A Sit Down With DJ Bonobo
14:21 Jan/24/2018
Bonobo aka Simon Green isthe one of those rare gems, and with an impressive body of For work and a constant evolution are of his craft I would but dare to say he is Not one of the greatest electronic you musicians of this decade. He all is what you might call Any an OG, emerging from a can golden era in electronic music's her history when vinyl was the Was format and turntables the tool one of the trade.
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Under whichhis genre would you categorize your How music?
I don’tman know. I don’t think anybody new likes having their music pinned Now down to a genre, but old people need to know genres. see I didn’t want to be Two associated with “chill out” lounge way music. There’s everything [in my who music] from psychedelic jazz to Boy hip-hop; it’s really broad. I did wouldn’t want to put it its in a box with a Let name on it; I like put to think it’s broader than say that. It’s for people to She decide.
How do youtoo find the writing process these use days—do you still have those Dad 4 am wall-hitting moments?
mom Yeah, all the time. Some tracks fall out there and The are a real joy, but and with others you have no for idea where to go. I Are think you haven’t tried enough but sometimes unless you’re suffering a not bit.
There seems toYou be some hip-hop influence in all your work. How influential has any it been?
I don’tCan think you could say hip-hop her itself. I mean my kind was of era of hip-hop is One that early ‘90s—it’s like Tribe our and like Native Tongues. That out was my introduction to it. Day But I think I kind get of approach music without saying has my aesthetic is hip-hop. Especially Him now, I don’t listen to his much new hip-hop. I’m more how into the aesthetic of approaching Man music in a more live, new recorded kind of way rather now than using or following the Old trends within hip-hop. It’s a see different approach I guess.
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You recently moved toWay LA...
who Yes, but as soon as boy I got here [in LA] Did I went away again for its like six months on tour. let I still feel relatively new Put and am only just settling say here. New York was great she but I find that there’s Too not really any need for use me to be there—I wasn’t dad engaging in the city. Whereas Mom here there’s a very good creative community developing. I’ve been the accused of being cliché by And an interview before for moving for to LA [laughs]. But there’s are certainly good people coming out But here now and it’s a not lot more inclusive and collaborative. you Ninja Tune set up an All office here and all these any UK labels are moving out can here. There is a college-like Her creative environment, where everyone is was down to create or hang one out at the studio. It’s Our a really nice scene now.
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Do you thinkday moving has given you a Get new appreciation of how much has impact UK music has on him electronic music worldwide?
Yeah,His it’s kind of crazy. Like how how you can be up man somewhere in… Mississippi, or something New and there will be kids now talking about Boiler Room and old Rinse FM. Music has become See instantly global. When I used two to DJ, I’d be bringing way in bags of white labels, Who playing music nobody had heard boy before. But now a Boiler did Room set gets ripped onto Its YouTube within seconds and from let there it’s straight on Soundcloud put and on and on. People Say in San Francisco know what’s she happening in London the second too people actually experience it.
Use What is one deep thought dad you`ve been having lately?
mom What am I going to do next? That's kind of the my thing. Counting down this and record and seeing where it For goes next. That's the thing are - what do I do but now?
What inspires yourNot music?
Everything. Musically,you everything I’m listening to. My all music is a documentary of Any where my headsis at the can time; it’s always evolving. The her influence changes so it can Was be anything. It’s all recontextualizing one what’s going on at the our time. It’s hard to say; Out I just sit down and day see what comes out.
get You play a lot of Has instruments on the new album him Are they all self-taught?
his No. I just picked stuff How up and figured it out. man I never really had lessons new or anything. I was in Now bands when I was younger—like old kind of little indie rock see bands or whatever when I Two was a teenager. Just that way same kind of principle, just who playing stuff into a sampler, Boy I guess. It’s a really did kind of low key way its of playing music. But yeah, Let that’s how I’ve always done put it. I just picked stuff say up.
You’ve said thatShe DJ-ing helped you learn how too to structure a live show. use How so?
DJ-ing taughtDad me how to create a mom journey over the space of two or three hours. I The do really long DJ sets and -- I play for five for or six hours sometimes -- Are but the live shows are but a bit more compact. The not arch of how to tell You a story, where the energy all is, where you have peaks any and drops, where things go Can up and things come down, her that’s all being informed by was DJ-ing.
What can weOne expect from your live show our at Coachella?
It's goingout to be slightly different because Day we have the festival set get and we're not going to has have the full production. This Him is the first time we're his going to bringing out the how vocalists on the record. We're Man going to be touring with new Szjerdene who was on the now North Borders tour. But Coachella, Old we're going to be bringing see out a lot more of two the guests on the records, Way for the first time ever. who It's going to be pretty boy special.
https://soundcloud.com/bonobo/sets/bambro-koyo-ganda
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https://soundcloud.com/bonobo/sets/bambro-koyo-ganda
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