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<\/p>\nThis is a\u00a0transcript of an interview with Yob the Delectable \u2014 DJ, musician, and figurehead of the Tallahassee rave collective GRIFT. For the last year or so, Yob has been curating and hosting raves all around Tallahassee, the first of which was in the now condemned Coca-Cola warehouse off of Gaines St. Void Network, the latest of his events I attended, was held earlier this year and cohosted with fellow local rave collective Subsidian Presents. Yob and I sat down\u00a0a month or so after the event to chat\u00a0about GRIFT, hard-earned lessons from his first year of event organizing, his own performance at Void Network, and more. Please, enjoy.<\/p>\n
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WA: So, the first time we met was at the warehouse [during GRIFT 1] and I forgot after \u2014 and I have very hazy memories of that time just because I have a terrible memory. So A: sorry, I feel bad for not remembering our conversation \u2014<\/p>\n
YOB THE DELECTABLE: Oh, all good.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2026 and I think that that was one of the last raves \u2014 like a pure, actual rave \u2014 at the warehouse, which is interesting.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yeah.<\/p>\n
But for people who are unfamiliar with GRIFT, what is GRIFT and when was the idea for GRIFT born?<\/p>\n
So, GRIFT is a rave collective that myself and my two friends and collaborators Justin and Alex started in January or February of 2025. Which, Justin and Alex have their own event organizing company [SCAMS, or SUPER COOL AWESOME MUSIC STUDIO], as well as a music studio which also functions as a production company \u2014 in the sense of AV.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I am into a little bit more obscure genres of electronic music, and I wasn\u2019t happy with the shows that I saw going on in Tallahassee. I wanted to start doing something different and safer than a lot of the more popular raves I\u2019ve seen in Tallahassee. That\u2019s pretty much it. I just wanted to see the events that I wanted to go to happening here.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And what\u2019s the relation like with SCAMS? My understanding is that you are pretty tightly related, or [GRIFT] is a facet of it, so how do talent, resources, and help flow between the organizations?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s tight I would say. I live with Justin and Alex. They\u2019re my best friends \u2014\u00a0<\/p>\n
Oh \u2014 well (laughs).\u00a0<\/p>\n
And GRIFT is \u2014 (laughter) \u2014 it makes things easy. GRIFT is sort of a part of SCAMS. The difference is basically that I plan the vision for the events and they help with their connections and audio equipment. They\u2019ll help with planning production and they\u2019ll get me connections with venues or artists. As far as relationships go, we\u2019re really tightly knit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Did it take you a while to realize, \u201cOkay, I have to do my own thing\u201d? It\u2019s just that there is a big difference between \u201cI\u2019m not seeing what I want to see in the scene I\u2019m in,\u201d and going out and organizing something.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yeah, we actually slid into it, and it wasn\u2019t a super concerted effort to get things going. Initially, Justin from SCAMS was working for a different rave crew in town. He was running sound for them \u2014 for money, he was providing a service \u2014 but somehow they had a thing where we were going to book half the acts for a show they were doing, and they were going to book the other half of the acts. I ended up being the one who was booking the acts.<\/p>\n
But the music that I like is pretty weird, and the music they play is more house or wub. So they were like \u201cYeah, this shit is just not \u2014 this is too weird for us,\u201d and we just ended up doing our own show on that day, and hat was the first GRIFT show. And from there, that was a lot of fun and a really satisfying experience putting that event on.<\/p>\n
I knew that the [abandoned Coca-Cola warehouse] was not the original venue for GRIFT 1 \u2014 or at least that was my understanding then and now. I was wondering what was the story of coming up with that event, what happened, and how you ended up at the warehouse. I had fun [working] the door, so at least from where I was it was a lot of fan. Any big lessons for that first show?<\/p>\n
