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Last update: 2005-09-08 16:25:48
The past few days, celebrity and friend of Mikeynet "Magic" Dave Magic has been creating his debut album, Your Home Is At Risk. Mikeynet caught up with him as he put the finishing touches to his magnum opus... part two!
The album's already gone gold from pre-order sales alone. Does that intimidate you?
A little, yeah. I mean, I've got a lot of expectations really. I'd like to think that the album exceeds everyone's expectations but y'know, you can live or die by he media and that kind of thing. I've put my heart and soul into this record, more so than ever before, I just hope everyone likes it!
Do you think that your fans from the Soul Intention days are going to struggle with this album? it's hardly pop.
I'm sure that there's always that kind of risk. When I was a kid, bands often used to let me down by creating an album that I though was just rude to the fans just so they could seem credible with the NME or whatever. My fans know I've got nothing to prove. They can take it or leave it but I trust they know I haven't ditched them.
Interestingly, considering your distinctive singing voice, you only sing on 5 of the 14 tracks. Why is this?
On some tracks I just wanted to create a kind of sound collage, y'know. Samples, breakbeats, all sorts. My voice just doesn't suit that. Too distinctive. [Former bandmate] Electric James sings on one of the tracks; and I got Jay-Z to rap on Bank Statement. I wanted to subvert expectations as well; everyone knows what I sound like so I just wanted to somehow invert their assumptions and create a new base from there.
The sleeve shows Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt at the Yalta conference, where it is widely believed that the seeds of the Cold War were laid. Is there any particular significance in this?
Yeah, definitly. There's been, what, 4 world wars in the last century - and I'm including the Cold War and the war in Yugoslavia. The picture for me symbolises peace, y'know, that these three warring factions - America, England and Russia can get together and put things aside for a while. I just wish that we could be like that, y'know, unlike Dubya Bush and Blair.
What's the inspiration behind the track "Our Childhood's End"?
Star Wars.
Would you be happy if this album sold nothing?
Well, it's already gone gold.
Yeah, but just pretend
Er, well, I wouldn't be too upset because it's all about the music, really. It's written for the fans of Magic Dave by the fans - that it me, his biggest fan.
What if the fans hate it?
They wouldn't be very good fans, would they?
We are nearing the end of our interview. "I've got a final level of mixing to consider." he explains, modestly. Magic Dave's Mum comes in with a cup of tea. "That's my Mum, that is," he winks.
Todays track preview!
35% (Muscles) - Track 14 from "Your Home Is At Risk".
"What are we, ultimately? Flesh, blood, soul and mind. Yet fragile. We live, we die, 35% of our body weight is muscles. For this closing track I was trying to sum up what had gone before; so the rest of the album's about modern life and this one's about our muscles, which we've always had, way before computers."
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