ONMI TRIO INTERVIEW: ALEX FARBER PICTURE: AMY & TANVEER ))OMNI TRIO MOVING SHADOW’S LONG-TIME PRODUCER GETS VOCAL WITH KNOWLEDGE... )) NAME together of Fabio and Bukem there from ‘94 MADDEST CITY UK CONS It came about back in ‘92 when I had this to ‘96 really represented a pinnacle for New York, all the clichés about it are true. It’s kind of connected, there’s a lot of record label, Parliament Records. I was drum & bass cos it signified anything was conditioning in the Western world so even putting little white labels out with all my possible. Musically, anything could go on HEAVYWEIGHT though we’re free to do stuff, most people mates and at that point it was just another and since that point we’ve lost that a little CHAMPION TUNE don’t. We go for the same product, the same name. I didn’t know I was going to stick with bit. ‘96 to ‘97 the darker scene came in, I’d walk out to something rousing; Wagner’s styles, we’re not using our minds. I can see the it. The ‘Omni’ bit came about because all which I’ve got nothing against but it seems ‘Ride Of The Valkyries’. May Day rioters’ movement as gathering more equipment manuals refer to omni, which is everything went like that. It almost didn’t pace. The thing with a movement like that, something to do with the channels all being leave room for other variations to co-exist. FAVOURITE PIECE OF KIT is certain parts of the extremism to do with on at once. It was me on my own so the I like all the flavours of drum & bass but At the moment I’m having an obsession it immediately puts people off. ‘Trio’ made it a little bit different. There was I want them to co-exist rather than one with my Supernova. It’s an synth that’s no big deal behind it but it was under that dominating to the exclusion of the others. as analogue as you can get with a CHILL OUT name I did ‘Mystic Steppers’ that Bukem got Speed represented the most open-ended digital synth. Ultimately you can’t beat a Listen to music, get into the countryside. on plate and everything all kicked off. So all point for drum & bass. sampler though. Meditate a bit. It’s a big thing finding space, my other aliases became background but something I never did years back. I never I’ve grown into it now and in a sense it’s IDEAL COLLABORATION PARTNER PERSONAL stopped to realise where I was and what I was become a label for my music. Starting next week I’m doing a thing with FAVOURITE TUNE doing and I didn’t enjoy things enough. Sean O’Keefe who’s Deep Blue behind the Every three months I would definitely say a LIVES infamous ‘Helicopter Tune’. I’ve known him different one. At the moment it would be RINSE OUT Steeple Bunstead, on the border of Suffolk for years but we’ve never got on with a things off my new album like ‘First Contact’. Having three kids it happens anyway. I had and Essex. I like the space. project. Ideally it would be someone like ‘Kinetic’ has some quite devious edits in the manic years, fitting everything into my spare Bryan Eno who invented ambient, atmos- beats and I would play ‘Higher Ground’ time. My nature means I still need to be where LOVE TO LIVE pheric music or Steve Reich, an American which is really melodic. things are hectic sometimes though. Cornwall. The coastline is so rugged and it minimalist composer. The textures in their feels really brutal with the sea. And then music are something else. MUSICAL INSPIRATIONS DREAM COLLABORATION inland you’ve got forests and hills and stuff. Back in the early days, Bryan Eno. With I’d like to see more collaborations across Exactly the terrain I like. NIGHTMARE COLLABORATION that ambient thing he opened up the idea genres. If UK garage had been around at the Anything cheesy and formulated and put that there’s different ways of listening to time of Speed, you would have heard that tune MEAL together. There’s as much of that in drum & music. You go clubbing and that’s one thing alongside a techno tune and a downtempo I like the Pizza Express near the British bass and house and techno as in pop but there’s a whole different way of hearing tune and a drum & bass tune. It’s all the same Museum in Holborn. music. Anyone making music that’s music. In terms of drum & bass you’ve got format, bass, breaks and atmospherics. If you formulated to make money. to acknowledge Bukem for some of the look beyond the cliques of clubbers it’s all the DRINK possibilities he created for artists. Overall, same melting pot. Just because something’s My main drink is whisky. Back in the day INSTRUMENT over the last ten years it has to be Aphex a few bpm more or has a synth sound to it, I used to be a beer man, never lager. Keyboard because it’s so versatile. You Twin because he’s done everything. He’s that’s superficial. plug it into a sound module and can create pushed the sonic boundaries but he can CLUB so many other instruments. create music that’s sublime. He’s capable ONE ALBUM My clubbing peaked with Speed in ‘95. of all sorts of stuff. Aphex Twin, ‘Ambient Works Vol I’ on R&S. It’s Seminal night for beautiful, jazzy drum & HOLIDAY RESORT not an ambient record. It’s got that in it but it’s bass. Anything went in that club though; I’ve been abroad a couple of times but I like UK PROS got everything in it. downtempo, either side of a really hard to chill out and enjoy myself in Cornwall. As There’s a lot of freedom we’re allowed dance track from Photek. The coming long as it’s sunny. in this country. ‘Even Angels Cast Shadows’ is out in July on Moving Shadow. 82 KNOWLEDGE
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