One More Disco

So you should all know Hostage, especially from our previous posts, but what I have for you all today is a collaberation, Hostage and Beeds. I also have an interview with the 2 here for you, remember you got it from us first

** Alan = Hostage, click here for his MySpace.
** Martin = Beeds, click here for his DJ alias MySpace.

Beeds + Hostage - Evil Kinevil! 2

(onemoredisco download link)

What influenced you both to start producing music?
Alan: Not being able to buy records so made my own tunes
Martin: Alcahol

What artists did you grow up listening to?
Alan: NWA, Scott Brown, The Prodigy
Martin: Jeff Mils, Scott Brown, Eazygroove

Are either of you particularly interested in any other genres outside of dance?
Alan: Yes
Martin: Yes
– What are they?
Alan: Not really, I like Blur…
Martin: F**cking Blues, Avant Garde, Surrealism

This question directed at Martin, did you really start dj’ing with 2 ghetto blasters at the age of 11?
Martin: Yes, that’s the way it happened, I got the tapes from kids at school and loved them, everyone knew me for my rave-tapes, I got asked to do a 9th birthday party in a garden, and  I used to listen to how people mixed tunes, but didn’t know how they did it, so I improvised with 2 ghetto blasters and a bunch of tapes, in fact I have sampled some of the tunes on the tapes which are featured in the track we have given you. We had under 18 raves with 2000 people when we were 12, one of the local MCs lived on my street and he saw me struggling with 2 ghetto blasters and asked me if I wanted to buy his decks for £150, so I got them for my 12th birthday (I am now 27).

Are you still in contact with the MC?
Martin: Ayyyee, totally.

When did you first start DJing Alan?
Alan: I did my first live set at the age of 12 in a Scout Hut. I got a sampler and a reel to reel recorder at the age of 11 (Santa really didn’t know what he was buying) I played to a room of my friends and their parents, I played home made italiano house and rapped over it in a pre-pubesent aberdonian accent.

Did you both meet at a young age or recently?
Alan: We met at a rave about a year ago, although we both seem to know a lot of the same people.

Do either of you remember what make and model the first set of DJ decks you used were, (not including ghetto blasters, Martin)?
Alan: No. But my first sampler was a Yamaha VSS-200
Martin: “Realistic” - From Tandy or Radio Shack - They had a rotary pitch control

When did you both start producing and did you first start producing a different genre to what you both produce now?
Alan: At 12 (1989), for me it was all about 4/4 stuff with electronic sounds for dancing to
Martin: 2003 I started, it was more dark, germanic and acid house / electro sounding

Do you have a piece of equipment in your studio’s that you would consciously walk through fire to try and retrieve?
Alan: My Mouse!
Martin: My Korg Electribe (I love it to bits, it’s full of rave)

Is there any particular story behind your alias’s?
Alan: I am a Hostage
Martin: I wear Beeds

Current Top 5 favorite artists, go!
Alan: Mathhead, Prodigy, Foamo, Proxy, Hijack
Martin: Oizo, Feadz, rusko, Siriusmo, Drop the Lime

Okay! Thanks for the interview, any last words for the readers?
Both: Goodnight