No Filler Music Podcast - Funky Soulful Spaceship: The Progressive R&B Supergroup Known as The Internet

Episode Date: March 8, 2021

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. That saying certainly applies to the alternative R&B group The Internet. When the members of this group get together to create music, something truly unique happens. Their blend of R&B, hip hop, jazz, funk, and electronic dance music creates a leisurely, smooth, and undeniably cool sound that is unmistakably The Internet. Also unique about this supergroup is how each and every member puts out their own music that sounds like a slice from the same pie, often collaborating with one another to create an impressive catalog of tunes from just five unbelievably talented musicians: Syd, Matt Martians, Steve Lacy, Patrick Page II, and Christopher Smith. Tracklist: The Internet - Roll (Burbank Funk) The Internet - Red Balloon The Internet - Gabby (feat. Jaenelle Monáe) Syd - Nothin' From Somethin' The Jet Age of Tomorrow (Long Way Home (feat. Syd) Matt Martians - Movin' On Steve Lacy - Basement Jack + Guide Patrick Paige II - Beginning Patrick Paige II - Ode to Inebriation This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's one of those things where you see as we go in our own branches, like, what we contribute to the bigger spaceships than is the internet. And I think, you know, even our album covers, like Sid, just being on by herself, the vocals, I have keys all on our cover. You know, Steve has guitars over his. I'm sure Pat will have his bass. That's not something we do intentionally. That just, I noticed that out like, damn, like, we really have, it really is starting to

become a story and sort of like a power range. Which color power ranger are you? And welcome to no filler. The music podcast dedicated to sharing the often overlooked hidden gyms that fill the space between the singles on our favorite records. My name is Quentin. I'm back in Washington behind the mic with me as always is my bro bro, Travis. I listen to your... Well, it's not as always, Q.

It's usually always. It's usually always, but not last week. So I interrupted you. You're about to say that you listen to my solo episode. What do you think? I liked it, dude. Do you like how I use the opportunity to sneak in an entire episode on a video game soundtrack? I knew you would, dude.

Well, but it's a. Tobin, man. Yeah, you tell me if you think that that, if that passed the mustard, is that, is a phrase past the mustard? I mean, past the, uh, the smell test of, um, of a unique video game score, number one and number two, forget that he was even a video game score. The music itself, like, stand on its, stands on its own, right? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, when I was sitting on the airplane with my HG headphones on, I'll get back to that in a second, dude. Nice. I was, I was listening and I was thinking, damn, dude, this smells a lot like mustard. So yeah, man, it passed the mustard smell test.

I think, I mean, I don't listen to a lot of, well, I don't listen to any exclusively drum and bass artists. Amon Tobin's the only one. What about you? Do you listen to more than just him? I think I, I listen to electronic musicians that incorporate drum and bass elements in them. And I would say Tobin is one of those artists, right? You know, like he's not strictly drum and bass, right? Like all the things he does.

That chaos theory stuff was heavy on the beats. Yeah. But I was going to say, like, I don't listen and seek out drum and bass artist. I seek out like down tempo, trip hop, downbeat type musicians that may like throw in a drum and bass type drumbeat, like what he does all the time. Right. So you may hear that fast, like chaotic. drumbeat stuff in electronic music sometimes, but yeah. But yeah, but that it's just, you know, like I said, this was 2005. So like it's hard to imagine video game scores back then.

But yeah, they didn't sound like that. You know what I mean? So yeah. And let me ask you this, Q. I'm going to ask you this. Did you, what did you think about that? Basically what we're doing right now is just getting you to react as you would have if you were on the episode with me. What did you think about that Lalo Schifrin track that I played? I loved that, dude. Yeah. Isn't that interesting? When I was listening to it, I was thinking, like, this really could have worked well in a splinter cell game.

Well, that's what I'm saying. That's what was interesting to me about it because they wanted him to do the score for it. And then, you know, for whatever reason it didn't work out. So when they reached out to Tobin, I thought Tobin made absolute perfect sense. Like, if you listen to Lalo Schifrin stuff, Tobin does a lot of jazz, flabered, down tempo, and, you know, jazz infused, like down tempo stuff and jam and bass stuff. So, like, perfect, right? Perfect. Anyway, what are we talking about today, dude?

