13 Stupid Questions with Atarilogic

13 Stupid Questions with Atarilogic

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Although his name is Atarilogic, he completely sucks at Yar's Revenge.

 

 

 

 

So, check out the following interview with Atarilogic who absolutely slayed us with his answers.

By Ceon Foosheys

Moody Uzis is the first solo project for Atarilogic, a beat broker who has made the strange decision of forming a hip-hop label in Lafayette, Indiana. You can’t say the man is without balls.

Since I’ve known him since we went to high school together, I’m not going to discuss the various complexities of his brand of instrumental hip-hop. I dig the album, but I think it’s more appropriate to quote his biography from the Tone Def Systems website.

“Atarilogic is synonymous with Rebel Music. Spaced-out styles and astronautical engineering theories, an eccentric and incidentalist sonic enthusiasm and plenty of psychedelia compliment Atarilogic’s combinations of experimentalism and luminous cadences to produce things both strange and new. This is hybrid music; the sound of the future that seems equally at home in much of the great psychedelic and dance related musical movements of the past and RIGHT NOW!”

Moody Uzis is the third record released on Tone Def Systems following Atarilogic & Alaska Westwind’s This is Tea in 2007 and The Sound Defects album The Iron Horse in 2008.

Atarilogic & Alaska Westwind recently performed in NYC at the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival on June 19. The venue was Deity, which is a converted synagogue.

What I learned via a furious volley of E-mail and Facebook messages over a 48-hour span is that Atarilogic loves satin jackets, favors KRS One as the X-factor in tag team wrestling match and can be, at times,  the king of dicks. He also wants you to know that he is better at yard bowling than playing hoops.

So, Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeres Mr. Logic!

1.  Do you feel constant pressure to come up with new and cooler ways to rock your headphones during performances?

ATARILOGIC: This is one of those questions that has haunted me since the ’80’s. It started with the Walkman craze and has continued to vintage boomboxes, rare Swedish ear goggles and otherwise strange listening contraptions and configurations. Other than that, I tend to have a fetish for older, dustier phones and stereos. On stage, I rarely wear them since I can’t preview anything from my laptop — it’s all done live, on the fly and I will have been drinking by then, so…

2) If you were stranded on a desert isle, which piece of your equipment would you need in order to survive?

ATARILOGIC: Seriously, who gets stranded on a desert isle? Come on. More like stranded in an airport terminal. I would definitely need my laptop. It’s got all my music tools on it. Which one is most important? I would have to be Reason. A close second would be porn.

3) If making beats is analogous to the NBA in the 1980s, then which player are you and, why?

ATARILOGIC: Man, I hate to say this, but probably Larry Bird. I’m the whitest dude I know, I’m understated and under practiced, not fast or agile or even tactile by any means, but I am just made to make music – kind of like he was made to ball. Having said that, I am horrible at basketball. I’ve never been coordinated enough to seriously have game. I’m sure I would be much better at like yard bowling or croquette…pretty much any sport where you can smoke a cigarette while holding a cocktail.

4) If your house was about to burn to the ground because of the roof being on fire and you let the motherfucker  burn etc., which records would you grab if you could only take five?

ATARILOGIC: I would probably grab the following: Paul’s Boutique – Beastie Boys; Raising Hell – Run DMC; Banned in DC – Bad Brains; Sergeant Peppers – Beatles; Are You Experienced –Jimi Hendrix. I always mess these lists up because I’m either too strung out on caffeine to think straight or I miss a crucial LP from my collection. I could just as easily grab a bunch of old Ventures albums or like, the Firestone Christmas album and curse myself over the next month about it.

A) Def Jam

B) So So Def

C) Def American

D) Definitive Jux

 

ATARILOGIC: Based on the above list, you can assume I am a huge fan of Def Jam because of their influential role in the golden era of mid-eighties hip hop. That was a big part of my life. But, nowadays, I am into a lot of the Def American catalog and love rocking the whole prog-hop ethos that is Def Jux. But, uh, So So Def is just So So 90’s. Germaine Dupri…that dude makes me laugh. I don’t even know why. Maybe it’s his little kid voice or his silly ass hair.

