Me and Aza T down the pub
What’s up Aza T?
(Aza lights up a cigarette) A lot man - its exam season, one week left then im free
Whats The Grime Scene Podcast?
Its basically a project that I started around September time of last year; mainly just to push forward the Grime sound. It consists of the latest grime tracks both vocals and instrumentals and each podcast is about 30 minutes long with the mixing done by myself, Aza T
What kinda work do you put into The Grime Scene Podcast? Getting tracks..etc...
Its a lot more than i thought to be honest with you! The hardest part is networking within the scene to bring new artists to the episodes to keep it fresh and exciting for the listeners. The month in between each podcast episode launch sees me about on myspace messaging artists, informing them of the podcast and then sorting out arrangments for tracks if they are so kind as to not pie me out. Then i get the tracks off the artists that I already chat to on msn or via email. Once ive got a few stacked up in the old "My Recieved Folder" then I set up a folder of definite podcast tracks into one folder. While all this is going on I still look at the talent that message me on myspace and chat to me on my podcast account: thegrimescenepodcast@hotmail.co.uk because there are a lot of excellent up and comers that want to feature on the podcast and its unfair if i pay all my attention just to the bigger names... Once i get the tracks I mix them all together in one take and then sort out the artwork tracklisting with the designers: www.v8design.net and www.myspace.com/datboyb .
Once the podcast is a finished mp3 file then i upload it to the Garageband website who currently host my podcast and then once its ready to download, its promotion promotion promotion.
You have a few well known grime artists on there but theres alot of lesser known talented acts on there, like D-Structo, Shy One, Hektik etc......what made you feature these types of Grime acts?
(Downs a pint of Strong Bow and finally answers) D-Structo, Shy One etc were the people that got in touch with me over myspace or msn and showed me some of their tracks and the production levels that, those two especially are pulling out with are very high, as high as some of the bigger names. The podcast is not just aimed at promotion for big names, but also a platform for up and comers as well. The best thing about bringing in new Producers each episode is that it doesn't matter if they dont have a big name, as long as the beat sounds good then what else can a listener complain about.
Any new acts appearing on the next one?
Yeah man theres small batch of new artists that haven't featured on the podcast so far but I don't want to mention any names yet; keep it a suprise...
(During this time, the interview is interrupted by some bloke, who wants to pick up some work from Aza T.... )
When did you start listening to Grime?
Boy, the first time i started listening to grime was when Channel U started. What drew me to U at first was the fact that they played hip hop cause i was a hip hop guy back in the day but when i started to see uk talent doing well on U...i hopped on to limewire and downloaded tracks from people i saw on the TV like Lethal B, Wiley, Crazy Titch, Dizzee Rascal. Everytime i saw a video from a different UK artist i was feeling th e vibes, even people like Akala who aren't what most people call grime... it was the fact that they were from the UK and i could relate to them. How can a 13/14 year old boy relate to 50 cent who talks about guns and bitches and cars? But yeah, i was about 13/14 i think when i first started listening to Grime.
Your top 5 Grime Songs right now?
Right now at this moment in time i would have to say:
Ghetto - Hero (Ft Devlin) (Produced By Merlin)
Random Impulse - Masks (Produced By Maniac)
Skepta - To Be Experienced (Produced By P Jam) The beat alone for this one is ridicously Sick
Ghetto - Menace (Produced By Scorcher)
Fumin - Why U Gotta Act Like That (Ft Black The Ripper, Faction G & Lykez) (Produced By DVA) The concept is sick
Theres alot of debate about what Grime is, so whats Grime to Aza T?
I Love Grime. I love it because it is so versatile and it consists of such converging and altering styles. I love it because i can relate to it myself, as an individual. I myself go through many different moods and feelings and everything I listen to in Good Grime has the ability to portray alteast a few of these feelings in just one song.
i dunno init
War Martial gave me air, when i emailed him about a interview.....is that a par?
No, the thing about emails is sometimes people don't get them. Second of all, I know personally that I get a lot of messages and emails a day, regarding podcast information and new artists etc, and it is so easy to loose track of who you have responded to and who you haven't. I've spoken to war martial a few times and he doesn't really seem like the type of bloke to air someone out purposefully. I think if you still want to do the interview, email him again and you will probably get a response; sometimes its just bad luck that it happens to be your email he forgets to open or forgets to read or forgets to reply because believe me, it does happen. (Aza T offers to handle Paul on the road, but I tell him to allow it)
Whats next for Aza T? Video Podcast, DJing, Production, MCing maybe??.
LOL at mcing, I don't have the patience to sit down and write good bars and then learn them, it sounds too much like revision and i can't even do that. Production is something i would love to be able to do, i have so many ideas for beats and melodies in my head but when it comes to relating that on to fruity, i get lost instantly. Im good with computers, but those programs are next level, especially when you are as impatient as I am and unwilling to start using a "trial and error" method...
I am however starting a lot of new projects un related to the podcast enitrely. For example I am starting an internet released Ep Project with producers and after my exams, i am going to start building the webiste for the podcast with a lot of o ther features that should help the scene grow, as a community as well as bring in new fans from neighbouring genres...
On a scale of 1 to 10, How good was that interview?
I Would probably give you a 8. You didn't really do anything wrong but I reckon you could have asked more specific questions...lmao (Off the record, Aza T says the interview was much better than any of Logan’s interviews on Kiss)
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