A conversation with STS9's David Murphy
Synth bass player challenges the notion of jam and improvisation in Sound Tribe Sector 9's music
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Fri., Aug. 27. $69 (tickets available only as 2 day pass). 9 p.m. The Tabernacle, 152 Luckie St.
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With Big Boi, John Hughes, Disco Biscuits and Big Gigantic. Sat., Aug. 28. 5 p.m. $25-$39.50 for Verizon show. $69 (two day pass). Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, 2200 Encore Pkwy.
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Since the mid ‘90s Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) has been sculpting elements of jazz, dub, post-rock and funk into a finely spun drift of instrumental dance music. For their current tour the group returns to their old stomping ground playing 2 shows in support of their latest proper album, Ad Explorata. For The Tabernacle show they’ll also perform some acoustic numbers from their live and unplugged album, Axe the Cables. I caught up with bass synth player David Murphy while the band took a day off in Raleigh, N.C.
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Chad Radford: Let’s clear this up, are you from Athens or Atlanta? Wikipedia says Snellville, but you know what they say about Wikipedia…
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David Murphy: Definitely from Atlanta; born and Raised there. The majority of us grew up on the Gwinnett side of Stone Mountain and kind of like a lot of kids who grew up in Atlanta we did a stint in Athens. But then we moved to California in 2000.
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Santa Cruz?
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Yeah, it’s a nice, sleepy little town. Good for those of us who travel a lot — a good, place to come home and chill.
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Never been there but I used to watch a lot of skate videos that were filmed there in the ‘90s…
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Yeah there's a lot of that, and the The Lost Boys, of course…