Do you know which one yet?
They’re brand new, they’re on XL, I don’t really wanna tell anybody ’cause the deal’s not negotiated but I really like what they do. Like real young kids. And then, you know, maybe more M.I.A. records and then a Diplo album, some shit like that, just do whatever, I don’t give a fuck, Dark Meat, Black Lips, you know, I like those kids, been working with them a little bit.
Are you gonna be producing their new album?
Just doing some things, listening to their demos now. I haven’t been in the studio with them yet but we’re trying to work out times. Amanda Blank and Spank Rock, too.
You mentioned that Dark Meat is doing like a psychedelic, dark thing. Do you see music as going in that direction in the future, away from today’s day glow stuff?
I don’t think there’s any such things as trends anymore. ‘Cause it just happens too quick. There’s not just a wave of “this is cool,” “this is not,” everything just comes out at once. Journalists like to put things in trends ’cause it makes your jobs easier, but I don’t even see it. If you know a kid that likes M.I.A, they don’t like everything like M.I.A, like all new wave, rave, what the fuck is she anyway? Those kids listen to fucking heavy metal, pop music, dirty south crunk shit. There’s no such thing as this and that anymore. Like, if you fucking like music you have your feet in reggae, in punk, in metal. As I grew up, you listen to Miami Bass and heavy metal in Florida. And if you got Caribbean neighbors from Haiti they might play suchra or dancehall ’cause they’re cousin left the house when you played Nintendo. That was like uniform growing up. There wasn’t any, “I’m gonna grow up and be a goth.” That shit doesn’t happen anymore.
You don’t think subcultures really exist nowadays?
I don’t think so, because even if you’re goth, you’re like a goth via a parody from South Park. Unless you’re from a country… fucking, unless you’re in the Taliban and you’re listening to Muslim folk songs then I don’t really think there’s much other chance for you to keep your shit that straight anymore. There’s no such thing… genres are done.
Do you think there are any valid mediators left in music?
Kids still look at Pitchfork, but it’s more like fucking looking at OK Magazine these days with rumors and bullshit. And the reviews are terrible. Everything’s political for them, you know what I mean? Like, I know so many people involved in the fiasco that happened with Spank Rock and this other dude that used to write. It’s really political. And then there’s the old guard like Rolling Stone that just don’t get it. They just put, like, whatever, they don’t have any idea what’s going on. I don’t know if there’s an authoritative thing, I think it’s just like going on MySpace or Facebook and seeing what your friends are into. I mean, I watch MTV once in a while and there’s always something weird on there that makes me go “What’s happened to the world?” I think you just go out to the streets, see what people are selling three-for-10. You know, I still do that through a flea market for the Mexican community living in Jersey. I go there and buy techno CDs that kids are making down in Mexico City. Everything from that to cumbia to dancehall to the Baltimore club stuff you buy on unlabeled CDs. That’s the authority; it’s not even on the internet.
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