Published
Thu, Feb 22, 2007, 04:30
- The Fuckpony don talks minimal hype, superstar DJs and living on the streets in his first RA interview.
Jay Haze was in London for a gig at Fabric, solo then back to back with Ricardo Villalobos for afters. I’d heard some bad news – Haze had been left with little to no studio back in Berlin after a freak fire, and I arrived at the hotel wondering whether this might be my first interview no show. But within minutes, the industry’s most talked about character arrived in the lobby, not bling-blinged out like 50 Cent on a world tour, but dressed in plain jeans and a T-shirt.
I’d come armed with research into his productions and his label, the things that matter, right? I’d been listening all the way through from his early releases in the Contextterrior family [Tuning Spork, Textone, Future Dub] to recent big, souled out Fuckpony tracks on Get Physical, not to mention newly classic excursions such as ‘Soul in a Bottle’. But over a wide-ranging hour and a half, Jay Haze didn’t just talk music. Interview after the jump.