{"id":36455,"date":"2014-11-18T11:43:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T17:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ugsmag.com\/?p=36455"},"modified":"2014-11-18T11:43:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T17:43:20","slug":"the-extremities-fresh-kils-uncle-fester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugsmag.com\/the-extremities-fresh-kils-uncle-fester\/","title":{"rendered":"The Extremities (Fresh Kils & Uncle Fester)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Extremities are two highly productive members of Canada’s Backburner Crew, consisting of two halves of a shared brain, Fresh Kils and Uncle Fester. Working with a venerable list of highly sought rappers and musicians, they’ve created a heavy body of work. They’ve recently released and toured their latest effort, Instruments<\/em> featuring crew mate and label statesmen, Ghettosocks on the full hosting duties. I caught up with them a few months back before they hit the road for the tour and learned a bit about how they pilot these projects.<\/div>\n

Gentlemen! Introduce yourselves to the readers of the rooster, and those beyond, in the ether! What is the origin story of the Extremeties? Global Crisis I\u2019m assuming, but I\u2019ll let you expound!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fresh Kils:<\/strong> We actually lived next to another in residence at King’s College in Halifax, very serendipitously, and learned quickly of our shared interest in music. It was a very musical group on that floor in Middle Bay. Shaun’s roomy is currently the guitar tech for Arcade Fire! Anyway, at the time I was a guitar player, and had been doing bare bones production with my four track, and Fes had just started DJ’ing and was dabbling in making beats. I had never really been exposed to much hip hop, but when Fes started showing me the process of beat making, I was immediately hooked. It was like a veil had been lifted on a great secret, and the keys to creating some of my favourite music at the time had been given to me; Beck, Portishead, Chemical Brothers. <\/p>\n

The hip hop scene in Halifax at that time was very exciting, and both of us were very much swept by it. We’re talking about witnessing the origins of Buck 65, Skratch Bastid, Classified, Sixtoo\/Megazoid, DJ Moves, Josh Martinez, Kaleb Simmonds & The Goods. It was a very inspiring time, and it gave us direction and purpose. <\/p>\n

In second year we lived together and created, and in third year I moved into the house where I would build my first studio, and we would really begin the process of making records. Because Fes and I were the nucleus of the studio, and our skills complimented one another, myself as engineer\/producer and he as DJ\/producer, we were a natural team. <\/p>\n

We had worked together on specific Extremities material before, but it wasn’t until Fes started working at CBC, that we really coalesced into The Extremities. Fes pitched a project idea to a couple of the producers at CBC about us remixing a jazz record, and they bit on it. Our first record was essentially commissioned by CBC, for us to rework a jazz record called Tonic, which had pulled together some of the best jazz musicians in the country. The process of producing, mixing, and performing this album was the birth of The Extremities. <\/p>\n