BNRY

If you managed to make it down to our night last month you will have seen London based producer BNRY in action. If you didn’t, then we are sorely disappointed in you and you are required to make it up to yourself by coming to our next one on the 7th April.
BNRY (known to his mother as Joe Bush) began to MSTRKFT his musical style as a youngster, growing up to French house and acid (something that he would only begin to appreciate further down the line). What sets BNRY apart from the others is that he has a definite appreciation of what has come before him. In an age where a new producer can be found on every street, it’s important to appreciate what made that a possibility. BNRY is bucking the trend with producers by simply trying to stay away from what is popular or ‘trendy’ at the moment, something that in itself is very refreshing.
We spoke to BNRY after his set when we were all really drunk, so please excuse the fact that this interview may not be our best. Believe us when we say there were some certain things that we spoke about which couldn’t be put down in print…

HuWho: So how do you produce your music? What hardware do you use?

BNRY: What have I got? I used to have a Roland 303/808 type emulator that is alright. I’ve got an analog reel to reel that I put a lot of my drums through. Apart from that it’s samples from vinyl. I’ve got this Motown compilation that has about 40 tracks of solid Motown, so I use that quite a lot.

So what’s er…you said to me earlier you’re into a lot of Detroit techno/Chicago techno….er….[BNRY: Spit it out]. Ok, what are your influences?

It’s maybe like, old French house like Etienne De Crecy. Etienne De Crecy is like, the fucking don.

What about Oizo? Monsieur Oizo?

Oizo’s fucking great. Anything on Ed Banger right now is quality.

Your sound doesn’t sound very much like the Ed Banger stuff though. It’s not like Justice or Mr Oizo.

No it’s not really. I dunno, Ed Banger is just what’s happening in French house at the moment. But there’s obviously the older stuff like Superfunk, they were all French but the great thing is they all wanted to be from Chicago. They had a photo of a Chicago cityscape on their album cover, and they desperately wanted to be from Chicago. Superfunk ‘Hold Up’ is a great album, I play that whenever I can. That’s huge, and that’s all thanks to my step-dad.

So where does acid come into it?

Acid…I don’t know really. It’s just all the things that I was listening to when I was growing up that I didn’t really like. But as soon as I got a 303 emulator in Ableton that was that.

How does Sheffield compare to the other cities that you’ve played in?

It’s good, it’s different. I walked around for about 3 hours earlier because I had no-one to talk to, so the Costa’s and Starbucks are pretty good. It’s different, it’s less stuck up than other places, it’s good, good vibes tonight.

Your set tonight was pretty varied, what do you enjoy most about playing?

It’s the new stuff that I like playing. I played one of the tunes I made literally like…3 days ago, so it’s really nice to be able to play that out and get peoples reactions to it.

What’s better for you, in a club or in a place like here at Bungalows & Bears?

In the club probably just because the harder tunes go down a lot better. You can get people dancing which is always nice.

So what about your band? How does that contrast?

It’s completely different from what I’m doing now. It’s like a screamo, hardcore band. Yeah, it’s completely different. It’s nice to do something a different world away.

What do you play?

I play guitar. I’m awful at playing guitar. I pretend to do it and it seems to go down alright.

Do you like Alexisonfire?

I fucking hate Alexisonfire. I’m into like older hardcore like Neil Perry.

Black Flag?

Black Flag’s alright. Everyone’s kinda jumping on that Black Flag, straight edge bandwagon, it’s just a bit naff. I’m not that big into Black Flag really.

What’s your band called?

Battle For Paris. It’s completely fucking different. If you saw me live you would just be like ‘who the fuck was that?’

Where did it all come from anyway? There’s such a huge difference between the 2 things you do.

I grew up on house, like seriously. It was when I was around 13 or 14 that I got into hardcore, that was the big thing.

A little emo kid at 14.

I wasn’t an emo kid, I can stress that right now. The town that I grew up in were very big into hardcore. I wouldn’t say they have any influence on each other though, maybe some drums I suppose but that’s it.

In an ideal world where would you see yourself in the next year or so?

I dunno really, as long as I can keep going out and playing and making music that I like, that’s all that really matters.

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