Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello has a “hard and funky” solo album in the works, but it also looks like he will be embracing digital technology as well. While Morello and his other bandmates have certainly branched out into the digital world, it’s all still interesting to see how far they’ve come when considering that Rage Against The Machine‘s self-titled debut proudly displayed the caption “no samples, keyboards or synthesizers used in the making of this recording.”
Electronic musician Bassnectar is involved with one track of Morello‘s new project, which will reportedly also feature collaborations with Skrillex and Knife Party. Bassnectar (aka Lorin Ashton) said of the project to Rollingstone.com:
“[Morello]’s working on this really cool project where he’s working with multiple electronic music producers to create electronic songs that he can recreate live on this super, perverted, unexplainable, bastardized guitar mutant instrument thing.”
Ashton said of his pitch to Morello:
“I proposed to him that we basically pretend that we are a band and that we write a song together. I pretty flagrantly just said, ‘I want to make a Rage Against The Machine song if that’s cool, and I don’t want someone to hear it and think, “Oh, it’s a DJ remix of Rage Against The Machine.”‘ I just want it to sound like some fucking funnel into a hurricane, and we have it, that’s the cool news. We have this fucking killer song.”
Ashton reveals that a vocalist for the song has yet to be decided upon, though the shortlist includes Deftones‘ Chino Moreno (who Bassnectar previously collaborated with on “Hexes“,) Outkast‘s Big Boi, Matt Schultz of Cage The Elephant and Pussy Riot. As part of the chat, Ashton further revealed that he was saddened by Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl‘s lack on enthusiam for digitally created music, offering:
“It’s pretty disappointing watching certain classic heroes of rock music miss the boat. Like Dave Grohl, who on a personal level [is] a great guy and on a musical level, he’s a legend. But he’s gone out of his way to really publicly dismiss new generations of creativity.”
