Hip hop was born in New York, USA in the late 70’s and has since influenced popular culture unlike any other movement. It has been embraced and reinterpreted across the globe, no more so than Europe.
Wermonster is a Berlin-based producer who dabbles in hip hop. What was your first experience of the culture of hip hop?
Graffiti probably. Music-wise I think I was initially mainly interested in the instrumentals.
I say culture because hip hop is really more than music, but what was your inspiration to make hip hop music?
I liked that hip hop has the ability of feeding itself with other musics. So I could integrate a lot of my musical influences into it and create something new out of it.
Wermonster is a Berlin-based producer who dabbles in hip hop. What was your first experience of the culture of hip hop?
Graffiti probably. Music-wise I think I was initially mainly interested in the instrumentals.
I say culture because hip hop is really more than music, but what was your inspiration to make hip hop music?
I liked that hip hop has the ability of feeding itself with other musics. So I could integrate a lot of my musical influences into it and create something new out of it.
Who and what are some of your hip hop influences?
RZA for the production style, Madlib for the work on samples. Lot of french rap too.
You released Katalyst Sessions Volume 2 earlier this year, which was a further exploration of hip hop, what was your inspiration?
The idea was to do something that would complete or extend the first volume and turn some of the instrumentals into full rap songs, by submitting the beats to different rappers I met through gigs or past collaborations and appreciate the music.
How did the collaborations work with the feature artists, such as Cash KRZMA, Benny Diction and Sultan Tunc?
When possible we recorded directly in my studio in Berlin, like Melody Myla, Sultan Tunc and Ethnique Punch, the rest has been done using dropbox.
What else are you working on at the moment?
On the live set. It´s completely instrumental now but I might invite some vocalists on stage eventually.. It´s like a re-interpretation of my studio work, with lot of improvisation. Otherwise always making new tunes.
Thanks for your time.
You´re very welcome.
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RZA for the production style, Madlib for the work on samples. Lot of french rap too.
You released Katalyst Sessions Volume 2 earlier this year, which was a further exploration of hip hop, what was your inspiration?
The idea was to do something that would complete or extend the first volume and turn some of the instrumentals into full rap songs, by submitting the beats to different rappers I met through gigs or past collaborations and appreciate the music.
How did the collaborations work with the feature artists, such as Cash KRZMA, Benny Diction and Sultan Tunc?
When possible we recorded directly in my studio in Berlin, like Melody Myla, Sultan Tunc and Ethnique Punch, the rest has been done using dropbox.
What else are you working on at the moment?
On the live set. It´s completely instrumental now but I might invite some vocalists on stage eventually.. It´s like a re-interpretation of my studio work, with lot of improvisation. Otherwise always making new tunes.
Thanks for your time.
You´re very welcome.
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www.wermonster.com
wermonster.bandcamp.com
soundcloud | facebook | twitter
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