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<\/a><\/p>\nMinority\u00a0Association\u00a0is the new solo project of Button Eyes producer Lewis Lindgren.\u00a0Minority\u00a0Association\u00a0music draws influence from a wide range of genres including classic 90’s era Bristol trip hop and break-beat, to modern 808 trap and psychedelic rock.<\/p>\n
The first single “Tiles” features a haunting video directed by Calderon and Hobbs (Directors of the critically acclaimed Button Eyes video “Please Don’t Take My Blues”) The song carries all the instrumental characteristics of the Button Eyes sound with warm synths, reverb soaked guitars and drum breaks with distant spoken voices eerily floating in and out of the mix.<\/p>\n
Tell us everything we need to know about Minority Association?<\/b><\/p>\n
Minority Association is my new solo, (mainly) instrumental project. The name comes from a street art\u00a0story\u00a0that started in the 80’s about the “Toynbee Tiles”. Someone was laying down permanent stencil style linoleum tiles in the middle of the road in cites in the East coast of the US saying:<\/p>\n
“TOYNBEE IDEA<\/p>\n
IN Kubrick’s 2001<\/p>\n
RESURRECT DEAD<\/p>\n
ON PLANET JUPITER.”<\/p>\n
Eventually they started spreading all over the world. Whoever was behind it started referring to themselves as Minority Association amongst other things. I heard he cut a hole in the passenger foot well of his car and stopped in the middle of the highway late at night and stuck them down. It’s\u00a0believed\u00a0to be just one person, that tried to give the impression that there was a whole crew going around doing them to throw people off the scent. This seemed kind of relevant to how I was putting tracks together with a lot of layers and samples and synths to make it sound like an organised band of musicians rather than just me with a bunch of records and film samples.<\/p>\n
The video for ‘Tiles’ is amazing – talk us through the process of making it?<\/b><\/p>\n
My brother Ross Lindgren just started a production company called “Stolen Productions” straight out of Uni and he’d helped a lot with the previous videos we had done for Button Eyes. The directors for this were Henri Calderon and Jack Hobbs. They were the guys that did the “Please Don’t Take My Blues” video for Button Eyes as well as helping out on several others along the way. They really did all the hard work, I said they could have complete creative control and they came back with the treatment for “Tiles.” It was the first video shoot for one of my songs that I couldn’t actually take part in because I was in The U.S at the time, so it was really a very pleasant surprise when they handed it in fully edited, graded and ready to release!<\/p>\n