Cahill Grill: Riton and Kah-lo reveal their most treasured musical selections and a Trump request

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TIME to dust off the Cahill Grill for 2019 and fire up the heat for this flame emoji duo, Riton and Kah-lo.

Real name?

Henry

Guilty pleasure?

Drugs and alcohol

Where is home?

North London

Career Plan B?

Gardener

Biggest Bug Bear?

Dumbness

Earliest Memory?

Being in the bath with my mother

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Your Best Quality?

Hard working

And your Worst?

Not very forgiving sometimes

5 Dream dinner party guests?

Carl Sagan, Jeff Bridges, Donald Trump (for jokes), Roseanne, Jon Hamm

5 Desert Island discs

Inner City - Good Life

CLS - Can You Feel It

Kraftwerk - Autobahn

Cajmere - Percolator

Carl Craig - Paper Clip People

Advice to teenage self?

Chill out m8

What did you have for breakfast today?

Smoothie and croissant

Top of your bucket list?

South Pole

Biggest inspiration?

Todd Terry

Secret crush?

Kylie

Secret skill?

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Riton and Kah-Lo - Musical duo with Grammy Award nomination

What do you see when you look in the mirror?

A weird version of my youthful face

Starstruck moment?

Meeting DJ Funk

Career highlight?

My first Grammy nomination

Favourite tipple?

Coté Roti red wine

FUN SONGS BIT AND A REWARD FOR ANSWERING THOSE QUESTIONS

Song that always makes you shake your rump and nearly split your pants and why?

Wande Cole - Iskaba. When I get I drunk I’ll put it on repeat. Kah-lo introduced me to this and a bunch of amazing Afro beat pop a few years ago and it blew my mind

Song that is a hidden gem that not many people know about but everyone should know about and love…and how you discovered it?

Another one from the Nigerian massive - I heard this all the time when I was in Lagos filming our video clips - it’s a beautiful her voice is amazing - it’s called Sicker by Niniola

Song that you would gladly listen to 5 times in a row if you were stuck in an elevator for half an hour and you had to think calm thoughts?

Brian Eno - An Ending - most beautiful trip of all time

Song to prepare you for battle, fire you the f**k up and make you feel like you were armed to teeth and why?

TNGHT - Higher Ground - absolute beast from the good days of trap

Song to get someone you rather fancy in the mood for luuuuuuurve.

Ass and Titties - DJ Assault always gives me a boner

How did you develop your creative vision?

Just trial and error and leaning towards error. I keep messing around until I hear something that excites me - it’s normally not something that you can learn to create - just keep experimenting until you find something that get you jazzed up and hopefully that will translate to listeners too.

Riton and Kah-Lo - Grammy Award nominated duo

KAH-LO

Real name?

Faridah Seriki

Guilty pleasure?

All the chocolates!

Where is home?

Brooklyn or Lagos

Career Plan B?

Nope

Earliest Memory?

Bugging my mom for yoghurt

Your Best Quality?

Accepting

And your Worst?

A mess

5 Dream dinner party guests?

Astrud Gilberto, Kanye West, Rihanna, Ariana Grande, Kelis

5 Desert Island discs?

Michael Jackson - Thriller

Getz/Gilberto - Best of Astrud Gilberto

Kanye West - Late Registration and MBDTF

Kelis - Kelis Was Here

M.I.A - Kala

Riton and Kah-Lo - Musical duo with Grammy Award nomination

Advice to teenage self?

It’ll all be fine. Let things be

What did you have for breakfast today?

Ginger, lemon and honey as tea

Top of your bucket list?

Go to Italy

Biggest inspiration?

Kanye West BT

Secret crush?

None!

Secret skill?

Coding

What do you see when you look in the mirror?

A bad ass

Starstruck moment?

Meeting Ciara. She’s a goddess

Career highlight?

Grammy nomination

Favourite tipple?

Jack Daniels Honey

FUN SONGS BIT AND A REWARD FOR ANSWERING THOSE QUESTIONS

Song that always makes you shake your rump and nearly split your pants and why?

This Is How We Do It - Montell Jordan. It’s the best song. Best intro. The best

Song that is a hidden gem that not many people know about but everyone should know about and love…and how you discovered it?

Animals by Bella Alubo. I heard it tucked away in her EP. It’s so beautiful

Song that you would gladly listen to 5 times in a row if you were stuck in an elevator for half an hour and you had to think calm thoughts?

Anything by Astrud Gilberto

Song to prepare you for battle, fire you the f**k up and make you feel like you were armed to teeth and why?

Are You Gonna Be My Girl? - Jet. I don’t know why. It just gets me pumped up to do ANYTHING

Song to get someone you rather fancy in the mood for luuuuuuurve.

The slow songs off Usher’s Confessions album

How did you develop your creative vision?

By being myself.

SEE: Riton and Kah-lo, Brown Alley, 585 Londsdale St, city. Feb 7. $16.52/$27.01 eventbrite.com.au; Canberra, Feb 8; Launceston, Feb 9; Sydney, Feb 10; Gosford, Feb 16; Wollongong, Feb 16; secretsounds.com

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