Sadia Azmat & Cheltenham Trip Hop

James Acaster's Perfect Sounds

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Music

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

James Acaster talks about one of the many albums he collected from the year 2016 with one of his comedy friends.

This week, Sadia Azmat discusses the album One Tusk by Moth Equals.

But will Sadia be impressed by the plethora of different influences and Bollywood samples?

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:07.2	James Acaster here, comedian and music fan, and in 2017, I had a breakdown.
0:12.8	I dealt with that breakdown by as much music from 2016 as I possibly could.
0:17.0	As a result, I now own over 700 albums that came out in 2016 and I'm convinced
0:23.0	it's the greatest year for music of all time. But it's not enough me being convinced. I also
0:27.6	want to convince each and every single one of you. Plus a guest every week. I'm going to
0:32.2	send them an album in advance. They're going to come on the podcast with a talk about that album.
0:36.4	This week, my guest is Sardia Asma and and we're talking about the Moth Equals album, One Tusk.
0:48.6	Moth Equals is the project of a mysterious figure that no one knows that much about, but they grew up in Cheltenham and they're in their early 30s.
0:56.9	It's a mixture of, I guess, trip hop would be the main thing that we would point to.
1:01.3	Yeah, it's electronic music. Also, trip hop originated in Bristol, and this person comes from Cheltenham.
1:07.7	So, you know, that's a nice little...
1:10.5	Actually, do you know what? I that's a nice little that's a nice
1:11.0	I don't even know what that is I just like knowing it because it's quite a trip hoppy
1:15.7	album and it was made nearby where it originated who knows there's loads of samples
1:25.2	throughout this entire project there's Bollywood samples on here there's samples of samples throughout this entire project.
1:29.4	There's Bollywood samples on here.
1:33.2	There's samples of Yay-Yea music, which I'd never heard of before.
1:35.3	Jazz, ragtime.
1:38.0	The sample that I noticed immediately straight away when I listened to the album,
1:40.0	I recognised was from When the Levy Breaks,
1:41.2	and the song keeps on raining.
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