Ignition(Botswana)
Ignition is a hiphop crew doing amazing things with music in Botswana.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
Ignition was formed at the end of 1998 after we had a four year stint with another group called Geto Flava. We are based in Botswana, a country in Sub Saharan Africa. Group is composed of two brothers, Tumelo and Tshepo Segopa. We also run a production house called Sinewave productions which does a lot of audio production work in Botswana.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
We usually perform with a dj, we perform mostly at clubs and festivals
Your musical influences
Well here are our influences, Little Brother, Slum Village, Lone Catalyst, Nerd, Immortal Technique, Loop Troop, DJ Spinner, MF Doom, Jay Dee (former Slum Vil member)and a whole host of cats who push that type of music, from that list you can probably see that we driven mostly by beat production.
What equipment do you use?
REASON REASON REASON is god and wavelab, Samplitude, AMD based workstation,Evolution midi controller, Studio projects valve preamp, headphone preamp, Samson CO3 multi patern condensor, Fostex and Senheisser headphones, Samson Servo 260 studio amp and Alessis Monitor One MK2(very nice monitors)
Anything else?
SUPER DOSES OF CREATIVITY
