MUMDANCE INTERVIEW PLUS TRACKS
Categories: Interviews, Music
Mumdance of the Mad Decent clan (Diplo, Major Lazer, Boy 8 Bit) and one of the few poms we like is downunder and playing this Friday (11th) at the return of the rap-and-rave party ‘Wamp Wamp’ along with fellow boy band-ees Kato, Sleater Brockman and Jimmy Sing.
Having recently nailed the hulking track of a tune ‘Eurostarr’ with Brodinski (also in Oz) and overall madness we wanted to detain, probe and find out what makes him move.
Ubbs: Name, age, fetishes?
Mumdance: Jack Adams, 25, sleeping & weeping.
Ubbs: We all know mums like to ‘jive’ ‘jig’ and ‘get down on their bad thing’ but is your mum in particular a real footloose or is there another reason behind the Mumdance moniker?
Mumdance: My mum gets down with the best of them, but there is no real meaning behind the name, I just made it up when I was drunk…I do get asked this a lot though an always try to come through with a different answer. So for the purpose of this interview….The name mumdance is actually a political statement aimed at raising awareness towards the lucrative, yet highly illegal practice of people trafficking old women from eastern European countries to entertain Businessmen in Dubai by forcing them to stand semi naked on a bed of hot coals.
Ubbs: Your sound comes off like jungle-carni-rave, heavy drums, whistles and tigeress energy. Is this something thats flowered in you since day one or has Diplo secretly been narcotizing you with beats while slumbering?
Mumdance: I think the kinda big drum ensemble sound is deffo a favorite of mine, but I like to keep my sound moving and not have it rest in one place for too long. A lot of the newer stuff I have been doing sounds very different, its a new sound I’m calling “Kerplunk” as it reminds me of the kids game with the marbles when they all fall out when you lose
Ubbs: Eurostarr is and will be an even bigger track come (our) summer, how did the collab between you and Brondinski go down? man date? pen pals?
Mumdance: Me and Brodinski had been swapping music for a while over the internet for a while before we met at Paris Social Club, I guess about a year or so ago, we both have a very similar taste in music although are sounds are very different, we just decided to do a track, neither of us thought the tune would come this far, but we are both really happy with it and think its a great project as no one would normally pair us together. I’ve just actually been to Taronga Zoo with him today & we planned the next track we are gonna do, so keep an ear out!!
Ubbs: You recently sent out a question on twitter asking what your fans wanted you to film/do in Australia, what were the stranger requests?
Mumdance: I had some pretty bizarre requests, some which are a bit too controversial to write here, you are gonna have to go on my twitter an look (please note that I do not condone them & they are not my views)
Ubbs: Lasty bit of fun, boats sinking who’s with you and who would you use as a liferaft?
Mumdance: That chick from Ali Mcbeal or Arrsested Developements Portia De Rossi…..I think she is a lesbian maybe, but I still lurrrrrrrvvvve her. Thinking about it actually I dont reckon she would float too well, but I guess you cant win them all.
So there we go, collabs and makes giant shantys by accident, starting a new genre ‘Kerplunk’ and hopefully knows now that Portia De Rossi is married to Ellen Degeneres
He’s playing this Friday at Wamp Wamp (Syd) so if you and your fellow gee want a double pass email ubbs@stoneyroads.com with your own take on what Mumdance means and you could go fo-free.
Santogold – Creator (Mumdance War Bars Remix) Z
The Whip – Divebomb (Mumdance Carnival Remix) Z
Mumdance and Brodinski – Eurostarr (Zombie Disco Squad Remix) Z
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