Alex Sushon, AKA Bok Bok, is on fire these days. Between DJing London’s East Village excellent Night Slugs parties, blogging at Lower End Spasm, hosting a radio show on Sub FM, producing some of 2009′s freshest music, doing graphic design work for Fact Magazine, L-Vis 1990′s “United Groove” EP, and getting praised in Dazed & Confused’s New Media Top 50 piece, it’s safe to say that 2009 has been a pretty massive year. It’s also understandable that Bok Bok was taking a vacation in his hometown of Odessa, Ukraine when I got hold of him, where I had the opportunity to chat with him about sincerity, his recent remix for Mixpak Records (which you can purchase here), post-DJing snacks, the downfall of grime, “synth ecstasy,” The-Dream and his video design work for Simian Mobile Disco.
Exclusive interview for the Mixpak Blog by Brendan Arnott (my text in bold).
Also, peep one of Bok Bok’s favourite mixes that did for LuckyMe!
Bok Bok – Manara’s Golden Fleece Mix for LuckyMe (tracklist here)
Brendan: Your Night Slugs parties sound like they’ve been continually successful, I’m curious about what sort of things are important to you when you’re organizing this kind of night?
Bok Bok: Well, what I really wanted to do with night slugs was make a fun accessible party for people that DIDN’T compromise on music, that’s to put it simply. It’s really a dance / club music party that’s frameworked by the UK soundsystem heritage, so what’s important to me is – good, heavy but CLEAR and bass-heavy sound, a really cutting edge music policy that’s still fun, and stuff that makes people focus on what’s happening in the club, the sound and the dancing, and bond together over it and have some shared experience. Stuff like having a host on the mic, and rewinding tracks, all that stuff helps people focus on what’s going on.
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