| ■ Ooze bap interview questions for didac (Ooze.bap) |
| PLOP：please tell me about yourself, and how the label started. |
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I was born in Brazil but I live in Barcelona since I was a child. Now I'm 27 and I'm working with music since 1996 when I started a cd-r label called minim. Since then I'm always trying to mix my personal work as a musician with organizer and publisher job. oozebap started in 2000, and we combine the releases with events, festivals and a magazine. Our first goal: to promote the music we like in a country that is very difficult to do it... |
| PLOP：what is the concept of the label? what does "ooze.bap" mean?? |
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The name is onomatopoeic, so its meaning is a sound meaning... The concept is to develop the local scene spreading ways to do and to understand the music. Actually oozebap is a label, but we have other activities non related with the music. One of the projects is to make a Library in one of the poorest areas in Barcelona next year, with out any public help. We try to make small projects close to the community, not just for fun. About the music we release, we don't like the genres, so we look for unclassifiable sounds, but we know that this is not easy. With the time we are learning more and more about what we want and how to do it. |
| PLOP：where do you find the artists on your label? do you expect demotapes from japan? if so, please tell me where to send them. |
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We use to contact people around the world that
we like, but sometimes the demos we received from unknown projects
are really cute, so please: send demos! |
| PLOP：your artworks are very beautiful and unique. how do you come upwith the idea? |
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we work with a friend that, we think, is one
of the best spanish designers. you can check his work at: http://www.72shit.org
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| PLOP：is it difficult to start a label in spain - like distribution problems,manufacturing costs etc.? |
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Yes, for us it's very difficult. So that's why we act in a different way. We are not a company. The cd's are paid by friends and people who love the music, and everybody in the label is working by free. And the distribution is very hard too, specially if you are not in the mainstream of the electronica world... |
| PLOP：we know about lucky kitchen label and the sonar festival but not toomuch about the situation over there. what is the scene like in spain? |
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I think that there's a big different inside the country. There's Barcelona, and there's the rest... So in Barcelona there a small scene because there are people from europe and America (North and South) that comes to live here... But anybody is selling anything, and people don't use to pay for see the shows, so it's difficult to remain only making music. |
| PLOP：is the spanish government open to helping out and developing new cultures? |
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Definitely no. They don't see the music as a cultural thing, they think that is just a business because the 98% of the music released by spanish labels are very commercial. So we can't ask for help because they think that we are going to make a lot of money pressing cd's... But we are not worry about it, because we don't want their money; we try to survive outside the empire... :) |
| PLOP：opposite to the previous question, do you know anything about thejapanese electronic music scene? any interests?? |
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I've never been in Japan, but of course I know some projects. All the noise/improv masters, but I'm most interested in people like Boredoms or Asa-Chang & Junray, who I discovered some months ago and now I'm a big fan. |
| PLOP：what are your future plans on ooze.bap? |
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With music, we are starting a new series of minicd's,
very very cute and very very cheap. Less than 2 US Dollar each one...
and with Richard Thomas from London, Estupendo (the best Argentinean
band) from Buenos Aires and Edwin Torres from New York, a spoken
word poet jamming with punk, easy listening and whatever... The
idea is to put 3 minicd's together in a bag for international distribution.
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| PLOP: list 5 favorite albums you're currently listening to: |
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Asa-Chang & Junray: Jun Ray Song Chang (Leaf)
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