Deep
Burial was started 10 years ago. The idea was to make instrumental
hip hop, making up for the fact that we didn't have Raekwon or Mobb
Deep to rhyme on our beats by making the music more rugged and angular.
To attempt this most of the digging for samples was done in the Punk/New
Wave/Noise section. Whether the idea was achieved or not it resulted
in a split 12" with Decal and an album on Ultramack called Blood Samples,
the title of which was a phrase which sprang out of a Chino XL song
and seemed to sum up the feel of the album.
There's some of it in the audio section
to check out.
The
next couple of years were spent writing, digging and playing some
live sets. It was early 1999. We were watching a lot of zombie movies.
What better type of movie to watch in the middle of Celtic tiger
frenzy when the whole country turned into money munching zombies.
Yes you, you fucker! Anyway enough politics, we decided to start
work on an EP based on the films and started to dig for appropriate
sounds and samples. It helped that our friend seemed to be involved
in some bizarre underground zombie VHS ring and passed them all
on to us in all their hissy glory. The EP came out in 2001 and was
called the Undead.
Here's some audio from it to listen
to.
Since
then we've been digging for more samples and putting together the
album we've just finished. It's called Black Music and we're prouder
of this than anything else we've done. Click here
for the video for Snuff Rock from the album. Thanks to Fergal for
the vid.
The
original plan for Black Music was to use Irish MCs for about four
of the songs and spread them over the course of the album but we
decided that putting voices in between the instrumentals would pop
the atmospheric bubble we wanted to create. The only MC track we
completed was a collaboration with Exile Eye called the Theme. We
think it's a really strong tune whatever way it eventually comes
out and that can be heard here.
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