About Trexx and Flipside
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Trexx
Hi, I´m Trexx, the big fella on the decks. I juggle the beats, slide the faders, scratch it up, spin it back, eat snacks, beat box, sample, distort, crossfade, have lunch, crank it up, beatmatch, bag of crisps, twiddle, crab, transform, flare, quick trip to the fridge, cut it, kill it, cue it, lock it down, and back in time for tea. (That´s if I don´t have to be at work at the gym - those phones don´t answer themselves... Except if the answer machine´s on, in which case they do).
Me and Flipside have kind of different approaches to the music business. Flip has all these dreams of hip hop stardom. When I dream, it´s of a house made of vinyl, with furniture made out of record decks, and my toothbrush is a tone arm. And I´ve got, like fifty arms so I can perform the most amazing scratching the world has ever seen. Then my mum comes in with a bucket of chicken as a reward for the multi-armed twiddling, and then there´s all these girls too - and they´re coming on to me. But it´s a bit awkward with my mum there and the girls just seem to want to mother me too, and I get kind of freaked out. So I try to run off, but I can´t because the records are all melting and I´m stuck in it, sinking down. And then Flip arrives to help me, but he´s not Flip, he´s Mr C out of The Shamen and he laughs at me as I´m sinking. And then the phone rings and it´s our manager Mr Brilliance telling me that he´s got us a gig promoting toilets or a company called Mr U-Bend, where we have to dress up as plumbing equipment and get heckled by toilet executives - and that´s when I know that I´ve woken up.
Flipside
Welcome to the church of Flipside - the man with the mouth on the mic. I live for my music, I am a rap zealot, a hip hop fun-da-mental-ist. One day soon the world is gonna discover my talent - and when it does it´s gonna be so hyped it´s gonna slam dunk itself through the rings of Saturn. And if I know anything about astrophysics - which I don´t - I´d say that might cause some localised weather problems, so you might want to pack a jumper.
I was an only child when I was a child. In fact I was the only only child I knew. And not only was I the only only child, I was only the only only child in the orphanage. Cos I didn´t have a mum or a dad neither, which I guess made me a lonely only child. But on the plus side I had Trexx, who is more than my bro - he´s my big bucketful of homeboy. And what with me being so attractive to the ladies, it´s helpful to have a sad story - if I didn´t make the honeys go misty-eyed, they might go blind from staring too hard at my good looks all day long.
So take a deep breath, tie yourself to the ground and secure the area - cos the Flip lick is comin´ your way and there ain´t nothin´ gonna stop it. Unless it´s past 8pm, cos I gotta get up early for my post round and I need a good night´s sleep. But prior to the 8pm watershed I just mentioned, it´s unstoppable. Get with the Flip - I´m gonna put the hop into hip.