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TNT: Why this name?
DB: Deadly Buda came from when I was a graffiti artist in the 80’s. It was actually “Buda”. I was one of the first graffiti artists in Pittsburgh, and many people knew me. When I started doing raves in 1991, to get more people attending, I played off my graffiti reputation. I put “Deadly” in front because I wanted it to sound like the old hip-hop Dj’s like Grandwizard Theodore, insinuating a kung-fu style of mixing. obviously it has many other conotations but this wasn’t intentional. One of my old graffiti pieces is in “Spray-Can Art”.
TNT: How old are you?
DB: 26 going on 18.
TNT: What is your town like? Are there any gig for you to party?
DB: I just moved to Boulder, Colorado a year and 2 months ago, Its nice and the town is filled with young people with lots of money (opposite of Pittsburgh), Even homeless people are well taken care of. I live right next door to the Naropa institute which was America’s first Buddhist school. This was unintentional but a humorous coincidence. The scene here is large, but rather commercial. I rarely play here. I guess if I did, all the Djs might have to start buying new records. This winter, I will only be making morph trax and snowboarding, maybe throwing some renegade parties at Vail or Telluride.
TNT: Is your studio in your apartment?”
DB: My workstation is in my bedroom, and it is driving me crazy! I can’t sleep because I keep worrying about what I just worked on! It haunts me everytime I walk into this shithole. Everything that you have heard was done only on an ASR-10 with 30 seconds of sample time-I hope this will inspire other people making trax. No matter what equipment you have-the music is in you! Work with what you have rather than relying on new toys.
TNT: If you have a window, what do you see outside?
DB: I have no windows in my studio apartment. When I look out my door, I see a world that is completely neutral. All acts of good or evil are messages for future generations to learn how to cope with current existence. There are very friendly raccoons and squirrels, also.
TNT: Where did you start making trax, what inspired you, and how has your music evolved since?
DB: Most of the trax you have heard of mine are 3 years old. When I first got a sampler. So watch out for the new stuff! I always hated music and was scared of it when I was a child. It was not until I heard early hip-hop (early 80’s) utilizing found sounds in a social, physically inspiring structure that I started to even think about music. I really have not evolved musically, I am still trying to create the ideas that I had when I was 13 years old.
TNT: What kind of technology do you use (for music & other purposes)?
DB: 2 turntables and an ASR-10. I have a fax and this word processor. I just went crazy and bought a vacuum cleaner.
TNT: Did you make music on collaboration? If yes, with whom?
DB: My only collaborations have been unreleased- I did some trax with Christoph Frigelli (Praxis) and Jason VFM (Disciples of Belial), EC80R and Moonraker. This was all 2 years ago so they need remixed before release.
TNT: What is the story of “you’d sell your soul to the devil to play like me” (if this is the exact text)?
DB: That was the second track I ever made. I have been DJing since I was 14, so, I meant that if you wanted to be as good, your only option would be to sell your soul to the devil. I thought it would be funny from an old hip-hop, bragging, Dj cut perspective. But, I have found many people believing that I am a Satanist from this song. I think it’s all kinda silly, but if people want to buy my record, play it and run around naked around-A fire and do bizarre things with chickens-more power to them’ (just so I get $5.oo for the vinyl). I guess Satanism has caught on in the Hardcore scene because we have been underdogs for so long. The devil is a symbol to those with good intentions persecuted by their perceived society. The devil is a cartoon character of people’s emotions. If people want to put more faith into it, they are just being reactionary to the pain they have accumulated in their life. The devil has been absent from music since Heavy Metal waned, so, in honor of the inspiration-for much American Music, I am planning an “Ultimate Satanic Remix”.
TNT: Do you play live (or dead)? Do you DJ? What did you think about DJ’s (is there some you appreciated?)
DB: I am a Dj. I never do PA’s. I am fascinated by the mix and the oppurtunity to play great music by people other than myself. When I Dj, I consider that “live” because I try to push the envelope of the genre as far as I can. I understand that in Europe, the Dj’s have more power than in America, and often will just mix very conservatively. Thus, I can understand Backlash that some in the European Hardcore scene has against “simply Djing”. My faves were Red Alert, Chuck Chillout, Marley Marl. I like Jeff Mills alot, but he doesn’t play as varied a selection as he used to, I wish he still would.
TNT: What is you planning of releases, what are they going to sound like?
DB: The very next track coming out will be on Manu le Malin’s “Biosphere” CD. It is a techno-hip-hop track-not trip hop! it is 97 BPM and one of my best hardcore trax to date. I am about to start my own label, “Deadly Systems”, it’s goal is to introduce Hardcore to America, and anywhere else that might like it. If the Situationists made techno, or morph music in the 90’s-targeted at commercial breakdown-use your imaginationthat is the sound.
TNT: Do you have occasions to hear records from Europe, what do you like?
DB: 75% of the music I play is from Europe, more and more from France these days. I like Praxis (of course), Explore Toi, Digital Hardcore, Laurent Ho, Manu, Gangster Trax, PCP and Kotzack, Drop Bass, and anything made by mutants hiding anywhere in the universe. “Agro” is my current fave.
TNT: Deadly Buda, everyone knows this name because of the audio signatures. How would you describe you own practice of propaganda, and ho is it different from mainstream one?
