Somewhere in between the late great J Dilla and the soon to be London bible-reading inhabitant (and also great) Prince, with a little bit of Parliament, Sun Ra and Weather Report thrown in for good measure; Sa-Ra have created a sleazy audio landscape that is unique to themselves. But forget their musical influences, these guys are influenced by hardcore pornography. Raj Chaudhuri spoke to Om’Mas from Sa-Ra about this very serious matter:

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Om’Mas: Good afternoon

Raj: Hi is this Om’Mas?

Om’Mas: Yes.

Raj: It’s Raj from Don’t Panic calling for the interview. I don’t know if you remember me. I used to work at Deal Real. The first time you came to London you came to Deal Real record store. I was the guy behind the counter. Helping you set up.

Om’Mas: Oh shit.

Raj: Then the next time we went for kebabs.

Om’Mas: At the hotel? Yeah of course I remember. (He loses some reception) Oh shit dog. You gotta call me on my house phone. Here it is: (starts to give number) Oh shit I’m giving you my mum’s number.

Raj: Are you stoned?

Om’Mas: Yeah… Not yet. As soon as I’m finished this I’m gonna take a big bong load.

Raj: You can smoke now. It’ll help for the interview.

Om’Mas: (laughs, gives the right number and hangs up)

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Om’Mas: Hello?

Raj: Hi man its Raj.

Om’Mas: Hey.

Raj: So, we have a theme for each issue of our magazine and the theme for this issue is innovation. Obviously you guys fit into that with your music, but I know you guys are also quite into your pornography.

Om’Mas: (Laughs) OH SHIT!!

Raj: So I want to talk to you about innovation in pornography. Is that alrigh?

Om’Mas: (pause) Absolutely!

Raj: You’ve been on the scene for a while and now you’re working with some of the biggest names in hip hop. And you’ve always said that porn is part of your music. How does that relation ship work?

Om’Mas: Innovative pornography is the only thing that will keep men watching year after year… Clearly, we have seen an evolution in pornography: from the 70s with the 35mm film and bushy vaginas to the modern day bald vaginas; gaping assholes, a2m (ass to mouth) “Digital” point of view.

Similarly, we have seen music evolve from this lush, very analogue-rich sound to an electronic, solid-state-circuitry, cookie-cutter, surreal sound. We have seen music and porn mimic and parallel each other. For me, the way porn looks now is the way that music sounds nowadays… In fact I am having an epiphany just talking about it as I have never made this correlation before.

Raj: What do you see as the biggest innovations in porno?

Om’Mas: The biggest innovations I can see is the new style of girl gang-bang movies. I have seen this one movie where one girl lays down on a trampoline and 50 bitches rub their pussies over her, take it turns to piss in her mouth and all over her… but they are all cumming and everything… it’s very erotic.

Also a  pornographer called Max Hardcore cums in a bitches pussy and has a gynaecological lit-up speculum that opens up the pussy so the camera can see inside and get close ups of…. well, you know.

That’s the gonzo way: gagging, vomiting over cocks, spit, upside down crazy stuff, gaping orifices, double penetration, double-anal, ass to mouth…

Raj: Have you heard about Space Docking (the art of shitting in a girl’s vagina).

Om’Mas: Yeah I first watched a scat (another word for “poo”) movie when I was 12 years old. I had a lot of freaky friends when I was younger and could get hold of some crazy videos.

Raj: (Trying to impress) How about Cloaking?

Om’Mas: No, what is cloaking?

Raj: It’s the insertion of objects into the jap’s eye

Om’Mas: Oh yeah I read about this – guys putting pins in their urethras

Raj: (Pleased with himself) Well I have a video I can send you where a guy inserts a full sized dildo into his urethra. It basically splits his penis open.

Om’Mas: Oh shit! I think that any guy that is doing that must not want to have kids… and he should keep it a secret. Go find a support group

Raj:You have a lot of big names coming round your house to make music – Kanye West, Dr Dre. What sort of porn are those guys into.

Om’Mas: Hmmm… When you meet somebody – you gotta have a certain thing that happens between you before you can even start talking about porn. What we normally do is put a porno on a room, see who gravitates to it and then you know who your porn buddies are.

And so the conversation continues… go check out Sa-Ra’s music.

The Hollywood Recording is currently available on G.O.O.D. Music, as well as another LP due later this year on Ubiquity Records. Go check www.sa-ra.net for more information.