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[Adi Granov]

A couple of things.

I am scheduled to do an interview for Millarworld's the Magazine this week which should be out soon. It's an in person interview over dinner so it should be more relaxed an personal than your usual question and answer thing. Although, when I don't have the buffer of thinking the answers through I always end up offending someone somehow. I am way too opinionated for my own good. But anyhow, hopefuly, it will be fun to read.

I am doing a new Iron Man cover at the moment and it's absolutely the most detailed thing I've done in years. We have an incredible airplane museum here in the area and you can get under the planes and look at engines and such so I got really inspired by all the complex technology and decided to really go all out on this cover. I wanted to do the concept so badly that I only did one layout for the editors to try to convince them that that is the one (usually I do 3-4). Luckily they liked it right away without any changes :)

And in other news: I've gotten completely addicted to Amon Tobin music. I can't stop listening to his last two albums.

[Professor Oreo]

Sweet! I look forward to the interview and the new cover!

Hmmm... what kind of music is that Amon Tobin stuff? What genre would you say it is, or does it defy classification?

[Adi Granov]

It actually kinda defies any genre really. But it's kindof like 70's spy movie jazz fusion played by the Chemical Brothers. It's very unique. Techno jazz... hard to describe it. But it has that James Bond soundtrack feel but with incredible beats composed of live drums which roll and build throughout. Superb stuff.

[Professor Oreo]

007 Superspy jazz? Sounds pretty off the wall, I'll definitely have to check it out. :D

[chrismarker]

A couple of things.

I am scheduled to do an interview for Millarworld's the Magazine this week which should be out soon. It's an in person interview over dinner so it should be more relaxed an personal than your usual question and answer thing. Although, when I don't have the buffer of thinking the answers through I always end up offending someone somehow. I am way too opinionated for my own good. But anyhow, hopefuly, it will be fun to read.

I am doing a new Iron Man cover at the moment and it's absolutely the most detailed thing I've done in years. We have an incredible airplane museum here in the area and you can get under the planes and look at engines and such so I got really inspired by all the complex technology and decided to really go all out on this cover. I wanted to do the concept so badly that I only did one layout for the editors to try to convince them that that is the one (usually I do 3-4). Luckily they liked it right away without any changes :)

And in other news: I've gotten completely addicted to Amon Tobin music. I can't stop listening to his last two albums.


Adi -- look forward to reading the interview: and I for one am glad there's no buffer for your expression: I just hope the person asks you interesting questions -- especially as they realte to music and art and your own fascinating history.

Wow, can't wait to see the new Iron Man cover -- sounds awesome: Looking over issue#5, at the new armor -- which again, I think is awesome -- I did wonder about the spareness of his upper torso: Oddly, though, I still think that gold scaled underskin that pops out of Tony' skin though is the ultimate progression of the armor.

Have to check out Amon Tobin's stuff: There's a lot of great "techno-jazz" coming out of Detroit (the city that invented Techno, actually). A lot of it actually draws on traditional Bossa Nova mixed with electronica, which makes for a pretty amazing sound: It's like Stereolab, Thievery Corporation, and Antonio Carlos Jobim all thrown into one!

[Adi Granov]

The interview went quite good, if a bit hectic. Over really good chinese food. Although I was quite tired that day after working on the cover all night so I think I rambled a bit much. Hopefully it will be edited enough to make me seem resonable.

Amon Tobin is a lot darker and harder than Stereolab or Thievery Corporation (both of which I like a lot). He really builds on a dark mood. His stuff is very complex without being noticably so. It's very expertly composed where very challenging parts are combined into a surprisingly catchy and listenable songs. He progresses from smooth jazz into full on jungle assault with such smoothness it makes it seem like the most natural thing ever. And he doesn't seem to use any manufactured sounds, not even for beats, it all sounds like live samples, which really gives him an earthy and analogue sound.

He did the soundtrack for the last Splinter Cell game which is incredible.

[chrismarker]

Adi -- can you post a link to the interview when it comes out? Thanks!

Wow, definitely have to pick up some of Tobin's stuff -- it sounds great, especially the way you describe it's "analogue" and non-manufactured sound?

Do you know any of Buckshot Lefonque's stuff? The great jazz saxophonist Branford Marsallis (sp?) (brother of the living jazz legend Wynton) founded the band as a jazz/hip-hop experiment, but with all original instrumentals and sampling: Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't (in my very humble opinion), but when it does work, it's fantastic.

Anyway, it's bloody crazy in Detroit right now because of the "Super Bowl." I hate it because it's very hard to get to work downtown with all of the traffic and world media, etc. On the other hand. Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, The Four Tops, and a lot other vintage Motown alumni are all over the place -- which is just fucking GRAND!!!

[chrismarker]

Adi-- didn't mean to put a question mark "?" after "non-manufactured sound."

I detest that kind of music: "making sausage" we call it, for obvious reasons!

[chrismarker]

Adi-- have you heard any stuff by Nuspirit Helsinki? Love their music!

[Adi Granov]

Haven't heard either of the groups you mention. Will have to check them out.

[Keravin]

The interview was done for Fractal Matter. None of this Magazine nonsense anymore.