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 An optimistic MYLES DESENBERG (aka HUGGA THUGG) gives FRANCES STEPHENSON the low-down on his new project with Kid Kenobi, TWO FRESH.
There have been rumblings lately of a funk and hip hop revolution in breakbeat, and Kid Kenobi is as always ready to jump in with both feet and deliver. This time he’s joined forces with his brother Myles Desenberg to create Two Fresh, a new project designed to combine their backgrounds in hip hop, rave, soul, funk, and electronic music.
FRANCES STEPHENSON: What are you hoping to achieve with Two Fresh?
MYLES DESENBERG: We want to get some quality music out that we’re both proud of and also do some gigging – it’s a chance for us both to hang out and do our thing and play our music out and the music we’re both into as well. It spins me out what I’ve learned in the last six months or the last year – every time you write a tune you realise how much more there is in front of you. It’s always quite cool to see people going out and doing something a bit different. Hopefully we can do that. It’s hard – there are always expectations when you’ve got a big name, but hopefully our releases and so on will pave the way. It’s not structured for a mainstream vibe, but if the mainstream grabs onto it we’re not going to hold back. It’s an underground thing. It’s party, it’s ghetto, it’s jackin’.
FS: Do you think that’s the direction breakbeat as a whole will be taking?
MD: Breaks, production-wise and musically, hit its peak around 2004. I feel as though the genre has stayed stagnant since then. If you continue playing what was happening in 2003, you hit 2008 and you’re considered old-hat. You have to constantly adapt yourself to what is new. Music is constantly looking back. That post-modern thing is the same in art, or anything else. You look back and re-adapt. Club culture changes and the kids have a different view of what they expect to hear. When you listen to a lot of the music now, there’s all that old rave breakbeat under everything. There’s that fidget-house sound, and rave music from the nineties is back again – big piano breakdowns, synths, air horns, whistles. The kids are into new jack swing and hip hop and so on. As a DJ you have to be at the forefront. You have to be conscious of what is around you.
FS: Do you think you’ll still be listening to dance music in your dotage?
MD: I think I’ll always have an appreciation for dance music. I talk about current music with my dad, and sometimes he even gigs with us on percussion and drums. Then again I don’t just listen to club music. Music full stop is something that is a big part of my life. I think naturally people will always want to congregate, get pissed, and have a ritual of dancing. There will always a space for dance music, but whether it will be in the same format as it is now I don’t know. I think, as cheesy as it sounds, dance music will never die. People need an outlet.
TWO FRESH will play Electrik Kiss at Barsoma on Saturday Nov 29, supported by Raye Antonelli, CutLoose and more. Check them out at www.myspace.com/doublethefreshness
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