Although I haven't released anything in a while, I have actually spent most of the last 6 months cooped up in my room making music. Unlike my usual work process when I decide on an album concept and then work on that until it's done, I wanted to just go with the flow and see what happens. Basically it was a period of learning for me since I'm still quite an amateur producer. Making tracks without a particular goal let me take my songwriting into many different directions. A lot of the uptempo electronic stuff I was satisfied with turned into my Shampoo Guy project, and I also made a bunch of vocal tracks that sound quite different from stuff that I've recorded in the past. I compiled a playlist of my songs that I feel work well together and decided to release them as an EP. It's basically me trying to make "real" hip hop, but the tempos are too fast and the lyrics are too weird and there's just too much going on, so it sounds more like, well, I'm not sure what it sounds like. The song "Snob" is a collaboration between me and Slovenian/Swiss producer duo Volatile, who made a hard-as-fuck minimal beat around the vocals I had sent them. Igor Vuk recorded the vocals and did all the postproduction. The resulting "Fight Like A Girl" EP is available for free download via Call and Response Records. I hope you enjoy it!
Čeprav že dolgo nisem ničesar izdal, sem zadnje pol leta naredil kar precej muzike. Pravzaprav sem večino časa preživel zaprt v sobi in delal beate, ali pa v studiu z DJ PlankTonom. Za razliko od mojega standardnega delovnega procesa, si tokrat nisem zadal kakega končnega cilja v obliki albuma, pač pa sem se prepustil filingu in dovolil komadom, da se razvijajo po svoje. Lahko bi rekel, da je šlo za obdobje učenja, izboljševanja svojih tehničnih in vokalnih sposobnosti. Ker nisem vnaprej določene glasbene smeri, me je delanje komadov peljalo v najrazličnejše žanre. Tako je nastalo precej uptempo, elektronsko obarvanega materiala, ki ga lahko slišite na Soundcloudu mojega novega alter ega Shampoo Guy-a, pa tudi precej vokalnih komadov, ki se razlikujejo od mojih prejšnjih albumov. Sestavil sem kompilacijo teh, ki mi dobro zvenijo skupaj, in se jih odločil izdati v obliki EP-ja. Na začetku sem mislil, da sem se nekako približal zvoku "real" hip hopa, vendar sem kmalu ugotovil, da so tempoti prehitri, besedila preveč čudna, in da se nasploh dogaja preveč. Na koncu se nisem mogel odločiti, kakšna glasbe je to, ampak mogoče je tako bolje. Pesem "Snob" je rezultat sodelovanja s slovensko/švicarsko producentsko navezo Volatile, ki sta okoli mojega vokala sestavila res brutalno temačen minimal beat. Igor Vuk je poskrbel za snemanje vokalov in postprodukcijo vseh komadov. Rezultat je "Fight Like A Girl EP", ki je že na voljo na Call and Response Records in ga lahko zloadate brezplačno.
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N'toko - Fight Like A Girl EP (Call and Response Records 2012)
"To coincide with his return to Japan for the summer, Slovenian electro-hip hop musician N'toko has a new EP available for free download via Call And Response Records, featuring five new songs recorded over the past six months. The Fight Like a Girl EP evolved out of a series of experiments with new production ideas and the result is a work with a more laid-back sense of exploration and adventure, smearing his characteristic synth-based sound across the songs like Nutella over toast one moment, forcing it through brutally tight bottlenecks the next. As with most of N'toko's English-language work, the lyrics duck and weave, spinning through a chicane of stream-of-consciousness wordplay, sci-fi imagery and surreal collages of seemingly random images, all combined with a sense of wit and playful disregard for convention."
All music by N'toko, except "Snob" by Volatile. All vocal recording, mix and mastering by Igor Vuk, except "Snob" mixed by Volatile. Released by Call and Response Records.
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