Twin Cities Real Estate BlogRecently posted or modified blog posts by tag - Watskyhttps://www.minnesotaconnected.com/blog/Copyright MinnesotaConnected.com2022-10-28T07:09:24-07:00tag:minnesotaconnected.com,2012-09-20:14413Flashback to Soundset 2015<a href="https://assets.site-static.com/userfiles/693/image/minnesotaconnected/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Soundset-2016.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-1072200 aligncenter" alt="Soundset 2016" src="https://assets.site-static.com/userfiles/693/image/minnesotaconnected/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Soundset-2016.jpg" width="523" height="294" /></a>
With Soundset 2016 coming up this week, we here at Minnesota Connected thought it might be a timely moment to remember some of the highlights to the conversations we had last year.
Here are some thoughts from a few of Soundset 2015's line-up:
[caption id="attachment_107219" align="aligncenter" width="522"]<a href="http://minnesotaconnected.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/deM-atlaS-Performance-Soundset-2015-Miranda-Bergs-Minnesota-Connected.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-1072199 " alt="deM atlaS Performance Soundset 2015 (Miranda Bergs - Minnesota Connected)" src="https://assets.site-static.com/userfiles/693/image/minnesotaconnected/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/deM-atlaS-Performance-Soundset-2015-Miranda-Bergs-Minnesota-Connected.jpg" width="522" height="330" /></a> deM atlaS (on his artistic state-of-mind)[/caption]
"I have some really crazy sounds in my head. I want to follow up with the melodic tip of what <a href="http://www.rhymesayers.com/dematlas/releases/dwnr" target="_blank">DWNR</a> is and combine elements of that jazzy feel which is in <a href="https://dematlas.bandcamp.com/album/charle-brwn-ep" target="_blank">Charlie Brown</a>. I think that would be the only logical thing to do, but also, at the same time, I want to follow my heart. I hear rock songs in my head and I hear some jazzy songs, even some folk songs. I hear weird electronic, dirty pop songs and then of course I have bars going through my head the entire time of hip hop. There is so much that hip hop hasn't experimented with yet."
Find more deM atlaS material <a href="http://www.rhymesayers.com/dematlas" target="_blank">here</a>.
<a href="http://minnesotaconnected.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Soundset-2015-Crowd-Miranda-Bergs.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-1072201 aligncenter" alt="Soundset 2015 Crowd (Miranda Bergs)" src="https://assets.site-static.com/userfiles/693/image/minnesotaconnected/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Soundset-2015-Crowd-Miranda-Bergs.jpg" width="570" height="327" /></a>
Watsky (also on his artistic state-of-mind)
"Although my last <a href="https://gwatsky.bandcamp.com/album/all-you-can-do-live-from-the-regency" target="_blank">album</a> was very organic with a lot of live band elements. I love doing that. It was inspired by my parents raising me on a lot of psychedelic rock stuff. It wasn't really a straight-down-the-middle hip hop record. It had a lot of rock elements, but it didn't bump like how some hip-hop-heads want their albums to bump. It appealed to a lot of alternative listeners. I think the next album, I'll go back to just straight rapping over beats, because I like both things."
More Watsky music (along with his busy tour schedule) can be found <a href="http://georgewatsky.com/" target="_blank">here</a>. Tell a friend!
[caption id="attachment_107220" align="aligncenter" width="522"]<a href="http://minnesotaconnected.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Sa-Roc-Soundset-Minnesota-Connected-Interview-Miranda-Bergs.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-1072202 " alt="Sa-Roc Soundset Minnesota Connected Interview (Miranda Bergs)" src="https://assets.site-static.com/userfiles/693/image/minnesotaconnected/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Sa-Roc-Soundset-Minnesota-Connected-Interview-Miranda-Bergs.jpg" width="522" height="421" /></a> Sa Rock (on lyrical inspiration)[/caption]
"I'm like a complete fan-girl of Zora Neale Hurston. She was such a strong woman. Outside of being an author she was willing to take really big risks. She went to Haiti and wrote on the whole voodoo culture there. She did a lot of work with Langston Hughes and being part of that whole renaissance movement. She didn't allow herself to be controlled. Unapologetic in being herself and that's how I see myself. That's how I want to do my music... Now more than ever, it's important that lyrics matter."
Find more Sa-Roc music and updates through her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Sa-Roc-346940765533/" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>.
Soundset 2016 Tickets are still available <a href="http://www.soundsetfestival.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.
Photos courtesy of: Soundset -- Miranda Bergs
2016-05-25T22:00:00-07:002022-10-28T07:09:24-07:00Erik Bergs