Socalled is
a Canadian composer who has been inspired by rap and hip hop music when he was
young because of its rhythms, its poetry and also because it is a music where
you can express yourself and which is easy to make by your own.
He started
sampling musics, picking out little riffs which “come by themselves”, notably in James Brown's music as everywhere there are funky moments to use, he mixed it with electro machines and bass lines. That
was for him hip hop because it was built on "little breaks in the music". He used the records
his parents had like the Four Freshmen, Bach or Russian music. But when he
arrived to Montreal for his studies, he wanted to find his own sounds and
started collecting old records from people’s basement, church reserves, etc.
and found klezmer music. In this music, he heard “funky moments”. So he started sampling it with little beats from hip
hop or rap music and saw that it had the same rhythm. He added to that old Yiddish
folk songs like “Baleboste” and mixed everything together. It is not traditional Yiddish music,
but something personnal. Socalled is actually a music enthusiast and likes
decomposing it to make new sounds, but he says himself that he “[doesn’t] know
why [he is] doing this”
to listen more: http://www.myspace.com/socalled
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