6) When I was listening to Moody Uzis for the first time while driving my car, I was so into the beats that I missed my exit. Two part question: Do you want to apologize for that? Should Moody Uzis carry a warning label to alert people to its hypnotic effect?

ATARILOGIC: Actually, “Moody Uzis” is kind of like an apology for my generation, sort of. I mean, we have practically doomed an entire age through laziness, our love of convenience our “everything now” ethic. I mean, look at us! Look at our heroes nowadays! Look at the kids in school and how they are so fascinated by the worst possible examples of humanity out there. Look at TV. Wait, look away from TV.

I was thinking about the whole warning label, and I think I just went with the aesthetic and dropped the “Explicit Lyrics” tag. But yes, I am sorry you missed your exit. I’m not a dick like that. Unless you’re one of those fauxhawk dudes. Then, I am the king of dicks.

7) Are you afraid that you will suffer the same fate as Smif N Wessun and have to alter your name because of a lawsuit?

ATARILOGIC: Atarilogic? Not really. It’s just free advertising for a crusty old company anyways, right?

Where is the danger that rap used to be about. Now, you’ve got kids running around in ice creams and neon sunglasses with purple backpacks aspiring to auto-tune everything. It looks like hip hop daycare out there and sounds like country music from the ’90’s.

 

Man, I’ll be rocking denim and leather every day. As far as a company called “Moody” starting a line of Israeli submachine guns…I highly doubt it.

Do you care to comment on the rumor that you will try out for the Lafayette Generals semi-pro football team this fall?

ATARILOGIC: That was actually some media misdirection on the part of my manager…Unless I’m being traded again.

9) What cheesy song do you feel embarrassed about singing along with once someone notices you rocking out?

you), but I grew up listening to during the whole roller skating craze back in the day, so these were the songs of my prepubescent trials and tribulations.

 

I guess I’ll have to go with anything by DeBarge…maybe even moreso, that part in the Aha song where you have to go really high – “I’ll…be…gone…in a daaaaaaaaaaaay!” Yeah, I feel pretty queer when I catch myself doing that.

10) If Chuck D and Big Daddy Kane were wrestling a tag team match vs.Rakim and KRS One, who wins and why?

defend the corner and then Chuck D and Big Daddy Kane just completely wrecking shop for the entire last round. It would be a close match once KRS got his game face on, though.

 

Shit, I know I’m gonna catch flack on that.

11) Who wins a foot race between you and Alaska Westwind? Is it close?

We actually sttled this fair and square in a 3 part “triatholon” involving drinking a 12 pack of High Life, a grueling 10K uphill and ultimate fighting that lasted most of a weeknight last month.  While I was certainly faster, Alaska is a much better fighter.  And when I say better, I mean dirtier.  Dude fights like a mad Norseman on PCP after a week of bing-drinking and heavy amphetimine use… kind of like Canadians.

12) What movie quote best describes your music?

This label, we rap about Uzis, blowing motherfuckers’ heads off. Know what I’m saying? “Smack your bitch up”, “Shoot your motherfucking homeboy in the face”, type shit. All right?”

 

I can’t believe I didn’t include this in the liner notes, but it’s Ice-T from the movie “Leprechaun in the Hood.”

Basically, anything Ice T says in that flick. Seriously, check it – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209095/quotes

13) When was the last time you left your house without wearing that fresh-to-death green satin jacket?

ATARILOGIC: Ya heard! I’ll just put it this way – wearing that jacket, I feel like the mayor of The Fuckin Shitville – Population:1, my VP is Gavin from Vice and I have a cabinet consisting of Biz Markie, The 45 King and Primo. Absolutely magical! I wield the power from my satin watchtower!

Atarilogic’s Website: www.atarilogic.com

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