Unexist / Jappo in Zuidlaren

You’re a hardcore dj/producer, is this also your favorite style or do you listen to more styles of music?

In the beginning it was my favorite indeed. It was the only style I liked cuz it reflected the same anger I had inside me. After a while I discovered other styles and I noticed they had the same sort of ‘profile’ as hardcore. Metal is a style that really got a hold of me. I had a tape of Metallica (live in Canada) that I use to jam in the studio with my friends. Totally crazy energy! Or I remember when I listened to the ‘1’-album of Korn. The first time I got in touch with their music was when a friend of my came to me with a videotape and he was like ‘Jappo you got to check this tape! Those guys are totally insane!’. So we saw it together in my studio and I totally flipped out. They were hard and they were nuts, just like us! Then a few years later Slipknot came out and I also discovered them through a tape. It was 1999 or 2000 I think (in Italy things always arrive a few months later than everywhere else!), anyway I couldn’t believe my eyes. I felt right a way there was a connection with hardcore cuz the first song on the video tape had the Al Pacino’s sample ‘Here comes the pain’. I had the same feeling I had the first time I listened to hardcore. This style also reflected exactly what I had inside me! Besides that I dig the lyrics 100%.

Now they (Korn and Slipknot) are my first source of inspiration. What I’m trying to do is to bring the same aggression and energy in my music, that they give me when I see them on stage. I’m trying to develop the ‘sickness’ in people, that have some reasons to be down of pissed with the world just like me. And hopefully they can release this anger through the music, instead of hanging around on the streets, attacking or even killing people.

Besides hardcore and metal I also listen to hiphop like The Wu-Tang Clan, N.W.A., Biggie and Eminem. It’s a style I really like, plus I love to use hiphop tracks to scratch on top of it. It’s awesome for practicing and some of the lyrics are fucking insane. But my favorite styles are definitely hardcore and metal!