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Wu-Tang Clan's influence hasn't just been in hip-hop, they've affected many creative industries such as film and fashion (Vanity Fair, 2019). As they made their way into stardom, many other up-and-coming artists would look to them for inspiration. Wu-Tang Clan had a unique fashion sense for their time, wearing baggy clothes and timberland boots (Wong, n.d.). In 1995 they even created their own clothing line, dubbed Wu Wear which debuted alongside a track that promoted their brand 'Wu Wear The Garment Renaissance' (Smith, n.d.).

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Although there are some opinions and direct quotes from The Glitch Mob talking about who influences them and their music, such as Metallica (Petriw, 2015). From my research it would be more true to say they avoid taking inspiration and influence from other artists, as said by Boreta in an interview "when it’s time to write our own music, we tend to unplug from that as to not be influenced very much" (Fischer, n.d.). The Glitch Mob's method of production is more feeling out the music instead of using conventional production methods as they state "It’s a mysterious process, but the best stuff happens from a feeling and not a musical concept. The best stuff happens when we don’t overthink it; capture an emotion and tell an authentic story." (British Balls Magazine, 2018) This idea is further cemented when asked about a resort they had visited for inspiration "Oh, Joshua Tree Retreat out in California. We went after touring in order to reboot our whole aesthetic and discover some new creative ground. It was a great way for us to get creative" (Carnes, 2014)

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WXJM's Urban/Rpm director Tyler Hoover got the chance to talk to edIT, Boreta, and Ooah of the Hip-Hop electronic group The Glitch Mob, whose most recent album Love Death Immortality was released on February 11, 2014 and is in rotation.

WXJM: So to start things off how would you guys describe your style to those who have never listened to your music?

The Glitch Mob: Maximal feels, a lot of feels, sort of like adventure dance music. Imagine you're Indiana Jones riding through a psychedelic tidal wave of machetes and piano notes. That's kinda what it's like.

WXJM: That's a pretty vivid picture.

The Glitch Mob: Dance feels; EDF, that's the genre. We like to take all sorts of different music and mash em' all together to get something new and unique and awesome.

WXJM: Who would you guys say your primary influences are, especially in your new album?

The Glitch Mob: Well first and foremost the primary influence was all the thousands of people out there that make up The Glitch Mob. We wrote this record for them. We tried to channel what we believed was like the entire Glitch Mobs collective experience and try to put that down into music. That was really it man, all the emotions and stories we're trying to tell were really all fundamentally based off of all of the experiences we've had with all the people out there. That's really where it all stems from.

WXJM: I know you guys are associated as one of the most prolific artists of the L.A. beat scene but how exactly did you guys meet and decide to form The Glitch Mob instead of continuing along with your solo careers?

The Glitch Mob: When we first started the idea of The Glitch Mob we were doing our solo DJ careers, DJing a lot of parties back to back, and we were also friends first and foremost, so we thought why don't we start doing this together and when we first did it it was so much more fun.. It was a lot more fun for us then performing individually, there's just so much more you can do with more people on stage. We never actually sat down and said hey, let's start a band, in the beginning it was more of an idea of a collective of DJs and being from L.A. and being Hip-hop heads in the beginning it was about making music that feels like Hip hop but it's electronic music. So that's really the inception of the whole thing and part of the inception of the whole beat scene which has really morphed into something else and we all branched off in our own direction but we all share common roots.

WXJM: Wow haha, so to talk about your new album Love Death Immortality my first question is what message or theme are you trying to send with the name?

The Glitch Mob: The album title and song titles come late in the process for us. The songs all had working titles in production and the way we decided on the album title was we took words from different texts in the library in old samurai and art books and picking words that sort of help to describe what the vibe of the record was and then three is a really important number to us, there's three of us and there's something about the stability in the number three that's a theme to us and we try to represent that in our triangle or logo. We knew the album had to be three words and once we decided on that we tried a different combination of words till we came across something that not only felt epic but tells a common story about us connecting with our fans and all the common threads that link us together. This album was homage to that.

WXJM: It does sound pretty different from Drink The Sea. Would you attribute that to your changing or growing fan-base?

The Glitch Mob: Not really. I wouldn't base that around the fan base. We're just the kind of guys that want to try new things. We just really wanted to try different stuff, like record in different tempos we've never written in and patterns we hadn't done in the past. None of us are the kind of guys that want to keep making the same music. We just went on like an electronic music producer exploration. We wanted to try new means of conveying the emotions we wanted to capture in the tunes.

WXJM: Understandable, I know in the commentary album you guys mention a retreat you went on to get inspiration for the album. What was that about?

