Prolix and MC Coppa Guest Mix - Knowledge Magazine
09/21/12 • -1 min
So Prolix, what have you been up to lately?
As you'd expect, I've been busy in the studio working hard on this EP for Playaz featuring the vocal skills of MC Coppa – it's been worth it though, I'm really pleased with how it's turned out. I've put out collaborations with Klute (Keep It Simple) and Gridlok (Poisonous) and a release on Commercial Suicide (Sawhead / Funkhole). This month a track called The Third Act will be coming out on Break's album for his Symmetry label. I've also been touring – Australia earlier this year and U.S. last year, plus all my gigs in Europe in between. So busy – but busy is good!
Your new EP On Like That is released on Playaz Recordings this month - tell us a bit about the process of making it.
Prolix: Making this EP marked a real evolution in my production. Looking at it as a whole, every song on there is a song with vocals, not a pure instrumental tune. The process for making each song was different. Some were tunes I had already started, which Coppa then worked on vocals for. Others, like 'On Like That' for example, he began as he already had some vocal lines down and I subsequently worked on the beats and bass.
Using vocals in recording to this extent was fairly new to me - aside from the collabs with Gridlok and Fats this was the first time I had properly used vocals in my solo tunes from the raw recording process. It was made a lot easier by the fact Coppa used good quality recording equipment which ultimately meant less processing work to make it sound great and a better result in the end.
MC Coppa: With 'On Like That', which was a vocal idea I had in my mind for a little bit, I spoke to Chris and told him the vision. We took a joint decision to say, OK, let's just go as rowdy and big as possible on the vibe to start our collab off... and he turned out a monster. It just snowballed from there, just got bigger and bigger. I found working with Chris in the studio really pushed the levels up, he's a tough person to please so in turn it raised my game, in the end we fed off of each other's vibe and I was really happy with how the tracks turned out.
Which track stands out as a labour of love for you, the one that took the most time and expertise to create?
Prolix: I'd have to say there were two that stand out. 'On Like That' was complex; it has the most audio parts and my computer was clinging on for dear life at times! Lots of vocals, lots of drums, and even a bit of guitar - I knew I wanted it all in there but actually getting it to work all together was a massive undertaking. 'Shut The Place Down' is the first non drum & bass song I've made for release, so creating it was just different. It went through two kinds of identities; it started off as more of an old-school electronic rock-influenced tune then took on more of a modern sounding electro vibe.
Coppa: It was probably 'Interlace' from a lyrical perspective. I got the beat idea from Chris - it had that timeless classic tech-step vibe to it so it brought out of me what I wanted to say about the experience of drum & bass from the real headz. Although drum & bass is enjoying some mainstream success, there are a lot of people who been following or who have been involved in drum & bass (through thick and thin!) for a long time and who live it, so I really wanted to communicate this vibe through the words.
Using vocals in recording to this extent was fairly new to me - aside from the collabs with Gridlok and Fats this was the first time I had properly used vocals in my solo tunes from the raw recording process. It was made a lot easier by the fact Coppa used good quality recording equipment which ultimately meant less processing work to make it sound great and a better result in the end.
MC Coppa: With 'On Like That', which was a vocal idea I had in my mind for a little bit, I spoke to Chris and told him the vision. We took a joint decision to say, OK, let's just go as rowdy and big as possible on the vibe to start our collab off... and he turned out a monster. It just snowballed from there, just got bigger and bigger. I found working with Chris in the studio really pushed the levels up, he's a tough person to please so in turn it raised my game, in the end we fed off of each other's vibe and I was really happy with how the tracks turned out.
Which track stands out as a labour of love for you, the one that took the most time and expertise to create?
Prolix: I'd have to say there were two that stand out. 'On Like That' was complex; it has the most audio parts and my computer was clinging on for dear life at times! Lots of vocals, lots of drums, and even a bit of guitar - I knew I wanted it all in there but actually getting it to work all together was a massive undertaking. 'Shut The Place Down' is the first non drum & bass song I've made for release, so creating it was just different. It went through two kinds of identities; it started off as more of an old-school electronic rock-influenced tune then took on more of a modern sounding electro vibe.
Coppa: It was probably 'Interlace' from a lyrical perspective. I got the beat idea from Chris - it had that timeless classic tech-step vibe to it so it brought out of me what I wanted to say about the experience of drum & bass from the real headz. Although drum & bass is enjoying some mainstream success, there are a lot of people who been following or who have been involved in drum & bass (through thick and thin!) for a long time and who live it, so I really wanted to communicate this vibe through the words.