DB: In practice, this sort of propaganda is very mainstream. The audio signature is sort of a”brand name”. my reason for doing it was- simply to have a cool dj intro record that I could scratch up. Going back to the idea of trying to recreate sounds imprinted on your youth; the early hip hop records were mostly just a drum machine, scratching, and the djs name plastered all over it, these were my favorite hip hop records, so I wanted to have something comparable in the 90’s. A crucial difference though, is that “Deadly Buda” may be my dj name, but it has been evolving conceptually outside of my simple eating, sleeping, fucking, djing, snowbaording sorry excuse of a shell of an organism. I now see “Deadly Buda” almost as a product to help cut though life’s bullshit in order to get people closer to themselves. Many of the world’s disasters probably stem from people not really knowing what they want. Maybe Deadly Buda is that initially terrifying moment of realization-or maybe it’s just really strong pot.
TNT: Is there a land beyond hope and despair, is life possible there?
DB: Hope and Despair will happen endlessly in even the most enlightened life. These are temporary feelings an organism needs to survive. To try to overcome the inevitable revolution of feelings is certain death. Sorrow should be enjoyed because it is a time of reflection Escaping hope and dispair is just Fear of the destiny of will. Your hopes are silly, because they are a projections of your current, soon to change state. Your despair is a fear of the future of what you are to become. It’s like moving to a new apartment or house, even if it’s a good thing, it will seem scary. The future wears the mask of evil.
TNT: What are your favorite TV programs, books, films, what do ya think of interactive creation between the crafts on computer?
DB: I draw inspiration from all that is around me, I will often subject myself to utter crap just to see if there is something I am missing (MTV, for instance). I watch the news and read about 3 newspapers a day. I like comic strips, cartoons and bad movies. I like comic books but they are very expensive in America, and there has not been a lot of good underground work lately. I am very excited about the conglomeration of media, and plan to utilize the most advanced methods possible, but I am more concerned with quality of content. For instance, I saw Allen Ginsburg recently doing a poetry reading at a local coffee house. I was amazed that this guy was more entertaining and inspiring than any million $$$ movie that I had seen in years. People get to hung up on new devices to hide their very real fear of true artistic expression. Making art and music on the Web will be very fast, but I am concerned that much product will not consist of the experiences and examination that I think is admirable and beneficial to the individual and society.
TNT: Are you on the web? How big is this network in the states, and how did it affect reality by now?
DB: The net is very important to the American Rave Scene. It is a very successful promotion vehicle. I was on line a year ago but I am not currently. It is currently very homogenous, and from a promotion standpoint, I would rather have a diversified crowd, rather than simply people that can afford computers. It is destined to reach to everyone, and that is when I will find it interesting. I don’t even own one anymore, I’d just play videogames. I may get one to print mailing labels and keep track of my new record label”s finances. The only thing I think it is good for now, is commerce. The info you find is not much better than what you might get taking a walk to the library or what you may hear next Friday at your friend’s beer party. Let me add that I hate sitting around for hours.
TNT: Do you think making music is creating utopias, and is so, should we deep on making music and why? Otherwise, could you define through words what musical universe is, means for ya?
DB: Musicians are often conduits for the imagination. Musical dimensions will someday be so intense that they will be physically manifesting, But I could never duplicate what you truly feel, musical utopias are very personal. My music or art is just a guidepost to what you feel. Music is communication. We must know what others feel, to juxtapose our thoughts and feelings. That is why much commercial music is foreign to me-it trys to encompass a median average of opinion, or safely illustrates the pre-approved vision. To me, that is cheating. Telling people simply what they want to hear is robbing them of reflection, therefore, they base their personal descisions on a pre-programmed old society standard that might not be valid currently. Musical Utopia is how you deal with your desires balanced with social expectations. It is important that people understand themselves, and why they need each other.
TNT: What more would you like to say?
DB: Excelsior!
Discography:
1. The Gods Must be crazy “-on “Neighbors” compilation-Communique Records.
2.Nirvana Trail-on “Paraphysical Cybertronics” CD compilation Praxis Records
3.Morph Beat 1 12”- first record of my own stuff-Praxis Records
4.Deadly Buda and the Superstars of Death 12”: The first record on.Mokum’s’ “Fukem” sublabel
5.The Style is Terrifik- on “dead By dawn” 2x12 compilation, my most recent song to date released- Praxis Records
Soon to come:
Deadly Systems Vol.1(mix Cd)
Deadly Systems Vol. 1 vin)~l 12”
Uneasy Listening 001
Praxis USA 001
A.S.S. Records 001 (comp.)”King of Kings”(1 song)
Biospheres CD comp-”Deadly Hip-Hop Gangsters”(1 song)
Top Techno 10
1.Zekt-External
2.Leathernecks-”World’s Hardest MF”
3.Dj ESP-”Ace Frehley”
4.Marc und Claude-”Party People”
5.Mescalinium United-We have arrived”
6.The Aphex Twins remix of above track.
7.Vath 2 on Frankfurt trax 3
8.Energy Tanks-Trip Commando
9.Neophyte-’Rotterdam Gabber
10.Eu de Cologne-Die Langenspielplatter
Top 10 stuff:
1.Women who are insane
2.Going mental at a rave until you almost leave your body
3.Recovering from #2 with#1 the day after, spending money I don’t really have on Indian Food to be delivered to the apartment while we argue about who will actually leave bed to go to the store and buy cigarrettes.
4.Yelling at the television.
5.Arguing with Republicans.
6.Running up,j)hone bills.
7.Loitering in-bookstores
8.Bad Cinema
9.Thrift shop record scavaging
1O.Being lazy