The Glitch Mob: Oh, Joshua Tree Retreat out in California. We went after touring in order to reboot our whole aesthetic and discover some new creative ground. It was a great way for us to get creative and really live in the music and also get away from the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles. I mean it's practically in our DNA at this point to try new things and this retreat really allowed us to focus on the album.

WXJM: Interesting, I'll start to wrap things up here for you guys, where can anyone whose interested find you guys on social media?

The Glitch Mob: Everywhere man. Theglitchmob.com, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. We're @theglichmob on twitter if that's what you mean. We're just The Glitch Mob on every social media.

WXJM: Ok, last question, do you guys have any big plans for the future?

The Glitch Mob: Well we're at the beginning of a massive three year tour cycle so we're really just planning on going out and sharing our music with the world. That's really what it's all about for the time being.

WXJM: Well thanks a lot for interviewing with me today, can't wait to see you guys at Bonnaroo.

The Glitch Mob: No problem man.

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The Glitch Mob's main influence would be EDM and hip-hop, mashed together pulling pieces from other genres, this genre may also be known as Glitch Hop (Herron, 2022). This can be heard in just about every track they have made, although I will use 'Bad Wings' from their album 'Drink the Sea' as an example here (The Glitch Mob, 2011). The track starts off with electronica themes mixed in with a vocal pad. At the timestamp 3:00, you can hear a sort of breakdown into a more hip-hop style of beat, that then morphs back into the original chorus.

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Edward Ma, one of the 3 members of The Glitch Mob, talks about how he uses modular synthesizers to help inspire and spark creativity "I think assembling the [Modular] rig gave me a different way to stimulate my creativity and stay excited about making music." He explains how modular synthesizers streamline his creative process "I just really wanted to be able to create ideas quickly-when you touch them, you get instant results" (Grandiose, 2023). in 2015, The Glitch Mob had unveiled their gigantic Midi/Modular Synthesizer, dubbed The Blade. This was a passion project they had sunk a lot of their own time and money into, to perform live music for their fans (The Glitch Mob, 2015).

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https://open.spotify.com/track/5brviRvO3ZIDvdF0dED9wC?si=1c5dd8cc4beb482b

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUu8jxWDSOU

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ67KyHX-cY

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The RZA was obsessed with Kung-Fu movies since he was young, and eventually would go on to sample these movies for his now infamous tracks like 'Da' Mystery of Chessboxin'' and 'Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing ta F' Wit'. In the movie 'The 36th Chamber of Shaolin', a direct quote that inspired the RZA to read more about Kung-Fu and Buddhism was "Without wisdom, there is no gain." The RZA explains "And that hit me and I heard that and it sent me to start researching Buddhism and finding Kung-Fu books and things" (Vanity Fair, 2019).

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What's up, Vanity Fair?

You got the RZA right here from the almighty Wu-Tang Clan.

And today we're gonna be talking about

Kung fu films that either

we sampled for our production,

or that inspired our lyrics.

So, let's have some fun, yo.

[dramatic music]

Hey yo, this movie,

the Master of the Flying Guillotine, y'all.

The Flying Guillotine became what I used

as my choice of lyrical weapon.

So when you hear this song,

Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin' ta [bleep] Wit.

♪ Wu-Tang Clan ain't nuthin' ta wit ♪

♪ Wu-Tang Clan ain't nuthin' ta wit ♪

I start off,

♪ And I be tossin', enforcin' ♪

♪ My style is awesome ♪

♪ Causin' more family feuds than Richard Dawson ♪

♪ And the survey said ♪

♪ You're dead ♪

The Fatal Flying Guillotine chops off your head.

So basically, Wu-Tang, our tongue is like a sword.

But the guillotine can beat the sword, yo.

And that's why I chose that to be my weapon.

Well, the cool thing about this part here

the flying guillotine hasn't come in yet, right?

And we have one of the Lau brothers here

with a three sectional staff

fighting against the pole fighter.

The Lau Clan actually becomes the best

directing team in martial arts.

And the funny thing about this movie

is that the guy who just got killed,

Philip Kwok, later goes on to be a big

Shaw Brother movie star,

playing the lizard as one of the venoms.

And we'll get to that later.

The Executioners from Shaolin.

One of my favorite films of all time.

And it follows the story of Hung Hsi Kuan,

who is the Hung Gar founder,

fighting the Priest, Pai Mei,

also known as the White Lotus.

My tiger Kung fu is better than yours.

If you listen to the Wu-Tang Clan song,

Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin' to Wit,

it starts off with [imitates piano music].

[RZA and Pai Mei] Tiger style.

[Pai Mei] Tiger style.

Well that's from this movie.

