Interview with The Outside Inn |
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For our readers, who aren’t familiar with The Outside Inn, tell us a bit about yourselves.
Sebby: We are a collective of creative individuals who share common interests in music and food, mainly Grill’d.
You’ve been a performing together as The Outside Inn for over a year now, how did you all meet?
Julian: We met all through mutual friends, Sebby met Matt by selling some BAPE clothes lol and then collaborated by doing a cover to Tears in Heaven. Yan and Seb are cousins. Julian met Seb through work and found mutual feels of making music and the love of hip hop. We all kicked it at Seb’s one day and had a jam session and it was then we realised that we can make pizza. Nynno then came later in the mix because she knew how to bake some good vocals. Josh takes photos, he’s a legend.
And what was the moment when you thought as a collective, this is working creatively.
Sebby: Probably after Matt dished out a few beats on his newly purchased Maschine and Yan already had some beats in the vault, we decided to lay some vocals and throw around some concepts. Once we had a few songs coming along, the vibes just felt good and organic. We were just being ourselves musically and seeing where it would go.
Sebby: We are a collective of creative individuals who share common interests in music and food, mainly Grill’d.
You’ve been a performing together as The Outside Inn for over a year now, how did you all meet?
Julian: We met all through mutual friends, Sebby met Matt by selling some BAPE clothes lol and then collaborated by doing a cover to Tears in Heaven. Yan and Seb are cousins. Julian met Seb through work and found mutual feels of making music and the love of hip hop. We all kicked it at Seb’s one day and had a jam session and it was then we realised that we can make pizza. Nynno then came later in the mix because she knew how to bake some good vocals. Josh takes photos, he’s a legend.
And what was the moment when you thought as a collective, this is working creatively.
Sebby: Probably after Matt dished out a few beats on his newly purchased Maschine and Yan already had some beats in the vault, we decided to lay some vocals and throw around some concepts. Once we had a few songs coming along, the vibes just felt good and organic. We were just being ourselves musically and seeing where it would go.
Your music is really tapping into the neo-R&B/hip hop sound, who are some of your influences?
Matt: Individually and collectively we have eclectic taste: T.D.E., Lupe Fiasco, Bone Thugs n Harmony, Curren$y, The Beatles, Tame Impala, Flying Lotus, Knxwledge, D’Angelo, Portishead,
Mount Kimbie, Ella Fitzgerald, Erykah Badu to name more than a few.
It sounds like you’ve recorded a massive amount of music in a short period of time, what is your creative process?
Matt: We generally just go with the flow and create all the time. Our first EP, Inntro is a result of creating a large body of work and stringing the tracks that we felt belong together.
And how do you create an EP such as Inntro from such a large catalogue?
Julian: We originally had about 20 tracks that we were going to place of the album/EP. The songs each have a life of their own and seeing as we have been recording for a few years we did have a fair few tracks to pick and choose from. In this process we encountered that the songs that we had chosen to be placed on the EP all had longevity and were still relative in correlation with each other.
What else is on the cards for The Outside Inn in 2016?
Yan: Being a group of super creative cats, I see us branching out and just experimenting, working on our own individual styles to mold our next project into something out of this world.
Check out The Outside Inn on Facebook and Soundcloud.
Their debut EP, Inntro, will be out soon!
Matt: Individually and collectively we have eclectic taste: T.D.E., Lupe Fiasco, Bone Thugs n Harmony, Curren$y, The Beatles, Tame Impala, Flying Lotus, Knxwledge, D’Angelo, Portishead,
Mount Kimbie, Ella Fitzgerald, Erykah Badu to name more than a few.
It sounds like you’ve recorded a massive amount of music in a short period of time, what is your creative process?
Matt: We generally just go with the flow and create all the time. Our first EP, Inntro is a result of creating a large body of work and stringing the tracks that we felt belong together.
And how do you create an EP such as Inntro from such a large catalogue?
Julian: We originally had about 20 tracks that we were going to place of the album/EP. The songs each have a life of their own and seeing as we have been recording for a few years we did have a fair few tracks to pick and choose from. In this process we encountered that the songs that we had chosen to be placed on the EP all had longevity and were still relative in correlation with each other.
What else is on the cards for The Outside Inn in 2016?
Yan: Being a group of super creative cats, I see us branching out and just experimenting, working on our own individual styles to mold our next project into something out of this world.
Check out The Outside Inn on Facebook and Soundcloud.
Their debut EP, Inntro, will be out soon!