Yeah, every show we \u2014 I \u2014 learn things about how to put these on a little better. There were a couple errors. One of them was just being too ambitious from a monetary side of things. Before knowing how much money we were going to make, we just committed to paying people how much they should be getting paid in a world where we actually have a lot of people come out, and we can afford to pay everybody. We ended up losing\u2026 that show cleared my whole savings account. I lost over a 1000 dollars.\u00a0<\/p>\n
(Agonized noises)<\/p>\n
And in general I think the show lost around 2000 dollars.\u00a0<\/p>\n
(Continued, agonized noises) Oh, God damn, that sucks (Laughter). Okay. Okay, hard lessons.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Oh yeah, (laughs), and we actually ended up in the Coke factory because we were going to start in Rail Road Square and move to the Coke factory \u2014<\/p>\n
As an after-hours?<\/p>\n
Yeah, an after party. But I posted on the Tallahassee [subreddit], some promotion for the show, but I called it a rave happening in Rail Road Square, and one of the Kayes \u2014 who own [Rail Road Square] thought that no, we can\u2019t have a rave happening here. So they cracked down on it, we weren\u2019t allowed to have it, and we had to move it last minute. So that was another lesson, which is navigating around politics that you don\u2019t want to care about about, but kind of have to.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, yeah. Which the irony is that the last [GRIFT event] I went to was a rave in Rail Road Square, so a year later you\u2019re having raves in Rail Road Square \u2014 so I don\u2019t know what changed.<\/p>\n
You just can\u2019t call it a rave. You can call it anything else. There\u2019s just a stigma around that word, especially with older people.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yeah, it\u2019s just a light show with some musical accompaniment I guess. Whatever you want to call it\u2026<\/p>\n
I know the warehouse is not exactly the easiest place to throw a show at. Did you guys have a generator running in the back?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yeah, yeah.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what I thought. Rest in Peace to a wild spot\u2026 But fast forwarding to now\u2014those are the lessons from the first event, big lessons. My condolences to your savings account. What are the other lessons that you\u2019ve learned in the last year?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s kind of a sad reality, but you have to think about it like a business, and you to be thinking about money through every step of the process. Even though, I don\u2019t think anybody, any of us who are involved in putting these on are doing it for money \u2014 it\u2019s barely profitable. It\u2019s the same lesson as the first one; it\u2019s a constant process of optimizing things so you can use the money that you get more efficiently and pay the people who are involved better. You can pay the DJ\u2019s better. Maybe you can make a little bit of money and put it away for one day, you know, [you\u2019d] like to buy better equipment for these shows.<\/p>\n
And another thing is the more people that I hit up for shows that are DJ\u2019s or artists, I find that people are, no matter how big they are, usually really chill and down to do a show if they can make it work. As long as people\u2019s expenses are getting paid, most people are more into the idea of playing music than they are into the idea of making money. That\u2019s been a pleasant process of getting in touch with people who I\u2019ve been listening to their music for years and years, and then meeting them and working with them, and they\u2019re all super chill. It\u2019s very wholesome.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s always a nice experience where you meet nice people and you can actually work with them, and you get to put on really cool events with them. Absolutely. Any other lessons from the last year?<\/p>\n
On the flip side of what I just said, if the show loses a bunch of money and not a lot of people show up, that doesn\u2019t make it a failure. If only 20 people show up, and they\u2019re all having a blast, then who cares. It\u2019s worth it. Those people got to have a fun night because we made this event happen.<\/p>\n
Speaking of, the set you had. I loved the Void Network show so much. You guys \u2014 [Ryan Lunar] and [Ben Danner] back-to-back and then you was probably a top 5 ecstatic moments of my life. It was really an amazing show, and felt like exactly what I want to feel when I go to any kind of live music sets, but especially dance and electronic. One of the things I loved about your set was the structure of it where you had your own music \u2014 which from what I understand is in the Gabber micro genre?<\/p>\n
Yeah \u2014 I mean, I\u2019m all over the place.<\/p>\n
