BEATY HEART
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Tribal drums and looping, shiny samples, South East London foursome Beaty Heart are making a welcome appearance at Off Modern on the 4th of March. We caught up with drummer/samplist/vocalist Charlie Rotberg to see how it’s all coming along, and swipe an exclusive new track from him.
O/M
Hello Charlie, can you give me a tiny wee description of Beaty Heart and the sonic delights that you make with them?
Charlie
Fruity Roy Orbison with bangra beatz. In your face up your batty. We try and create an organic, percussive sound clash, with collage of samples and loops, whoops and tiny bum hoops.
O/M
That’s wonderful. You chaps certainly love ‘percussive sound clash’. Who’s the best at it? And how do you go about creating such complicated rhythmic duets?
Charlie
Probably James, he’s well tight. I think the patterns we play are often pretty simple. Its more the layering up of the simple patterns that helps create an interesting beat. We get a lot of inspiration from Afro Caribbean and latin drums, which often involves group percussion and several parts. Three of us were drummers originally so yeah, its pretty key to us.
O/M
Could you shed some light on your track COLA, and are there any more plans to record in the future?
Charlie
Well it was recorded in James’ bedroom with one microphone, kind of spur of the moment thing really. Its a relatively new track, and one that we thought would translate well when recorded. We plan to record some more tracks, hopefully one in the next week. Its gunna be well rammo.
O/M
Faves?
Charlie
I think we’re all a bit out of the loop (bar Lou Bega. Mumbo number five). How ever several guilty pleasures such as Lady Gaga, Akon, Girls Aloud, Alicia Keys etc. There is this really great band actually called “Select Funk”, they’re on Bebo, check em out.
O/M
Worsties?
Charlie
We unanimously like “SmashMouth”.
O/M
That’s it, so long
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Beaty Heart play Off Modern 13 on March 4th at Corsica Studios, and are curating their own evening of music at the Camberwell Crypt on March 18th with music from themselves, New Yoga, and Jam City. Check out www.myspace.com/beatyheart for more info.