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Headlining the event was non-other than Earl Sweatshirt of Odd Future fame. Earl's evolution as an artist has been fascinating to view, and we believe his change in trajectory came with his 2018 release titled Some Rap Songs...
I see so much magic all the time, whether it be sleight of hand tricks, performers, disappearing acts, communication and mimicry from afar. It's such beautiful, cool, scary things. Magic isn't just for fairytales but for the guy who disappears from the neighbourhood when he's running from the cops...
Their visual imagery on album art is some of my favourite in the underground scene, with 'Shrines' depicting an NYPD officer grappling down the side of a building in Harlem looking into a window at a 425-pound tiger...
Live Nation told me Daniel's first three songs of the set would be performed under a massive curtain. I knew this would be interesting...
Daniel's set had some of the most intense use of bass I’d ever experienced - being right next to the stage it shook my entire body. The others in the pit were looking at each out like ‘holy s***...’
I don't remember that much about making the album...
On some psychotic episodes, I catch myself hallucinating cameras on the corners of my bedroom, broadcasting to a non-existent audience my suffering, as if it were just a theatrical performance. Just because all that suffering by itself lacks purpose, feels empty...
I think internet is the influence that has the most inspiration, saturation of information is something I love and try to replicate on my music...
things often kinda vaguely float in my head still, so it's hard to promise anything...
DIRT BIRD is a big reason why PREHISTORY exists. The popularity of that record, and specifically of WIGGLECORE as a meme, has sort of been eating away at me over time...
