Today we've got the purveyor of cavernous bass, Muroidea, in for a chat about his music, but not only that, he's also giving away TWO free tunes, which you can grab below. This interview has been in the works for a while, ever since he sent me a tune called "Rain" with heavy bass and messed up drums that caught my attention straight away, so glad to finally have him down. Check it out...
NT: Hey man, give us an introduction to Muroidea...
M: I produce under the
name Muroidea. I make tunes usually ranging from 110 BPM to 140 BPM, but
sometimes I like to mess around with 170 BPM as well. My sound is dark
and typically beat driven; big bass and strange percussion.
NT: Your music, whilst having the clear unifying theme of bass, seems to
draw from a lot of separate places. Tell us a little about your tastes
and where you draw influence from?
M: For a while I dedicated my
attention to figuring out what electronic music was all about, because I
had entirely ignored and scoffed at it until then. I realised what I
had missed and now I spend all of my time looking for new music, I don't
do much else.
So my influences for what I do with my
productions are always Shackleton, Old Apparatus and Horsepower
Productions / El-B, and a few different ambient artists. Although I tend
to go through phases of listening to certain types of electronic music
and being influenced heavily by the main aspects of those genres as I
see them, whatever it may be. I see it as research... For the last few
months I've been learning a lot about techno; that kind of deep, dark
and sometimes industrial aesthetic is great, it's what I enjoy most.
Generally what I try to do with my tunes is to pack as much atmosphere,
darkness and feeling (maybe a bit of terror / horror) into a few minutes
as possible, and a big bassline with dramatic samples tends to do that
well. I guess I want my tracks to highlight the parts of music which I
enjoy when I hear tunes on a system, so the physical effect of bass is a
big part of that.