I think I teed it up at the end of the episode, but we're talking about Al Gore's invention today. Yes. How many times can I tell that joke? During something different today, we're going to talk about. technology and how we're all connected together via the World Wide Web. Actually, it's kind of funny because... So we're covering a band called The Internet. That's the joke we're trying to make here.

And it's actually a funny story where the name came from. So one of the members of this collective called The Odd Future, and we'll get to them in a second, got really tired of answering the question, where are you from, anytime he was interview that he started saying, I'm from the internet. And then they ended up going with that for the name of their band. And they figured they were just kind of swap it out for a different name later on. And they never did. And I bet you a lot of artists back in the 2000s, early 2000s, when MySpace music was like, you know, where you put your tunes on to get heard.

Yeah. You could say, oh, yeah, we're from the internet. Right. So, odd future is this hip-hop collective that was formed in Los Angeles back in 2007. Tyler the Creator, you've heard of him, right? Haji, left brain, Casey Veggies, Brandon DeShay, the Super 3, which is Matt Martians and Pyramid Ritra, and Jasper Dolphin. I've only heard of Tyler the Creator. Actually, me too.

but there's also later members that joined in Earl's sweatshirt, Frank Ocean, Sid the Kid. So out of all of them, the reason I bring them up, founding members of the Internet are Matt Martians and Sid. They met back on the Internet, as in the World Wide Web, back in the MySpace days. Dude, I knew it was MySpace too. Yeah, dude, that's right. You called it. And they started producing music together just as the two of them. And so there's this really, really great All Songs Considered interview with Matt Martians and Sid. Hey, Q, do you listen to MPR?

I think it's like every week. We're reminded that you listen to MPR. Do you support your local member station is the real question? I do, actually. Yeah, dude. We've got a really nice water canteen with KU-O-W slapped on it. monthly contributors, you know. Wow. Big, big spender over here. Big, yeah. The guy that interviewed them, his name is Tim Hokep Aku. I think I said that, right? Tim Hokep Aku. And they spend a lot of

the time in this interview, just kind of stressing the point that as a band, these guys are always supportive of each other. And they're like individual. solo endeavors. Like even to the point that like if say like Sid has an album that's coming out, all of the members of the band will spend the entire time on the weeks leading up to that album release pushing it on their social media accounts. Even the internet's official like Twitter account will just flip and just switch into being a like a promotion machine for the individual artist.

You know what I mean? It's really cool. That's pretty smart, yeah. Yeah, and I think it's, and one thing they did as well. So they actually started, so Tyler, the creator, started a record label called Odd Future, which is the name of the collective that they're part of. And that's where they're putting out albums on The Odd Future. But they actually...

Is that your cat? You're probably going to hear my cat, dude. Hey, Hitch. I'm not feeding you food, bro. I already gave you food. I'm shutting this door, dude. He's going to keep me on. All right.

So, so yeah, another thing. too. They originally planned to kind of go in on a record label deal together. They're like, basically they're like, if you want one of us, you got to get all of us. Yeah, they were going to do that originally, but then they decided, well, actually,

let's stay completely independent from one another to make sure that we can separate ourselves from the internet as much as possible as individuals. So again, so that we can, at any point, you can step aside, work on your own stuff, and not worry about it conflicting, you know, with record label contracts and all that stuff. Okay.

Interesting. Yeah. Okay. So they were smart on that. Yeah. And another thing, too, like, so I'm going to, let's name off the roster here. The current roster. So, again, Sid and Matt Martians are the two, the founders of the band.

You've got Steve Lacey on guitar. I know you're familiar with him. He's showed up on one of our playlist, I think, right? Yeah. He's, he's phenomenal, dude. he might be my favorite of the group. And then you've got Patrick Page the second on bass. This guy is insane, dude.

Get ready. Does he slap the bass? He slaps is so good, man. And then drummer Christopher Smith. So if you listen to a Steve Lacey album, Sid's going to pop up on there at least once. At least in one song, she's going to make an appearance. You listen to a Matt Martian's album.

You're going to hear some Steve Lacey on guitar. They're all, you know, collaborating together all the time. Really cool stuff. And their sound is pretty unique. And I say we jump right into it and listen to a couple songs from them as a group, as the internet. Okay. So they are described as a, an R&B, hip-hop, jazz, funk, electronic, progressive, soul band.

