Matthew Levinson

Interviews: Jazzanova & Ewan Pearson

Published on 12/12/05
by matt

It’s been a quiet week here. Apologies, I’ve been temping at a Sydney paper writing and subbing, with any luck they’ll give me a job. Anyway, I wrote a couple of pieces last weekend for 3D World, so here are the links.

Jazzanova have a new set of remixes out and I got to chat with Jurgen von Knoblauch about it. As always only a fraction of the interview made it into the story, there’s only so much you can say in 500 words, I’ll have to get into gear and put up some of these Q&As before too long. Since leaving Compost to set up their own Sonarkollektiv label, they’ve gone from strength to strength, though they haven’t had huge amounts of time to work with. Of the 11 remixes they’ve released since then, my favourite is the rerub of Calexico’s Black Heart, a beautiful meeting of Jazzanova’s stuttery syncopated hip hop and Calexico’s wonderfully rich Tex-Mex indie.

Ewan Pearson was a pleasure to chat with too. Refreshingly articulate, interesting and modest about his achievements. I’ve been a fan of his stuff since the early Maas releases on Soma, but his remixes over the past few years have been particularly special. He was also one of the authors of Discographies, an academic take on dance music’s social impacts. He’s left the university now, but he covers his favourite 10 or so records every week at his blog Enthusiasms.

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