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“I WAS ONLY banging Korn and N.W.A. when BECK wrote Sea Change in 2002, but I was digging into his catalogue four years ago and I was transfixed by Lonesome Tears. A long-term girlfriend had left him and he went into the studio the very next day: he didn’t have time to digest it, he laid it out when it was fresh and raw and you can feel it – Beck is my hero.
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“When WU-TANG CLAN wrote Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) in 1993, hip hop was all about money, girls and fucking people up. Then Tearz told a story about a boy getting killed in his hood and another who has HIV; that song tells a real story of what it’s like out there. You just don’t hear that raw emotion in hip hop often, it was the first time I heard hip hop artists being so vulnerable and it’s really important for the genre itself. I like my tunes to jump around so I’m moving onto NINE INCH NAILS as one of the bigger influences for Hollywood Undead – we started adding an industrial vibe when we worked with Danny Lohner. Head Like A Hole gets me going. I don’t know why, but it reminds me of politicians and all these people who seem to be in charge; obviously now is a very pertinent time for that.