Fake For Real

Apparently, you’ve a past deeply rooted in hip hop. Can you tell us about these stages you’ve shared with the Lost Boys and Foxy Brown that are mentioned in your biography?

Now signed on Big Jus’ Sub Verse, and representing the spiritual, positive, respectful and profesorial side of rap, Scienz of Life are presenting their new Project Overground album to us.

Six years, no less, have spent between Endtroducing… and The Private Press. And they were more than sufficient to move from one era to the next. Now that the trip hop fad is over, and that DJ Shadow's rap roots are fully recognized - thanks to the multiples releases and rereleases of his Quannum collective, and to the arrival of a new generation of indie rappers influenced by him, at least indirectly - it was time to confirm the excellence of Endtroducing… with a brand new album.

As years and singles followed one another, TekiLatex, Tido Berman and Cuizinier have kept reminding us what being surprised feels like. Their first album, which they entitled the Magritte way, is no exception to their rule. Ceci n’est pas un Disque (This is not a record) is not just about putting together what has already been done, it stands out by the new evolution in the sound and the way the trio works.

Dose One’s experience of the British scene has been quite fruitful up to now. It enabled him to follow new tracks, to make interesting collaborations, and, probably more discreetly, it enabled Fog (aka Andrew Broder) to be heard. The latter could have remained locked away forever in his native state of Minnesota, with his connection to an obscure post-rock band (Lateduster) as his only feat. But after being introduced to the adequate British circle of artists by his Anticon rapper and friend, Fog is now signed to Ninja Tune, the only record company which gave him the opportunity to release on a large scale his first eponymous record, a particularly wild, crazy and inspired debut.