London-based Frenchman Débruit has really been tickling our fancy recently with his tasty EPs. Unclassifiable, they blend hip-hop beats with African sound, random samples, a hint of glitch and a healthy dose of funk. It's like listening to the contents of a second hand vinyl shop mixed in with a bric-a-brac shop - a random blend of new and old, with an organic feel that mirrors Four Tet in some way - only with a heaiver, "dope" feel to it. He's a former student of the Red Bull Music Academy, and in our view one of the most exciting producers around right now. This wonderful podcast hops, skips and jumps between Afro rhythms, old skool hip-hop, funk and his own inspiring productions. Groovy throughout.
Sum up this podcast in 10 words... THIS IS THE KIND OF MUSIC THAT I LISTEN TO (apart from my own tracks ha ha)
What’s your personal favourite track on it? They are so different in style that this is an impossible question to answer. It's like do you prefer dub, african music or hip-hop? All of it!
What’s the special ingredient in this mix? The selected variety, a story told through a very open lense.
What’s the best gig you’ve played recently? It happened 3weeks ago, in very special place (some lost abandoned cinema studios) on the outskirts of Paris, 1000 tickets sold out in advance to a very curious, open-minded friendly crowd, art everywhere and people going crazy!
What have you got coming up? Spatio Temportel EP is in stores now, just sold out though and the second press is on the way next week! People seem to be feeling it a lot - it's got 3D artwork from www.rainbowmonkey.de again.
After that there's plans for my album late this year, watch out for that - it's gonna be pretty special! Another 12" soon featuring my own special version of Ginuwine's
Pony in the spring so watch out for that, and another Debruit-re-fried hip-hop classic or 2! Some production for others (it’s all a secret right now) a lot of live gigs, festivals, remixes for Rusko, Black Devil Disco Club and more and a very special collab EP or 2!
But most importantly right now I'm telling everyone to buy my Heart Beats For Haiti EP - All the money goes to Unicef's Haiti Earthquake Disaster relief fund PLEASE PLEASE DONATE/BUY IT HERE! It's 4 tracks/beats made of Zook and Kompa Samples - the traditional music of Haiti. I put it together in the days after the Earthquake to do something to help and after the hype for my sound on the
Spatio Temporel EP it seemed like a great idea. Thanks to everyone who's helping to make this happen.
PAY/DONATE WHAT YOU WANT (min £3.00)
http://debruit.bandcamp.com/album/heart-beats-4-haiti BOOMKAT
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=264774 BLEEP
http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release_details&releaseid=23477 ZERO INCH
http://www.zero-inch.com/artist/Debruit/ep/Heart_Beats_for_Haiti/130738 And finally, do you have a special message for our readers?Have fun and support the Haiti Relief Campaign -
Buy the Heart Beats for Haiti EP!Tracklisting:Chief Stephen // Osita )sadebe (Polydor)Serge Gainsbourg // New York USA (Impact)King Tubby // Bongo Man Dub (Trojan Records)Cornell Campbell // Pretty Looks (Studio One)Prince Fatty // Shimmy Shimmy Ya (unknown)Débruit // Pouls (Musique Large)Pete Rock // Pete's Jazz (BBE)The Shape of Broad Minds // Changes (Lex Records)Slum Village // Do You (feat. MC Breed) (Capitol)Georgia Anne Muldrow // Run Away (Animatedcartunes)Raekwon // Heaven & Hell (Loud Records)Q-Tip // Getting’ Up (Universal Motown)Latyrx // Lady Don't Tek No (Solesides)Débruit // 149 Dalston Airline (Civil Music)Nino // Deep Space Night (Pendrive)Zapp & Roger // So Ruff So Tuff (Warner Bros. Records)Tyrone Brunson // The Smurf (Epic)Whodini // Five Minutes Of Funk (Jive)Dyno // Fuh Real (feat Naboobia) (Digsville)BD1982 // Soldier (Subtract) (Seclusiasis)Débruit // Débruit's Pony (Civil Music)