Curta

     Episode 27 of The Throw Away Days I sit down with Curta. Curta is a rapper from Denver, CO. We discuss his start in spoken word, transitioning to being a rapper, quitting his full time job to make time for his art, touring to make connections, and more. Take a listen to this conversation because it’s insightful if you’re an aspiring artists and/or fan of Curta. Also, I’m terrible at writing these discussion bio’s. Let the monkey masturbate.

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Commit

     If I had one word of advice to give any and everyone it would be commit. Commit to love, commit to jobs, commit to friends, commit to hobbies, commit to dreams, commit to school, commit to pets, commit to every positive force in your life that makes you you. There will come a time when whatever you’re committed to has to decide if it wants you or someone else, and it will always pick the one who is fully committed. 

     Nobody and nothing wants the person who is one foot in one foot out. The person who is keeping their options open for what’s next half concocting a back up plan. If you’re not trying your hardest there’s no point in trying at all. The universe only wants what is fully in, only the lifers, only the ones with tunnel vision and selective hearing, only the ones who take risks with their passions and don’t make excuses. Whatever you do in your life commit it or quit it.

ialive & Height Keech - These Days

The first single released off the ialive and Height Keech collaborating effort, Timewave Zero on Cold Rhymes Records, is the track These Days. Height is producing this project while ialive handles the vocals which include both rapping and singing. Although relatively new to production Height Keech has already found a style of production that’s all his and can carry a very catchy groove thanks to his unconventional style of digging in different genres and different formats. This beat in particle makes me feel like it’s winter and I’m sitting in a cabin in front of a fire sipping hot chocolate. The track These Days ialive talks about “replaying my favorite memories over metronomes,” as is stated in his hook. The hook that occurs every eight bars is ialive flexing his singing voice, something he’s been doing more and more often lately. The short eight bar verses are enough for ialive to delivery at least one memory in a very relaxing tone over Heght’s track that I can only best describe as, cold blue, which is fitting because ialive talks a lot about gloomy/cold weather (but not in a negative way). I’m expecting to hear more stuff like These Days on this release. Opposed to ialive’s more boom-bap influenced tracks I think Cold Rhymes Records will give him the freedom to stray from his purist roots & try something left field of rap while a more centered towards pop structure.


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TTAD #26 w/ K Death of Moodie Black

I got the opportunity to interview K Death of Moodie Black when they toured through Philadelphia. K Death (Chris) was the first person I had 100% never talked to before an interview. I reached out via twitter and we set up a time and place to meet before the show.

We did the interview at a coffee shop near the venue since the venue wasn't open yet. So obviously there's some background noise and I wasn't able to cut out all the dead ends in our conversation since I didn't want it to seem super choppy.

After the interview while talking to Chris via email I was informed that Chris identified with she/her instead of he/him. I immediately felt like a buster for not being aware of this. Especially since the next episode of Moodhouse podcast was about trans awareness. This could have been a great chance for me to tackle something more important rather than just tracing an artists discography. But I wasn't confident with my knowledge on the subject, so instead of trying to use this podcast to educate myself on the topic with someone who has been living through it I ignored it.

...you don't convince people to listen to your interview with K Death of Moodie Black by mentioning all the things that you forgot to bring up. None the less if you're a fan of Moodie Black or noise rap in general checking out this interview will be well worth you time. We discuss K Death not wanting Moodie Black to be pigeon holed as some underground artists, Death Grips fans, not liking to collaborate, thinking rap names are silly, and more!

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