Okay. How about we start with that? How would you describe your music under Yob the Delectable?\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019m still trying to grapple with that one. As far as genre goes, I really like chopping up sampled break beats and I like kick drums that are super distorted. That\u2019s where the Gabber element comes in. I also like footwork and to blend the things that I like together and try to make crazy music. I guess crazy is often what I\u2019m going for.<\/p>\n
(Laughter). Absolutely. This is not something I\u2019d thought about, but [after Ryan and Ben\u2019s set] I was sitting on the couch, and you open up with this fucking insane xylophone rip. I don\u2019t even know what that was. I felt like the world was ending. What was that sample from?<\/p>\n
That was a song from Oneohtrix Point Never and the title is \u2026 [Tales from the Trash Stratum]. I can send it to you.<\/p>\n
Please do. Sorry for always harassing you for track ID\u2019s. Everything from that set was great.<\/p>\n
No, that\u2019s the most gratifying experience of playing a DJ set,\u00a0 people wanting to listen to the music.<\/p>\n
And very rarely do you have the chance to. To go back to the original question \u2014 so one of the things I loved about your set was the structure of it. So you\u2019d have a hard-driving, high bpm song. [We] were going crazy on the dance floor. But then there would be breaks, something like [Mana Pool\u2019s track Error Dialect] or \u2014 and my French is terrible \u2014 the Aujourd\u2019hui song, Marguerite. It would bounce in between these things, and I\u2019m curious how much you are planning your sets going in, and if you\u2019re thinking about structure.<\/p>\n
So there\u2019s a lot. Not every set I play is a DJ set. A lot of the times I\u2019m playing original music. But I\u2019ll just answer the question for that set. For most DJ sets, most of my planning [is that] I\u2019ll spend most of the month trying to find new music, or listening to a bunch of music that I already know I like and making a playlist of music that I want to play. Then I\u2019ll buy all that music, and the actual structure just comes from practicing with those songs and seeing what works and what doesn\u2019t. I usually will have a few elements that I know I\u2019ll want to do at a certain time. I\u2019ll usually know what I want to open with and what I want to close with. I\u2019ll have a few songs where I will definitely need to play this song at one point. Other songs, it\u2019s more \u201cI\u2019ll play this if it makes sense\u201d and if it doesn\u2019t then I won\u2019t. So that Marguerite song and the Mana Pool song \u2014 I want other people to hear these songs. The Marguerite song, I just thought it\u2019s just so silly to play this between a bunch of crazy ones.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I loved it so much. I felt like a kid. It was crazy.<\/p>\n
That song is so good.<\/p>\n
So good. I\u2019ve unironically listened to it on repeat, and I\u2019m working through his other ones. So thank you. There\u2019s some more silly songs in the other [albums]. Have you listened to his other albums?<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve only listened to the one.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They\u2019re really good. Do you remember how you found his music, and more generally, how are you finding new music these days?<\/p>\n
With that song specifically, my friend Derek just sent me that song, Marguerite, and I was just like \u201cWow, this is such an amazing song,\u201d that eventually I listened to the album. I don\u2019t think I listened to that album until I was planning for my set for Void Network.<\/p>\n
In general, a lot of what I\u2019ll find is on band camp. I\u2019ll look around and try to find net labels. I find music through Reddit sometimes. I\u2019ll look at subreddits for various genres of music I like, like jungle or breakcore, and I\u2019ll look at what people are talking about and give it a listen. Other friends will send me music. People at this point know what I like to listen to, and I\u2019ve been obsessed with this kind of electronic music for the last few years. I use Spotify and sometimes I\u2019ll just listen to it\u2019s algorithmic recommendations, and occasionally you get some hits.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sometimes the algorithm is moving right. Are you seeing anything else interesting coming out of France right now? Sometimes I\u2019ll dig down on an artist like that and find a local scene or another artist. Did you find any other artists connected to Aujourd\u2019hui that you found interesting?<\/p>\n
Specifically with \u2014 I\u2019m not going to try and pronounce his name.<\/p>\n