Now that's a lot. Dude, that's a lot. That's a lot of genres. It's a lot of genres. And I mean, I think it, they really do blend all those genres together really well. And when we jump into Sid's solo stuff, we can, we'll talk a little bit about trap music, which is, I think, kind of a good label to slap on them as a group as well. So, all right, let's listen to the first song.

We're going to play a song from their 2013 album, Feel Good. This song is called Red Balloon. Really good vibes. So every member of that collective is on this track. So like when they put a record out, is it kind of like where a few of them contributed to this song, wrote this song, they're all kind of involved in it? They're all, yeah. They might not appear on it, but they all kind of wrote.

the song and yeah yeah and another thing too like most of them all produce on their own you know so like you might get have an internet song produced by steve lacey uh then the next track might be produced by matt martians uh same with sit like they all what's cool is they all do it themselves like it's just them working on the albums together they don't pull any outside producers it's all them yeah so i mentioned trap music so what is trap music. Yeah, I was trying to dive into that today. And do you have an example of it? Well, I'm not going to play an example of like a separate artist, but when we get to Sid's solo album, that's her entire album was she wanted to

do her own version of trap music. She was influenced by a guy named Bryson Tiller, who is, he considers himself a trap soul artist. His music is described as, and I think this actually is a great description of the internet's music as well. Trap drum beats with a hip-hop influenced R&B style. So it's like a perfect marriage of hip-hop and R&B. And yeah, dude, like that last song we just heard, it's just, it's really like that soulful R&B, but with like trip-hop kind of drums on it. So let's jump ahead to 2015.

Now this is the album that I, when I first discovered the internet, was the, their album from 2015 Ego Death. And this is when I, this is, I feel like this album has those trap beats that they're, that they're talking about. It uses synthesized drums, characterized by complicated high hat patterns, tuned kick drums with a long decay and atmospheric sense. So let's listen to, um, it was hard to pick a song on Ego Death. There's a lot of great ones.

But this one has always stood out to me. one of my favorites off the record. So this is, again, a song off of the internet's ego death from 2015. This song is called Gabby, and it features vocals by Janelle Monet.

Love it, dude. It's so... Yeah, it's cool. different. But that's not a member of the internet singing, right? They had a guest performer. No, so that was Cid. The main vocals that you heard was Cid.

Additional vocals, so like that harmonizing and stuff in the background during the chorus was Chanel Monet. But dude, I just love Cid's voice, dude. Yeah, she's great. So I recognize that album cover. I think you've brought something from this record as either

what you heard or something, but we have featured this band on the on the pod before. I've brought them up a lot, dude. They're just another great example of, you know, just like a band that kind of just treats it more as like a collective. And like, you know, everyone has equal say in, you know, creative processes. I think that's the way to go, dude.

I think more bands should approach music making this way. It's really cool what they're doing. There's not a lot of rock bands that I think can do this, successfully, you know. Like we've talked about the, you know, desert sessions. We talked about that. Yeah. A couple of weeks ago. But like, and even like Kevin Parker and how he collaborates with a bunch of musicians from Perth, Australia. Yeah. And I feel like we brought him up like the last three episodes. I know. But it comes to my because like, you know, it's a good example of, um, that's more like he is sort of bringing people along with him kind of thing. Like here. sharing some of my success, you know. Yeah.

But I'm trying to think of a rock band where each member has had success independently. Dude, think about this, man. And we've talked about this before. Remember how upset members of foo fighters, Scott, when Dave Grohl jumped behind the kit for Queens of the Stone Age? I think they got upset because they were already like, the band seemed like it was kind of on the robes to begin with. And then he went and did that on top of it. You know what I mean? But like that's the exact opposite of how the internet treats, you know, individual members of the band.

Like they're doing the opposite where they're promoting each other's work and making sure that each individual's solo project gets as much attention as the group itself gets. It takes a lot of love for one another and stuff like that. You know what I mean? To do that and not try to backstab each other. Exactly. Probably realize that like, hey, you know what, we're going to have the most success if we all kind of. stick with this and yeah have um our efforts you know sort of work to promote the whole you know instead of each part the internet is the is the main thing for them and that's where they got the

the most popularity you know as the group so they can use that popularity to help promote each individual you know solo effort so one thing that i love about ego death and they don't do it as much on their other albums. But most of the songs have like a tiny little outro at the end of the song that's almost an entirely different idea. It's like an end credit scene at the end of a Marvel movie. Exactly. And the way that they do it is really cool.

