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Mura Masa

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Being from a background of dance music and what you might call club music or electronic music, I think something that gets neglected in that scene is personal vulnerability. - Mura Masa
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I think everybody had this weird mix of pubescent rage and sadness, and just pure mania and joy. It's a really weird time. - Mura Masa
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There's a need for music that has urgency and emotional honesty. That's why people are reintroducing themselves to guitar music - that instrument has an ability to emote. - Mura Masa
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After the first album, I felt like I needed to one up myself - get even bigger features - and I spent six months thinking about that and not making any music. - Mura Masa
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When things socially and politically get difficult, punk music suddenly comes back again, and there's just a really healthy pivot away from music that's not humanly understandable. - Mura Masa
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If you grew up in London's East End you'd probably be inclined to be into something like grime music. But if you're removed from it, like in Guernsey, you can have a wider set of influences, and you're not tied down to any genre or any scene. I think that affects my sound, for sure. - Mura Masa
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SoundCloud was my first break I guess. I got a little bit of a following.That whole bedroom producer genre was kind of kicking itself into gear, and SoundCloud was becoming more of a hub for producers at the time. - Mura Masa
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When I was growing up in the early noughties, I remember the time being very serene, peaceful and innocent. But actually there was Tony Blair's oil wars going on halfway across the world. - Mura Masa
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But I guess the first time I made career money was signing a publishing deal when I was still at uni. That was when I waited to tell my mum that I was dropping out, which was half-way through my first year. - Mura Masa
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At a young age, I was introduced to Joni Mitchell by my mum. My dad was into progressive rock. - Mura Masa
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I was always heavily interested in underground musical movements, the post-dubstep scene; Mount Kimbie were coming out, and bands like that. - Mura Masa
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I was at Sussex University studying English lit and philosophy, I had two essays due in and three seminars that day, and at the same time I was messaging my manager because I'd just started to put together the pieces of like, 'Wow. I really don't want to be doing any essays anymore. Why don't I just give this music thing a go?' - Mura Masa
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I think I can pinpoint the moment that I realized that I enjoyed hip-hop music and it was the video game called Need For Speed Underground. - Mura Masa
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The way streaming is going, this movement in the market of music would suggest that doing a long-form project, especially for a new artist like me - someone who relies on a lot of digital following - it would make more sense for me to release the songs individually. - Mura Masa
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I got into James Blake quite early, like when I was early teen, and that was really important for me. - Mura Masa
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#Teen
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