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"This makes so much
sense you wonder why nobody’s bothered to try it before."
--Hip Hop Connection
Live Human is Carlos
Aguilar (DJ Quest), Andrew
Kushin and Albert Mathias.
Their critically acclaimed "pocket orchestra" of turntables,
double bass, trap drums and samplers was born in 1996 in San Francisco.
The music of Live Human occupies
a unique niche in the genres of both free-improvised sound/music and
instrumental hip-hop. All three musicians bring to the ensemble a
strong sense of tradition from their own experiences playing and performing
in diverse musical situations. Live shows consist not of sets of written
"songs," but make use of "live sampling" in which
they freely draw from original compositions to recreate and perpetually
recontextualize their own music. This is spontaneous improvisation
without the utilization of overt jazz idioms. Live
Human, in their name, reflect the honesty of their musical
intentions: to subvert the old, impersonal sample and reinstate the
human element -- the voice in the machine. |
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