So I'm going to play just the very end of Gabby. And this little ending is like my favorite part of the song. So here is the second clip from Gabby. that's really cool yeah i'm glad you decided to play that because like i mean i was just vibe into that right pretty uh i was getting into that pretty hardcore there but you're saying that that that nothing about that ever shows up anywhere else like that those melodies oh no that's it that's it that's just yep so it's kind of like a probably a jam session type thing and probably uh maybe an idea that never got fully realized into a song so they just kind of tacked it on yeah and

that's the thing like man okay hold on now cue i just had a really interesting thought or or something i remember from um you remember the end of was it i think it was the end of low end theory they had that they had that song that had buster rhymes on it and it was kind of felt like this thing where they just brought a bunch of people into the studio to give them an opportunity to show up on a record is that maybe what's going on here is that like an artist or is it like a thought maybe that was allowed to be explored or something like that that was... Well, that could be because you've got Janelle Monet on this track. And that had to be her doing those la-l-l-l-l-las at the end.

And like I said, dude, their entire thing is, hey, this is just an open, creative, collective thing. Like, if you have a cool beat, bring it into the studio and we'll lay it down. Yeah, and to me it seems like that would be one of those moments where it's like, man, we have this great little melody here that we were working on. great vibe that we had going. Why trash it? Yeah, let's tack it on at the end of Gabby. Right. Yeah, that's cool stuff. All right, dude, moving right along.

I'm going to play some of Sid's solo stuff next. So I've got a clip from that NPR interview, kind of about, like, what she was going for with this album. And she kind of describes what trap beats are to her. So, yeah, here is Sid. And I kind of like group together different parts of this. So I kind of spliced it up. But yeah, so here is Sid.

So this is your, this is a Q remix. This is my remix of Sid being interviewed on all songs considered. My lane and making this album, I wanted to explore the like trap and be vibe. I'm going to just call it that because that's what it is. Yeah, yeah. I wanted to explore trap and B because I was fought. I fell in love with it. Honestly, it was Bryson Tiller's album.

Oh, okay. I heard that and I was like, wow. I was like, this is fire. And then, yeah, it occupied a lane that I felt like was like obvious. Like, why aren't more people like making music like this is fire? And it actually was perfect that more people weren't doing that because it gave me time to make something like my own version. It's like Calypso in Jamaica

It's become I've thought of that the other day Because like I'm Jamaican And I got like family at my house right now They're playing the drum big Yeah No yeah And like you let some Jamaicans play music

It's gonna be the same drum pattern all day You know what I mean It's true that's very true Calypso drums It's the same pattern on everything And you just switch it up And that's kind of what trap music is For me right now

So she's saying trap and beats A trap and blues Yes dude I was about to just bring that up This is the first time, and I'm going to give all credit to these AKG headphones, dude. We'd be but say this the first time you heard her say the word B. I thought she was saying trap and beat. And I was listening to it through my laptop speakers when I was piecing this all together. Clear as day, dude, trap and B.

And that makes even more sense. It's the trap music. It's all because of those AKG headphones that you're wearing. Yeah. And if y'all didn't know, we just got sponsored by AKG, not that. that long ago. So the Pantheon podcast network is sponsored by AKG and Q's got some dope-ass headphones here. Yeah, it's part of their podcaster essentials kit came with headphones and mic. So let me ask you this real quick here though. You said you're on the, you're on the plane

with your AKGs. How many, how many stairs did you get? Like, man, look at those. It was probably all in my head, dude, but I felt like I was getting some stairs. Yeah, of course you were. Because, yeah, and you've seen this, dude. It's got the really cool. like detachable cord. It looks like the old school like telephone cord. Sure. I love it, man. I don't know if that's a selling point. It looks like you're wearing an old telephone. You can't tangle this puppy. Yeah, that's, there you go. That's the real reason. And they're super comfy. And I just learned that she was saying trap and B. Yeah. Thank you. AKG. And that makes even more sense, dude. She's R&B and she's pulling in the trap beats into R&B. That's cool.

So let's play a song. So as soon as this album of first came out, I was all over it because I was already super into the internet. So she has an album that came out in 2017 called Finn. And I know for the fact that Steve Lacey actually wrote and produced, or not wrote, but he produced a bunch of the songs for her. So I'm going to play two songs from here. Actually, I think I'm just going to play one. Yeah.

