Babylon Zoo Toazted radio interview from 1996. (Jas Mann)
182 part radio interview from Toazted conducted in Amsterdam during the 1st quarter of 1996 with Jas Mann of Babylon Zoo.
At one point they seem to refer to the songs featured on the EMI 4track sampler rather than the entire debut album, so maybe it's from late January 1996.
I decided to show it a wider audience and compile the 2 parts together for the (more or less) full interview.
Enjoy.
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I'm having to declutter my workstation, so I'm dumping random content on yt for rough preservation of various interests.
I call this channel a video pot pourri for a very serious reason you know 😁💙
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--- some opinions from vic about this. ---
Audio only I'm afraid, but it's a pretty good interview and it's interesting because it portrays Mann as an interesting and highly intelligent being, perhaps even maligned.
I mean this in regards to when commentators like to regard Mann as an up-the-*r*e **ss** or whatever, I think that's unfair when Mann actually does seem interested in the opinions and interests of others... not really self centred at all! just has a dark and very wacky sense of humour when it comes to the subject of self-respect.
(hear the bit where he refers to his own corniness😀 or the bit near the start where he "enjoys" talking about himself all day😁)
The number of non-music subjects crammed in 30mins is unbelievable! there's plenty of high tech chitchat on things like New Atlantis, gyro copters, the internet, (Demon ISP?) advertising/films, conspiracy theory and three different software houses working on a Babylon Zoo cd-rom (which I don't believe was ever released sadly :-p)
I would love to know more on what happened to the cd-rom project and what it was to be like... I felt that a myst style game where you could explore virtualized multimedia versions of Bzoo songs would of been F*****g brilliant!
I mean Peter Gabriel's Xplorer was something of a cult hit, but something objective based like gadget, myst, 7th guest or burn:cycle would work better with the cinematic nature of the first Bzoo album, with each level being a multimedia take on any of the 11 songs from the album, complete with some very confused art...
(c'mon! Animal army and cracking up I need and pill would be explosive!)
I would like to think of Mann as the kind of being I would want to work with on some kind of art collab... just seems very knowledgeable and open minded to me. 🙄