SID ROAMS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW W/ CHAMPMAG.COM
SID ROAMS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW W/ CHAMPMAG.COM
CHAMP MAGAZINE
Hollywood
CHAMP: What’s goodie Sid Roams. How’s things going with y’all?
Sid Roams: All is well…. Just maintaining. 2009 was a ruff year for a lot of folks- big transitions both personal and public. Glad to see it passed and looking forward to positive momentum in 2010!
CHAMP: The last time we spoke to you guys the album was in the works but it’s finally out and it’s called Zombie Musik. Now you guys are known for that eerie sound in your music. Did you guys just finally come to the realization and felt it was simply Zombie Musik?
Sid Roams: Yeah the beats just started reminding us of some updated soundtrack to an old zombie B-movie that never existed. Those 70′s and 80′s flics that took themselves seriously but could also be on some off-the-wall shit at the same time. It was a compilation of that old theme and feel, but also a reflection on the symbolic aspect of the “zombie”. Like looking around at the state of things in hip-hop, the music industry, pop culture, consumer culture… this country is full of unoriginal, unconscious, mindless, meat puppets. We’re all surrounded by people who fit that bill!
CHAMP: Now you guys of course are producers, so is this strictly an instrumental album or do you got guests on the album?
Sid Roams: Its really a sequel to Strictly Nstrmntl so again, “no guests allowed”!
CHAMP: You guys have 27 joints on the album, which is crazy! How important was it for you have to have a large selection on the album, because these days an artist will come out with 11 songs for an album
Sid Roams: Maybe two thirds of the album had already been produced so that material was compiled from other albums (P80′s, Project Kid etc.). We just took our time choosing which tracks felt most like Zombie themes and ran with them– also adding a bunch of new material scattered in there to keep it fresh. Most our time was spent putting it all together. we knew from early on that we wanted the album to play through like an audio collage, not just one song fading out and the next dropping after like SRMD. We appreciated the way a Prince Paul, or JD beat tape would all blend together and since we were going for the movie soundtrack vibe it made sense to always have audio present to gel it together in a loose story. You know, cuz a movie never goes completely silent. There is always some atmosphere or audible presence keeping your attention.
CHAMP: So what artists have you guys been working with recently?
Sid Roams: We just been staying true to our roots as usual. Nothing extra surprising. Done some stuff with Ev, Rakaa, Twin, Joe Scudda, Ransom, Krondon, Fash, Mitchy Slick jumped on sumthin, got some Sean P in the works.
CHAMP: Any joints sent out to P while he’s doing his bid and have you guys spoken to him since?
Sid Roams: Yeah we been speakin to P a bunch. He seems like he’s doing good! Whenever we speak he’s talking about bein healthy in there and the the pages upon pages of material he’s written. He has a full album ready to record just on the beats we sent him alone. Plus ALC and some other producers have kept him busy with beat tapes as well. We sent him joints from us and even other homies so he always has new backdrops to write to. It’s ruff to get them over to him though. You have to dupe the beats to jail-sanctioned non-screw tape and then send it to the jail-approved distro to have it specially plastic wrapped and inspected before they let it inside. It can’t have hand writing on it… all types of funny absurd shit. We actually recorded one joint over the phone tentatively called “Phone Tapped”. It was stupid hard to pull off cuz the day he hit us to record it, his walkman batteries were running low. With walkmans that means slow and drifting playback speed so matching the vocals up to the beat on our end was grueling, but all in all it came out dope. P goes apeshit for like 7 minutes on current affairs outside and inside the walls.
CHAMP: Can we expect any visuals off the album?
Sid Roams: For Zombie Musik? Naw, this was strictly a homespun, no budget, type of a project. Though we’re dying to do an actual zombie movie soundtrack. That shit would be a dream-project!
CHAMP: The album’s not only available on iTunes but let the people know what other sites they can pick it up at?
Sid Roams: You can buy the album from Digstation.com, Undergroundhiphop.com, accesshiphop.com, Fatbeats, Amazon.com, cdbaby.com, Amoeba Records LA………..
CHAMP: What else can expect from Sid Roams for 2010?
Sid Roams: Shit, we’ll see, we’re just along for the ride…
