{"id":2670,"date":"2011-10-14T10:15:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T16:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2011-10-14T10:15:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T16:15:15","slug":"tim-hoover-should-have-grabbed-more-napkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/10\/14\/tim-hoover-should-have-grabbed-more-napkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Hoover – Should Have Grabbed More Napkins"},"content":{"rendered":"
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photo : Tyler Sneesby
\nBy Adrienne Yeung<\/strong><\/div>\n
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I know you\u2019ve heard\/seen Dj Co-op around town sometime, somewhere – \u00a0perhaps DJing at Grippin\u2019 Grain, or as half of the Co-op\/Hunnicut duo. But less ubiquitous is the name of the man behind the turntable. Meet Tim Hoover and his most recent project, which is a huge departure from hip-hop beats you might hear him spinning on any other night. He\u2019s created 60 minutes of richly layered instrumental music, stirring together lost-and-found samples with his own compositions. The day after his album listening party at the Planetarium, we got away from the heat and the traffic at Bar Italia to talk about recording under his own name this time to produce this totally different sounding album, <\/em>More Napkins.<\/p>\n

Stylus: You said the \u201creal\u201d title of the album at the show last night. What\u2019s that?
\nTim Hoover: <\/strong>It\u2019s I Should Have Grabbed More Napkins<\/em>. It\u2019s just a thing that I\u2019ve been saying for years. It should be on my tombstone. But it seemed a bit clunky for a full album title. I love napkins, but I never have enough of them!<\/p>\n

[Stylus hands Tim a napkin. Tim says thanks.]<\/em>
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Stylus: What went through your head when you created the songs?
\nTH:<\/strong> I suppose for the most part it was built around the samples that I took. I\u2019d take a little snippet of a song that I wanted to sample, and then build music of my own on top of it, inspired by the sample, and which would go along with that sample.<\/p>\n

Stylus: So all in all, how much of this is actually your own music that you\u2019ve composed and played yourself?
\nTH: <\/strong>Probably around 90 per cent.<\/p>\n

Stylus: What exactly were you doing on your laptop at the Planetarium show?
\nTH:<\/strong> Well, I played the music as I composed it, except at certain parts I took pieces out of the recording and played those parts live. I was playing the section with the guitar, and then the keyboard, and the violin. Really, I composed the album almost by trial and error: like, \u201cThese notes sound good, now I\u2019m gonna record on top of them.\u201d \u00a0I made it and then went, \u201cOh, crap, now I’ve gotta perform this.\u201d I think in a perfect world I would have made the music and then got a whole bunch of really talented musicians to just play it with me. Maybe someday!<\/p>\n

Stylus: I was listening to some of your Yahoo Serious<\/em> (an earlier venture under the Co-op title) music from 2007, and I noticed how even that is distinctly hip-hop and funky, whereas under Tim Hoover, your sound is entirely different \u2013 down-tempo, almost classical. For how long have you been thinking of making something like More Napkins<\/em>?
\nTH: <\/strong>It\u2019s almost like a logical progression, the Yahoo Serious<\/em>, and after it, the Ayo Technology. <\/em>On Yahoo Serious<\/em> I was taking the songs, looping them up, and then adding acapellas, so it wasn\u2019t straight DJing \u2013 there was more of a production element. And then on this one I just took it one step farther in that there were songs, but just little parts of songs and then I built music around them. Obviously it\u2019s a huge departure from funky, rappy things to times signatures and violins. And that\u2019s why I released it under the name Tim Hoover and not DJ Co-op, because if you went to see DJ Co-op at the Pyramid… or if you listened to this and went to see DJ Co-Op at a party, you\u2019d think, \u201cWhat?! This is nothing like that!\u201d<\/p>\n

Stylus: But why did you decide to record this under Tim Hoover as opposed to another pseudonym?
\nTH:<\/strong> I always have trouble explaining why I chose DJ Co-op. [Tim now explains, but that\u2019s probably already in another interview somewhere.] <\/em>So if I had to make up another name, I would have to explain that… This is music that I\u2019m really happy with. It\u2019s not like trying to market myself as a DJ or anything with this. This is just my music. This is what I want to put out – so why not just put it out under my own name?<\/p>\n

Stylus: What was the thinking behind the decision to make each track so long, at about 12 minutes each?
\nTH:<\/strong> The album is designed to be listened to in one go. I almost wanted to make it just one long 60 minute track on your iPod, but that\u2019s kind of annoying for people because you have to either listen to it all the way through, or skip. So I picked natural breaking points. I thought that was a good compromise between one gigantic long track and a bunch of short tracks. Because it doesn\u2019t really make sense for me to cut it up any smaller.<\/p>\n

Stylus: In pretty much every piece of info I\u2019ve seen about More Napkins on the Internet, there\u2019s a reference to this being a \u201cheadphone album.\u201d What does that mean to you, and do you agree?
\nTH: <\/strong>I pulled that term out while writing out the release details for the album. To me it just means an album where if you were just hanging out at a party and it was playing through some MacBook speakers, you wouldn\u2019t really get the full appreciation of what\u2019s going on with it. Or at a loud bar. It\u2019s the sort of album that I think is best appreciated on a pair of headphones.<\/p>\n

Stylus: What do you like about cassette versus other formats?
\nTH: <\/strong>Aesthetically, I love the fact that it\u2019s on cassette. I know it\u2019s not that practical, but it\u2019s so goddamn cool that I couldn\u2019t resist \u2013 the fact that I grew up listening to all these tapes and now I\u2019ve got a tape of my own music!<\/p>\n

More Napkins was released on September 13th on the label Woven Records<\/a> in digital format, and on cassette with Dub Ditch Records.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adrienne Yeung<\/p>\n

I know you\u2019ve heard\/seen Dj Co-op around town sometime, somewhere – perhaps DJing at Grippin\u2019 Grain, or as half of the Co-op\/Hunnicut duo. But less ubiquitous is the name of the man behind the turntable. Meet Tim Hoover and his most recent project, which is a huge departure from hip-hop beats you might hear him spinning on any other night. He\u2019s created 60 minutes of richly layered instrumental music, stirring together lost-and-found samples with his own compositions. The day after his album listening party at the Planetarium, we got away from the heat and the traffic at Bar Italia to talk about recording under his own name this time to produce this totally different sounding album, More Napkins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[272,563,1012],"class_list":["post-2670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-dj-co-op","tag-local","tag-tim-hoover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}