In May 2009, indie-rock/hip-hop duo Inspired Flight traveled north to play an after-party at a friend’s house in the Hollywood Hills. As Mira Mesa resident Eric Poline stood at the turntable and Gabe Lehner of Encinitas sang and played guitar, two men came up and asked them to turn up the volume. They did. The men grabbed microphones and started rapping over Inspired Flight’s beats. One of the men introduced himself as Rugged Monk, an MC from Wu-Tang Clan’s West Coast affiliate Black Knights.
“Rugged Monk held it down for an hour. He got in a pretty gnarly [rap] battle with a guy from the East Coast named Propane. It was awesome to watch,” writes Lehner.
Later in ’09, as Lehner and Poline recorded their debut album in Lehner’s home studio, the duo decided to ask rappers to contribute vocals to the mix. A few months later, Rugged Monk agreed to lay down rhymes.
Lehner and Poline drove up to Rugged Monk’s home in L.A., picked up the rapper, and drove him back down to Encinitas to record tracks for their debut We All Want to Fly, a mashup of hip-hop, indie-rock, folk, and jazz.
“We recorded him, treated him to a nice lunch and dinner out, and took him back to Los Angeles all in the same day,” recalls Lehner.
Inspired Flight then hit up Rugged Monk to ask if any Wu-Tang rappers would like to appear on the record.
“Rugged Monk put me on the phone with Inspectah Deck, [who] gave me his manager’s number and told me to call it the next day and said, ‘We’ll make this happen,’ ” writes Lehner, who says he’s been listening to Wu-Tang Clan since he was in junior high in Vista. “We ended up getting a rap verse that is perfect for our song [‘We All Want to Fly’].”
Inspired Flight plans to shoot a music video with Inspectah Deck for the single.
(By Dorian Hargrove | Published Wednesday, June 9, 2010)
Inspired Flight - 01 It's The Chemicals (feat. Scarub)
Inspired Flight - 02 It Always Takes
Inspired Flight - 03 Pull. Push. Let Go (feat. Eligh)
Inspired Flight - 04 I Won't Let You Down
Inspired Flight - 05 Wishy Washy
Inspired Flight - 06 Jackie's Song
Inspired Flight - 07 Before Im Done (feat. Rugged Monk)
Inspired Flight - 08 Peace Of Mind Through The Hardest Truths
Inspired Flight - 09 An Ocean Of Great Whites (feat. Eligh)
Inspired Flight - 10 Eight Words
Inspired Flight - 11 We All Want To Fly (feat. Inspectah Deck)
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By the last few years Evgeny Shchukin, Alexander Tochilkin and Evgeny Fomin worked a long way from home experiments in native Krasnodar to striking live shows in best capital clubs and releases in Europe and North America. Level Records, Ostwind, U-Cover, Pro-Tez and even digital subdivision of legendary Harthouse, found by Sven Vath in early 90's, are among their labels not to mention all. Lections on electronic music for german pupils, Reb Bull Music Academy participation, acting on one stage with such masters as Apparat and Thomas Fehlmann - all this luggage is under their belt.
Free maneuvering between club oriented formats (Modul is well known for their dance live gigs) and home-listening pieces became a distinguishing feature of the team. Creating productions the band uses both analog and digital equipment, as well as acoustic instruments and self-designed devices. The members consider that contemporary musician must competently combine various facilities, use all available resources and not confine to a certain bound of one musical style.
Modul is a delicate balance between complexed and coloured, simple and insipid; a compound construction of many original parts. Their sound could be described as symbiosis of tuneful IDM, pieces of classical electronica and modern rhythms.
In 2010 Evgeny Fomin left the team and devoted himself to neo-funk/jazz and other related genres. Together with pianist Vladimir Shubin he started to perfom as Obertonbox. Evgeny Shchukin and Alexander Tochilkin also took several other aliases (such as Feldmaus for ambient forms and Wols for ab
01- Modul - Del aire
02- Modul - Ardour
03- Modul - Quarterlife (part 1)
04- Modul - Eversun dekka
05- Modul - Rassvet (rework)
06- Modul - Swim with sugar (lump version)
07- Modul - Kara melek
08- Modul - Quarterlife (part 2)
09- Modul - Applause phenomena (with clapan)
10- Modul - Eastwood
11- Modul - Look my pillow is flying
12- Modul - Good morning light (rework)
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