The first of the musical influence posts. I’ll keep these short, so you can listen to the music and maybe go diving through yourself.
‘Loca’ was the first track I found from Buika. I was hooked on the section with the vocal chants (about 1.35), I looped and studied a lot of this track.
Now onto this video. It’s interesting being able to watch people play the music, obviously, within most dance music it’s not possible. I watched this video for days. There’s something about how this sounds, you’ve got people playing in a sparse room - you can definitely hear the room on the recording, and I love that. We’re bringing the architecture in as another player. And it’s not over-engineered to the point where it sounds artificial again.
After this, I went on to watch Flamenco guitarists strumming techniques, which is a whole other world. But, like all these influences, I’m adding them as spice to my work, not emulating them. More importantly, I realised I wanted as many clapping tracks holding the rhythm as I could.
You’ll be able to hear the influence when you listen to ‘Sunrise’, coming 5th August.
Something you think I should listen to? Leave me a comment below