I'm just playing one song from this one. So this is track four off of Sid's Finn. The song is called Nothing to Something I'm too much off to goose So give me to choose Too big a trick Of it's kiss and tell

But I wish them well I'm just over zealous They think I'm selfish Hustle for my Sipping on something That's for my So I'm up for show Yeah, that's great

So the trap part of it Is that beat, right? Is the beat, yeah? Okay Yeah, so like I recognize that type of beat I'm pretty sure that trap originated in the south, right? Yeah, you're right, actually.

Okay. I knew I remember. Yeah, it's a subgenre of hip-hop music originated in the southern U.S. in the 90s. Okay, so I remember, yeah, I remember hearing about this. Yeah, yeah. So, okay, so what she did was say take trap music. Yeah, I'm going to take the, I'm going to take what I heard from, from Bryce Tillerson with his trap soul.

And I'm going to, I'm going to stamp my own flavor of, of. soul R&B and throw some dope-ass trap beats on it. That's cool. Yeah, I really like it. I like how she said, you know, I'm glad that nobody else took this and ran with it because the door was wide open and I just walked into it. The way she put it, she said, like, this is my lane, you know, like this is. Yeah.

And when you're producing music like this, like this kind of cockiness just kind of comes out in your songwriting. And a lot of the lyrics, dude, like, she is just like owning it. She is just like, she knows she's hot stuff. So I'm going to play the second clip is just as it fades out, you hear a little bit of that awesome like underlying rhythm and melody. It's really cool. I just really like it. So here's just like a little 30 second clip.

They can just loop that forever, dude. That's what I'm saying, dude. That's the thing about these guys. Like they're just beat making machines. Yeah. And like just the melodies are just so cool, dude. So that leads us to Matt Martian. So this guy is another founding member along with Sid.

And he's just another one of those super prolific. Like he's always making beats. And he even has like on his SoundCloud page, it says at the top here, for random beats I'm probably not going to use, but you can vibe to them. So he just throws up, you know, just random melodies and beats that he's working on on SoundCloud. So let's see, I'm going to try to do the timeline here. Actually, I'm not sure which came out first, but he's got a couple solo albums. And he also has an album called, and I guess I'll play from this one first.

The album's called God's Poop or Clowns. I don't know. But it's, that is part of. duo that he's part of called the Jet Age of Tomorrow with a rapper who goes by Pyramid Vritra. Probably screwing that last name up, but he was also in Odd Future. So he still makes music with one of the guys from Odd Future.

And I'm going to play a song from it. So this is just a really cool example of just the kind of more instrumental stuff that he does. and wouldn't you know it, Sid shows up at the end of this one. I've got two clips. Got two clips. So this song is called

The Long Way Home. I want a internet album that's nothing but the music instrumentals. Put together. Not that I don't like... Look, I really like the vocals

that they lay on top of it. But they really know how to put together some... Like you said, some beats and some... and melodies and stuff like that. Like I could just, I'm just over here, Vibin. Is that what the cool kids are saying? Yeah, dude.

They're all about Vibin these days. Vibin and Vibin. Vibin and Vibin. Dude, you and me. Dude, that's a good, that'd be a great podcast idea. No, dude. Let me tell you what we're doing. Vibin and Vapin.

We're just aging ourselves, man. We sound like a bunch of old. We sound fucking hip. But seriously, wouldn't that be a cool podcast name? Vibin and Vapen? you just you you roll out a fatty

wait that's not vaping you do a little vape you do a little vape you do a little vibe yeah dude it's perfect let's get let's get on that man so what I like about diving into the individual

projects that these members are working on is you can really like like when you listen to their solo stuff and then you jump back and listen to the internet like they're all varied distinctive and you can really you can pick out like what they're what each of them contribute to like the overall sound of the internet all right so here's the end of that song i just wanted to show off sid's vocals again uh so again this is the long way home it all sounds just so uh cohesive and

stuff you know what i mean like it all sounds so like they're very consistent with what like this sound that they've cultivated is like it's it's a very identifiable sound you know I mean. Yeah, and you got to remember, and this is what makes me so happy, dude. Like, Matt Martians and Sid have been friends since, quote, the Myspace days. They used to live in an apartment together, and I guess they had like a little studio set up, and they would just, you know, wake up, walk out of their bedrooms and just start producing music together, you know, in like the living room. So they've been doing this together forever. So I just love that they, they, you know, support each other wherever they, wherever they can, you know. And yeah, dude, it's just good. It's just good shit. So that one again was, was another side project that he did. So it's a little bit different.

