 20/06/2008 Blonde Peterson and Metro Williams, otherwise known as Muddyloop, are a pair of randy Prince enthusiasts with a penchant for 80s, cheese-tinged, electro grooves. A distinct hip-hop, synth-heavy, sexy-electro sound, the kind that makes one want to pull the nearest floozy and have their oh-so wicked way with em’, is the lads’ forte; the knife that butters their bread. Planet Notion caught up with the sex-obsessed cheeky chappies to talk about debut album Flight Night, girl on girl action and, um… she-males?
Tell us, how did Muddyloop come to be?
Metro: Me and Blonde are cousins, so we pretty much grew up together. We clicked from a young age cos’ we both had a warped sense of humour and an unhealthy obsession with Prince. About 7 years ago we bought a drum machine and an 80’s sounding synthesizer and started writing songs to impress girls. That didn’t really work; but by chance, one of our tracks got signed to New York house label, Chez Music, so we had to come up with a name for our outfit.
Blonde: Metro wanted to call us something dumb like ‘Spandex Death’. I came up with Muddyloop cos’ when we started making music our loops were real dirty cos’ we sampled everything from cassette tape. Then everyone would tell us our music sounded muddy; hence the name.
I personally think that your music’s a tad on the cheesy side; but that’s by no means a criticism. It’s infectious cheese - kind of like fungal foot-rot, except it makes you want to spontaneously get into the groove. Was it your intention to make infectious cheesy music?
Blonde: Thanks for the compliment. I guess, to be honest, it wasn’t our intention to make it like this. It’s just our personalities coming through. We just wanted to make music that was fun and not too serious.
Metro: But still kind of fresh and cool. Like myself of course.
Blonde: You love yourself too much! The problem is that people think we’re actually being serious when we sing songs like ‘Hairstyle’ and ‘Girl on Girl’, when in fact it’s all just tongue-in-cheek. We just make sure that we work the groove so that it makes suckers move.
The track ‘I Could Do Things 2 U’ is definitely about the karma sutra or sado-masochism or something, right? Is most of your music and lyrical content of a sexual context?
Blonde: The concept’s a guy letting a girl know that he fucks like Rocco Siffredi.
Metro: Damn man! You’re so crude.
Blonde: We do love the sexual side of things. I guess it’s all those years listening to Prince and watching porn. And the fact that we didn’t actually get much sex growing up cos’ we were strange and geeky. I guess we’re making up for it now in our music.
Metro: Sex is just one side of our characters. We’ve also got tracks like ‘Glamour Magazines’ which talks about everyday modern relationships and a song about the end of the world; there’s even one on the album about a time traveller. There’s a good balance of topics, moods and tempos.
Do you write lyrics for the music or music for the lyrics? And if you write lyrics for the music, surely that means that you see music as more important than lyrical content?
Blonde: Lyrics to the music; always. It’s the music we make that inspires the vocal melodies. Then once we come up with those we start writing lyrics to the beautiful melodies that ooze out our hearts (laughs).
Metro: We see lyrical content as very important. We always try and avoid coming out with lyrics that ain’t really saying anything. Even if we are talking about quirky shit, like on ‘Hairstyle’ or ‘80s Love’, the lyrics still have to be humorous and cool.
Blonde: Me and Metro really take our time over the lyrics and make sure they’re at least better than Usher’s. That’s the minimum standard.
Tell us about the inspiration behind the debut album (Flight Night)? Were you inspired by other artists or does the album tell some kind of story? You know… About a night flying around on the town and all the shit that happens; something like that?
Blonde: I guess the album is a melting pot of everything that inspires us artistically. Sure, it was inspired by other artists - you can blatantly hear the Prince and Michael Jackson influences. But you can also hear the old school hip hop and soul influences on the album too.
Metro: The album doesn’t tell a story, but the title points towards some kind of late night journey through the world of Muddyloop. The production and sound of the album is very 80s influenced. Combining classic 80’s hip hop and soul with synth pop, electrofunk and groove.
Blonde: With catchy songs all over it.
Finally, anything you’d like to add? Some words of wisdom perhaps?
Blonde: Metro needs to bath more often
Metro: Blonde is into she-males
Blonde: Metro’s mum is a she-male
Metro: I think we’ll leave it there.
Words: Dangerous Dave |
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