The forbidden French word.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yeah, but I do sometimes do that. Portland, Oregon has a really crazy scene for hardcore electronic music. I\u2019ve found a lot music through New York, obviously, and I know a lot of different countries in Europe have a lot of thriving scenes for some more obscure genres of electronic music. I don\u2019t often dive into a region specifically. Usually I look more into artists that are related to each other through the label they\u2019re on, or I\u2019ll see their social media and that they\u2019re playing shows together, which is sort of regionally connected.\u00a0<\/p>\n
How much of the talent or artists for your shows are you drawing to Tallahassee versus local talent?<\/p>\n
I\u2019d say it\u2019s 40% out of town people. It\u2019s kind of hard to find local DJ\u2019s or artists in the vein that I\u2019m trying to push with GRIFT. There are a few DJ\u2019s here that I really, really love. But only a few.<\/p>\n
(Laughter)<\/p>\n
I mean there are a lot of really great DJ\u2019s, but in the specific niche I\u2019m looking at there aren\u2019t that many people playing that kind of music here. So, to put on the events that I\u2019m envisioning, I\u2019m often pulling from Atlanta or Central Florida. The last show that we did we flew a person out from Boston.<\/p>\n
Cool. Who was the person from Boston?<\/p>\n
Lil Kevo 303. They make crazy hardcore, breakcore stuff.<\/p>\n
Wow, a year in and flying talent in to Tallahassee of all places. I love it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s only able to work because of our relationship with another rave crew out of Atlanta, Netsphere, and flights into Atlanta are so much cheaper.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I loved the Hi-Vis jacket fit during the set. How much are you thinking about personal and visual presentation going into a set?<\/p>\n
Usually not very much. I\u2019m trying to work on that by being a little more animated during my sets. Not to the point of like those cheesy DJ\u2019s. But [the jacket] was an intentional choice. I thrifted that jacket because I thought it was funny, but I\u2019ve been wearing it a lot lately because it\u2019s an extremely well made and warm jacket. But I thought it might look cool in the dark with the lights.<\/p>\n
100%.<\/p>\n
One of my friends called it stolen valor because it\u2019s from a construction company.\u00a0<\/p>\n
(Laughter) You\u2019re stealing the lineman\u2019s valor?<\/p>\n
Just a silly joke. I used to work construction, so I\u2019m okay.<\/p>\n
Yeah, you earned your stripes, it\u2019s alright. Amazing. So you had GRIFT\u2019s first birthday party. What\u2019s coming next?<\/p>\n
We\u2019re rolling into the summer right now, which as you know, most of the college age people are going to be not here, so we\u2019re going to put on some more chill shows throughout the summer. I\u2019m thinking I\u2019ll do 5$ tickets, chill, mostly locally DJ\u2019s \u2014 nothing crazy, no headliners \u2014 through the summer. Just because it\u2019s hard to get good turnout in those months. We did a thing six months ago, an open AUX, which is like an open deck but for anyone who makes electronic music to come do their thing. I want to start doing that every month starting next month. Just a free thing to help promote more electronic music in Tallahassee, and to get more people an opportunity to play without having to figure out getting booked. Once school starts again, we\u2019ll start putting on some bigger shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the nature of the beast in Tallahassee, unfortunately. So I\u2019m curious on your opinion. Pre-pandemic, there was a pretty good house show scene. Maybe I was just younger and went to them more. There were more venues, the Wilbury still had a stage, and then during the pandemic I feel like we lost a lot of venues. Now I see organizations like SCAMS, GRIFT, Subsidian as responses to a lack of a music scene post-pandemic. How have you seen the music scene recover, and what are the next steps or challenges for the music scene in Tallahassee?<\/p>\n
I feel like I\u2019ve seen a number of people trying to make things happen, because like me they were frustrated with not seeing what they wanted to happen here, happening. There is this person, Riley, who I think their business is called Cracked Shows, which is putting on cool hardcore stuff. There\u2019s Subsidian, and Ryan who runs that is a super chill guy. I keep seeing more organizations popping up and putting on DIY shows, which is good obviously. I think the thing that Tallahassee needs right now is a mid-sized music venue to put on smaller national acts to help our scene grow. Right now, we have a lot of stuff happening in the DIY space. Then we have The Moon and Cascades Park which are booking bigger acts like T-Pain. But there\u2019s not much space in between for the mid-level acts that aren\u2019t going to draw 10,000 people, but might draw more like 600 people. There isn\u2019t a space for that here. It kind of inhibits a lot of acts from stopping here and seeing it as a viable place to go if they\u2019re on tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n
