Produced and Directed by: McFarland & Pecci
“Hazmat Rap” – official video from the debut album of CZARFACE…the album is in stores & iTunes now! ***A BRAND NEW CZARFACE LP is cooking***…Inspectah Deck, Esoteric, 7L & Spada-4 are hard at work on a murderous follow up, due out 2014!
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It’s soul music, baby, but not as we know it. The backbeat and the handclaps are still there and the horns still sound. The bass bumps, the organ screams and the guitars still twang, but the singer has left the room. Everything is shades of blue. This is soul music for the after hours. For the solitary dancers and the lonely hearts. The soundtrack to solitary headlights on a midnight highway. What to call it? Who cares! Can you dance to it? Just try not to. No one’s telling you to throw your hands up in the air, but no one would be surprised if you did. It’s dark here, so you can do your own thing.
Wooden Boy was recorded by The Cactus Channel — a ten-piece band from Melbourne, Australia — all born in the 90s and raised on the internet. Yet somehow, this astonishing follow up to last year’s rave-reviewed debut, Haptics, sounds like it could have been recorded in the 1970s, or possibly in the distant future. A timeless, placeless cinematic odyssey, Wooden Boy could have been an alternate soundtrack to Ghost Dog — if Lalo Schifrin and the Meters were collaborating on the RZA’s score. Or maybe Wooden Boy was what happened when Lars Von Trier got invited to direct an episode of Soul Train. What any of it may actually mean is left to the listener’s imagination.
Funk aficionados will hear shades of New York on this record, echoes of El Michel’s taking on Wu Tang, the influence of Budos and Menehan et al. But this is the Generation Z version; both more tempestuous and more introverted. Recorded analog in the digital era, presented faceless in the celebrity era, inexplicably ambiguous in the soundbite era, is this the album the world needs right now? Undoubtedly yes. In a world where the NSA can read the text message that dumped you, what does a person need more than sad soul music from the future? Wooden Boy, baby, Wooden Boy.
*What happened 2 loyalty?…..
Recorded on the westside of L.A. on July 30th.
All music, recording & production: DāM-FЦПK
Keep risIN’!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On July 21st in St. Louis , MO Word War in association with SMACK/URL held an MC battle event to settle an on going rivalry between Newark, New Jersey’s Arsonal Da Rebel & St. Louis native Ayeverb. The battle is a high energy fast paced showcase of true lyricism that is sure to entertain.
A quick Cool Kids reunion for Chuck’s Convertibles
Pete Came back to kick it and brought Camp Lo with him. Their new tape, “80 Blocks from Tiffany’s 2” is out now!
Here at Noisey UK, we have become friends with the lovely people at our local old folks home, St. Hilda’s.
As a treat for them, we arranged a surprise visit from the hottest rapper on the planet, Action Bronson, to see what they made of it.
He performed his track ‘Strictly 4 My Jeeps’ and we think they were sort of into it so ‘Live from St Hildas’ might become a regular thing.
Off U-God’s Keynote Speaker out now
1st single off the new Blaq Poet LP “Blaq Death” to be released on Man Bites Dog Records in October 2013. This track is produced by Vanderslice and features Chino XL, Spit Gemz & Vinnie Paz. Maxi Single Cassette & T Shirt limited edition of 100 available on brutalmusic.org.
Planet Asia breaks down what track put him on.
Rugged Ones 