![]() We caught up with him to celebrate the launch of Rippers, his latest album via RAAR, which is a paragon of his visceral, cathartic music. ‘Kind of Blues Mix’ was the first release he dropped and since then it’s been all DIY, improv, visual collage, “anything to push the boundaries in concept and execution”. Cutting out all harsh sounds, he explored blues, gospel, lo-fi, noise and experimental music during this time, which changed his perception of music. It took 8 years to improve before he could use headphones again. For the entirety of that time, he couldn’t listen to anything comfortably. In 2005 he damaged his ears and was partially deaf for over a year. It’s been an interesting and unexpected journey finding the sounds that have influenced his his style. But before he started making music, he was crate digging and mixing off decks he bought when he was 16. Walter Gross grew up in a suburb of Baltimore and has been mainly producing off the MPC 1000 since 2004. ![]()
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