Interview from the Vault

Een klein unicum mag het interview wel genoemd worden. Jason Kohnen, aka Bong-Ra, kan het aantal journalisten dat hij per jaar spreekt op twee handen tellen. Dat is vreemd, want de naam Bong-Ra wordt alsmaar bekender. KindaMuzik sprak, twee weken na de release van zijn derde studioalbum, de Utrechter in het centrum van zijn woonplaats over zijn nieuwe langspeler, de twee-eenheid die Bong-Ra heet, en de magie van muziek tijdens de puberteit.

Publicatiedatum: 12 december 2005
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Ravestep!

The first official fully produced Bong-Ra sample pack released on Prime Loops, a great company that provides packs for all kinds of different genres.

From PrimeLoops.com :

Crank the speakers up to eleven, turn up the strobe lights and push the smoke button until there’s no more sense of space and time: This is “Ravestep” - Prime Loops’ latest groundshaking dance floor innovation, fusing together deep and hard-knocking Dubstep flavours with all-out, energetic Rave vibes! You will not find another release like this, anywhere. Get ready to set the roof on fire - NOW!

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‘Cyclops’ on new free Ad Noiseam Compilation

Ad Noiseam Summer 2011 label compilation.

Four volume of the label compilations series, with a new selection of 14 tracks. As usual, a CDR copy is given with each purchase from the Ad Noiseam online store. This digital version intends on being an way to check out and discover some sounds you might have missed. (Download the free version / Buy the high resolution version) All the tracks on this compilation are taken from Ad Noiseam releases.

A bandwidth-friendly version of this compilation can be downloaded for free . However, if you enjoy these tracks, remember that you can purchase the CD or records from which these tracks are taken from the Ad Noiseam online store. A higher-resolution version of this compilation (with all tracks encoded at 320 Kbs) can also be purchased from Ad Noiseam, to support the artists and this label.

Half a Euro on each purchase of the high resolution version is given to Amnesty International.

Bong-Ra ‘Cyclops’

Run Tingz Cru Remix

Remixing a track for the Bristol based Run Tingz Cru. A heavy DNB / Amen stomper for the dancefloor.

The track is called ‘Ganja Man Ting’ featuring the awesome vocals of BLACKOUT J.A.

All The Colours Of The Night

The night has roared, and now has many colours and shades on King Cannibal’s most varied record to date. From this established producer’s insidious remix of Bong-Ra’s “Come Out To Play” or Machine Code’s anthemic and furious version of “Dirt” to the more laid back and melodic remixes by Krumble and Dead Fader, this EP is an accurate snapshot of what King Cannibal is about: not only can he pack a dancefloor, but he also delivers gentle tunes or impressive beatwork. King Cannibal has a posse, an untamed, diverse one.(get this on 12″ / as digital files) That Dylan Richards (King Cannibal) is an astute remixer and collaborator is a known fact. From the high-profile guests featured on his Ninja Tune releases to the extensive DJ and remixer works of his early years, he’s always been somebody eager to work with other producers. This is the case again with “All The Colours Of The Night”, which could somewhat have been titled “All The Colours of King Cannibal”: four tracks written with four other artists, and four different takes at King Cannibal’s sound.
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Sick Sick Sick

If I always felt some sort of adversity towards electronics music it wasn’t because I thought it was unable to take music to places where the human capability was uncapable of exploring, but because I thought of it as a soulless craft. It was ignorant and short sighted of me to think that way because clearly, whether through guitars or programming it all still comes as spawn of human creativity. Plus by now things have changed, a plethora of bold musicians are pushing the envelope in unimaginable ways and are helping rejuvenate genres that may have in many senses exhausted themselves; melting extreme metal, IDM, drum & bass and others shaping music that is as cutting edge as it is absurdly heavy fast and extreme. To me nowhere is that more evident than on the killer compilation Full Metal Racket which presents re-recorded and remastered versions Bong-Ra’s 12” EPs Sick Sick Sick and Grindkrusher. The resulting product is thoroughly enjoyable, offensive, fucking crushing from any angle and thoroughly fresh. I plead ignorance as far as an existing scene making this type of mélange, so if I call Bong-Ra groundbreaking and is not, excuse me!.

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