Meet Ezra Funkhouser, a Chicago electronic musician who goes by the name go SP-33. He sent me a project of his awhile and ago and I’ve been holding on to it. The record is called “Escape From Tha Carter”. It is a project that involves remixing Lil’ Wayne’s tracks using the “Escape From New York” score as the sampling music. Ezra explains, ‘I am hesitant to call it a mash-up because it isn’t just a mix of “track A” with “track B”. Instead, I totally deconstruct both the Wayne lyrics and the “Escape From New York” tracks. Then I reconstruct them to make something completely new. ‘
He continues, ‘this project came about because, for whatever reason, I was listening to a lot of Lil’ Wayne and watching a lot of grimmey and dark sci-fi flicks (Blade Runner, Escape from New York, Tetsuo The Iron Man, Metropolis). While watching these films I wondered what the pop music on the radio stations would sound like. So I embarked on creating dark, distorted, and grimmey pop/hip-hop music. Much like “Escape from New York” and “Blade Runner” the music is muggy and dense and surrounds the audience in a dystopic and unstable environment.’
I simply cannot get enough. Lil Wayne has never sounded so different. Or so good. And yes, you guessed it, you can download ‘Escape From Tha Carter’ for free. You’re welcome!
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