This evening Music Is Art will be djing with Jen from The Music Slut at NYC’s Cake Shop, 1am to 4am. Come visit ATJ’s CMJ After Hours! This week we’ll be featuring bands such as Helado Negro, Sure Juror, You, You’re Awesome and many more to come! ♥
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ATJ presents SUCKERS, Sunday, August 30, 2009, at After the Jump Fest ‘09. This year’s 3rd annual festival is a three day extravaganza of independent music, and will take place at Brooklyn NY’s Littlefield Performance & Art Space. Individual and weekend passes are available to purchase online here.
Listen :: Suckers – It Gets Your Body Movin’
In preparation for After the Jump Fest 2009, Music Is Art asked bassist Pan of Suckers to answer our ATJF Interview questions, and below are his special replies.
Please share your earliest memory involving or creating music.
Pan: As a kid, my brother and I would create our own “mash-ups” on tapes… we would takeout of bits and pieces of some of our favorite songs and link them all together.. I distinctly remember using Motley Crue’s “Home Sweet Home” with the end of Metallica’s “One”
May you share about your academic background concerning music? Did you study formally? Any special mentors?
Pan: I took bass lessons for a minute, but the dude just taught me how to play “Under The Bridge” and “Sweet Child O’ Mine”. Other than that, I basically taught myself. Quinn and Austin (who are cousins) learned a lot of guitar from another older cousin and Brian is pretty well trained in drum theory.
If you had to explain your music to a stranger, how would you do so?
Pan: I do it all the time. “Experimental Pop Music” seems to be the easiest thing to say.
What are your favorite instruments to work with and what aspects do you like most about using them?
Pan: Well, this is always changing, but lately working with samplers has been my favorite. You can make really interesting and original sounds with electronics.
What are your inspirations?
Pan: Honestly for me it’s everything, where I live, my friends, current music, old music, art, film. I try to apply all of that to creating sounds and making music.
On average, how long does it take for you to create a song?
Pan: It seems that our best songs usually resolve themselves in 1 or 2 practices. The longer we work on a song, the less natural they tend to sound.
On the website Music Is Art, our mission is to show how music and art are simply connected. Which albums do you credit as having the biggest influences as far as your life and creativity are concerned?
Pan: This list goes on for miles. David Bowie’s Low, The Beatles’ Rubber Soul, Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds, Aphex Twin’s The Richard D. James Album, Talking Heads’ Speaking In Tongues, Tom Waits’ Bone Machine, R. Kelly’s Double Up, and Hall & Oates’ Essential Collection.
If you could have a drink with one musician, living or dead, who would it be and what would you like to ask them?
Pan: Tom Waits. I would ask him to produce our next album.
What do you hope people take from seeing you perform live?
Pan: Last time we played in Chicago, there was this kid who said we completely blew his mind. He wouldn’t stop talking about what an amazing experience he had and how we melted his brain. He later told us he was on mushrooms, but that’s basically the reaction I would like to get from everyone.
What has been your favorite experience thus far in your career?
Pan: I don’t know, this past SXSW was pretty awesome.
What would your number one suggestion be for someone who wants to do what you do?
Pan: Just Do It!
What exciting projects do you have coming up?
Pan: Writing/recording our first full length is probably the most exciting. Also, we’re having someone do a special remix for us.
May you have a particular inspired quote, statement or favorite words to live by?
Pan: “Sometimes, playas get lonely too.” – R. Kelly
Please share a mix tape within a theme of your choice.
Pan: The theme is just my favorite songs that I’ve been listening to constantly for the past month.
ATJ presents FREE ENERGY, Saturday, August 29, 2009, at After the Jump Fest ‘09. This year’s 3rd annual festival is a three day extravaganza of independent music, and will take place at Brooklyn NY’s Littlefield Performance & Art Space. Individual and weekend passes are available to purchase online here.
Listen :: Free Energy – Dream City
In preparation for After the Jump Fest 2009, Music Is Art asked frontman Paul Sprangers of Free Energy to answer our ATJF Interview questions, and below are his special replies.
Please share your earliest memory involving or creating music.
Paul: Hearing melodies in my head then playing them on the family piano. They were probably inspired by cartoon theme songs and Bon Jovi.
May you share about your academic background concerning music?
