You can’t stop the rain
– soul radio London pirate radio
Osquello Interview
What was the DIY sound culture that you experienced through your dad?
Blah blah
How did it affect you as a person and as a creative?
Blah
-soundsystem culture
-king tubby
-origins of it all
In seventies Jamaica, in the inner city neighbourhoods of Kingston and in countries like Trinidad and Guyana music and instrumentation was a key part of everyday life for almost everyone in society. In the studio producers like king tubby and Lee scratch Perry carved out a sonic universe unheard in mainstream western music, they used of reverb and tape echo effects to manipulate reggae music to sound like a trance like state, this came from a DIY culture where these engineers used western musical engineering equipment in a different way, they looked at these tools as instruments after they mastered there controls, instead of using it as a way to clean up the sound they used it as a way to exaggerate and create new feelings and emotions through sound. This one of the most beautiful things I find through DIY culture, it carves a space for artists to create new worlds within there fields without the boxes of mainstream pressure
Lewisham Rock – piece I made
(House & garage)
In the late 90’s and early 2000’s pirate radio took on a new form, it became a new haven for the expression and musical release for poor and marginalised communities to express there pain and strife through music made in home studios on basic musical equipment and computers, this was then mixed with the dub plate and sound system culture of there West Indian forefathers and made into the culture that we now know as Grime and Garage music. It took elements of the booming sub bass heard in reggae, the breakbeat music of soul and funk and combined it with a fast pace electronic edge, different producers from different musical upbringings like jazz and soul combined these elements with there beats to create there own individual styles within these genres.
Key radio stations within this world include.
Rinse FM
De Ja Vu FM
(Play DOCHI X JKARRI BALAMII)
-grime song
-streets
-poverty
-breaking point
Who am I?
(Excerpt from one of my radio sets)
– merging of all the culture
– a product of my people
– a product of love
The Future…
I am pretty happy with this audio script as it aligns well with the overall radio concept of my piece ‘INFINITY FM’, this is because it has structure where there needs to be but it also loose enough so the overall feeling of the piece won’t be too rigid, it is also not overly academic which fits the nature of what I am talking about and the overall concept at hand. I look forward to interviewing Osquello and going through with the process.