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May 2, 2005

Golden Interview Week: No. 4 - Trevor

Trevor runs the NY-based indie label music related - home to Shugo Tokumaru's Night Piece and a split 7" of Japanese pico pico poppers MacDonald Duck Eclair/Micro Mach Machine, among others. His personal music project Pandatone has an album - Lemons and Limes - out on high-profile UK electronic label Neo-Oujia. Skylab Operations will be releasing his new EP - what has nature done for me recently - later this year. Trevor's blog at space-computer.com offers links to free Japanese indie mp3s floating around the Internet.

1) Do you have any advice for someone that wants to start an all 7" label?

Yes, it's really cheap and easy to manufacture 7" vinyl records. And you should do them in runs of about 2000 - it's even cheaper then. Nothing is more popular than 7"s. It's foolish not to start a 7" label.

2) How do you think technological progress is shaping what music sounds like?

Technology is allowing anyone to make "music," so the ratio of crap to good has increased 10 fold. Luckily, people's personal demands to be "different" from everyone else has allowed completely crappy music to flourish, which wouldn't have been the case if not for cheap computers and pirated software. But on the reverse, most "electronic" music these days, ironically, is done with no electronic instruments, and rock music is using lots of electronic instruments and less "real" ones. Crazy technology.

3) Now in 2005, has Citrus gotten better or stayed equally awesome?

Only better as it becomes apparent no one else is able to even come close to being as good.

4) Scandinavian indie pop vs. Japanese indie pop?

Woah... curve ball. Right now as I type, the Scandinavians have J-Indies beat. There are still things that you'll only hear out of Japan - it's still more cute. But maybe right now the S-Indies have better song-writing and production. Hate to say it. but it's true. The J-Indies have to step up their pop game.

5)Is there any truth to the rumor that your personal studio is based on recreating the exact gear from the production of the 1993 Kris Kross album Da Bomb?

Yes, that was the pinnacle of rap AND hip hop music. But, no, unless they had a Roland TR-505 in there, which they could have, but might not have... So, no.

Posted by marxy at May 2, 2005 12:07 PM

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