Scroobius Pip’s underrated beatsmith has enticed Emmy the Great, Merz and rapper B. Dolan aboard his debut ‘solo’ album, ‘Space Between the Words’. So what’s in le Sac’s sack?
Movie
“You might not see The Fifth Element as your classic love story but my wet face
by the end proves it. All good love stories should have guns, spaceships, floating-car chases, Gary Oldman’s oily head and an almost naked Milla Jovovich in my opinion. And Tricky is in it: how cool is that?”
Book
“Christopher Brookmyre is basically Agatha Christie after she’s spent a weekend in Prague with Irvine Welsh, Charlie Brooker, a very large wrap of speed, she’s jaded, angry and developing sexual fantasies about Miss Marple. You’ll find Quite Ugly One Morning in the Crime section of your local bookshop, but for me it’s as much to do with social anthropology as it is with whodunit.”
Album
“‘Horses in the Sky’ by Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra. You know how occasionally you see news stories like ‘Woman Marries House’ or ‘Man Bums Fence?’ Well that story will one day be about me, but I’ll be marrying all of Efrim Menuck’s band of merry men and women. With this one record they pluck every bleak, gnarled string and create something truly epic.”
Gadget
“The day I bought my first sampler, an eighth-hand Akai S612, was the day I realised I could make anything I wanted to. It had a massive one-sample capability and the incapability of actually saving that sample but, damn, I suddenly had drum breaks, basslines, brass stabs, snippets of rappers, my mother’s Hoover – whatever I wanted at my fingertips.”
