#cratediggers

Cops n’ Breaks / Audio Rebel / #FUSS2

Flippedup Saturday Season 2 This track is my entry for the Flippedup Saturday Season 2 challenge. The idea is simple but powerful: take a sample, flip it, and transform it into your own head nod hip hop creation.

I pulled from Dexter Wansel’s 1976 classic Theme from the Planets, chopped and reimagined it into a raw hip hop joint. It carries that 70s detective TV series flavor, cinematic and soulful, but reworked into modern boom bap grit. Heavy drums, dusty textures, and a groove that feels both vintage and futuristic make this flip a true soundtrack for the streets.

I’ve been working slowly on art for a graphic novel pitch. It’s currently called Cratediggers and it’s about three highschool friends in their first year of university in London in 2012. They’ve spent their teenage years looking for a rumoured bootleg of their favourite band’s final show, and a new lead pops up. Isaac, the main character, has been happily existing in the middle ground between the stronger personalities of his two best friends for years. Julia’s flourishing in university, she knows where she wants to go and she’s loving meeting new people - like Dylan. Tim’s really struggling, both with change and herself. They belong to an online forum for fans of the defunct 80s punk band Undying Spite, where they meet the much older Paul.

It’s about dealing with changes (in yourself, in others, in life), making decisions on where to go next, and music.

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