“Choose your influences wisely and play like you mean it.”
“The way I see it, pop music is a 20th century exploit - solely. It starts with blues in the 20s and goes through jazz, R’n’B, rock & roll, soul, house and hip hop; then it kind of stops. All of these forms of popular music were pioneered by a handful of, generally, quite poor, black men in America. They were using, abusing and misusing technology that had fallen into their hands; like acoustic guitars and decks. That process has stopped - it is over. It stopped in about 1981. Since then it has become more cyclical and the best you can hope to do in that kind of environment is to choose your influences wisely and play like you really mean it. If you can do those two things then you probably stand a chance.” - Samir Eskanda (@esk4nda), Drummer for Flats (@flatsofcourse).” Source - Flats interview.
