Interview: Fink
9th September 2008
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Former Ninja Tune beatsmith Fink took a brave step - he changed.
Taking classic acoustic sounds and releasing them on the world via the modern digital DIY route, he became the ecclectic dance label’s first and only singer-songwriter.
“I fit into this area of songwriters, this whole DIY thing, this whole ‘folk Britannia’ thing, I don’t know, when I hear my own stuff it sounds so different from everyone else’s that I don’t know where it fits in. I guess that’s either good or bad - Q liked it, but at the same time The Sun liked it - random…,” muses Fink on his new direction.
A true post-modern, digital traditionalist, the former Ninja Tune turntabalist took the bold move of changing his musical style, switching his decks for a guitar and a selection of highly personal, blues-tinged slabs of acoustic narrative.
“Hey! These things happen, people change, people’s taste changes. I moved from being really into clubs and clubbing and DJing to being really into live music, and playing instruments. I guess I’m extreme sometimes and when I tired of clubbing and the constant technological boundary pushing of electronica I went the other way to the extreme and now my live set up is an acoustic trio.”
2006 is a time of the music industry moving further into the digital age, but Fink’s sound is stepping back to a move traditional sound - It could be suggested that he is moving against the cultural tide?
“Not really,” he blasts. "[The album] was only made possible by all the new technology, it’s only in the past few years that the tech has been readily available for people like me to be able to record this kinda stuff in their attics or basements, if it wasn’t for my Macs and samplers I would have to depend on a record company to pay for the session. I engineered it myself, produced it myself, I even bought the studio kit myself from the DJ money, that’s a pretty new thing. Maybe, if anything, the digital revolution means that music like this is getting more heat - after the initial honeymoon period of ‘wow, none of these sounds are being played’ - now we all tend to need a little more personality and talent in our music, downloading is also an ecological solution to all those landfills full of all those boy and girl bands unrecyclable and non bio-degradable CD singles.”
Fink - Official artist site
myspace page
Ninja Tune - Official label site

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Fink - Official artist site
myspace page
Ninja Tune - Official label site
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