Interview with Rough Fields
We’ve been very impressed with the EPs released by James Birchall, who records under the pseudonym Rough Fields. The music is intriguing on a number of levels, not least because of James’ background and musical journey from classical to electronica via techno, so we thought it would be well worth the effort putting a few [...]
Interview with DJ Meme
When, a few months ago, we made our Soundcloud Track of the Week a Carol Williams cover (‘Love Is You‘) by DJ Meme, a natural connection was made. As well as similar names, DJ Meme and Meme Magazine both have a love for that perfect groove. We couldn’t resist asking the internationally-acclaimed House music DJ [...]
Interview with Louie Vega
Dance music legend Louie Vega recently visited Meme’s hometown of London, and we managed to get some of his precious time to answer a few questions about his new album, his finest moments, vinyl releases, and a whole heap of other things that he is working on at the moment… Meme Magazine: Your latest collection [...]
Interview with Nick Pride from The Pimptones
Nick Pride recently released a stormer of an LP with his band The Pimptones – a jazzy, funky, soulful affair with big instrumentals and sweet vocals. Nick was kind enough to answer some questions from us about the album, his hometown of Newcastle, and what the Pimptones will be getting up to next… Meme Magazine: [...]
The Eccentric Audio of Smoove & Turrell
With a new LP around the corner and more side projects than you can shake a stick at, the duo of Smoove & Turrell are the men of the moment when it comes to modern soul music. We were delighted to be able to get some time with the Production half of the pair, known [...]
Interview with Baths, or ‘How to Fall in Love with Music’
Will Wiesenfeld is better known to us as Baths, and as the creator of the Cerrulen LP, which really stood out for us when it was released on Aticon earlier this year. In this interview for Meme Magazine he describes his influences, his plans for next year and how he listens to, and falls in [...]
Lovers Interview
We described Lovers recent album, ‘Dark Light’, as a stark and intense record of pared-down emotion. Which kinda meant we liked it…a lot. The lyrics are exposing and personal enough, but we wanted to know more. So, in the Meme style of brief, handful-of-question interviews, we asked them a few searching questions… Meme Magazine: What [...]
Heads In The Cloud – Interviews with Soundcloud’s Top Contributors
If you’re like us, you will love Soundcloud. Ever since we followed a link on Twitter from Hint that led us to our first Soundcloud page, we have been smitten by the site. We really like the whole concept of being able to share music so easily, but, more than this, we love the community [...]
Hidden Orchestra…revealed
We interviewed Joe Acheson, band leader of Tru Thought’s signing ‘Hidden Orchestra’. Joe doesn’t do things by half (just have a listen to the mix he did for ParisDJs) so we’re very pleased to present to you the most extensive responses we’ve ever received to our interview questions. So, make yourself comfortable and get to [...]
Presenting Ms. Alice Russell…
Alice Russell, for those of you who don’t yet realise or for those of you who haven’t been fortunate enough yet to hear her voice or see her play live, is, in our humble opinion, probably the best soul singer to come out of the UK for a long time. Alice started out on Tru-Thoughts [...]
The Amplifetes, out of the blue
One of our favourite new bands of the moment are The Amplifetes, a Swedish quartet with a distinctive and diverse sound. Often they are quoted as being influenced by ELO, The Ramones, David Bowie and Velvet Underground.Ahead of their forthcoming debut album release, we caught up with Amplifetes’ lead-man Peter Ågren to ask him about [...]
Tracey Thorn, modern girl
Tracey Thorn, once darling of the indie pop scene of the ’80s, voice of the ‘heart-broken teenager’ (that’d be me then) and one half of ‘Everything But The Girl’, has recently released her first solo album in 3 years, entitled ‘Love And It’s Opposite’. (Our review here, download free track here, and listen to remix [...]
Jazzanova Interview
We had the fortunate opportunity to be able to interview Stefan Leisering, one sixth of the highly regarded band, Jazzanova. Jazzanova released their most recent LP, ‘Of All The Things’, at the beginning of this year (in the UK) following their previous effort (‘In Between’) six years ago, between which they had produced a whole heap of [...]
Tru Thoughts 10th Anniversary Interviews
It can’t have escaped your notice that during 2009 the Brighton-based label, Tru Thoughts, celebrated its tenth year in the music-making business. This is a major achievement for an independent label and we wanted to help TT celebrate their success with this feature on the label. We are pleased to have been able to interview its [...]
