Slightly oT I know, but a couple of you were talking about his film and I
ran across this story.
http://www.mtv.com/sendme.tin?page=/news/articles/1439172/20010207/mix_master_mike.jhtml
Turntable wizard Mix Master Mike will provide the score to "Jails,
Hospitals and Hip-Hop," an upcoming film adaptation of writer/actor Danny
Hoch's solo performance piece.
"Jails" combines footage from Hoch's one-man shows, performed at both
theaters and prisons around the U.S., into a poignant multiple-character
study of the ways hip-hop has been integrated into our culture.
Mix Master Mike said the producers of "Jails" came to the right person to
create the turntable-based score.
"I've been to jail and to the hospital, so since I always wanted to score
a motion picture, this was a perfect fit," he explained. "In scoring this,
I matched the mood of the scene with scratch music. There's this one scene
where Danny's performing in front of inmates, and I felt psychedelic and
psychotic music was right for that scene, since being locked up would make
anyone crazy."
The film was co-directed by Hoch and Mark Benjamin, who made the
documentary "The Last Party" about the 1992 Democratic National Convention
and was the cinematographer for Marc Levin's award-winning 1998 film
"Slam." "Jails" will premiere in New York on March 30 before making a
limited-access U.S. run.
Mix Master Mike is one of the founding members of the San Francisco Bay
Area's Invisibl Skratch Piklz, the preeminent turntablist crew, and he's
also the current DJ for the Beastie Boys, with whom he toured after their
1998 album Hello Nasty, featuring the collaborative track "Three MCs and
One DJ." Following a number of experimental hip-hop collage and
"breaks" records, he released his debut solo LP, Anti-Theft Device, in
1998, as well as the EPs "Suprize Packidge" and "Eye of the Cyclops."
Eric Demby
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