FuturoSeptember 25, 2006
*Name: Futuro
*Are there any additional names used to describe this project: erm...mashup?
*Members: Just me and the many fabulous people that I get to remix but sadly will probably never meet.
*Founding Member: Steve Osgood Lima
*Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions or turntable creations: More like Digital re-contstructions I would say.
*Another genre descriptor: Someone once wrote to me describing my non-mashup mixes as refreshes... I rather like that.
*Location: London UK
*What is your creative/artistic background: Always been a musician who then learnt engineering and eventually moved into production.
*History: I have been making bootleg remixes for many years but have never released them until just over a year ago. Having survived a very close brush with Dr.Death I just thought f**k it and started uploading.
*Born: I was born on the terraces at Stamford Bridge in 1905 but getting younger by the day.
*Motivations: I love to make the old new again and to also work with GREAT vocalists who would probably never wander in to my little studio accidentally. I only ever work with sources that I LOVE otherwise I would be spending my time listening, over and over again to voices or tracks that I wouldn't normally do and as it is for free it has to please ME firstly. The fact that so many people like the stuff is a massive bonus and shows that I either have remarkably good taste or I am extremely common. Both of these may be true.
*Philosophy: To to use the same production values that I would on any other commercial release. Keep it simple and don't forget what made the sources hit records in the first place.
*How would you like to be remembered: As somebody who was competent and entertaining.
*Web address: www.stevelima.com/futuro.html
