artist No-1

this is a solo project of sounds and words sourced by hip-hop, films, food, books, life, and the stories around me. i grew up listening to & musically consuming everything and it all filters down through technology to be spit back into digital finished form. the no-1 album 'stories are people too' is out now on We Make With Records.

the idea for the record started with doing a few tracks inspired by some amazingly good books: i did "circular ruins" with dj finlaz - which was inspired by the short story by jorge luis borges - and i did "oblivion" with dj phonograff which drew from nabokov's 'an invitation to a beheading'...and i got to thinking it could be a cool concept for a record. which isn't to say that everything on the album has some cryptic literary source - i just started with a few books & ideas in mind and got to writing.

some of the most interesting stuff made it onto the final album: there's some haruki murakami, alenka zupancic, deleuze & guattari, and will self in there if you start digging around...but generally it's just whatever madness was in my head at the time. i've been listening to a lot of dancehall, dub, and electronic shit - plus vibing heavy on plug research peoples + anticon sounds (13&god etc). this one was all self-produced, but the next record will find spots for all the good peoples around me.

no-1 producer/mc