LONDON DEBUT OF MONTREAL’S TURBO CRUNK YOUNGBLOODS – MOFOMATRONIX
If NYC has Machine Drum and norm REX (I’d tie in the rave up of Trouble & Bass too), LA has Fly Lo, edIT and The Glitch Mob, Glasgow & Edinburgh have LuckyMe and London has Patchwork Pirates and Thugs & Hugs, then Montreal has Turbo Crunk. The laser bass destroyers / sweat shop party / soundsystem / collective of Mofomatronix, Lunice, Blingmod and Megasoid (alias of murder beats stalwart Sixtoo aka Speakerbruiser and Hadji Bakara of Wolf Parade aka Robert Downey DJ). It’s swangin’ electronic-sonic alchemy, low end twisted bassbin beats and rap music. The future of hip hop? It’s definitely the now. Got the city on lock.
After smashing LuckyMe’s infamous Ballers Social Club party in Glasgow, Mofomatronix travel to London this Thursday 14th August to play the opening party for KARBORN’S Nature’s Concrete exhibition alongside KidTwist (aka Drums Of Death) at ArtKandy gallery, top of Brick Lane, east London, E2 7DG.
Terence: Can you introduce Mofomatronix?
Mofos: We are two dudes with a one-track mind. Obsessed with all the same filthy rap, disgusting electronic music and sweaty clubs, we try to synthesize all of that into a hybrid live PA/DJ set using laptops, midi controllers and sometimes hardware. A serious and honest love for crunk, hyphy, pop, grime, dubstep, and techno keeps us interested and inspired by a multitude of genres and scenes.
Terence: How about the Turbo Crunk crew… how did you all hook up?
Mofos: Turbo Crunk is Megasoid, Blingmod, Lunice and ourselves. We had been fans of Sixtoo since our early high school days, and started attending the Megasoid nights as soon as they started up, in a tiny 150 person capacity cave-like venue called the Zoobizarre, at which we had our own monthly (Bass Culture). We crossed paths when their man Blingmod played our night and completely murdered it, and we found out about Lunice, this dude attending the same college as us, through Rustie’s top friends, which still boggles my mind to this day. As we were clicking away at profiles on MySpace trying to find some new heat, we came across Lunice’s page, then noticing he was actually from Montreal. A few days later a saw the dude walking down the hallway of my school. Completely nuts.
Terence: What’s up in Montreal right now? How’s the summer doing for the bass heads and gal dem?
Mofos: Montreal is a very vibrant city and the nightlife is out of control. After-hour burners and loft parties are the summer steelo. So are 700-person boat parties and renegade outdoor soundsystems (Megasoid have firmly established themselves as the ultimate party-rockers).
Terence: What do you think about quality control vs. availability of music within online communities?
Mofos: We are definitely saturated with music nowadays, although it’s great that it’s all available and that so many people can find an output. This is the ultimate democratization of music, as anyone with a guitar, synth or software can materialize their ideas and have people listen to them. It also gives a chance to the most obscure regional rap movements to surface. No one would have heard of “Whoop Rico” or “Crank That (Soulja Boy)” outside of The South if it wasn’t for YouTube and MySpace!
Terence: What’s the secret to making crap ya’ll self basslines and dynamite claps?
Mofos: We finish our tracks an hour before showing up to the club, and we end up performing them and shouting at each other, going: “Yeah, I think this one knocks hard enough, this one needs louder claps…” We are also fans of hyphy and dubstep, whose sound aesthetics are surprisingly similar: crazy bass and high ends from space.
Terence: Can you drop an outro message in your best Canadian slang…
Mofos: “Double Whopper on my side, like We’re Burger King…”
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“Made You Look” – MOFOMATRONIX
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“Purple City Mixtape” MOFOMATRONIX
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