Madjestic Kasual’s ‘A Mix’ series is considered by geniuses and culture heads to be the “best” music mix series in the world. It’s considered by morons and dunces to be the “worst”. This should speak volumes.
It’s time to do ‘A Mix’, but for interviews. I have asked past ‘A Mix’ contributors to respond to questions. Some have complied. Introducing ‘An Interview’: a new text-centric series featuring only the best artists in the world.
‘An Interview’ Number 1 is Bug Bus Piano.
Pictured: Bug Bus Piano
It’s Bug Bus Piano. Socially Acceptable ‘Ambient’ music maker. Carriswheel downgrader. The band Quay member. Rumoured LIMP PUMPO contributor. Album booklet excerpter. People drawer. ‘idiot 2’. He’s goof’d up and zane’d out in DJ Python’s recent and enjoyable ‘i’m tired’ video. He’s in New York City, home of the slice. He creates music I administer to myself to induce a pleasurable sense of depersonalisation that makes my temples and fingers tingle. He’s a special guy with a heart and a mind used to extrude music I like to listen to and thoughts I like to read. Below is some of the above.
What are you wearing?
Blue jeans (very crisp) and my uncle's old black Volkswagon Bug t-shirt.
What’s a song you’re scared to play out?
Bug Bus Piano - "Song Where If You Listen To It You Instantly Die" (unreleased) forrrr obvious reasons...
What’s a song you wish you’d made?
Tek Lintowe - "Haunted Me Peachy". That song is so good. It's TOO good.
Most formative show you went to?
Probably Geto Boys at El Corazon in Seattle in like 2013 or something where Scarface played live solo guitar covers of Jimi Hendrix and Nirvana songs. The crowd was going nuts.
What’s a smell that instantly evokes memories?
Old wet pine needles decomposing on the ground. Pine in general.
You can resurrect one dead person such that we can benefit from their contribution. Who are you resurrecting?
Someone like Yagan or Tecumseh. Someone who tried to murk all the invaders and defend their land and their people from desecration. We need them back.
Pictured: Yagan statue. It stands on Heirisson Island in the Swan River near Perth, Australia.
You can cryogenically preserve one person such that future generations can benefit from their contribution. Who are you cryogenically preserving?
The homie Shane (Shan from Quay).
You can make two people perform consensual sex to each other such that they produce offspring. Who?
Idk this is a really tough one. Maybe two random people who really love each other and would be great, loving parents but for whatever reason are unable to have a baby.
Pictured: Bug Bus Piano’s brothers, Bug Bus Piano’s Quay bandmate Shan, Bug Bus Piano’s dog Snowflake (RIP).
Wedding song?
This is an easy one. UGK - "Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You) ft. Outkast". Or its sample source by Willie Hutch. Even just thinking about these tracks right now is making me watery-eyed and happy.
Eulogy song?
Gil Scott-Heron - "I Think I'll Call It Morning".
Celeb crush?
As a child I remember kind of liking the scary girl that Ed meets in the Insane Asylum in the film "Good Burger" so whoever that was I guess.
Who’s playing you in your biopic?
Keanu Reeves. Or maybe one of my brothers.
Goated music vid?
Eric Fensler's video for "External Coffee Tone" by TV Pow from 1998. It's really freaking good.
3 items you want to be buried with for use in the afterlife.
A gigantic shimmering broadsword with a handle made of pearl and emerald, a beautiful iridescent sea shell, and a photograph of my family.
Something people think is good that’s actually fucking shit?
For some weird reason people seem to love continuing the cycle of making the world a horrible, depressing, confusing, and misery-filled place. Doing that is wack. We need to all be out here trying to break cycles and make changes.
Pictured: Bug Bus Piano’s family’s car “which got stolen and totalled”.
A Youtube video that’s the best on Youtube?
A youtube video I think everyone should check out: Sudirman & Atai - Medley Kembar Kota | Mekar Sejambak (1988) | Asia's No. 1 Performer
An Interview Segment: 5-10-15-20-25-30-35-40-45-50-55-60-65, etc.
P4k The Music That Made You question format but it’s Madjestic Kasual. Music from every fifth year of your life that defined your being at that point.
5: Gary Numan — The Pleasure Principle
Because my mom or dad, I can't remember who, would play a tape of it all the time.
10: Mouse On Mars — Autoditacker
Because my mom's boyfriend played a tape of it in the car when he picked me up from school once.
15:
When I was 15 I wasn't listening to music that much, it was probably whatever my friends were listening to at the time like some hyphy stuff or some indie band stuff or whatever my dad was listening to like Gang Green or Angry Samoans CDs.
20: Marble Sky — No Matter How Close
When I was 20 it was this tape by Marble Sky called "No Matter How Close".
25: THE GEROGERIGEGEGE!!!!! — "Moenai Hai" (燃えない灰)
I think [it] had just come out that year.
30: Louis Chauvin and Scott Joplin — Heliotrope Bouquet
When I was 30 it was last year and I was really busy being defined by a lot of Ragtime music, specifically one piece called "Heliotrope Bouquet" which was composed by Louis Chauvin and Scott Joplin.
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