More About sKiZzOpHoNiC
Three guys Binoy Nair, Sreejith Nair & Dj Vin, in college, randomly happen to get talking as fate sat them next to each other in class. Soon realized they shared the same taste in music after they heard a few Rap/Hip-Hop cassette tapes borrowed from Vinay.
Finally form a Rap/Hip-Hop crew in 2003. Wanting to express themselves, they found an outlet through Hip-Hop, "A vent which helps us let out our feelings, express ourselves & make ourselves heard", in their words.
They found Hip-Hop to be the most effective form of communication through music. They began in a quite primitive & stone-age manner. Their initial recordings would be on a Cassette Tape Recorder with beats drummed on cardboard boxes. They subsequently started working & bought computers. The Internet helps them in a huge way. The members write their own verses. Sreejith & Vinay would program & arrange beats, while Binoy works on the melodious aspect along with the boys, together they write their own lyrics as well. The tools are primarily a MIDI Keyboard & music programming & arranging softwares. They get together to design & conceptualize every track to be recorded, a day prior to the final recording.
Hip-Hop gives them flexibility & creative liberty, composing their own music, writing their own verses allowed them to rap about what they, as individuals, feel deep down inside. They saw Hip-Hop wasn't widely accepted in India, that made it difficult, but not impossible & that had to be changed.
They say, "India doesn't really have a band culture, Bollywood is primarily the music of the masses. Most good musicians that once had a band, today, make music for Bollywood, which is good cos it means good Bollywood music. But we wanna be recognized as a 'Band'. So we need to change a few things out there."
Year 2005, they name their band "sKiZzOpHoNiC", derived from two words, "schizophrenia" meaning split personality & "phonic" for sound.
Their influences come from multiple genres like Hip-Hop, Rock, Classical, Jazz, Lounge, Trip-Hop, Pop, etc. Their influences include Tupac, NaS, Snoop Dogg, Rakim, Outkast, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Eminem, Michael Jackson, Lupe Fiasco, Outlandish, Gorillaz, Ryan Leslie, Timbaland, Pharrell Williams, Dr Dre, DJ Premier, Kishore Kumar, RD Burman, AR Rehman, Lil Wayne, 50 Cent & the likes. They dare to wildly experiment, sometimes fusing different forms of music & incorporating different kinds of sounds.
Having worked on a commercial Hip-Hop album titled "They See (Desi) Revolution" with DNOAX, a crew consisting of about 25 rappers, produced by an independent label called Desi Media Networks (DMN), they have one album to their credit. The album is currently being promoted on Radio stations & TV channels across the UK & the USA.
sKiZzOpHoNiC's own debut album is currently in the works. The album promises a lot of variety with a lot of experimentation being done & a variety of techniques & styles being used.
Initially the band made only English music, they slowly started fusing English & Hindi, giving it an urban appeal. They feel, "When we talk, we usually mix both languages and it sounds fun, so why not.. so we do that in our music as well."
The boys burn the midnight oil at BPO/KPOs, also completing their studies along with working on their music. They say, "Do what u love most, the way u love it & believe in urself, or, get stuck in the rat-race, because you won't get another shot. At 60, you don't wanna regret anything saying, 'Oh I should've done this, I should've done that.' This is what we like & this is what we do best. We're gonna have a lotta stories to tell the next generation."
They've come a long way.. still a long way to go.. still evolving.
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