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small WORLD podcast|Music Monday! Ooah Episode
This episode is work safe.Ooah the turntable junkie is a master at the art of turntablism and a wizard on the wheels of steel. He's a southern fried kid from New Orleans bombing the west coast underground with style and grace. Residing in Los Angeles and now connected with the Los Angeles Breakbeat Association, he rocks the dance floor hard with a mix of original tracks along with the hottest cuts out on wax. Dropping a variety of flavors from bass grinding mid-tempo tech-hop to electronic mindbending breakbeats to feet-stomping drum & bass and jungle to psycedelic dream-rthythms and intellectual glitch frequencies. Don't miss out on this highly energetic performance as he tears it up on three turntables, killing it with his out-of-control mixing abilities and unstoppable scratch rhythms. Ooah has been blowing up sound systems up and down the west coast and across seas to the Hawaiian Islands keepin' the crouds hyped and the subs bumpin'!!Interview with Ooah.We discuss why he moved to Los Angeles; the Los Angeles Breakbeat Association; incorporating sounds from his garage door into his song, "Hacksaw"; his minimialist approach to composing music; collecting sounds; his reservations about appearing on compilation CDs; Interchill Records; releasing music on CDs versus MP3s; the inspiriation behind "Stomp the Yard"; his hip hop appraoch to Glitch; Glitch Mob members Kitty-D, Boreta, edIT and Kraddy; my upcomogn Glitch show on solipsistic NATION; his upcoming performances; his full time gig as a musician; Alpha Pup Records; drinking a lot of scotch and writing music.Featured songs are:"Hacksaw""Stomp the Yard""Tuesday Again"
[ Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 ]
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