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Dave: ilikemusic because... Without it there wouldnt be a Global Gathering
KT Tunstall: ilikemusic because... It makes me feel alive!
dj.NOMSTA*: ilikemusic because.... music likesme!
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Hard-Fi: ilikemusic because... what else is there to like?!
Mylo: ilikemusic because... It makes me feel funny
James Blunt: ilikemusic because... conversation is so limited
Darren: ilikemusic because... It makes me dance like a motherf**ker
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Lee: ilikemusic because... It makes me want to rave my nut off
Killa Kela chats to ilikemusic.com
Killa Kela: I think so yeah… it's more… it's not hearing sounds, it's the other way round - doing a sound myself and then connecting it with a sound that it sounds like. There are some sounds that I really can't do, so I don't trip too hard when I can't do something. It's more about the doors you unlock with your own mouth, just trying to connect them with other sounds that you know are out there.
ILM: You talk about achieving the right balance of hard-edged intense sounds with something people can take away, so a good hook and great song. And you truly understand the building blocks of music, and do it all yourself with your crew. Please describe the Killa Kela process of making such freakin' awesome music?
Killa Kela: Like you say, I think it's a case of being aware of your restrictions as an artist. I'm not going to lie and say I'm a singer or I'm a producer or I song-write; I'm Killa Kela and people know me as a beatboxer. So basically, you have to throw the whole idea of what you do out of the window, and remember that people need to listen to this as music. But obviously not forgetting what you do and who you are, because the moment you do that you're fooling yourself, but I think you've got to make music that stands on its own legs first and foremost, and then build a concept around it. And involving different vocal disciplines, like spoken word and singing and rapping, it made it a lot easier for me to adapt my beatbox in amongst those fields of vocals, which in turn made it digestible and made us able to throw it back at the live show and say 'right well, we can bring a string quartet here now, and a piano here and I'll be in the middle and do the beatbox there', and it sounds exactly like the track, so it's gone full circle.
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