Paul: Scott showed me how to play in drop d and I never looked back. I did a lot of 4 track experimenting on my own and learned through trial and error. I think I’m pretty against any kind of rigid academic schooling of any kind, but particularly in matters of intuition and inspiration, which seem to be hampered by strict training. I personally learn best through experience, not being taught.
If you had to explain your music to a stranger, how would you do so?
Paul: Imagine Bob Seger making love to Christine Mcvie while Mick and Keith (tattoo you-era) watch. Then imagine this all taking place within a crystal amulet hanging from Phil Lynott’s neck as he drifts through the galaxy searching for Marc Bolan so they can play pinball.
What are your favorite instruments to work with and what aspects do you like most about using them?
Paul: I enjoy the look and feel of a solid Steinberger bass. They’re perfect for “slapping it out,” and headstocks are overrated.
What are your inspirations?
Paul: I’m inspired by this crazy, spinning globe and all the jokers living on it! I’m inspired by my bedroom, the girlfriend I share my life with, collaborating with Scott, the amazingly talented dudes that play in our band, my sweet cat, lucid dreams, Philly, trying to understand myself, the prospect of becoming a mature human being and a positive force in this world.
When you’re working are you fully involved in what you’re doing or is your mind already planning ahead?
Paul: I err on seeing and hearing what does not already exist. I think the key to success is being present and fully involved in whatever you’re making or doing, always. I’m bad at that but I’m good at acting on ideas and inspiration when they strike.
On average, how long does it take for you to create a song?
Paul: Sometimes an instant, sometimes many years. We seem to have a mix of some very old and thoroughly fermented songs, while others are written and recorded quickly so they retain that energy of being “new.”
On the website Music Is Art, our mission is to show how music and art are simply connected. Which albums do you credit as having the biggest influences as far as your life and creativity are concerned?
Paul: I credit Alien Lanes, Last Splash, Telephono, Helioself, Crooked Rain, Nevermind, INXS Kick, Slippery When Wet, Appetite For Destruction, He’s the DJ I’m the Rapper, Hanging Tough, I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One, Raw Hamburger, Spiderland, Surfer Rosa, Daft Punk Discovery, Midnight Vultures, Tusk, This Beat is Technotronic, 3 Feet High and Rising, Apocalypse 91 the Enemy Strikes Black, and on and on and on.
If you could have a drink with one musician, living or dead, who would it be and what would you like to ask them?
Paul: Maybe Springsteen? I would want to ask him how he was able to “get it,” at such an early age. I’d also ask Bruce “what did you go through that gave you such incredible strength to believe in yourself and your words? how do you not get discouraged by the world and all the sleepwalking people who create so much pain?”
What do you hope people take from seeing you perform live?
Paul: Is this a set up? Obviously as much merch as they can stuff in a fucking bag. But I also hope they leave as psyched as I am. Ultimately, we create music to heal and inspire ourselves, but we believe it attracts and inspires other people that are on the same wavelength as us. Especially people who are trying to learn and grow and understand themselves.
What has been your favorite experience thus far in your career?
Paul: Every experience good and bad is so enjoyable and enlightening, it’s hard to pick one. Recording with James was like being at a ridiculously fun studio summer camp. Moving to Philly and meeting tons of people has been incredible. Practicing with the band has been really tough and really rewarding. Having really talented and experienced people work with us and guide the band. People at every level who get our music and feel as strongly about it as we do — that blows my mind.
What would your number one suggestion be for someone who wants to do what you do?
Paul: Look at yourself as honestly as you know how. Spoiler alert: miracles will happen.
What exciting projects do you have coming up?
Paul: More web shows featuring our drummer Nick Shuminsky. A Bass Instructional Video with Evan. Making healthy meals. Getting album art done. We’re working on a hush hush comedy/reality series with James Murphy and Whoopi Goldberg. It’s kind of like Mad TV meets Emeril. There’s a lot in the works right now stay tuned — we”ll be tweeting all about it.
Paul: A wise man once told me this: “No rules.”
Please share a mix tape within a theme of your choice.
Paul: Full disclosure, these songs were on a mind-blowing mixtape made by our friend Neil.
| FREE ENERGY MIXTAPE |
| Full Disclosure |
| Robert Palmer – Every Kinda People
T.I. and Rihanna – Live Your Life Tilly and the Wall – Beat Control |
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