The Popup Vol 4
16th May 2020
5PM-UTC [10AM in LA / 1PM in NYC / +1AM in HK]
Sugar Club [Cryptovoxels]
Artwork by
The Sliz
Featuring
Shamik, Orga, Son of Age, Ipokripsis & Emcee Wey
Hosted by
Vandal
Only 2 more shows until we wrap up Season One of The Popup. It's been a stream of steady progress and we're excited for Vol 4, where we will be inside Sugar Club to experiment some more and have fun with the music and the art! If you missed Vol 3 and want to read about what went down, check out our recap here.
Interview Zone
1. Tell us a bit more about yourself
My name is Ivan. 30 years old. Music is my passion. I like all kinds of rock and metal music.
2. What is the scene like in Russia? Who are your influences?
Russion rock and metal are dead :)) And I don't any good rock bands frim Russia. Avantasia, Nightwish, Manowar, Brothers of Metal - my favorite...
3. What is the scariest animal you've seen in the wild?
Spider of course
1. What's it like being a Battle Rapper in Malaysia? Tell us about your events.
Battle rap scene here seems to only be spread through commercially and I live in a place where at the time had near to no battle rap events. it wasnt until recently I started gathering some peeps to battle on the streets before I started this small movement. Battle rap is still new in Malaysia I must say. People usually do it on beat and focus on flow rather than content. So , me, a acapella battle rap fan wants to introduce this new wave here.
2. Who are some of your influences and how would you define your style?
I listened to alot of Jurassic 5, Souls of mischief, and hilltop hoods when I was younger, still do today. My style is a battered mix of profanity, bars from the heart and rhyming shower thoughts.
3. If you had to live somewhere else, what would you choose?
I would love to live in the States or the UK . I guess I'm just very in tune with the lifestyle and culture there.
1. How has being a beatboxer influenced or impacted your production style?
I think my attention to drum programming and having swing in all my beats definitely comes from beatboxing. Having the human feel where it feels less on the grid is important to me. When it’s just myself and a microphone I’m usually adding a new vocal element every 4-8 bars, so I’m
often trying to build on sound design in the same way for my productions. I also use vocal sounds within my production, percussive and non percussive. I have a folder to pull from when I am layering.
2. Tell us more about your Channeling India series!
The series began in 2014 on a family trip to India. While there, I found a stack of 52 South Asian records at an old antique shop in Bangalore, my mother’s hometown. I brought them back to Vancouver, along with field recordings from various sites in north and south India and started working on the first Channeling India album. The majority of the samples I chose were from Tamil and Hindi film songs. It was inspired by Onra’s Chinoiseries. Volume 2 came out in 2017 and I continued to go back to the records I bought while drawing from modern day hip hop/ electronic influences. The third album in the installment, CI3, came from a 10
day trip to India again and was released September 2019. I worked on half of the album in Canada and the other half in India. I sampled records from the 1940’s-1960’s this time around after mostly only using records from 1970-1990 for the first 2 volumes. I adopted more of a mixtape format for
volume 3, where it feels like each song goes into the next almost like a DJ mix. CI3 has reached 200 000 streams on Spotify.
3. If you could learn any language, what would you choose? Why?
I’m trying to learn more of my mother tongue, Kannada, which is the main language spoken in Karnataka. When my parents moved to Canada they had heard it’s important for children to be bilingual so learned French and were in a French immersion school. So it was hard to learn Kannada as well. When I work on CI4, I will focus on Kannada samples. I’m also learning a bit more Tamil because my girlfriend is Sri Lankan, and because a lot of the records I used for the Channeling India series are in Tamil.
Orga & Son of Age will be coming in shortly!