So again, that was the jet age of tomorrow is what they go by. So it's Matt Martians and another friend of his. I'm not going to try to pronounce his name again. But I'm going to play a song from one of his full-length solos called the last party that came out in 2019. And this shows off his songwriting and vocals a little bit more. And I got two clips again, dude. This is going to be a lengthy sewed. But this song is called

Moving on. This is just a solid, just a solid vibe, dude. It's got like a rock. It's a rock song. Yeah, but I mean, but like I said, it still feels, it still feels consistent with the other clips you played. This is their, this is their jam, like the, the trap and be, funky R&B soul.

So here's clip two from moving on. This one just kind of changes up again at the end. And these are just parts of the song where I'm like, I got to play it. Like, I don't want to play the whole song, but I want to play this one part, you know. So here is the very end of moving on. How do you pinpoint this sound? You know, it's just so unique. Well, yeah, and that's what it seems to me, like, it's just, they have found their sound, right?

And, like, they're in that, to use her own words, like, they have found their lane or whatever. Like, she was referring to how she does her trap and be, right? But, I mean, they've found their lane as far as, like, the sound of the internet, like, and how, like, what they sound like when they make music together. Like it's very much this, it's got this very laid back vibe to it, you know. Yeah. So I've got another clip I'm going to play. And then we're going to, we're going to dive into some Steve Lacey stuff. Another clip from the NPR interview.

So they're going to talk about, and this is another Quentin remix, I kind of split up the interview here. But they talk about meeting Steve. And he was, I want to say, actually, she says it in the clip. He was really young when you started hanging around them. So this is a little bit about meeting Steve and how he kind of had his own open lane. Steve, we met him through our old keyboard player, Jamil. He brought him through. He used to be at the studio, sit used to own a student in Hollywood, Chateaumarie.

And basically, it was like a hangout for like all the homies like, it was basically you come through and make beats. And it was a nice studio that sit on, but it had an energy of a very welcoming energy that if you, you know, a lot of times when you go in the a lot of these studios or people's studio, you feel like, okay, I don't want to touch anything. I don't want to, like, ruffle, I don't want to touch. But the studio had a vibe where, like, I can go in a live room and play. I can get on an ox and play. I can go in the kitchen and get, I can go.

It felt like, so, you know, Steve being 16, you know, he had a place where. He was actually 15. 15, I'm sorry. 15. When he started coming over, he was like 15. Yeah, so him having just a place to, you know, hang out. Now that I realize it was everything to him about, because he didn't even have a computer at the time.

He couldn't even lay music down. Yeah. The good thing about Steve is, like I said, he understands growth and just seeing his growth, like, with the new song, you know, dark red that he just released. It's just like, man, like, I was telling him last night he was showing me this video. I was like, man, like, you realize, like, you can take this shit back. Like, you, you legit understand rock. You understand funk.

You understand, like, you're young enough to understand that importance of trap music. And, like, the new, like, you literally can change music. So I always put in his head, like, you can change things. Like, you can change things. He has a wide open lane as well. Yeah. Yeah. You know?

Love it, man. Cheech, there you go, dude. Wide open lane. And it's so true, dude. Steve Lacey, like they said, with how young he is and just his understanding of rock and trap and what did you say, funk. I don't know what else he said, but, yeah, he really has something awesome going for him. And I just love that, like, sentiment, you know, like how Matt just kind of pulled him aside and said, like, hey, man, you. Like, you can change music.

You know, like, it's just so cool that they're all just so supportive of each other and they help each other, you know, make music. It doesn't matter if it's the internet. It doesn't matter what it is. So here is, I'm actually going to play. There's a song on Steve Lacey released a full-length album back in 2019 called Apollo 21. And he's got a little minute 50 track short and sweet called Basement Jack. and I'm going to have that fade right into the next track on the album.

I'll play a little bit of that called Guide. Just want to give you a flavor like from track to track what you're going to get on a Steve Lacey record. So here is again, basement jack and guide from Steve Lacey's Apollo 21. Can't get much cooler than that, dude. And that was track to track. Yeah. Dude, we could put out a record with the number of tracks we played today. Well, I have two more, dude.

