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    Listen to 'Birds of a Feather' Mocky does point out, though that this ornithological-themed collaboration is not as unlikely as one might initially think, and not just because GZA has been lately taken to working with indie acts like Black Lips and King Khan. "I was a chess champion growing up in Canada and GZA raps about chess ... A lot of my music is about animals -- I did my first tour around the zoos of Europe, playing matinee concerts near the monkey cages. GZA also is very inspired by the natural world. I come from a much less legendary crew, but a crew nonetheless, who left Canada and came to Europe around 2000 -- Peaches, Gonzales, myself, Feist." Some have described Broken Social Scene as the Wu-Tang Clan of indie rock, but it's still pretty unlikely for a Berlin-based, Saskatchewan-born artist like Mocky to go from producing BSS member Feist to collaborating with an actual Wu-Tanger, GZA, on new single 'Birds of a Feather.' "When I was making this record my dream was that it would get sampled and used in hip-hop tracks," Mocky tells Spinner. Full Article at Spinner.com
    I was a chess champion growing up in Canada and GZA raps about chess ... A lot of my music is about animals -- I did my first tour around the zoos of Europe, playing matinee concerts near the monkey cages. GZA also is very inspired by the natural world. I come from a much less legendary crew, but a crew nonetheless, who left Canada and came to Europe around 2000 -- Peaches, Gonzales, myself, Feist.
    SOURCE: Spinner.com 1 month ago