A Few Words With Ghosttown

Talkin' shit and gettin' hit, had Ghosttown in to the wonder-emporium for a quick few words. Big up and wreck yourself. Check it.

What's the script? For our viewers who don't know who you are, go ahead and introduce yourself.

Ok, I'm Ghosttown, I'm a beatmaker and producer who lives in Hackney London.

Do you have a certain way to produce beats, like start off with a clear idea of what you want to do? Or drag and drop and go from there? Do you deliberately try to add variance on your tracks?

Some of the time I start with drums if I don't have a clear idea of what I want to do. A lot of the time I hear a beat in my head or at least a vibe and try to get it down quick before it goes away. I don't really try to stick to a particular genre but the main thing is I got to be able to imagine a good vocal on top after the 1^st bit of the beat is down otherwise I'll scrap it and start again.

Your Soundcloud showcases a lot of unique beats. Nice profiler by the way. There's grimy, dirty, dinky, dubby, bit of reggae. Do you have a favourite style?

Not really... hip-hop I guess cos it's so diverse.

You have an EP on the way with Baxter and Scissorminge, with whom you've worked with before on many occasions. Was making the EP easy? Well, not easy in the traditional sense, but... easy?

Well, it's been in the pipeline for a couple years... We were making it at the same time as the Dead Players thing but we're all busy so it's just taken a long time to finish it. But yah, for me it was easy cos the beats were there already.

When is due for release? Can you give us any hints, like track names, anything?

Well, I don't really deal with that stuff but I heard a rumour that it might drop for free to avoid waiting for release schedules... It's been ready for a while so hopefully it will drop before next year. But don't hold me to that.

Main DAW to use?

Cubase.

You support found sound?

Yes I do.

Have you any interest in rapping?

I have done in the past and may do in the future but not right now.

You're working with Bahia too, seems quite a distant style from what you're used to. Where did this come about? Any info on this EP, style etc?

She's a friend so we just linked up and made some tracks. The EP is quite diverse and now it looks like the tracks might be integrated into a solo album for her featuring some other producers from all over the world. It's dope. The tracks I've done on there are like a fusion of two step garage and RnB... also there's a couple of reggae tracks but I dunno if they'll make it to the final cut of the album.

From your releases hinting towards dancehall grooves it's no surprise that you have Yosef [Madcon] in doing an EP. It's a big colab for you, no?

Yah, it's a collab between me, him and Son of Light... The project is called Underbelly... I'm excited about that one.

How often do you use the Vengeance sample packs?

I don't think I ever used them but I have a lot of unlabeled stuff that people have given me so it might be in there.

Would you have a favourite artist to work with?

Outkast.

Is there an artist you've wanted to work with since you started? Or a dream colab?

Outkast or Busta.

Boom Bap 14, what the fuck was it like? Dead Players seemed to get nice reviews.

Yah, it was sik, big ups to Ivan for making it so sick. I highly recommend that festival if you are a die hard hip-hop fan, or you just want a good party for a weekend, its wicked.

Vinyl or digital? Choose wisely.

Digital.

Do you like chicken medium-rare or well done?

I don't eat meat. But if I did it would be well done.

Favourite Miley Cyrus song?

Wrecking ball.

But in all honesty, would you like to colab with her? It... might work.

I would.

You know that shops here do coconut aftershave? How sick is that?

That is sick.

Have you ever been working with an artist like 'this is well bad'?

Plenty of times.

On a scale from 9-10 out of 10, how would you rate Christina Aguilera's Back To Basics?

Dunno if I've ever heard it!

Denied. Anything else you would like to include?

Yah, biggups to all my friends and family!

Script.

You can hear Sir's production in the following places:

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ghosttownbeats