J3551C4: What
production team/producer do you admire?
demancey: Jimmy Jam and Terry
Lewis. Those cats are consistent as hell.
And most don’t even know they are crate
diggers. They've been in the game for almost
30 years, and responsible for JANET keeping
a strong presence in the industry with every
release...The Neptunes...not the Trackmasters.
nonseq: Pete Rock for his
overall consistency and versatility. Prince
Paul for his conceptual gifts as far as entire
albums. Dre for his ear.
J3551C4:
Do you have a formula for the creation
process?
nonseq: Not really. Two main
things drive 80% of the creative process.
Either I hear a beat in my head and it haunts
me until I actually go in and create it. Or
I feel a certain way and create a beat to
reflect that mood. The other 20% of the time
I play with sounds until something sounds
good enough to build a beat around.
demancey: Sometimes it’s
like you have a sound in your head that you
just have to get out, and other times it’s
as if the track creates itself. I prefer to
build the track around the drums most of the
times.
J3551C4: What
is in your player right now?
nonseq: A bunch of mix CD's.
Current albums I played recently were 50 Cent
“Get Rich Or Die Trying” and Little
Brother, “The Listening.”
demancey: Jean Grae, Dj Ambush
mixes of Kindablu, Floetry, Little Brother,
Santana, America, and Miles Davis.
J3551C4: Who
are some of your strongest jazz influences
and when or where did your jazz aficionado
originate?
demancey: First and foremost Roy Ayers, John
Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Charlie Parker,
Ahmad Jamal, and Max Roach. My love for jazz
music actually came from my love of Hip-Hop
by way of artists like Gang Starr, Lord Finesse,
Pete Rock, and A Tribe Called Quest.
nonseq: My grandfather, who played with a
lot of jazz greats. Also, Wes Montgomery,
Cal Tjader, Kenny Burrell, Bill Evans, and
Gary Burton. I started playing trombone in
a jazz band in high school, and started getting
interested in the songs that I was playing.
My grandfather then put me on to artists to
check out from there.
J3551C4: Sum
up your flava in one sentence
demancey: Backyard Soul
nonseq: It's like a buffet
really. I offer as little or as much as you
want of a variety of things.
J3551C4: In
the opinion of Tin Men, who is the most under-rated
artist to date?
nonseq: J-Zone baby!!
demancey: Pete Rock and CL
Smooth, hands down. In fact when I die, I
want "T.R.O.Y." played at my funeral.
J3551C4: If
I write some lyrics...will you produce me?
LOLOLOL
demancey: As long as they
don’t suck.
nonseq: Only if you make the
dollars circulate !!!!!!!
