RQM
Barcelona resident by-way-of Berlin, RQM comes correct with his latest EP 'Colors Fade' out now on Baby Sumo featuring production from fellow Berliner Siriusmo and Glue Kids with remixes from Son of Kick, Chris De Luca, and JF.
"you radiate accelerate my cardiac blood flow you hot so almost hostile sun surface at close range / power me like a billion coltranes love supremin the vacuum of an h-bomb screaming how our atoms fuse for no reason"
The lyrics to the song Atomic Fusion produced by Berlin's wunderkind-MODESELEKTOR-affiliate SIRIUSMO liken the love of two people to a nuclear holocaust. The intensity of their combined chemistry predetermines their inevitable destruction - described here as a brilliant self-annihilating flash. The Son of Kick remix was recently rinsed on the BBCRadio1's Experimental airwaves at the hands of Mary Anne Hobbes.
The GLUE KIDS produced COLORS FADE takes a more literal approach to the theme. The destructive chemistry referred to in the lyrics is a cocktail of designer drugs and chronic love toxicity. The couple in the song burns out through over indulgence - numbing themselves completely and in the end becomes incapable of feeling anything. bring themselves completely and in the end becomes incapable of feeling anything.
Bassfaced: EZ, RQM. So, The 7" vinyl pressing of the EP comes packaged with original art as well as a flossin' T Shirt with the 'Colors Fade, Light Goes On' design, mind telling us a little more about this?
RQM: About the tshirts...I hooked up with the French artist REMED (remed.es) - one of my favorite street artists - beastly and deep. We pressed 200 7" records featuring the SIRIUSMO produced Atomic Fusion and the Chris De Luca version of Colors Fade. 84 of these records became a painting, which went on exhibit here in Berlin. Carhartt picked up a REMED tshirt design and so we made these hyper limited packages of 7" records with the hand painted cover and the tshirts. And since Carhartt picked up the tap on the shirts we cut the price of the packages to 25 Euros - normally Carhartt tee costs 30 and if we were to take REMED's artwork and the vinyl into to consideration it would be something like 70-80. But the idea was to give a real gift to vinyl junkies. A few packages are still left:
And the rest of the records will be shipped to Japan for another exhibit with an artist from Tokyo - inshallah it'll all fall into place.
Bassfaced: RQM, lay it on us with some top 5s before you gotta jet.
Top 5 cities:
Top 5 cities:
1. Berlin
2. New York
3. Lisbon
4. Rio
5. Singapore
Top 5 favorite things to eat
1. Japanese
2. Thai
3. Italian
4. Indian
5. Ethiopian
Top 5 Producers
2. Thai
3. Italian
4. Indian
5. Ethiopian
Top 5 Producers
These cats never cease to surprise me
1. Siriusmo
2. Robot Koch
3. Stereotyp
Favorite MCs
1. Mos Def
2. Common
3. Jay
4. Outkast
5. Biggie
Top 5 websites
2. Common
3. Jay
4. Outkast
5. Biggie
Top 5 websites
