6. DJ ScrewChapter 178 In The Zone
DJ Screw is the sound of Houston, you hear this pumping from cars everywhere. It’s a rite of passage once you get your learner’s permit at age 15, you’re technically supposed to adult in a car but whatever, a rite of passage is you get stoned, and you drive, slowly. There’s something about those long drives in Houston – to get anywhere it’s going to be at least 30 minutes, so what better thing to do, than to light up, and get the music on? Screw was major for that.
When I started going to university in Austin, I went from Houston to Austin a lot. That’s a three-hour drive. During this university period, when I was driving back from Houston to Austin a lot, I was making a lot of cassettes in the car, and I would do these vocal recordings where I would roll down the windows to punctuate with the swooshing wind – like the haunted house record.
You didn’t lose those as well?
My boyfriend who I was doing music with at the time, when we split up he took all those cassettes. But anyways, going back to Screw. I love that Screw used the actual fidelity of the record as part of the music. This is soul music to me. It’s deeply psychedelic soul music.
