RAMMELLZEE - Interview on Gothic Futurism
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- An interview of Rammellzee that Ed Gill did for Mo’ Wax back in June 1995.
This interview was set up and recorded in the dimly lit studio in the basement of Mo’ Wax by the sound engineer, John. We sat on the floor and recorded to a DAT. The interview was originally longer than the half hour that is transcribed here, but sadly the master DAT was only ever dubbed on to one side of an audio cassette before being misplaced, leaving the interview cut short forever.
Rammellzee was not so much iconic as iconoclastic. MC, graffiti artist and rebel theorist, he left an indelible mark on early hip-hop and graffiti culture, as the friend and foil to Jean Michel Basquiat, with whom he recorded the seminal and hugely influential ‘Beat Bop’(a highlight of Charlie Ahearn’s film Style Wars).
But as he describes in this interview, Rammellzee was friend to no-one, a fierce individual who rebelled against the form and meaning of his medium, developing a theory he dubbed Gothic Futurism, which described the battle between letters and their symbolic warfare against any standardizations enforced by the rules of the alphabet.
In this extraordinary, sometimes incendiary and utterly compelling interview, Rammellzee lays out his theory of Gothic Futurism, wind tunnels and how these developed into a new phase of his visual worked, which he called Iconoclast Panzerism.
He was pioneering through music and art and came up through a gang culture at exactly the right time - the late 1970′s. He applied his theories to music and visual art and was able to become saturated with both, which made him interesting
#RAMMELLZEE
I love him. He's a human twin peaks, I understand a little but enjoy a lot
This is gold, man was a genius, and his work continues to inspire. Thank you. Fascinating stuff.
So deep.
Massive fan, rest in POWER RAM!
If Hip-Hop was a person itd be Rammellzee!!!
Westernization and intellectual terrorism is real. Militarized gothic futurism is where its at. didnt know RAM was a 5 percenter smh too fuckin dope.
man i been a lifelong fan of ram had no idea he was in the 5percent thanks for the knowledge
R.I.P. Genius.
Fucking Beautiful
R.I.P. Ramm
Genius
I saw that METALHEADZ slipmat!!!
Ram is the real one, thanks for the insight, nevere knew all this. he's the foundation for so much stuff we are "using" nowadays. btw I never liked a.w.+j.m.b... i cant understand jay rocking jmb style, ram is the only relevant artist to the culture from that time. gone too soon.
He huffed ALOT of spray paint. ALOT.
This is the interview that I was looking for! Could I do an animation based off this?
18:55 by jail, did he mean Riker's Island?
This interviewer needs to stop saying 'yeah' 'right' 'uh' 'eh' every 5 seconds istg
It is what it IS.
I neva noticed until I red your comment. were you even listening to Rams words? or just seeking out mistakes?
@@RhythmSupreme do you understand what a distraction is?
I will not answer this time wasting question.. @@dectronica but I have a clear message for you, to have a interview, you need a narrator, and if you think you can do it better just go on and do it instead of critisizing the product.. you're the only one yet who seem to have a problem with it while all others are thankfull for this great interview.. 🤔
Super