Seiji Interview

[setspeed]

heyah:

http://bassmusicblog.com/bmb-interview-seiji

[james fox]

good stuff, seiji is the don.

[spooKs]

Good read! Been belting those freebies since you pointed them out Ed! What a generous and talented producer

[badger]

nice interview and can't wait to download those tracks when i get home

[deamonds]

nice read, big up those tracks aswell

[thinking]

mygod I'm such a Seiji fan/geek. His solo shit from earlier this decade was some of the toughest, rawest beat music out there. Not been into much of the house stuff he's done lately but some of the freebies recently have been pretty tight.

Very interesting to hear his thoughts on the missed opportunity that was broken beat - very very sad that the 'scene' painted itself into a jazz/soul corner.

[fda]

This was a good read- The broken beat (not a term I really like but understand it needed to be called something!) scene was arguably the last real underground movement in the UK.

It was a genuinely exciting scene with so many incredible tracks released from around 1998. Didnt check Notting Hill Arts club but Co-op at the velvet rooms in Charing Cross was killer every 2 weeks- a proper old skool vibe with tune and a very receptive crowd - I remember hearing so much rawness old tracks like A case of funk N.O.W ,Base Tone Soul fusion, The anthem Transcend Me, Opaque the crossing, Son of Scientist, Likwid Biskit , Trash da junk, seeing bb boogie live, IG or Dego dropping rawness and Seiji playing some heavy heavy sets(check him if you get the chance he is a serious DJ) and so much more- great days for real!

The music ranged from abstract electronica to soul to jazz funk to raw jazz Fusion and you would hear Tracks like the mind by Da one away or Mustang Give a little love at jazz dance sessions.

The range of music and open mindedness of producers\DJs and punters was its strength (no surprise when you check what influenced a lot of the music) so it was disappointing to see the way it fell apart- maybe that quality of output just couldn't be maintained??

Lots of those tunes can still be played and certainly at spots in Birmingham and Luton you can hear this stuff (mainly new tracks)played alongside Jazz-funk jazz-dance and house

[setspeed]

mygod I'm such a Seiji fan/geek. His solo shit from earlier this decade was some of the toughest, rawest beat music out there. Not been into much of the house stuff he's done lately but some of the freebies recently have been pretty tight.

Very interesting to hear his thoughts on the missed opportunity that was broken beat - very very sad that the 'scene' painted itself into a jazz/soul corner.

yeah it's funny, coming from a breaks background i really see a parallel there. for a while both breaks and broken beat were such exciting scenes, and both managed to wander down cul-de-sacs instead of fulfilling their potential - in breaks it just went RAVERAVE and in brokenbeat a bit beardy...

[deamonds]

that 'test dub' is the fucking nuts.

[concept_]

and strictly Radio 3 in my kitchen.

Nice little interview. Seiji's new stuff is really good. Prefer it to most of the Bugz stuff but the way he has given out all this hot music for free has reignited listening to his earlier solo stuff like the Sonar Kollectiv concept album and stuff like this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLk_Bu3uqxQ hard tune.

[bandshell]

Big up, grabbed all the freebies and the interview was great.

hohoho is a massive tune, all of them are ridiculous. big up Seiji.

[mongrel]

..original beat crafter and overall don

bigup!

[will]

bad bwoy!