Waxing lyrical: Shackleton and the Spaceape

' Fuzzy sonic fiction'... Kode 9 and the Spaceape. Photo: Hyperdub

On their working relationship: (Shackleton) "We are friends until we have collaborators." It is not a perfect expression of what I'm doing musically, or vice versa, but rather we attempt to a project we have never done before, and that around us, is not done. "It is EC that should be the collaborations on".

First lyricists who inspired me: (Spaceape) "It should be U.S. hip-hop artists who broke in the 1980s: LL Cool J, Rakim, Chuck D, KRS - One.". Although from my experience in the South of London, their ease and candour distinguished himself. When I heard that must be a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back I have been blown by eloquent ferocity of Chuck D. It is your face and intense, but matched with skill and intelligence.

"Around the same time, I am entered in people like Matt Johnson of the the." Their album 1986 infected me have a great impression. He had sensitivities similar to a lot of hip hop I have liked, but referenced many things that resonated with my experience of growing up as Great Britain concluded under the weight of Thatcherism. "It also refers to much more dark, distills themes on tracks such as Out of the Blue or The Mercy Beat, who planted probably the seed in my imagination to write things beyond simple experience."

Patois and spoken: (Spaceape) "When I started to work with Shackleton, my delivery was spontaneous." I thought ever, "Let me do this in the style of", but the artists that have been send me subliminal messages were Linton Kwesi Johnson, Michael Smith, Mutabaruka, Prince Far I, and the Last Poets. Spoken word creates a space in the music and is one of the reasons for which that I feel my style adapted Shackleton - I do not change my words much, we force a convergence. ?

On the themes of the new album Black Sun: (Shackleton) "For a number of reasons, radiation has been a theme for us both over the past few years.". I was owned by the idea that music oriented synth I have listened and releasing the label [Hyperdub] in the course of the five past or six years was a Visual correlation. It's like a monochrome world of music suppressed by dread begins to shine with strange and toxic - radiation bel, but also disturbing and dangerous. [In the story], an anonymous radioactive event has transformed the atmosphere, so that the sunlight is filtered in surreal colors. This raises a series of chain reactions - in populations some, "othermen" resist the adaptation, while others find synthetic ways of living in this new land. Spaceape creates human beings humans who live in this world - shadow of bodies, an overview of memories, flash-fictitious forwards - and my music complete these eprouvette characters. It is a blurry sonic fiction that create us environments more than stories and you can enter calculate or visually, through the music or artwork. ?

On their coverage of the sign of the Prince o ' the Times: (Spaceape) "I have been heavily in Prince when I was a teenager, and sign o ' the times was the pinnacle of his career during this period.". It was not something I would be expected, but as Shackleton and I wanted to begin recording, we thought, why not start with this? More important still, I understood what meant the runway. The lyrics-' this is stupid, not? When a ship of the rocket exploding, and yet everyone still wants to steal...'-you are sure to understand the feelings. It is unnecessary to make a recovery of the note-for-note, you will need to make your own trail. It is so much space in our version; It's really just you, me and bass. ?

The influence of the authors and Directors: (Spaceape) "Our first album, memories of the future, was influenced by stuff, I read at the time, many of SCI - FI - Octavia Butler, Phillip K Dick, William Burroughs, William Gibson." Drafting of the new album, it was classical authors such as HG Wells and George Orwell, though the filmmakers were also very important to me - you can hear Cronenberg, Michael Haneke, Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa. ?

The words I would like, I wrote: (Spaceape) "Far too many, but Inner City Blues of Marvin Gaye (make Me Wanna Holler) is close to perfect: ' Crime is growing / pressed police / panic spreads and God knows where we have to..." "