Are you on your mind? I couldn't leave out Patrick Page, man, the bass player. Yeah, man. Because I was going to just do Matt Marsh and Steve and Sid. And then I was reading articles and it was talking about a tiny little like instrumental album that Patrick Page. It's Patrick Page the second. release and I was like, well, I'm going to give this a listen, you know, because like his baselines are killer in the internet. And then I was like, I can't leave this up. Okay. Yeah. So again, like Steve Lacey,

he's, I'm the most excited about where Steve Lacey's going to go because he's really young. I don't know how old he's now, but he can't be much older than like 20, 21. And like Matt Martians was saying, he just has such a good grip on these different styles of music. And he's really like blending them all together so well. And like, it's no surprise now after listening to all this stuff, why the internet is just so awesome, you know? Like, they've got these powerhouse musicians. And, yeah, just the sky's the limit, dude, for these guys. All right, real quick, dude, let's play a couple Patrick Page the second tracks. He does hip-hop and instrumental stuff. He produces as well. And he has a little EP.

that he released in 2016 called Prelude. So I pressed play on track one, and I was fucking blown away, so we're going to play some of it. This is just kind of towards the end of the song. So this is a track by Patrick Page II called Beginning. Was Lacey on the guitar there? I don't know.

I don't think so. I like that guitar, the guitar, the guitar, diddy. Yeah, dude. I love it. All right. Yeah, I know, dude. I'm packing songs on this.

one, but I just, again, like, I, there's just, I wanted to pay tribute, proper tribute to all members of the band. There's one that I left out, but he doesn't have any solo stuff. So I'm going to play a little bit, so he's a really great rapper as well, and this, the song that I heard on an album of his that came out in 2018 called Letters of Irrelevance. Kind of struck a chord with me, though, lyrics. So this song, again, by Patrick Page the second, is called Ode to, inibriation. man decisions decisions whatever man shit fucking dude get another one then bless out my tolerance it's making the nightmares more vivid a nightmare that's hosted by liquid can't escape the room we found

the ring hearing my sisters through hollering i shouldn't be doing this making the worst man why am i crying grabbing the keys and i start the edition i shouldn't be driving to be honest between you and i the police catch me i'm doing time another nigger with a DUI fuck yeah i really like appreciate every little decision that is made on these songs. You know what I mean? Every little thing that goes into it. Very thoughtful. Even that drum beat that kind of came in toward the middle there.

And then that the synth at the end was really cool. And it had kind of like a 70s vibe to it, like a 70s. Yeah. Centth, 80s, synth vibe to it. Really cool. So that, I mean, that's the thing with these guys, dude, there's just so much out there. I'm starting to understand now, Q, why you had to play so many. tunes, you know. Yeah, and hit, you know, pull up these albums and press play from track one and just

you're in for hours of treats, dude, hours of treats. That's too many treats. You got to spread out the treats. I mean, but just think about all these members coming together to make, to make the internet, you know, and just, it's no wonder. It's just so awesome. Yeah. So that's all I got, brother. That's, yeah, good stuff, man. We, like, we could, we could do episodes on each of these artists. Yeah, I know. That's the thing. And I'm sure we will. Why not? We'll do it. We'll circle back for sure. And, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if one or all of them release music this year. So I'm sure they're going to find their way on our best of 2021. You know, it's bound to happen. So yeah, that's that. And dude, do we have any idea we were talking about next week? No, we don't. It's the Wild West. We could, I don't know, dude. I don't think we actually had a lineup beyond the internet.

But no, I feel like we've been sort of in this R&B soul kind of vein lately with, you know, starting with, what's his name, Jesse Johnson? And then we did Blood Orange. Yeah, the Minneapolis Sound. And then we did the internet today. Trapp and B. So we could mix it up and go 180. Let's find a happy medium in another genre. Okay.

I like that. I like that idea. Happy medium. Yeah, sure. We could find a happy medium. I don't know what that looks like, but there's a lot of ha- The funny thing is, I feel like Jesse Johnson and Blood Orange are happy mediums between R&B and other genres. And same with the internet.

New Wave. I feel like we've actually been... Anyway, yeah, we'll figure it out. So now we've got to find a happy medium between all that and a whole other genre. It's got to be a thing. Let's find it. I know that there's like shoe gaze metal. Doom, doom gaze.

