Kode9 on Frequencies, Burial and Dance Music Exploration Red Bull Music Academy

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Self-transcribed from the recording's audio/video with Whisper ASR, then drawn from the frozen curation of the CCRU oral archive. The identifiers below fingerprint the exact source transcript files.

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• 00:00:03

  Good evening, everyone. How are you feeling? Awake? More awake than 12 o'clock, yeah? Coffee? Red Bull? Stand up and make some noise for our special guest, Mr. Code 9. No, it's just about waking up, you know? Because we've reached that day today. I saw a few this morning, people just trying to stay awake. I don't…

• 00:09:13

  I really like this, particularly, I mean, this track kind of encapsulates the whole album in a way, because the whole album managed to synthesize influences from indie music, synthesizing music, funk, rock, jazz. Into the into the one track. So it's clearly a fusion, but at the same time, a lot of music that I hear…

• 00:18:03

  I mean, that's really the reason I started the label in the first place. I met... I was actually interviewing Kevin Martin, who's otherwise known as The Bug, for Accelerator magazine around about 2001, 2002. And when I met him, I gave him a CD of some of the stuff I'd been working on. And on it was this track called…

• 00:26:01

  Yeah. What would you anticipate selling on a good day? Yeah. I mean, we mostly release 12 inches and they do generally 1,200 to 3,500. Which, you know, 10 years ago, 15 years ago is a joke, to be honest, because I know, like, for example, drum and bass in the 90s, house music, techno in the 90s. You know, you triple…

• 00:35:59

  I don't know. I'm not so interested in releasing music by people that are ready. Yeah. You know what I mean? Someone's releasing... Yeah. Released loads of music, releasing on loads of labels. Great. You know, good luck to them. But for some reason, I'm not... I don't know what the function of Hyperdub is, but I'm…

• 00:43:44

  Still have neural affects. Still change the way you feel. And so a lot of the book is actually about sounds you can't hear. Either too low in frequency or too high in frequency. So having delved deep, deep into those dog frequencies. How does that affect you in turn? When you're making your own music? Does it make…

• 00:52:51

  You know, quite a good way of doing it. You know, quite a good way of describing certain evolution of music in the UK from hardcore through jungle, drum and bass, Speed Garage, UK Garage, Grime, Dubstep, Bassline House, UK Funky. You know, America... That's what I wanted to get at. I mean... In a sense, America…

• 01:00:55

  And in the meantime, while you do that, can you all join me in saying Code 9, thank you very much indeed. Thank you.