Tiger style. [man grunts]

This film really inspired us.

And when you watch movies like Kill Bill,

which I later went on to score,

you'll see this character, Priest Pai Mei pops up.

[woman grunts] [suspenseful music]

[man speaks in foreign language]

Wow, this scene here

is one of the pinnacle scenes of the film.

Priest Pai Mei is no joke,

and he's mastered the technique

of moving his weak spot at will.

Now, Hung Gar is a real form of martial arts,

the animal fist.

In fact, the five-pattern animal fist

is used in so many Kung fu movies,

whether it's from Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan,

and even in Tony Jaa films.

This technique has been incorporated.

It's really a foundation of Shaolin style.

Uh-oh, look at this.

Got him in the heart and the nuts.

Uh-oh, he's going for the nuts, he's going for the nuts.

Nope, no nuts, kid.

He moved the nuts.

I don't know how he moved the nuts.

He moved the nuts.

Can you find it?

Hai, ha, ha! The 36th Chamber of Shaolin.

This is one of my favorite films of all time.

I've seen it over 200 times and more to go.

This film, which was released in America

as Master Killer, not only gives

the name of one of our Wu-Tang Clan members.

♪ We have an APB on an MC Killa ♪

♪ Looks like the work of a master ♪

But it also gives us the partial title

to our first album, Enter the Wu-Tang [36 Chambers],

which we actually took enter from Enter the Dragon,

which another favorite movie of mine.

Bruce Lee, we consider him to be a minor prophet.

This film is directed by Liu Chia-Liang,

like I said one of the martial art legends.

But it also stars one of the greatest martial art

actors since Bruce Lee, Gordon Liu.

Now, Gordon Liu plays the hero here, the Master Killer.

And the scene that inspired me the most

after watching all the action was the scene

where he says he wants to go to the highest level

and he walks in and the monk is like,

without wisdom, there is no gain.

And that hit me and I heard that and it sent me

to start researching Buddhism

and finding Kung fu books and things.

But the beautiful thing is years later, once again,

the blessing of the universe, I'm doing a film,

Man with the Iron Fists, and Gordon Liu

plays the Abbot in my movie.

[Gordon speaks foreign language]

For me, there's been various samples for this movie.

You're worthy of a general. [rhythmic music]

If you want to fight, fight with me.

We have only 35 chambers, there is no 36.

So this is a scene here where he first enters

the first chamber, which is simply called,

crossing the water.

What I love about the character is that

while the other monks are sleeping, he trains by himself.

He does it with a hand of a leg and is holding his own leg

doing the killer and play dance.

And that movie there, trust me,

it became part of break-dancing.

♪ I wanna go to work on ya fellows too ♪

♪ Make you wanna do the things we do ♪

Five Deadly Venoms, directed by Chang Cheh.

This film right here is actually the film

that made me become a Kung fu fanatic.

You could hear the sample in a song we got

called, Da Mystery of Chessboxin',

where it starts off.

[Man] Toad style is a mentally strong

and immune to nearly any weapon.

When it's properly used, it's almost invincible.

Watching this film, the toad character

is the one we all root for.

He's the one that you wish you were,

the one with the invincible iron skin.

Now here's the snake.

[Man] Now number two, practice the snake style.

It was known as the snake's dirt.

This technique right here was crazy

because most snake styles is used like this,

with the Jackie Chan.

But here he used the cobra, the mouth and the tail,

and having them both act together.

That really only appeared in maybe two movies ever,

to see the snake style done like this.

I think it was this one and another film

called, The Deadly Challenger.

Look at that, wow.

And I seen that as a kid.

You gotta imagine, I'm a 10-year-old kid

watching this, y'all.

And I seen a guy just lay on a bed of nails.

It was hard laying on my box spring, you know, man?

So anyway, most of the films that we really enjoyed

was Shaw Brother films.

Shaw Brothers had big budgets.

It was like a studio lot and all their films

had a studio quality production.

All of a sudden, here comes this independent,

low-budget film called, The Mystery of Chess Boxing.

[dramatic music]

Now being a chess guy, a chess fanatic,

I was like, I gotta see this movie.

And it became my favorite.

There's a character in this film,

whose name is Ghost Faced Killer.

[man laughs]

Ghost Faced Killer!

And he's one of the most ruthless villains

to ever test the screen.

And so when it came to Wu-Tang,

I was like who is that guy everybody is gonna be scared of,

based on their lyrical content.

And that name became Ghostface Killah's name.

And he put on a mask like the Five Deadly Venoms.

And he came in and when you watch him in

Da Mystery of Chessboxin', hip hop was never the same.

