I’m always really desperately critical when it comes to Silver Medallion music.
Which thankfully helped us to create the caliber of album that we did, but whenever we experiment I get this weird feeling in my chest and don’t know if we should let it see the light, no matter the time or money we put into it.
This all leads me up to the excitement surrounding our new mixtape Paris is Burning with J.Paul of HavocNDeed . In my mind, J. Paul might be just the most driven and talented person I’ve met in Arizona. His remixes are awesome, his group is the shit, he’s even a good deejay. He helped us put together this mixtape and introduced us to the dubstep genre in his Scottsdale studio, and we took a break from the hedonism to create the tape Paris is Burning.
I remember when electro was the new hot shit and the blogs were new and exciting and everyone said it would die. Rumour has dubstep as that next thing, but its death is already predicted by its main fans online (which any trend should be as Steve Aoki starts playin it). I’m not going to say its going to be some huge new genre that will overtake electro, but I would put it in comparison to Baltimore breaks and the like in that it will always be a useful tool for both deejays and producers to give tracks and sets that extra oomph, and have serious potential to be a great dj subgenre for a long time. As a sound I love it, I’m addicted to when the beat drops, it makes my head nod like underground hip hop did when I was 16.
One thing that consistently frustrates Carnegie and myself in the Silver Medallion quest for musical success is the lack of innovation opportunities we find in our location. Finding deejays and producers doing something new and hot who are willing to work is hard as shit, and we were frustrated for a long tiem (we’ve wanted to do an electro mixtape so bad). We want to make blog-relevant, interesting indie music to complement our pop tunes, because we feel artists in 2009 have to be that diverse to see success, but we couldn’t find the beats and supporting cast, until now…
That’s why we’re releasing this project, because we found the background we needed and it’s time to start taking steps as artists and not just as a music business machine. I think J. Paul did an awesome job providing the music, and I think we killed it on the lyrics, but is it an unspeakable work of incredible genius? Nah…but nothing has been living up to the standard I have set for Silver Medallion recently and you know what its time for new shit to surface and this is new and exciting and goddamit it we’re artists lol we’re making art out here don’t laugh at us, please don’t laugh at us, god please… I digress.
Paris is Burning by Silver Medallion is now free to download at getyourswagup.com … Download, share, hate, love etc.
