We first spoke to Jay over email around the time of the beginning of the Bicep blog and it was only recently when we discovered some killer rare edits from him that we were back in contact! Crazy how time flies! We’re really happy Jay was up for doing a mix for us, his digging knows no bounds from crazy Moroccan re-edits to sleazed out Brazilian disco! We caught up with him to see what he’s been up to:
“I study at Oslo National academy of the arts, and do a lot of textiles and furniture there. Lately I’ve also been involved with a project called Words of the Woods, which is a crossover between traditional music and electronic elements. It’s a lot of Moog Prodigy’s meeting banjo’s and rhythms made by clapping in water.
This mix was recorded at an afterparty at a friends house. It has a lot of the tracks that inspired me to make electronic music in the first place. It also has perhaps the first serious track I made. At least the first track I got pleased with. I’ve been looking for an aiff file for that track for ages, but I’m afraid it only exists in mp3 now.
I didn’t have a general idea except to create that warm fuzzy feeling when the clock stretches towards 6-7 in the morning. It was recorded during the summer in Norway so the sun was up for a couple of hours before I did the dj mix.
The plan is to experiment further with music and textiles. Right now I’m recording a sound library from a traditional blacksmith’s workshop at my school. Banging around on pieces of metal’s that gives different pitch, heating up the furnaces, welding, it’s all a lot of fun to record. The next thing I’m going to do is recording the looms, to make some proper loom-techno!! “
FMB MIXTAPE 24 | JOYSTICK JAY (iTUNES)
FMB MIXTAPE 24 | JOYSTICK JAY (320 DOWNLOAD)