♪ Speakin' of the devil psych, ♪

♪ No it's the God, get the right ♪

♪ Mega trife, and yo, I killed you in a past life ♪

And you'll find out, on Ghostface album you will hear

some of the quotes from this movie.

The sky is high, the cloud is low.

But my water technique is hard to beat.

But the Earth can absorb water.

Ha, hai!

The Ten Tigers of Kwangtung.

Here this film, there's a conflict between these young men.

They never settle the beef.

These young guys can't beat each other,

but then the old G comes in at the end,

and kills the villain in three seconds.

Me and Method used to always say

that's how our lyrics gotta be.

As we get older, we gotta be able to get on the mic

and in four bars rip a mother's ass, excuse my language.

Wu-Tang martial expert.

There's not many who can match up with him.

Now this film has a great sample in it.

En garde, I'll let you try my Wu-Tang style.

That's the sample right there.

And the Wu-Tnag guy pulls out a sword, right?

And he does the Wu-Tang style, right, with his sword.

But the crazy thing is, when he gets defeated,

he then pulls out a weapon that I only seen in one movie,

this movie, and you will never see it

again in no other Kung fu movie.

And it's a gold statue.

I don't know where the production designer thought of this,

I don't know if this weapon ever exists.

If somebody could make me one, I would appreciate it.

It's the coolest thing, Ten Tigers of Kwangtung.

[eerie music]

So Shogun Assassin, which is the intro

to GZA's album, Liquid Swords.

[Child] When I was little, my father was famous.

He was the greatest samurai in the empire.

Most of our influence came from Kung fu movies.

Sometime there's a lot of swinging, a lot of blocking.

But in Japanese samurai movies, it's one-stroke kills.

Bing, stroke, bing, stroke.

When it came time to incorporate it,

a film into the Wu-Tang world,

I chose this film to represent the GZA.

His lyrics are straight to the point.

Your

technique

is

magnificent.

Don't be afraid, bad dreams are only dreams.

Choose the sword and you will join me.

Choose the ball and you join your mother.

So just when the Kung fu genre was slowing down

and a lot of films, Shaw Brothers wasn't making as many,

this group from Taiwan came out with Shaolin vs. the Lama,

which is a trilogy actually.

In this film, you see a display of shadow boxing.

[RZA and Man In Movie] Allow me to demonstrate the skill

of Shaolin, the special technique of shadow boxing.

[Man] Allow me to demonstrate the skill of Shaolin,

the special technique of shadow boxing.

I'll never forget being in the movie theater

when the shadow boxing technique came out,

man, the whole audience just start screaming.

[men grunting]

Wow.

So after Mystery of Chess Boxing stayed

reigning champion as my favorite movie,

Shaolin vs. Wu Tang comes out.

And this changes my whole martial art ideology.

It became my favorite film, still holds the title,

tied with Eight Diagram Pole Fighter.

The way they use their sword in this movie

and the way they use the Qigong fist,

is really unseen before now.

This film is actually directed

by the actor, Gordon Liu, which is crazy.

I mean, all the years he played as an actor

and his brother directed him,

he decides to direct his own film.

It's a lot of parables in this film.

A game of chess is like a sword fight.

You must think first, hai, before you move.

That's the truth, y'all.

♪ Killer bass ♪

If what you say is true,

the Shaolin and the Wu Tang could be dangerous.

Wu-Tang Clan name is pulled from Shaolin vs. Wu Tang

because of the best sword technique that they showed.

And I reasoned that our tongue is like a sword.

If you think you're the best lyricist,

you must be using the Wu Tang sword.

And so we are the Wu-Tang Clan,

we felt we were the best lyricists in hip hop.

But the film that also helps cement our brotherhood,

is The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter.

Because here's a movie about brothers

who sacrifice themselves for their country,

for their family, and relentlessly,

against all odds, fought to right the name of their family.

We would cut class and hang out at my house and watch.

This film actually made some of us well up.

You know what I mean?

This scene here is the final scene,

where he's fighting against the general,

who actually framed his family.

Where's my sister?

I'm standing on her.

Eight Diagram Pole Fighter is the name of Wu-Tang's,

which was supposed to be our final album.

The 8 Diagrams.

In the old days, sampling,

any signal to a sampler was a headache.

To get it from a VCR was the worst,

because you had to have about three plugs.

Because samplers only took quarter inch plugs.

So you actually would have to go from your VCR,

into your mixer, then out of your mixer headphone jack

into your sampler, and then you'll get

a very distorted signal.

And then if you missed it, you gotta rewind it, right,

and try to find it, because the sampler

only sampled x amount of seconds.

So it was a challenging way to produce,

you know what I mean?

So, yo, this been the RZA.