So Prolix, what have you been up to lately?
As you'd expect, I've been busy in the studio working hard on this EP for Playaz featuring the vocal skills of MC Coppa – it's been worth it though, I'm really pleased with how it's turned out. I've put out collaborations with Klute (Keep It Simple) and Gridlok (Poisonous) and a release on Commercial Suicide (Sawhead / Funkhole). This month a track called The Third Act will be coming out on Break's album for his Symmetry label. I've also been touring – Australia earlier this year and U.S. last year, plus all my gigs in Europe in between. So busy – but busy is good!
Your new EP On Like That is released on Playaz Recordings this month - tell us a bit about the process of making it.
Prolix: Making this EP marked a real evolution in my production. Looking at it as a whole, every song on there is a song with vocals, not a pure instrumental tune. The process for making each song was different. Some were tunes I had already started, which Coppa then worked on vocals for. Others, like 'On Like That' for example, he began as he already had some vocal lines down and I subsequently worked on the beats and bass.
Using vocals in recording to this extent was fairly new to me - aside from the collabs with Gridlok and Fats this was the first time I had properly used vocals in my solo tunes from the raw recording process. It was made a lot easier by the fact Coppa used good quality recording equipment which ultimately meant less processing work to make it sound great and a better result in the end.
MC Coppa: With 'On Like That', which was a vocal idea I had in my mind for a little bit, I spoke to Chris and told him the vision. We took a joint decision to say, OK, let's just go as rowdy and big as possible on the vibe to start our collab off... and he turned out a monster. It just snowballed from there, just got bigger and bigger. I found working with Chris in the studio really pushed the levels up, he's a tough person to please so in turn it raised my game, in the end we fed off of each other's vibe and I was really happy with how the tracks turned out.
Which track stands out as a labour of love for you, the one that took the most time and expertise to create?
Prolix: I'd have to say there were two that stand out. 'On Like That' was complex; it has the most audio parts and my computer was clinging on for dear life at times! Lots of vocals, lots of drums, and even a bit of guitar - I knew I wanted it all in there but actually getting it to work all together was a massive undertaking. 'Shut The Place Down' is the first non drum & bass song I've made for release, so creating it was just different. It went through two kinds of identities; it started off as more of an old-school electronic rock-influenced tune then took on more of a modern sounding electro vibe.
Coppa: It was probably 'Interlace' from a lyrical perspective. I got the beat idea from Chris - it had that timeless classic tech-step vibe to it so it brought out of me what I wanted to say about the experience of drum & bass from the real headz. Although drum & bass is enjoying some mainstream success, there are a lot of people who been following or who have been involved in drum & bass (through thick and thin!) for a long time and who live it, so I really wanted to communicate this vibe through the words.
Using vocals in recording to this extent was fairly new to me - aside from the collabs with Gridlok and Fats this was the first time I had properly used vocals in my solo tunes from the raw recording process. It was made a lot easier by the fact Coppa used good quality recording equipment which ultimately meant less processing work to make it sound great and a better result in the end.
MC Coppa: With 'On Like That', which was a vocal idea I had in my mind for a little bit, I spoke to Chris and told him the vision. We took a joint decision to say, OK, let's just go as rowdy and big as possible on the vibe to start our collab off... and he turned out a monster. It just snowballed from there, just got bigger and bigger. I found working with Chris in the studio really pushed the levels up, he's a tough person to please so in turn it raised my game, in the end we fed off of each other's vibe and I was really happy with how the tracks turned out.
Which track stands out as a labour of love for you, the one that took the most time and expertise to create?
Prolix: I'd have to say there were two that stand out. 'On Like That' was complex; it has the most audio parts and my computer was clinging on for dear life at times! Lots of vocals, lots of drums, and even a bit of guitar - I knew I wanted it all in there but actually getting it to work all together was a massive undertaking. 'Shut The Place Down' is the first non drum & bass song I've made for release, so creating it was just different. It went through two kinds of identities; it started off as more of an old-school electronic rock-influenced tune then took on more of a modern sounding electro vibe.
Coppa: It was probably 'Interlace' from a lyrical perspective. I got the beat idea from Chris - it had that timeless classic tech-step vibe to it so it brought out of me what I wanted to say about the experience of drum & bass from the real headz. Although drum & bass is enjoying some mainstream success, there are a lot of people who been following or who have been involved in drum & bass (through thick and thin!) for a long time and who live it, so I really wanted to communicate this vibe through the words.
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