High Quality Porn Music “A Run for your Money”
In full force and slathered in your face, High Quality Porn Music is a prolonged project. Based in Los Angeles in many different forms, the group has somehow never gotten coverage up until now. In its most permanence, the 4 male gemmed band is crossing the city's terrains, catching the eyes of many. On vocals, Miles Davis serenades in a way hard to keep your eyes off of him. Shaye Wolf on drums, the proclaimed “injun-ear” let’s extremely lose all while shirtless. On guitar, Tanner Payne and Cameron shred an unearthly noise of pleasure. The proof is somehow in the pudding with the baseline of their own god-given names.
Thankfully, house-parties get a Partigirl far with living out an attendee role. Gracefully meeting the band on a one-off night, Particollective’s founder, Davyn Knight runs it back with the band in Gold Digger’s performers green room. Cramped on one couch, side-by-side, and willing for their long coming debut, the band talks of their origins, rotating line ups, fit-checks, and what’s to come in terms of music.
Photography by Maleah Pasasouk
You guys just finished your most recent performance. How do you feel?
Miles: Yeah! Yeah! It was incredible. I want to play more.
You want to play more?
Tanner: Yeah, I want to watch him play more. I want to watch him play more.
No, you guys are sick.
So, first, for our viewers at home, can we get everyone's names?
M: I'm Miles. I play bass and sing.
S: I'm Shea Wolf. I play drums.
T: I'm Tanner. I play Nar Nar.
C: I'm Cameron, I also play Nar Nar.
I want to ask, why the name High Quality Porn Music? What made you guys decide, yeah! We're gonna do this one.
M: Fuckin high quality porn music, you know? It's just what it is.
Is it a genre?
M: I feel like high quality porn music's exactly the state of music right now. It's kind of a parody.
What's the origin of it?
M: The original drummer, we were all like, gettin high. Playing music . And we were listening to this iPhone recording and she goes, yo, this is some high quality porn music. And I was like, that's the name of our fucking band. Before that, our band was the Moon Cats.
I've been in this band for hella long.
On the band camp that you guys haven't updated or currently exists in the ether. You guys have had multiple lineup changes. How do you feel with this current lineup? What made you guys decide, okay, we're gonna stick with this one. How did you guys like, get together? You have great chemistry on stage. How did this even start?
M: I met Shea when I moved down here in Hollywood. Literally the first day that I fuckin moved down here. We've just been friends. We went to the Musicians Institute. And, you know, years of, like, line up changes of drummers and singers and guitar players, all sorts of shit, like, all lost to drugs, mental illness and shit. Rest in peace.
I wasn't always the singer of the band, actually, I just played bass. We had a singer who had to quit. So I was like, oh, we're gonna disband? I was like, nah. So I learned how to sing and play the bass and then quarantine hit and then tried to move in with my band and it fell apart.
Somebody hit me up who was a a fan of the band was like, "Hey, when are we gonna hear some new High Quality Porn Music?" And I was like shit, as soon as I find a guitar player. So that's when I started hitting up different people. So you know, this band is made up of fans of the music. I've always seen all these people at all the shows.
T: The fans have been in the band longer than the members.
S: Yeah. I would go to every show when it was just me. Then you just feel like. Three years ago, two and a half, three years ago.
T: Two guitarists in the band. But hey, we were just fans of this band before we were in this fucking band.
And we just joined this band like six months ago or whatever.
Oh damn.
T: We've been fans of this band for like a couple years.
How do you guys feel about that? Is it almost like a dream come true?
C: No, Shay called me and I literally jumped for joy. Cause he was like, , dude, do you want to join High Quality Porn Music? And I was like *faking a spasm* "Yo, yeah!" Trying to sound cool, you know? I was like "Yeah, it sounds dope. Yeah, it sounds cool" And I'm like, losing my breath.
I also wanted to ask, a lot of the tracks that you guys played tonight and during the house party on Saturday aren't available for streaming. Will there be a high quality album in the near future?
M: Yes.
How soon?
M: This year.
Can you put a date on it?
M: I wanna say by summer time.
Honestly, when you get hard at work, you know we’re all doing it ourselves. All that stuff that's been on Spotify is all stuff that we've done. Mixed ourselves in shape. Mixed all the stuff. Like Black Sheep and Cold. I mean, Fire was the original rendition of the band that we got mixed by some dude I don't remember but, shout out to him!
T: We're definitely not using any industry work.
S It's hard to manage all of our time together. That's why it's been a little hard to push stuff out, but we've been working and planning on it.
M: Yeah, we got a bunch of tracks, like, we only have 40 minutes to play, but we have a bunch of music. We have four singles out. This set that we played at the house show was stuff that I've been trying to push.
You guys definitely have a full album worth of music.
No yeah for sure, Cold was written in 2013.
Damn!
M: Yeah. Fire was written in like 2011 or 2012. So those were all in the vault for a very long time. So yeah, I really wanted to get that out because all these people who were in the band before couldn't hang, you know what I'm saying?
What songs would you consider high quality music? Besides your own.
M: I love the influence of high quality porn music, recently have been the cramps, The Gun Club. I was raised on Bay Area rap and punk rock and all that shit, so Nirvana and all that stuff's always just been influenced. I just listen to everything. I even be listening to J-Pop.
Alright! Okay, what J pop have you been listening to?
M: Anything I can find.