Vanity Fair, I wanna thank you guys for inviting me.

And wa-psh, Wu-Tang forever.

Bong bong.

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Wu-Tang's RZA Breaks Down 10 Kung Fu Films He's Sampled

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Ever wonder where Wu-Tang Clan got their amazing samples from? Watch as Wu-Tang's producer, rapper and founder, RZA, takes you through scenes from "Master of the Flying Guillotine," "Executioners from Shaolin," "The 36th Chamber," "Enter the Dragon," "Five Deadly Venoms," "The Mystery of Chess Boxing," "Ten Tigers of Kwangtung," "Shaolin vs.

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In an interview with the RZA, he said “I don’t think too many solo MCs will ever surpass the creativity, ideas and individualisation that [Nas] put inside his lyrics and songs” (Whatley, 2022). The RZA also said in a different interview "by the time the world heard Wu-Tang, most of us had 10 years of rapping in us already. The GZA was already a master when Nas was a master, but GZA was 21 — Nas was 15!” (Belgrave, 2021). In 1995 The Rza got the chance to work with and produce for Nas on the track 'Verbal Intercourse' (Ghostface Killah, Nas, RZA, 1995).

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In 2010, Jai Paul released a track called BTSTU, which has been a personal favourite of mine, and an inspiration for Flume when he first heard it on the radio. "It has a very unique and distinct sound rhythmically," he said in an interview in 2022. "It was a really influential song for me that shaped quite a bit of the music I made after hearing it" (Marcelline, 2022). Jai Paul's influence didn't stop with Flume however, Jai Paul was also credited on Beyonce's track 'End Of Time', and sampled by Drake on his track 'Dreams Money Can Buy' (Bassil, 2018).

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In another interview, Flume again mentions Flying Lotus and J. Dilla as his influences. He said, "I was listening to these dudes, and their beats were not on time - They were wrong. But they were right!" (Schwartz, 2016). He then explained his apparent epiphany "I don't have to put everything on the grid"(Schwartz, 2016). Flume went on to say how Flying Lotus' experimental hip-hop directly influenced his first album "It’s the framework for [my debut album]" (Schwartz, 2016). One of Flying Lotus' production methods is using excessive side-chaining, or side-chain pumping as it's referred to in this paper. He uses this method to create a more rhythmic pad (Hodgson, 2011)

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During an interview with RadarMusic, he cited J. Dilla as one of his inspirations. "I got inspired by dudes like ... Flying Lotus ... J. Dilla ... just more of the kinda weirder 'beatsy'  stuff". According to Flume, these influences motivated him to explore and develop his own unique style of music, specifically electronic dance music. This eventually led him to create a new genre of music, which is now known as Future Bass. Interestingly, he initially referred to it as "Flumestep" (Radarnewmusic, 2012). J. Dilla revolutionised hip-hop with his out-of-the-box thinking when it came to producing beats on his MPC3000, such as offset kicks and snares, chopping samples and completely resequencing a melody (Caswell, 2017).

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Flume Explains His Influences & Style AKA Flumestep

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The Glitch Mob is a trio from L.A who debuted in 2010. The Trio's music composition I have always considered outstanding, as they are able to make electronic music that is fluently intertwined together with stringed instruments and electronic sounds. On their first EP 'We Can Make the World Stop', the track 'Warrior Concerto' uses both of these elements and meshes it all together with breaks and glitchy sounds. Something that I learnt whilst researching The Glitch Mob was their avoidance of creative media while writing music, I personally know this sentiment is very true to me as well. (Fischer, n.d.).

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Wu Tang Clan is a Producer/Rapper group formed in New York  City in 1992 and composed of 9 members, most recognizably the RZA, Method-Man and Ol' Dirty Bastard (Wong, n.d.). I have always been inspired by The RZA's use of sampling and raw sounds, more specifically the RZA's production for the first album that they made together, 36 Chambers. From the rawness of the kicks, snares and hi-hats to the old sampled Kung-Fu movies perfectly cut together to make a unique hip-hop album.

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Flume is a 31-year-old Australian producer who made his debut in 2011. From his earliest works, Flume has been known to experiment with new sounds and ideas, such as stretching out audio and distorting it to create fresh melodies and sounds. A prime example of this can be heard on 'Warm Thoughts,' a track from his eponymous debut album, 'Flume' (Colangelo, 2016). I am personally inspired by his production techniques, confidence, and consistent willingness to push the boundaries of what music could, and can be. In a Q&A interview, he says "I just make things that I want to listen to" and often has thoughts like "Oh f--k, will anyone like this?" (Bein, 2022). This personally resonates with my own style of producing.