DEATH GRIPS

Zach Hill Q&A with Rock-A-Rolla Magazine out in Issue 33. Click photo to enlarge

In honor of our love of all things Zach Hill we thought it appropriate to share his bounty. So we made a Vinyl and CD deal so you can have all three of the releases Sargent House has put out of his for a mighty fine price!  All this month we will have the Zach Hill Ultimate bundles in Effect!

Featuring
Hella - Tripper ( The New Album from Hella! Zach Hill & Spencer Seim)
Zach Hill - Face Tat (Why Haven’t you Already Got this!)
Bygones - by - (Zach Hill and Nick Reinhart join forces, the outcome = sweet)

and you can add a Zach Hill or Hella T-Shirt to the pile as well. Nice.

posted by Sargent House. 

I’m just going to say it: Zach Hill is the most extreme musician in Sacramento. A self-taught drummer and founding member of the deconstructionist duo Hella, Hill has earned accolades and fans both here and abroad for his signature brand of hyperkinetic drum destruction. 

Hill’s double-kick crunch has found him collaborating with a veritable who’s-who of indie-rock: Marnie Stern, Wavves, The Mars Volta’s Omar Rodríguez-López, Prefuse 73, Deftones’ Chico Moreno, Matmos, Pinback’s Rob Crow, Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier, and Joanna Newsom (to name but a very, very few).

Hill’s artistic endeavors also include his illustrated book, Destroying Yourself Is Too Accessible, (which came packaged with Masculine Drugs, the Zach Hill and Holy Smokes album) and a line of T-shirts for Altamont, the clothing company featuring his graphics.

Currently, Hill splits his time between his solo work, the Japanese drum juggernaut Boredoms, and the rap-punk of Death Grips.

Midtown Monthly: When did you first start drumming?

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Hella Tripper Vinyl or CD or Special Bundles are now up and available for Pre-Order. 275 Limited 11x17 Album art posters to the first orders of bundle packages.
Orders will ship before release date. You can also order the new Hella Tripper shirt individually. 

Inside the drums of Zach Hill recording Death Grips.  Brought to you by Thirdworlds.net  directed by Flatlander.

     
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Zach Hill

Name an accomplished drummer whose playing, without any other clues or context, you can recognize within a few measures of any given song. John Bonham? Keith Moon? Dave Lombardo? Elvin Jones? Point taken, but anyone familiar with Zach Hill’s rabbit-footed self-taught expressionistic approach to the kit would have to add the Sacramento, California-based drummer, songwriter and artist to that rarefied list. “I’ve always been more interested by people like Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane to name a few, than by other drummers,” he explains. “Those non-drummers’ ideas and free-form expression are what I’m trying to apply to the drum kit.” But, it was the music Zach was introduced to while watching skateboard videos as a youth that formed his earliest influences.

Hill earned his stripes as a co-founder of the Sacramento-born duo turned quintet, Hella, with whom he’s recorded four albums and a number of EPs, split releases and compilation tracks. But, Hill’s resume as a drummer boasts a mind-melting number of collaborations. From his work in the Deftones offshoot, Team Sleep, to his jazz-oriented gigs with Wilco guitarist Nels Cline and members of Sun Ra’s orchestra or Prefuse 73, to his roles backing Mike Patton, harpist Joanna Newsom and the Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, to name but a few. His creatve compulsion unbridled, Zach’s visual art is featured in the packaging of many of his musical releases, as well as on the premiuim quality 30 singles Lil’ Scuzzy and Scuzzball t-shirts that we’re honored to present to you.

here’s a free download link to a track Zach did with Nathan from Wavves called Horse Shoes.

(Source: pitchfork.com)

Zach Hill - Primitives Talk - CHLLNGR Remix 
Shot and Directed by Ryan Todd
Animated GIF art by David Ope
Remixed by CHLLNGR

Thanks to themusicsessions.com

HELLA is in the studio recording a new album. Now, it’s been a while since the duo of Zach Hill & Spencer Seim got together. We are pretty excited about all this and will have loads more Hella news, in the mean time make sure to join up with the FB page if you want to stay on top of the latest developments. 

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Virtual Reality Overloads in Zach Hill’s ‘Second Life’ Video

You might need an online companion to catch all the swirling allusions to The Lawnmower Man, surrealism, The Red Shoes and too much more in the new video for Zach Hill’s psychedelic tune “Second Life.” You also might need some acid or Advil, depending on your head-trip.

Directed by Christian “Megazord” Oldham, acclaimed drummer and visual artist Hill’s “Second Life” is a sensory overload. Featuring additional vocals from freak folkie Devendra Banhart, the wandering song’s spiraling digitalism is perfectly complemented by Megazord’s disorienting select-all graphics.

It’s a challenging experiment that’s perfectly in line with what listeners have come to expect from the well-traveled Hill in his previous solo work and on his latest full-length effort, Face Tat, which arrived last month with help from collaborators like the stunning No Age.

Hill’s thunderous self-taught drum skills have been put to terrific use by a roll call of respected artists, including Alan Moore, The Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Deftones’ Chino Moreno, guitar wiz Marnie Stern , Tera Melos’ Nick Reinhart and Goblin Cock’s Rob Crow. Screen the reel above and let us know in the comments below if the imagery tickled or tortured your lobes. - By Scott Thill 

Zach Hill may just be the hardest working man in the industry. His spastic and triumphant drumming has been featured in countless projects with everyone in the indie world clamoring to borrow his talents for as long as they can hold onto him. As a founding member of instrumental math rock heroes  Hella, Hill has also contributed stellar work in each of his other bands including The Ladies (with Pinback’s Rob Crow), Team Sleep (withDeftones’ Chino Moreno), Bygones (with Tera Melos’ Nick Reinhart), Marnie Stern, Diamond Watch Wrists (with Prefuse 73), Nervous Cop(with Deerhoof’s Greg Sauntier), El Grupo Nuevo (with Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez Lopez) and still many others. During the mayhem of his musical outpour, 2008 saw the release of his debut solo album Astrological Straits, a collection of warped and bizarre songs light on accessibility but roaring with complex creativity. Steadily growing busier with each passing year, Hill has returned with his next solo offering Face Tat, a twisted array of insanity and mind blowing musicianship as avant-garde as they come. Working with the plethora of bands that he does, Hill has an enormous rolodex of impressive musical friends, and he uses that to his advantage on Face Tat which features many of his oft collaborators as well as some new ones. While calling this album accessible may be a stretch, it certainly heads closer to that direction for Hill with dazzling results. He may have thrown out all the rules of typical song structure and rhythms, but the hooks are present and strangely memorable. 

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(Source: decoymusic.com)

CHLL PLL - tales from the crypt. Video by Sean Stout at TerrorEyes.TV