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Larry brings a whole different perspective to blending lines between underground music genres. Here’s what he has to say for himself on music, mash ups, cartoons and his new South London night ‘Your Mum’ as well as a crazy sample set for you all to crank up and jump around to… enjoy! :) So Larry ….. What have you been up to today? Woke up at noon, went into town and bought a cheep little midi keyboard, had some food, got frustrated trying 2 make the keyboard work with reason. Gave up and recorded a twenty minute mix for that clothing line Bench to play in their stores and put on their website. They said they wanted it 2 be like a mash up of fidget and dubstep which surprised me as it's not exactly store friendly browsing music. Can imagine it sending old ladies running! It's also promoting the night that I play for in Manchester called Monday Murkage, so I had to use 7 tracks submitted by a group of DJ's, which was interesting to have a limited amount of tracks and trying to find the best order for them. I made use of the looping function on serato to make everything fit together really nicely which I'd never played with before. You have an infectious style of music - what were you listening to as a kid jumping around in your bedroom? All sorts of stuff! 80's and 90's pop, rock, hip hop, drum and bass. These days just about everything gets played in my sets. I love doing 4 hours and just going nuts with it! Disco into Bassline, Bob Marley with Dubstep. I just copied a 5 cd pack of 80's music off my mate so i'm gonna have some fun trying to mash up some of that! When did you first decide you wanted to be a DJ? I just sort of fell into it really. My mate was living with me and he had decks. We just used to buy hip hop records back then but alot of my mates were mixing drum and bass and breaks. I was never really DJing though just dropping sets at mates parties and recording mixtapes. Then he bought Serato so he could play overseas without lugging vinyls around and I started messing around with that doing the cross genre mixing stuff. We did some wicked launch parties for our comic book at Inigo in Clapham so they asked me to do a monthly there and my mate gave one of my mixtapes in at the bar he worked at and they offered me really good money to play every Tuesday. It was a small Ponana's in Wimbledon and crowd was always different so I had to be prepared to play ANYTHING! Trust me I used to get some of the most insane requests! It was kinda shit but I was getting payed to do something I enjoyed and it made me become even more open to trying out different styles of music and taught me to read a crowd and not just play all the new club bangers I wanted to hear. It was funny tho coz you'd get some people wanting hip hop and R&B and others wanting house, and others wanting cheese etc so I really had to just mash it all up, slip in some of my own favorites and would come out with some really cool results! What was your first vinyl? Can't remember! I used to work in a video shop with an MC called Verb T who had some records released and used to give me copies so it would have been one of his. He's awesome! As is his girlfriend Adeola who came up with the name Larry Sun, it was what she had me down as in her phone. Your also a comic writer … How do you fit it all in? With difficulty! I'm trying to learn music production as well which is so long! Luckily I'm getting enough gigs at the moment to not have a day job so I can sleep late, mess around on my laptop and do some writing in the afternoon, then go out and play in the evening. It's not a very stable way to live as far as the futures concerned but I'm doing what I enjoy so I'm just gonna see where it gets me. The comic came before the DJing, since I was really young. Me and my mate came up with this idea in school and he's an amazing cartoonist so that's how we got started. I write the scripts and he does all the artwork. He takes his time tho so it doesn't come out that often but we've released 7 issues over a few years, and been nominated for the best British black and white comic at the eagle comic awards. We been doing it in many different incarnations since we were young tho but only started releasing them once we were up to a certain standard and we're still always growing with it. It's called Tales From The Flat and the characters are based on alter ego's of me and the artist living in a flat together having mad adventures fighting robots, chav ninjas and possessed kebab shop owners! You can check that out at our website http://www.modernmonstrosity.co.uk You’ve recently started a night in South London called Your Mum! with some killer line ups in the pipeline, tell us more … what made you start the night? My mates Dean and Toby were working for the Telegraph and nothing much was going on there so they asked me to get involved with a night they wanted to do. I instantly though of the name YOUR MUM and had an image of some crack head old lady with a gun in my head. At the moment we having to find a new venue but we have Rico Tubbs and A1 Bassline booked for saturday the 21st of march for the mothers day special so keep that date free and look out for venue details! You looking forward to slamming our Never Grow Up crowd? Here’s your chance to get ‘em excited ….!! Come with an open mind! There will be genres crossing left right and center! From Old skool through to right now and back with all things good mashed up in between! See you all on the 27th!! x |
