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Menu Music interview With Jay Cunning & Tel Hooligan Reported by Tom Cypher / Submitted 20-07-05 20:12 Jay Cunning and Terry Atomic Hooligan are two of the leading players in the breaks scene. Jay has been involved since day one, throwing shapes (and no doubt pulling a few funny faces) at raves since 1989, whilst Terry is synonymous with propping up bars at the capital's finer breaks nights. Both are set to launch their Menu Music label this month with the super phat ‘Flashlighter’ by Rico Tubbs. Within the breaks scenes both Jay & Terry are legends. Jay was inspired by the emerging sounds of ‘ardcore and Jay has been involved in running numerous pirate radio stations promoting events and knocking out beats. In 2001 things came to a head when he became involved in running the infamous breaks internet radio station Breaks FM which, coupled with his natty skill for 3 deck mixing, has seen Jay play all over the UK and the world. The Menu boys — mine’s a jumbo sausage Atomic Hooligan should really need no introduction. Two partners Terry Hooligan & Matt Welch, Atomic Hooligan have been causing some serious waves with their debut album ‘You Are Here’ which has transcended their DJ status into a live concept which has seen them perform (and subsequently smash up) Glastonbury, Fabric Live!, Cargo amongst many other venues. Terry’s deck skillz have seen the Atomics rated as one of the Top 10 breaks DJs in the world in the recent Breakspoll Awards. Together Terry, Matt & Jay are about to drop Menu Music, their new label which focuses to promote their ethos of throwing the biggest parties, with the most rocking tunes to the most up for it people. Menu’s debut release ‘Flashlighter’ from Norwegian legend Rico Tubbs has already set the pace, getting an obscene amount of support. Harderfaster caught up with Terry & Jay as they prepare to drop their first release on their new label Menu Music. Harderfaster: Hi chaps, it’s great to have finally caught up with the both of you. You’re both extremely busy DJs in your own right, how do you find time to work together on the label? Jay — I'm really busy, Terry just pretends to be busy when he actually spends all day filtering thru the internet for pictures of anything that’s naked. Terry — Wow, you got my number! HF: Flashlighter is enjoying a tremendous amount of success at the moment from a limited DJ mailout… who’s been supporting it and did you expect it to get such great feedback? We've had great support from the Stantons, Kid Kenobi, Krafty Kuts, Quest, Ellis D and Rennie Pilgrem has been dropping it at his Sunday nite Barmiztva's whenever he can — Tohda Rennie! HF: How did you hook up with Rico Tubbs? Jay — We found Rico on a small island where he worked in a volcano as Tofo Self Defense instructor. We realized he had far more potential in making tough party tunes so we dragged him back to work in my basement. Rico Tubbs searches for the perfect outdoor cocktail[ HF: Jay — you’ve been in the dance scene since the early days, how does breaks today compare with the hardcore of yesteryear? The music, although different in some aspects, is very similar in its progression… hardcore grew by drawing on influences from house, funk, hip hop to breed its own unique sound and breaks has done the same. Over the last 4-5 years you've seen breakbeat take influences from all aspects of dance music and incorporate in itself. HF: Your 6 decks and FX set has been tearing up many a party across the globe and is, to be fair, a pretty full on show piece… how did you come up with the concept and do you find promoters are keen to book it? Jay — I think promoters that haven’t seen it are scared of it, when you hear someone say they have 17 decks, 5 mixers, 2 cow bells and a 12 piece orchestra they get frightened but it’s all about using the extra elements creatively, I mean at most we'll have 4 on at once and that would typically be 2 tracks, an acapella and Terry scratching. The concept started off when I was on Groovetech.com and one week I asked Terry to come down and lay some scratches over my mixes and it worked really well.. from there we completely took the piss and threw in a few more decks and there ya have it! We get asked a lot if we rehearse but we never do, we did once and it all fell to shit so we decided to freestyle from there on! The biggest set up we had was 7 decks, 2 mixers, Matt Hooligan on FX & Ziggy on the mic. Jay Cunning HF: What’s the best party you’ve taken it too? Jay — That’s a tough one to answer, for sheer size it has to be either the FlashMob festival in Russia (12,000+) or Esparrago (20,000+) in Spain. But then you get amazing gigs like we have had in Romania where we played at TMBase festival in a dirty underground warehouse to 1,200 or at our quarterly residency @ In Beat We Trust in St Petersburg. Each of the shows has their own special element that makes them great. HF: Terry — Your debut album ‘You Are Here’ dropped earlier this month on Botchit and Scarper and we’d like to think it’s one of the best breaks albums we’ve heard in ages. How long did you spend working on it and did you set out to write such a diverse album? Terry — It took us about 3 years to write! A long time you may say… and I would agree with you, but it was a funny process, we would write music, work it, mix it, and then cannibalise it for a new tunes. Nothing