SCAMS has some plans in that direction. At some point, fingers crossed, we\u2019re going to try to start renting a building. It\u2019s not going to be big, but hopefully it will fill the lower end of that niche a little bit.<\/p>\n
(Post Interview Note: Yob would like to make it clear that this take on Tallahassee needing a medium-sized venue should be credited to Justin, one of the cofounders of SCAMS)<\/p>\n
That\u2019s exciting news. That\u2019d be awesome. So what\u2019s next for you as a musician?\u00a0<\/p>\n
I want to keep making more music. I\u2019m going to be releasing an EP in the next few days. From there, I\u2019d like to make an album, maybe. I just want to release more music. I\u2019ve been in a lull for the last year and haven\u2019t released anything. I would really love to play more shows out of town, because mostly now I\u2019m just playing GRIFT events. Which a lot of the time, I feel like I need to do DJ sets. I\u2019m fine with doing DJ sets, but I\u2019m a lot more excited about playing my own music, doing it my own way. I like getting a lot weirder and more chaotic with how I present music on stage, and how I play the DJ decks. I don\u2019t want to just be transitioning from one song to another or playing a few songs on top of each other. I really like playing four songs at the same time and fucking with it, but I don\u2019t feel like I should be doing that when I\u2019m DJing for my own event, and I want everyone who is at this event to have a good time. The direction I like to go with my own music when I\u2019m playing live is a little bit \u2026 less palatable. I just want to get booked for my own music and play some crazy, scary music for people in a space that is there for that to happen.<\/p>\n
I understand. You want to cut loose, and you want everyone there to be there to watch you cut loose for this very specific style of music.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I know it was more of a DJ set, but I really enjoyed your set. I loved being able to go nuts. I\u2019ve been enjoying listening to your music. The last EP \u2014 what is the title again?<\/p>\n
\u201cInside My Stomach is a Compact Disc Containing Irrefutable Evidence of Alien Life\u201d<\/p>\n
Thank you. Exactly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t ask me where that came from.<\/p>\n
It came from the irrefutable compact disc in your stomach, I imagine.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yeah, it\u2019s a true story actually.<\/p>\n
(Both laughing).<\/p>\n
This is nonfiction.\u00a0<\/p>\n
You think I can come up with something from my brain?<\/p>\n
Something wacky like that? No way.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There are important things happening inside of my stomach.<\/p>\n
So next couple days, the EP is dropping? Exciting. Please send that to me.<\/p>\n
Yeah, just waiting on streaming services. I will.<\/p>\n
Any words of advice before we go, maybe specifically advice for people wanting to get involved in the Tallahassee music scene?<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re looking at it and thinking you want to do stuff, the barrier for entry is really not as high as you might be imagining it. It\u2019s really just a matter of effort. There\u2019s nothing stopping you from putting on a show. It\u2019s basically just getting in touch with people, shooting people messages until someone gets back to you, and you have everything you need to make something happen. Find some friends who are down to help you do it. It\u2019s usually too much for one person. It will take up a lot of your time if you\u2019re the only person involved in putting on your thing.<\/p>\n
Whether you\u2019re trying to put on a show or be an artist and play shows, all it really takes is just hitting people up, and you can make something happen. And I implore you \u2014 if you\u2019re reading this you\u2019re probably in the Tallahassee scene \u2014 if you\u2019re not happy with the Tallahassee scene, then start putting on shows. You can do it. We need more cool things happening here.<\/p>\n
Well, I had a blast. Thank you very much for agreeing to talk with me.<\/p>\n
Yeah, this was fun. Thank you.<\/p>\n
Author\u2019s Note: This interview was edited for clarity and length.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yob the Delectable | Live At Void Network<\/p>\n
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