Loefah interview

[clashmag]

Ahoy!



Valentine's ting..

http://www.clashmusic.com/features/plea ... ple-loefah

^^ Loefah speaks!

About Swamp81 plans, School and more.. here's a lil quote about you guys & gals:

"I remember back in the day on Dubstep Forum, people would push things out and you’d be so enraged you’d go on there and blurt it all out, make a big problem for yourself. We’ve all done it."

[mIrReN]

Indeed nice read!
Wise words from the man

" They seem to be going down quite well. I’m loving it again, yeah, and without my team – my boys – I wouldn’t be back in the studio the way I am. But yeah, I’m loving it!""
all there is to it!

[jrkhnds]

By the way
Back in November, Icicle mentioned something about hitting the studio with Loe.
Would really like to hear the fruit of that collab.

[Muncey]

Always enjoy reading Loefahs interviews, restores my faith in Swamp!

What he said about missing Chunky from sets makes it like 70-80% is so true, hes by far the best host going.. and if you haven't see him live you need to, guy has moves! You won't see any other MC dance like Chunks. Blessed to live in Manchester where he MCs at HnR along with Strategy (Marka), it's nice going to a rave knowing you've got 2 of the best in the game hosting, shit MC's can completely ruin a set.

Agree with Swamp tunes being timeless to a certain extent as well.. Unlike most dubstep where you could probably make a good educated guess which time the tune was made/released Swamp is very blurred. Probably because they're all sort of using old styles of acid/techno/house but with a new twist. Only tunes you could relate to a year are like Acid Jackson which got battered by just about everybody and now you rarely hear it.

Glad hes back in the studio too.

[ghandi]

Pleasure Principle looks sick, the line up, location...

[Lye_Form]

Loefah is producing again?

gotta be some live rips coming soon.

[Geey]

Loefah is producing again?

gotta be some live rips coming soon.

Check out his new tune called veil.. There's rips on YouTube now.. Would link but on phone

[jheybs]

Loefah is producing again?

gotta be some live rips coming soon.

Check out his new tune called veil.. There's rips on YouTube now.. Would link but on phone

veal? didnt he tweet n say that weren't his?

love his interviews, always so humble

[garethom]

Agree with Swamp tunes being timeless to a certain extent as well.. Unlike most dubstep where you could probably make a good educated guess which time the tune was made/released Swamp is very blurred. Probably because they're all sort of using old styles of acid/techno/house but with a new twist. Only tunes you could relate to a year are like Acid Jackson which got battered by just about everybody and now you rarely hear it.

Weirdly I feel the exact opposite, feel like they're really "time and a place" releases. Don't get me wrong, I own a lot of them, but when I play them they feel very dated for the most part.

[chekov]

Agree with Swamp tunes being timeless to a certain extent as well.. Unlike most dubstep where you could probably make a good educated guess which time the tune was made/released Swamp is very blurred. Probably because they're all sort of using old styles of acid/techno/house but with a new twist. Only tunes you could relate to a year are like Acid Jackson which got battered by just about everybody and now you rarely hear it.

Weirdly I feel the exact opposite, feel like they're really "time and a place" releases. Don't get me wrong, I own a lot of them, but when I play them they feel very dated for the most part.

i'd agree with this for the ones that were absolutely battered to death like swims and sicko cell

i think the mickey pearce and pinch ones haven't so much (maybe only cos they weren't getting played every month on rinse though, i duno)

[garethom]

Agree with Swamp tunes being timeless to a certain extent as well.. Unlike most dubstep where you could probably make a good educated guess which time the tune was made/released Swamp is very blurred. Probably because they're all sort of using old styles of acid/techno/house but with a new twist. Only tunes you could relate to a year are like Acid Jackson which got battered by just about everybody and now you rarely hear it.

Weirdly I feel the exact opposite, feel like they're really "time and a place" releases. Don't get me wrong, I own a lot of them, but when I play them they feel very dated for the most part.

i'd agree with this for the ones that were absolutely battered to death like swims and sicko cell

i think the mickey pearce and pinch ones haven't so much (maybe only cos they weren't getting played every month on rinse though, i duno)

Oh yeah, definitely man. Pieces like "One Of Us" probably are timeless and still sound fresh to me (don't really immerse myself in dungeon much), but a lot of them just feel like they have really short life spans.

Life spans isn't really the best word I guess because I still listen to them, hard to explain, but yeah, quite a few releases got so tiring, I don't listen to many shows but you couldn't avoid them.

[Muncey]

Agree with Swamp tunes being timeless to a certain extent as well.. Unlike most dubstep where you could probably make a good educated guess which time the tune was made/released Swamp is very blurred. Probably because they're all sort of using old styles of acid/techno/house but with a new twist. Only tunes you could relate to a year are like Acid Jackson which got battered by just about everybody and now you rarely hear it.

Weirdly I feel the exact opposite, feel like they're really "time and a place" releases. Don't get me wrong, I own a lot of them, but when I play them they feel very dated for the most part.

Yeah some of them definitely are, mainly the overhyped ones. Sicko Cell, Swims, Acid Jackson, Footcrab. Pinch and Zed Bias releases are pretty timeless. Guess timeless may be the wrong word.

Although I don't listen to Swamp material much so I guess that may explain it lol.

[garethom]

Agree with you on the Zed Bias release actually!

[chekov]

yeah definitely, i'd forgotten about that one

definitely regret not copping that one

[garethom]

^^^ Jesus, just saw the price on disco gees!

edit: Oh wait, it was the tanmushimushi

[Muncey]

I didn't realise they've taken Norwood Soul Patrol to the road either. Hopefully catch them this summer... I imagine that'd be the best time to see them, spend all day in the sun in a pub garden and go listen to some Norwood Soul Patrol at night!

^^^ Jesus, just saw the price on disco gees!

edit: Oh wait, it was the tanmushimushi

Its still usually £40-50 on there.

[Amantus]

had no idea the zed bias one went for so much now. copped it when it was new because it's so sick. due for a re-press i reckon!

[alphacat]

Found this somewhat personally resonant...

"As far as I’m concerned, I’m doing the same thing I’ve always been doing but I can understand from the outside, for people who don’t know me personally and don’t know what I was listening to as a kid and don’t know this that and the other... [indecipherable] But I know certainly by the end of my dubstep days, I felt really pushed into a corner. People thought I’d just do this when musically I’d liked a whole lot more. I will keep moving ahead – I don’t like being part of a scene, I like being part of what’s new and underground; I love the underground. That’s what I love, the cutting edge…‘flashpoints’, Mary Anne Hobbs used to call it. That’s what I like. Over the years that’s what I’ve found out: that’s my place."

[NW_DUBAHOLIC]

90% sure this tune just played on the School show on Rinse was a new Loefah tune. Has a SGT. Pokes sample saying Loefah and has that signature bass.

[Shum]

Positive vibrations. It's nice to hear about plenty of forthcoming Swamp releases and that the man himself is in a good place production-wise.