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Last December, I had the opportunity to record and, with the help of my friend Daniela, transcribe a candid conversation I had with dego. This was a few short weeks before he moved back to London, after spending the previous 5 years living in Brooklyn, and several months before I moved to Los Angeles, after living in Brooklyn the previous 6 years.
I didn’t discover dego’s music for myself until my freshman year at Rice, when a friend, and eventual roommate, let me rip a Giant Step promo CD that had “Starchasers” off 4hero’s 1998 release Two Pages on it. From there, it was the inevitable fall into the sphere of raves, jungle, drum n bass, broken beat, nu jazz, downtempo and all matter of, at the time to me, odd sub genres emanating from the British Isles.
New York being the smallest, big city in the world, our paths eventually crossed as relatively like minded music nerds (a polite way of saying that we’re often dubbed haters). I was introduced to dego via DJ Brainchild I believe. Or maybe via Filthy, who then was J*Davey’s manager. My memory is hazy, and I’m not completely certain. That initial (DJ Brainchild) introduction resulted in a collaboration between dego and Wayne & Erica (The Luv Bugz) for his album A Wha’ Him Deh Pon that was premiered here on Rappers I Know, which is one of my favourite songs they’ve been apart of that Wayne didn’t produce himself.
Our conversation covers a lot of ground, and beats a few dead horses as well. At time reads angry, critical and jaded, yet certainly sounded a lot more jovial and fun as it was happening. This is part 1 of the full conversation and the first of an all new section, Conversationalists I plan to update whenever I have a conversation worth recounting. The rest of this conversation needs to be formatted still.
dego’s new album Tatham, Mensah, Lord & Ranks with Kaidi Tatham (Bugz in the Attic), Akwasi Mensah & Matt Lord will be out soon.
http://www.rappersiknow.com/2012/09/28/conversationalists-fwmj-vs-dego-part-1-elitism-greed-the-common-denominator-the-underground/
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