Forty-Five

#45

ANTA from the Coachella Valley
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Q1: How do you find about the latest music?
Answer: Hearing it, people play it, if it doesn't sound familiar and i like it, i look into it and find out the track name and artist, that's how i've found about many of the modern musicians i now consider to be my favorites.

Q2: Do you like shopping for your music at chains (ie, Virgin Megastore, F.Y.E, etc.) or 'mom & pop' record stores?
Answer: The smaller record stores, seem to have better varieties, shit i've never even heard of, but then again i've never really been a music buff. To answer your question i like smaller record stores.

Q3: Do you support more underground or mainstream artists?
Answer: The underground is where it's at. Some mainstream music is good, but a lot of what's coming out today just sounds generic or lame.
I was always told to never drink from the mainstream.

Q4: Where's your favorite place to see a show/concert?
Answer: House shows, i never have the change to spare for big events, unless we're jumping fences or someone has the hook up.

Q5: How does it make you feel when you hear that one of your favorite artists has 'sold out'?
Answer: I used to get all uppity about it. Nowadays I don't care anymore, whether it be a musician or a painter, or whatever money seems to be what makes the world go round, and as long as money does not sacrafice content i am AOK with artists selling out.

Q6: How do you support your local music scene?
Answer: We set up shows, we support bands, attend shows, the usual i guess.

Q7: Who are the 5 most influential artists in your life?
Answer: I always get guff, but i am a huge fan of Primus, i first heard them during my kiddy days, i loved the sound and uniqueness.
Other than them, what influences me is hip hop, i first heard early 90's gangster rap and stuff like that.
N.W.A., call me cliche but i think that arrangement of characters, dope beats, and sick rhymes is another one of my influences.
I also listened to a lot of metal music when i was a kid, what really stuck with me was a death metal super group known as brujeria, i just loved the music, i can listen to them today and still get worked up, in a good way.
Public Enemy, i think has had the biggest impact on me by far. First track i ever heard was terminator x, from their they were pretty much one of my favorites for life.
MF DOOM, not much to say, he's pretty much the shit, i'd give my right foot(it's gone eventually because of my diabeetus.) to see him preform. i've yet to see him live.
and immortal technique is the best, no but seriously if i wer to list my final most influential artist, it would have to be DigDug, a DJ from Maryland signed onto uncommon music record label, his beats as well as his art work are really influential. The fact that the man balances the audio and visual arts so well makes him an inspiring figure.

Q8: If you could ask any musician (alive or dead) a question, who would it be & what would you ask?
Answer: I would ask Murs why and how he got ahold of AGENTS crew to do the album art, it's just been bugging me. I love agents crew and murs, it just seems wierd that local valley graff gods got to do something like that.

Q9: Does music make a difference in the people you're attracted to?
Answer: Yeah, i mean i would hate date a fergie loving akon admiring modern day whack rap queen who loves it when high pitched voices sing into a fan.

Q10: If there is one song you would say describes your life at the moment, which song would it be?
Answer: Terminator X To The Edge of Panic - Public Enemy


ANTA has chosen MF DOOM as his artist


from sputnik music
"Operation is full of odd little “Skits”. These skits feature a man talking about a person named Doom in a voice not out of place in an early 40’s movie. The beats that accompany these skits are great. Unlike Eminem’s skits Doom actually creates fairly cool electronica breaks in between his raps. Unfortunately the album features 4 or 5 of these bits which can get quite annoying.

Possibly the most amazing thing about this album is that Doom writes, raps and produces his own stuff. So when you listen to this you don’t hear Doom’s voice over 5 producer’s beats rapping 8 other writer’s songs. All you hear is MF Doom. He’s great at everything too, unlike other rappers who attempt to do everything late in their career *cough*eminem*cough* and fail. Doom is great at everything.

Not only is MF Doom a great producer/rapper/lyricist plain and simple, he also is one of the best collaborators in the rap biz. He has collaborated with everyone from Gorillaz (His rap on November Has Come [Demon Days] turned me onto Doom in the first place) to his most recent collaboration, with DJ Danger Mouse (Producer of Demon Days and The Grey Album) under the name DangerDoom. Doom also collaborates on this album, on tracks Who You Think I Am? A barrage of guest MCs throw down over a Doom created beat featuring a flute.

The album ends as it begins on a high note. During the last streak of 5 or so real tracks there isn’t a bad song. Of course there is hardly a bad song on the album."

enjoy.
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