Matt Cargill, founder of London-based noise band Sly & The Family Drone, joins Christopher Gonda for a 46-minute Heartdea13r interview about improvisation, DIY culture, and the communities surrounding experimental music. The conversation covers the band’s approach to recording and performance, Cargill’s work organizing shows and running sound, and rebuilding the group after a serious van crash.

YouTube video by Heartdea13r Podcast with Christopher Gonda

YouTube video by Heartdea13r Podcast with Christopher Gonda

Sly & The Family Drone are a London ensemble who treat jazz as raw material to be mutilated and then set on fire. Their music is almost entirely improvised, encompassing near-silence and roaring peaks, and no two sets ever unfold the same way. The tongue-in-cheek name hints at a joke band, but the music is anything but. On With Love…

Matthew reviews Sly & The Family Drone ‘With Love’ – hit your senses with a series of mesmerising and hypnotic noises

The usual mix of noise and beauty

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You could have crossed paths with Matt Cargill keeping the show on the road at such cream-of-the-crop festivals as Supernormal and Acid Horse. Maybe you’ve been privy to his perennially bonkers and jo...

The Quietus has published a Baker’s Dozen interview with Matt Cargill, leader of UK experimental collective Sly & The Family Drone. Speaking with Jon Buckland, Cargill discusses 13 records that shaped his musical life, spanning free jazz, hip-hop, horror soundtracks, noise, and pop. His first selection—Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers’ Jive Bunny: The Album—leads into a discussion of sampling, mashups, plunderphonics, and the cassette collages that informed the earliest version of Sly & The Family Drone.

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You could have crossed paths with Matt Cargill keeping the show on the road at such cream-of-the-crop festivals as Supernormal and Acid Horse. Maybe you’ve been privy to his perennially bonkers and joyous rooftop takeovers at Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival. Perhaps you’ve seen him at his day job running tech at the King Alfred Phoenix Theatre […]

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Buy WITH LOVE by SLY & THE FAMILY DRONE. LP £22.99. Order online today and get FREE UK delivery on orders over £75.

Buy WITH LOVE by SLY & THE FAMILY DRONE. LP £22.99. Order online today and get FREE UK delivery on orders over £75.

6 track album

from the album With Love