Former The Witzard Interview Subject Stephan Szillus Recruits German & Austrian Producers for Hip-Hop/Electronic-influenced "Paternoster Remixes & Versions" (Heart Working Class)
" Remixes & Versions is a very personal project to me. I come from a school of sampling and beat-digging and remixing this long-lost classic just brings it back to life. It's like when I first heard Madlib use some old Krautrock stuff; I loved Madlib 's Hip-Hop beats and I was brought up on Krautrock , so this connection just spoke to me. When I listened to the Paternoster album that Madlib 's manager Eothen [Egon] Alapatt sent to me, I was drawn to its Psychedelic textures and heavy drum breaks," my one-time interview subject and friend Stephan Szillus wrote within a recent email. He's in fact, releasing a remix album of the very band whose music our interview was centered around; Now-Again Reserve: Paternoster , on which Stephan Szillus acted as Egon 's "cultural and business liaison" and maybe most importantly, personal German-English translator. "I immediately thought about what might happen, if some Hip-Hop or Electroni...