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Breaksworld:
What is FOOD?
Simon
F [DJ/promoter]: Fuck Off
Or Dance. It's a new, Friday
night breakbeat club that was
started by myself, Tom and A-dam
[aka Tactic]. We're the
resident DJs plus there's a
monthly appearance by DUSK
[Brandan Crowe and Philip
Byrne], Ireland's only live
breaks show. We're pressing up
DUSK's first release in
February.
Breaksworld:
How long have you been spinning
breaks?
Simon
F: I've been DJing breaks for 10
years. I moved to Florida when I
was 12. I got into Miami bass, I
was playing loads of Miami bass.
There was no UK breakbeat at all
in Orlando-it was Icey,
Sandy-stuff like that. When I
moved back to Dublin in '95 there
was absolutely no breakbeats. The
UK breakbeat scene hadn't kicked
in at all.
Breaksworld:
When did you start pursing a
breaks scene in
Ireland?
Simon
F: From the minute I got here.
You could be the best DJ in
Ireland, but paying gigs are few
and far between. The only way to
play exactly what you want to and
have a weekly gig is to promote
yourself. I ran a club called
Octane on Thursdays and another
club, but in Dublin there's never
been a Friday breakbeat night
because the market has never been
there.
Breaksworld:
What has changed in Dublin such
that now that market
exists?
Simon
F: A couple of different record
shops in the UK are starting to
sell breakbeats in Dublin. Now
people can hear tunes on a Friday
or Saturday night and go out and
buy the tunes. That chain has
always been broken in the past,
or they could only buy the tunes
in London.
Breaksworld:
What is your goal with
FOOD?
Brandan
[of DUSK]: We want to
establish a breakbeat scene
within a year and get the release
out. When I do gigs I feel so gu
ilty taking money for doing
something so simple. We're
definitely all adrenaline
junkies. We live for the energy
of performing.
Simon
F: We want a wider audience
exposed to breakbeats. It's such
an under exposed genre in Dublin,
but people love it when they hear
it, they just have never been
exposed to it.
Brandan:
Yeah, everyone loves it that
hears it in Dublin, but they
don't know what it is. It's
really fuckin' energetic music
that appeals to everyone. It's in
it's own category, I'd hate to
see it pigeonholed like house or
trance. breakbeat always
influences other electronic
music, I think because it has
more layers. It's much harder to
make a melodic techno tune than
to do a melodic breakbeat tune.
There's no creative boundaries
because it has more layers.
Breaks can have four or five
separate chords, but if you did
that with a techno tune it
wouldn't work. It's ideal for a
producer really.
Breaksworld:
Who are some producers that you
respect?
Simon
F: Si Begg.
Brandan:
Plump DJs.
A-dam
[DJ/ promoter]: Si Begg
is the god of anything
breakbeat.
Simon
F: No, no. Who said Plump
DJs?
A-dam:
Kraymon.
Simon
F: Plump is cool, but once you
hear one tune you've heard it
all. Sibegg is new everytime.
Kraymon is gonna be fuckin'
phat.
Brandan:
No, Plump DJs was huge on the
circuit.
A-dam:
I like Stabilizer,
Jinx.
Brandan:
Darren Emerson, the bloke out of
Underworld. His DJ sets are
wicked. I know that's not breaks,
but anyway, he's cool.
A-dam:
Dave Tipper is a good DJ and DUSK
are great producers.
Simon
F: Yeah, another good producer is
DUSK. They're the new, up and
coming Irish breakbeat act.
Breaksworld:
What is everyone's role in
FOOD?
Simon
F: Everyone's equal. There's
three of us involved [Simon
F, Tom, A-dam] and basically
we're all DJs and promoters. I
just set up a studio in my house
and I plan on producing in the
next six months. Also we're
making a label for
DUSK.
Breaksworld:
What has been the response to
FOOD?
Simon
F: Unreal. Really, really good.
At least 75% of the people coming
back don't know anything about
breakbeats, but they just got
such a buzz off it they came
back. Dublin has been so techno
and house focused that people are
looking for something less
mundane, something
different.
Brandan:
The DJs at FOOD have no egos. You
get a crowd-DJ interaction. They
could drop in anything. Mainly
what we're aiming for is that the
crowd goes away going 'That was
amazing, I had a good time.' And
we've pretty much accomplished
that, but the next few weeks will
tell. Hopefully we'll totally
open up a breakbeat scene in
Dublin.
A-dam:
It's been going really well. It's
something new. Dublin is in its
infancy when it comes to
electronic music. The only people
pulling in the big crowds are
spinning house. I just want to
throw parties and do something I
love doing. I played in London
and I came back to Dublin and
heard about Simon's breakbeat
night. We became friends and
threw some raves in the summer.
We rocked those, man, but we'd
always been talking about doing a
club night. Then when the
opportunity arose we took it
[and started FOOD].
There's no attitude with us.
There's so much childish politics
in Dublin. Like, too many people
who are too good for their boots
or something. They are no help to
the Dublin music
scene.
Breaksworld:
What is FOOD going to do for the
Dublin music
scene?
A-dam:
Well, we're getting a label and
we're gonna do bigger parties and
we're just gonna carry on and
have a good time.
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