Whoa, let's do that. Doom gaze? Let's do some doom gaze. There you go. We just did it. Doom gaze. So we'll be coming at you next week with a Doomgaze band. More on that later.

Yeah, there's got to be. a ton of them out there. Doom gaze R&B. Wait, a doom gaze R&B artist? Doom and B. It's got to pee. Doom and B. Doom and bass. Shoe and B.

Shoo-gays and bass. That's the thing. For any two genres, you can probably find a band out there that is claiming that they are doing it, right? I mean, it's called Fusion. Look it up. thought in a million years that there would be a doom gaze band. Sure enough, there was. Let's do it, man.

I'm excited about that. All right, Q. Maybe some doom gaze. Maybe that's just a terrible idea. And we'll come at you with something completely. That happens a lot, dude. We'll promise something and then backtrack. And surprise, it's something totally different.

Q and I are going to meet. We're going to meet later. We're going to determine what we're going to come next week. Come at you next week. Don't worry about it. I know you guys are worried. that we don't have any plans right now, but we'll figure it out. We always do. And let me just sidetrack here, dude.

And this is a peek behind the curtain. I'm looking at a timestamp of 86 minutes and 30 seconds. And my ears have never felt more comfy in these headphones, brother. I could have these on my dome for another fucking 86 minutes, and I'll be just fine. I don't know about you, dude, but over the head earphones start to weigh heavy on my lobes. and they start to hurt, like, after about an hour, hour and a half. Not with these AKG headphones, brother. Well, here's the thing.

I didn't get a pair of AKG headphones. Yeah, I'm sorry about that. And I can tell you right now that, I've got some nice headphones, but they are starting to hurt my ears a little bit. No joke. Now that you said that. Pillows on my ears, dude, that's what I got.

So, yeah, there you go. What more do you need to hear? Do you want pillows on your ears? AKG is, is what? you want to be. That's not approved marketing copy. I'm... I liked it, though.

Riffing it there. You want pillows on your ears? AKG is where you want to be. I will say, if you're thinking, you know what, I could do this. I want to start my own pod. Get the podcaster's essentials kit from AKG. That's all I'm going to say. Comes with these beautiful headphones and a dope-ass mic.

Look it up. Type in AKG Podcaster's Essentials kit. I'm not going to go into any more. details than that. You can find it on the internet. All you got to know is AKG is like AKG is one of the most trusted names in audio engineering. They've been around forever. Our dad used to use AKG equipment when he was a radio DJ. Yeah. What more do you need to know, man? Yeah. So anyways, that's that. I'll do it this time, brother. I'll give you a break. So you can find us on the Pantheon podcast network as we mentioned earlier. That is our home.

and it is home to a lot of other awesome music-centric podcasts. You can find us at Pantheonpodcasts.com. Reach out to us on Twitter. Our handle is at No Filler Podcast. Give us a shout. Let us know if you, you know, if you got some more like trap and bee, trap soul recommendations, send those tracks our way. We'd love to hear it.

Again, that's at No Filler podcast. And again, we'll be coming at you next week. Hey, maybe it'll be some Doomgays. Maybe it'll be some Shoe Doom. Hey, maybe it'll be some Doom Metal. Maybe it'll be Shoe Gaze. Maybe it'll be Doom Gays. How about that, Q?

We will come at you next week with either a Doom Metal Band, a Shoe Gaze band, or a Doom Gaze band. You don't know which of the three you're going to get. You might get both combined into one. But that's actually pretty interesting because I would love to cover more shoe gaze. I would love to cover more Doom. I would love to cover some Doom gaze too. Well, that's a thing. It's a cliffhanger

if I've ever heard. There you go. There's our next three episodes right there. Doom, shoe gaze, doom gaze. We did it, guys. We figured it out. You're welcome. With the mics hot. The mics are still hot and we just we just laid out the roadmap for you. So there you go. Yeah, yeah. We should do it in that order then, did. I'm done.

Okay. Let's do it. So, uh, I didn't mention this earlier, but I'm going to fade out with the same song that I introed us in with, which is a song from the internet's latest full-length, the hive mind. So I'll fade us out with that track. That song is called Roll, parentheses, Burbank Funk. And that's going to do it for us. Thank you, as always, for listening. My name is Quentin. My name is Travis. Y'all take care. 52% of households that start the year with Peloton are still active. a year later.

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