on the album as a complete track was more than 6 months old when the album got finished. We just kept adapting and adapting it till we thought it was right. Myself and Matt always wanted to make our album sound like an album, rather than a compilation of breaks tracks. So I suppose in a funny way, we always wanted it to be diverse. A lot of the really diverse tracks didn’t make it on. Terry & Matt Hooligan HF: Terry — You’ve gone one step further and taken the album live, how’s this been going so far and was it always something you wanted to do? Terry — Well we have actually been playing live in one form or another for the last 7 years probably. That’s really how we started in little live venues all over the south of England, with a pair of turntables and a computer. Of course what we do now is a hell of a lot more live. So we have always had that side to us, but we wanted to up our game for the album and the live show that goes with it. We always wanted to get it as live as possible, with no lap tops, but still keep that dance floor sound to it! I think we have got it now! HF: Menu music is a concept you’ve been developing for a while now, what’s the story? Terry — We just wanted a label that released party tunes, and what we wanted to play and hear! There’s no rocket science to it. We now have the label, but we also have our radio show, and our club sets. All combine for good times!! Jay — It took so long as we were searching for the right tunes. We got sent so much over the last 2 years and some of it well worth putting out but it was really hard to find our niche! HF: There aren’t enough girls in breakbeat — discuss… Jay — Maybe 5 years ago, when was the last time you went to a breaks night?! Terry — What are you talking about? The gals — dem love the breaks! Get off my chips HF: How did you and the Hooligans hook up? Jay — Mainly through being the last 2 drunk people left at the bar, we both used to go to the Collision (Botchit & Mechanoise) nights at Madam JoJos and for some reason we’d be the ones they were throwing out in to the street... ahh happy days. HF: Where can we catch you playing over the coming months? Jay — All over the shop! 15 Jul 05 / Lyon, France 29 Jul 05 / Heavyweight Breaks, Manchester 30 Jul 05 / Cadis, Spain 06 Aug 05 / Infamous Basscamp, Romania 02 Sep 05 / Ram (Resident) @ The End 21 Oct 05 / TM05Base Festival. Romania 04 Nov 05 / Ram (Resident) @ The End Terry — I just about know what I’m doing for lunch! Check www.atomichooligan.com! HF: Following the release of Menu 001, what future plans do you have with both the label and events? Jay — As far as events go we’ll be continuing to take the menu show everywhere and anywhere. We don’t have a planned tour schedule as such — we just let it grow! Release wise we have newcomer J Cat with ‘Good Times’ which will have an Atomic Hooligan remix, then 3rd will be myself & Smithmonger with ‘Never Stop’, then we have more from Rico and also Majool who is from Argentina and Rhythm Bug. The Menu is looking good! Nice one chaps... onwards and upwards and see you at a party soon. Related links: www.menumusic.com www.atomichooligan.com www.jaycunning.co.uk All photos courtesy of Cypher Press. Not to be reproduced without permission. Share this :: : : : Follow HarderFaster :: Other Features By Tom Cypher: Perfect Stranger Takes a Leap of Faith With His New Album Marco Scherer's Patchwork 17 Lee Mortimer goes Loopy. My Digital Enemy Studio Talk with Organ Donors The views and opinions expressed in this review are strictly those of the author only for which HarderFaster will not be held responsible or liable. Comments: From: benz on 21st Jul 2005 09:43.57 just saw Atomic Hooligan live at Glade Festival, sound system was unfortunately being gash but they were rather special! From: benz on 21st Jul 2005 13:59.49 ooh and 'Flashlighter' is a TUNE! check me review tings: Phwoarrrrr! New label Menu Music kicks off to a flying start with an absolute corker of a funky breaks track from this Finnish producer. Phat groovy electro noises cascade across the track with mucho funky riffs and FX making this a surefire winner of the dancefloor. Some bassbin troubling old skool b-lines top things off later on in the tune. Killer, killer track, getting plays from Krafty Kuts, Tayo, Ellis Dee, and er...myself! ‘Brazilla’ is a worthy flipside accompaniment, a kwirky carnival-tinged number with a jazzy piano sample and some ultra cool percussion and samples making up another corker. 10/10 From: steelo kuchiki on 21st Jul 2005 17:49.15 yes yes terrence/jay, big up. see u down fat tomorrow for a beer/take the piss out of xander session From: Less is Bat on 21st Jul 2005 19:10.41 PPPPft steeeeeee lowe you do make me laugh. A Label with an exciting future. From: Miss XS on 22nd Jul 2005 02:40.18 Nice interview there wicked to see breaks getting out there and a new label starting too well good From: matt james on 27th Jul 2005 21:36.45 They absolutely stole the show in our small marquee at Glastonbury. Roll on the next Modern Amazons party.... From: voodoobass on 2nd Aug 2005 01:35.02 Ahhh, many HF's will have seen Jay for the first time at NORQ!, and rock the place he did! Gutted we had to drag him off the decks at closing tim,e, he could have gone for hours more! Next time these guys are down at Fat! I firmly advise you to go check them out!

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