Boom Bip
| Boom Bip | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Bryan Charles Hollon |
| Born | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States |
| Origin | United States |
| Genres | Experimental, hip hop, electronic |
| Occupation(s) | Producer |
| Years active | 1998-present |
| Labels | Mush Records, Lex Records |
| Associated acts | Doseone, Gruff Rhys, Boards of Canada |
| Website | www.boom-bip.com |
Boom Bip (born Bryan Charles Hollon) is an American hip hop producer and musician.
Boom Bip's music is mostly instrumental. However, he has collaborated with several vocalists over the course of his career. He is currently signed to Lex Records, which was a division of Warp Records in the United Kingdom until 2005. He has also had releases on the U.S. based label Mush Records. Boom Bip is also known for the remix work that he has done for many artists on several different record labels. Some of those artists include Amon Tobin, Hot Hot Heat, Mogwai, Four Tet, M83, Danny Elfman, Pet and Super Furry Animals.
Boom Bip also played every instrument on Blue Eyed in the Red Room himself. He used absolutely no samples in the process. Explaining the reasons behind this, he said, "I wanted the listener to get a sense of what is going on inside my head and my environment as much as possible. Samples are a detour from that connection. Samples express what you like, but it's someone else's idea and product. To really connect with the listener it was essential that I play everything. While making the record I had the live show in mind the entire time. The new songs are 98% live instrumentation and have energy, structure, chord changes and dynamics. Not loop-based or beat-based like tracks in the past."
Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Bryan Hollon has relocated to the city of Los Angeles, California. His career began as a DJ on WAIF in Cincinnati. He also DJed at a small club Ripley's hosting an evening of jazz, hip hop and electronic music. He soon hooked up with New York producer DJ Osiris and Robert Curcio to produce The Low End Sequence EP, named after his evening at Ripley's. Not long after that, Boom Bip met rapper Doseone in the local clubs and open mic nights. They released the collaborative album Circle on Mush Records in 2000. It grabbed the attention of John Peel (who heralded Boom Bip as a "modern day Captain Beefheart" after his first Peel Session) and Gilles Peterson in the UK. Soon they were a name in the British underground hip hop and electronic scene. The name 'Boom Bip' may be a reference to the lyric - "The boom, the bip, the boom bip, indicates to the brothers that we be on the flip tip" - from "Push It Along", the first track on the debut album of alternative hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest
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