Page 3 D: With the Internet and FedEx we can be anywhere in the world we can go to all sorts of places we didn't get to with 'Elementalz'. We can be world-wide in 24 hours. The UK scene can tap in to the Internet scene that's going on, exploit it and with mail order get our tunes heard all over. They're doing it already in the States, and although we're two different scenes, all that's separating us is a phone line. Phone calls are so cheap, it's all going to be one market. Underground music already is just one market basically with the 'net. Thing is though, you're only reaching a certain market - not the people with no computer or phone D: True - not yet Shy: But the thing is this technology and the number of people using it will increase incredibly over the next ten years or so. At first, only about 10% of households had VCRs, now all houses have TV, VCR, Playstation, mobile phone and the rest. Sp: You can shop at Tesco's over the Internet man. Thing is virtual technology is all right but how you get your shag on man? The flesh on flesh - that slapping sound? D: yeah and y'mum taps in to do her shopping it'd be like 'not in here mum'. Shy: There'll come a time, you'll just log in to a concert - you won't go to one. You'll be there in your headset, you'll be able to see 10,000 people all round you, the band'll be able to see the crowd, but everyone'll be sitting at home. But that goes against hip-hop doesn't it - doing it in the park y'know? D: Yeah but that'll never die. The fact that its lasted this long, I mean that will never change - that's the real thing. A record company will never have that. They try, with Fatboy Slim and that, but as soon as they think they've pinned it down, it fucks off somewhere else. They'll never be able to capture the essence of hip-hop. Shy: That's what record companies are about really isn't it. Capturing a moment with a band, capture another one two years later. They don't move though - they freeze that moment. They tried that with Texas - they tried to capture a moment of Wu Tang. Was that happening? Fuck no that wasn't happening. That was shit. On The Brotherhood's audience: D: It seems to be mostly white people and people outside London who listen to our stuff. We're a pretty multi-racial band, and a lot of people can't get with that. We couldn't give a fuck about who's in our crowd. We'd rather have every body, all colours, in our audience jamming together y'know. We ain't a party band, but you can have a right laugh at our gigs. When you look at our audience, introducing the band it's like Spyce's crowd is mostly women between 16-28, I've got like a mixture of them and blokes, and Shylock's usually got young homosexuals aged 18-35 really. That's the way it goes when you're pretty. Rare stuff: D: There's the white vinyl of 'Hip-hop and rap', we didn't even get that. Well, we got one copy or something. Shy: But what you really want is the white label of 'Descendants of the Holocaust'. I've got about fifty of them and when we're really famous I'm going to buck 'em aaht...(we later found that we at ukhh.com own a copy) D: I've got like acetates of shit, and instrumental versions of the last album... Shy: And I've got pictures of Dexter fuckin a sheep! Who they're listening to: Shy: The Roots album that's good. Just that at the moment. D: I'm a bit behind really. I've been listening to the Pete Rock album a lot. And Method Man's lyrics - the album's not that brilliant but he makes me laugh. He just tacks 'motherfucker' on to the end of a verse for no apparent reason. Plus you miserable. Sp: Eminem - that man's rough man. Reminds me of Skinny Man. I liked that Mud Fam tune with Mark B. Westwood: D: Thing is with Tim right, back in the day he was the only one putting any money into the UK scene and promoting it, releasing peoples' records and having faith, right. He's done a lot for this scene. Now he's going for himself basically. Whether you like him or not, that's a different matter. He's never dissed us, he plays our records, what more can we ask. Shy: Thing is whatever, he's on national radio, doing his thing, getting millions of listeners and they couldn't take him off now. Most of the people complaining about not getting airplay on Westwood are too crap to be on there. I mean there's a lot of shit out there you know. If he gets a Busta Rhymes exclusive one week, he's going to bump The Brotherhood back a week isn't he. Watch for new 12"s or EPs from the Brotherhood in the near future.      © ukhh.com 1999 - 2000