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on the verge of the next nubreed installment, 3d world caught up with michael warlburgh from the melbourne born break beat trio and found out what the new album is about and where the breed is heading beyond it. in the past 10 years nubreed has transformed from three b-boy/hip hop/graf mates into a prolific breaks act that has bombarded the live oz music scene with a signature blend of vocals, big beat and progressive breaks doused with raps n' rhymes all delivered with confronting energy in their live shows. the boys have been finishing off their new album set to be released through uk label mob records later this year and between gigs have even managed to do the sound for an upcoming advertisement. "we've been trying to break into the corporate world as well," michael says. "we did a hard yakka ad not long ago ... it was a really good gig to get because you know everyone is going to see a hard yakka ad at some point. so we gave that a bit of a work over with some electro type break beaty styles, which was fun." nubreed has always kept it fresh with varied sounds but they have also become cautious of how this can become a negative thing. "we wanted to mix it up as much as possible, so we wanted to throw the mc'ing in there, we wanted to throw vocals on breaks - which was like a blasphemy back then in '98, especially male vocals." yet they became conscious that this could lead to a lack of a tangible nubreed sound. michael continues, "essentially people know us for variety. what was happening was that we were writing a lot of different stuff and we were scared about falling into the trap of becoming one of those schizophrenic artists who are just throwing their audiences anywhere, and the audience would be not really sure how to take us because we weren't entirely sure of how we wanted to be." instead of restricting themselves from creating whatever they feel like, michael explains that, "a lot of the stuff in the future we'll be putting under different monikers, different guises ... it just seems to confuse people if you start throwing all these house records and doing all these different things under the nubreed guise." from local independent label zero tolerance to seminal uk breaks label mob records, the expectations on nubreed's production have surely changed. nubreed seems to have had a two-part experience working with tayo's label. firstly they seem to have taken on board some uk movements. "there's a lot of that minimal breaks stuff coming out of croydon (uk) that we're really getting into, like tempo records and that sort of thing." But secondly they have felt the need to push their own vocal heavy style even though in the uk there isn't the same demand or understanding of it. this decision is what has spurred a uk release and australian release. michael gave a bit away in regards to what'll be on the new album. "it's not really that different. but it's fucken different ... you still get your typical nubreed tunes, like your satellites and all those big tunes in the past that have got that journey sort of vibe, but at the same time mob felt like they wanted to keep in line with the mob sound - to have those sort of minimal breaky type techy sort of things in there as well, which we took and turned into a more two-steppy stanton warriors sound. so in the first half the album's got a progressive sort of feel to it - it's got a lot of melodic elements. a lot of big textures, big sounds and then half way through the album it goes a lot more dance floor orientated." mob will release a uk version in october/november and follow up with an australian version in the ensuing months. the australian version is set to be packed with a bonus mix cd, with three tracks from the uk version, some previously vinyl-release only tracks and more mc/vocal orientated work. "it's been mixed by ap and phil k and that will be an extra little mix cd that comes with the album ... just looking after the australian crew." |
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ap in the last paragraph probably refers to
andy page. |
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reproduced without permission from 3d world newspaper (issue 672). to be used for private and research use only. |
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© copyright 2003 gavin stok. all rights reserved. |
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