, bands didn’t really exist in Middlesbrough in the 80’s so the idea of pinching bits of other peoples records and sellotaping them together appealed immediately. I started making loops on this shitty Casio keyboard of my brothers’ – it had 4 seconds of 8-bit sample time and was previously used to fart into cos it was fucking hilarious. I fannied around putting tapes of loops together before upgrading to a sampler with 10 seconds, then an Akai s900, which I loved an wish I’d never got rid of (this guy wanted to swap it for a bag of weed, but I don’t smoke – makes me mad paranoid – I got £50 for it). Put a little single out with a couple of mates and got a computer, made some more beats with that and put out some stuff on Puma Strut – a mates hip hop label in Brighton, before doing 2 EP’s with Catskills then Going Up for Skint.
Strings and reversed guitar solos make me cry.
Who is the coolest person you’ve worked with so far? Who would you like to work with?
Most of the folks I’ve worked with have been easy to work with Gary Lightbody, Blak Twang, Lomax, Laura Vane…all of them peachy. Psycho Les communicated through hellafunny monosyllabic emails that would just say ‘yeah’ or ‘check it’. I guess my main man is Lee Baker who co-produces everything with me, I’ve known him for 20 years and it’s only in the last few years that we’ve got together to work on something. It’s all about trust and there’s always a buzz in the studio and that’s pretty cool (whatever the fuck ‘cool’ means)
I’m stuck for people to work with at the moment, I trust little of what comes out of people’s mouths nowadays and finding any truth in these emperor’s new clothes is nigh on impossible through the smoke and mirrors of marketing bullshit. There’s no one out there that really gets me going at the moment and just I’m happy to push myself on this record with the relatively unknown talent that’s in and around Brighton. I’m battening down the hatches on this record for now.
I fucking love this tune.
What is your favorite t-shirt (and if that t-shirt was a person, what would its name be?)
My Fat Lip T-Shirt (see attached). He was in The Pharcyde before going off to do his own thing and I’ve had it for about 4 years. I got it online from the states and when it turned up it smelled of jossticks.
Originally black, it’s just dark grey now, the decal is cracked and is fraying round the neck, it’s too small for me and you can see my tits through it, my girl hates it for that but I think it only makes it look better. It’s got the Delicious Vinyl Logo on the back and like everyone’s favourite t-shirt, the day feels better wearing it. I like to think that middle class liberals with their heads full of Birkenstocks, Pilates and Actimel chew over what it means and whether it makes me racist or not. Bellends.
I’m not one for giving inanimate objects names.
Can you teach us a new swear word? (Like Man-tard)
Buttmudd.
Do you have any noises that you don’t like?
My daughter howling about something pointless like how there’s no more Rice Krispies comes close to fingernails down a blackboard and just polystyrene in general. Oh, and the fucking seagulls (see below)
Have you ever spilled anything and thought “I need to be more careful”?
I worked on a live broadcast for ‘Going Live’ in about ’97 with Laurence Llewelyn Bowen, tarting up this kids bedroom in a couple of hours. I spilt a tin of blue paint on the carpet and when I told the director she said “fuck ‘em, stick that rug over it, they’re getting five grands worth of bedroom for fuck all”. The lesson being, if you’re going to spill anything, it’s fine as long as there’s a rug to cover it. In short – don’t get caught.
What is some music we might not expect Kidda to listen to?
I dunno what you’d expect me to listen to anyhow?…plus, I seldom ‘listen’ to stuff and just ‘hear’ it on telly and that. Girls Aloud and Pussycat Dolls always deliver a good tune, Britney lost it for a while but returned to form…phew. Pop’s good like that, multi-hooks and great production. Fuck all this esoteric Mercury Awards shite. Yeah, dead clever but where’s the tunes? Don’t play for the cunts in the corner.
What are your top songs right now?
Right now my head is full of my own record and I’ve not given myself much time to pull it from my own arse to hear anything that really sticks. So right now, it goes like this :-
Kidda – Together Again/I’m Down/Don’t Give Up, Sunshine.
The Clash – 1977.
Fake Blood – Fix Your Accent EP.
Another tune that literally makes me wet.
What is your favorite facial expression when you are enjoying music? Can you describe it?
I bite my bottom lip which ain’t great, so I’m working on a look that says ‘indifferent’ like those dickhead presenters on Channel 4.
What is a good drink to drink if I’m feeling hung over?
You get hangovers?
Do you like Back to the future? If so, which one is your favorite?
It’s OK, but I guess the subtext of Marty’s mam wanting to fuck him in the second one is pretty fun.
What is your favorite thing to do, outside of music?
Extreme Ceramics and dressing badgers in victorian costume before setting them back into the wild, they’re scratchy little fuckers but it really scares the shit out of the poachers.
Do you prefer cats or dogs and why?
Neither. Cute parasites at best and the notion of gourmet pet food makes me want to chew my arm down to a bloodied nub.
Do you prefer Tea or coffee and why?
Coffee, it’s become a necessary requirement of a morning, my constitution is big enough to handle a strong cafetierre everyday but have to cap it by midday or I get a bit ‘vigilante’. I find the ‘Skinny caramel frappaccino’ culture fucking abhorrent; the amount of choice people in the western world believe they deserve makes me want to honk. You won’t catch me in Starbucks talking yoga moves
What can we expect from you in the next 12 months?
New album, more remixes, more djing and, if I can actually make some money out of this joke of a career, take it on the road as a live thing. If not, just more frustration, grief and bile.
What is your opinion on seagulls?
They can eat my shorts. Living in Brighton you quickly learn it’s a ‘them and us’ situation. The fuckers are so pumped up on the stuff they pull out of bins, it’s driven them insane and desperate. I’m sick of getting shat on, sick of the noise they make on the roof at 4 in the morning and while I’d love to subscribe to the notion of ‘all species being able to adapt and live together with a mutual respect’, it seems like a pretty one way street. Pass the javelin and let’s have a seagull kebab.
I would like to start by saying this guy is fucking excellent as fuck. Not only does he always have excellent hair styles (just like me) but he also has excellent music as well. That gives him enough excellents for a Bill and Ted movie, which I’m sure you will agree is most excellent. I asked his excellent face these excellent questions.
I got a very nice email from a lawyer, Barrister John Marak Esq. As with most emails from legal cunts, I opened it gingerly. (I do most things gingerly to be honest)
Back once again with srsly some cool shit! iikagen-Metronome have their first mix out and its a good ‘un! Also they seem to love MAJOR LAZER as much as me, so they are obviously cool cats
