Kučka Talks Skyping With A$AP Rocky

The lead singer and creator of collective Kučka has a fan in raps newest superstar A$AP Rocky, so much so that she featured on his debut LP Long.Live.A$AP.

“I'm not currently working on anything with him,” Laura Jane Lowther explains, “he just had an album released, and it happened really quickly… [they] got in contact with me and asked if he could sample some vocals from my EP, so I sent some over to him... then [they] got back to me a few weeks later and was like 'A$AP's all good for you to sing on the record too; can you just sing this small fragment', which happened to be the chorus from his, like, first track from his EP. That was pretty crazy, but I didn't know that at the time – I was just like 'sick', and I sent it back, and then a few weeks later A$AP emailed me, and then he said he wanted to Skype, and then he told me that he wanted to do another track where I was doing, like, vocals on it, which ended up on the album too, which is Fashion Killa… so, yeah,” she beams. “It was really early in the morning for me, I just kind of woke up, and I just had this email like 'A$AP wants you to Skype right now… do my hair, put it on, and I was, like, kind of nervous, but he was just so chilled that he kind-of sang through what he wanted me to do, I did it… I dunno, he's nice!“

Pretty special considering Kučka was initially just Lowther up until last year. She now calls Jake Steele (of Injured Ninja) and Katie Campbell (of Catlips) her bandmates.

“Jake was already playing with me… [and] I bumped into Katie at uni, and she was just like sitting in the foyer… she was just making noises with her sound machine, and I didn't even know her, I just had a hunch she was cool. She was at WAAPA in the year below me, but doing the same course – composition. I'm really impulsive, when I have an idea I'll just do it straight away, but Jake is quite cautious, which works, because we kind of even each other out.”

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