Here is a mix we’ve been looking to bring you for a long long time. After many years of lurking round on the internet and scowering after Coco’s previous releases (Like this) passed on by time and continually growing volumes of music. The eclectics of this particular individual far surpassess any other musician I have followed. As such, this kind of diversity offers something fresh and new on the regular. #GetFamiliar
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Who is Coco Bryce?
One half of Light Club, skateboarder, dj, owner of a very small record label, part time creator of rubbish, full time lover.
Where abouts are you living the life at these days?
Breda, the Netherlands.
How does your surrounding climate influence your music?
The climate out here is usually pretty shitty, and so is my music, so I guess 100%.
What is the scene like there? Are you drawing from or collabing with good people?
There’s a couple of friends out here in Breda who are kind of into the same stuff as I am, Skweee and all that, but to call it a ‘scene’ might be pushing it a bit. And the one venue I used to play at and visit on a regular basis went bankrupt a couple of months ago. I regularly play in Antwerp though, which is only like a half an hour away from my hometown. Antwerp has a nice scene going on, I love it out there, good crowd, well into the music. Next Level Shit throw some proper parties. As far as collabs go, I only ever really do collabs via email/internet. I don’t like sitting in a studio together with someone else at the same time. There’s my homie Motëm in Canada, who I freguently collaborate with under our collective Light Club moniker. Tokyo native Emufucka, did some collabs and remixes with him. And Kelpe of course.
How long have you been into making music?
I’d say about 15 years now.
Producing as long as you have I wonder if you feel that you have found your sound? Or, are you on a never ending quest through music.
I’m often told that most of my tunes do have a certain “Coco” sound to them, put I don’t know what it is exactly tbh… I tend to get tired of sticking to the same genres for too long at a time, so I guess yeah, you could say I’m on that never ending quest. I like to switch things up a bit, although I do find myself coming back to certain elements time and time again, like chopped up breakbeats and Rave pianos and stuff like that. I just did a couple of Crunk/Trap joints the other day, with Rave pianos in there.
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How do you plan out a set or mixtape?
Depends on the occasion really. Sometimes I don’t plan anything at all, other times I’ll check which tunes I want to play and see which ones fit best with each other, like, not make an entire set, but just to see what sounds nice, which combos work well. Especially when I have a lot of new tunes, because I don’t want to stand there in front of the crowd, mixing two joints that sound awful when put together you know. And then there’s the times when I plan a certain set, get to the party, and the vibe will be completely different from what I’d expected it to be and I’ll end up playing a totally different set from what I planned.
Are you the kind of guy that sits on heaps of unreleased tracks? That impression comes off a bit.
Well kind of. But I drop so much rubbish for free on my Soundcloud and Bandcamp pages I think most of my halfway decent tunes have been or will be released someway or another.
How quickly do you move through new music?
Very quickly. like, I’ll skip through new releases really quickly and will usually hear in a couple of seconds whether I like the way it sounds or not. But I always end up discovering tunes I really like after a couple more listens, things that didn’t grab my attention right away you know. Which are more often than not the ones I end up liking most of all. The growers.
What are you most frequented sources for new music?
Well it used to be all about the record stores of course. But it’s mainly the internet nowadays for me. Sometimes I’ll pick something up from the radio or someone else’s dj sets. But mainly the internet, like, Soundcloud, Boomkat, Bandcamp, and I’ve been downloading shitloads of mixtapes from Datpiff lately as well. Lots of good, free tunes on there. And of course everything my homies send over to me. I swap a lot of stuff with my internet pals.
What’s you favourite track / record / album / mix set of all time?
pffffffff, I don’t think there’s any way I could answer that one.. growing up, my favourite tunes used to always be Tyree Cooper‘s ‘Turn Up The Bass‘ and ‘Golden Brown‘ by The Stranglers. But right now, I couldn’t tell you my all time fav if my life depended on it. Too many good albums man.. Check Your Head, The Ruler’s Back, Madvillainy, The Unseen, Hard To Earn, Afreaka, First Toke… the list goes on and on and on…
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If you had to choose, would you rather have paper teeth or fingers made out of asparagus?
I don’t much like asparagus, so I’ll take the paper teeth.. I’d just have to stick to yogurt..
Leave us w. some words on the mix you’ve provided. Where and with what it was recorded. ect.
Last week, at home, on two Pioneer CDJ’s and a cassette deck.
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