Adults Play Radio w/ mMega – 19/03/2021

Adults Play Radio @adultsplay 邀請節目嘉賓 mMega @archietaylor ！上半段半小時 「UK Garbage」+ 下半段 emo rave 選曲的混音！

Adults Play Radio @adultsplay w/ mMega @archietaylor! First half #UK Garbage by mMega, second half #emo rave by Baby Loci + sudden star.

Show Bio:
playing you my favourite bleeps/bloops that tend to linger upon the uk spectrum but you can expect to encounter a lot of other worldwide wobble. i’m just trying to achieve headphone ecstasy until we can make the floor shake together again.

Track list:
zepplinn – gold school
playgroup – front 2 back (ft. kc flight)
doctor rockit – hi speed rockit
wiley – fire hydrant (on1 bootleg)
future wildstyle – started again
dmitra – lcn
uio loi – aaa pack
san – captivation
dopecoara – atmospheric reentry jungle
itallik – serpentine
para – knock
flextime – it goes
stevie – smokers delight (jungle dub)
billy pilgrim – remember we

Interview:
This week we have mMega for the radio show. First half #UK Garbage by mMega, second half #emo rave by Baby Loci + sudden star.

Adults Play Radio: how does change in location influence your artistic expression?

mMega : I’m from the UK originally but I’d been living in the Netherlands since I was 7 so moving back to England when I was 18 really did feel like flying the nest. I was lucky enough to have support in my art from my parents and teachers throughout high school so I’ve always kind of had freedom to express myself but I don’t think I really found my feet creatively until coming to art school in England. There was obviously a weird cultural shift to begin with but it didn’t last long. I was instantly surrounded by people on the same wavelength as me so it was hard to focus on anything other than being excited about the new shit I was encountering and I kind of feel as though I’ve been flourishing upwards since then. There’s a certain inevitability about my time in the Netherlands influencing the work I create today in both art and music. Hardcore and the visual cultures that surround it kind of acted as a gateway to dance music and everything that I’m into now, harder genres are a lot more normalised in Dutch culture than in the UK despite our dance music history so going from Radio Decibel to BBC Radio 1 was a bit of a strange experience. I think I’m still working out how the switch up in cultural landscape manifests itself in my work but its hard to ignore that the majority of my interactions with culture in general take place online so its difficult to ever feel disconnected from somewhere that I’m still in such close contact with virtually.

Adults Play Radio : Can you tell us a bit about your interest in contemporary folklore ?

mMega : The idea of contemporary folklore in relation to my work is fairly new to me but it summarises the areas I enjoy working in well because it acknowledges that conspiracies, urban legends, fairy tales and memes are one and the same. I think the term folklore has a certain connotation of dragons and fantasy but I prefer to think of my work as a continuous nonsensical shitpost than magic. For me creating has always been an autopilot act of regurgitating the material I digest both online and irl to build little pockets of place that never really amount to anything, I think of each project as being a snippet of something that probably isn’t true, a bit like a vine or a viral video that lasts for six seconds and is gone. This will probably change as I progress but at the moment I’m comfortable with there being a lack of depth to the worlds I assemble because there’s no context to anything these days. I can go from peanut butter jelly time to watching steven hawking talking about black holes in literally 3 seconds so why bother pretending that what I’m doing means anything… everything is noise and I just wanna make more !!

Adults Play Radio : And the combination of raw/rough and digital in your aesthetic?

mMega : I think my visual language comes from an interest in combining the realities that surround me irl with the fictions that circulate my head and phone / computer. Its really easy for artists to slip into ceaseless digital perfection at the moment and this is something I really want to resist by incorporating more tactile diy and often naive working processes. I don’t want to seem like I’m shitting on the pixel perfect computer art people because I’m absolutely not but in my own practice I prefer to find equilibrium between things I am able to do with my hand and those that are done with my cursor as a way of fusing ideas that exist irl with those on my screen.

Adults Play Radio : Any current projects?

mMega : Yes!! A cute cloudy silly funny EP that’s been in the works for a while now coming pretty soon on seedlink+, maybe a music video with my boy babyxd, a video game soundtrack for misha notley, some more stuff with weirdcore, definitely some beatboxing. A lot of fun stuff with some really great people, watch this space.

Adults Play Radio : What are you listening to?

mMega : duppy gun, metronomy (always), poogie bear, wishmountain, saga charlotte, deadmau5, anything on seedlink+ (they are awesome) etc etc etc etc