1. I Come Off 2. Principal’s Office 3. Bust A Move 4. Non Stop 5. Fastest Rhyme 6. My Name Is Young 7. Know How 8. Roll With The Punches 9. I Let ‘Em Know 10. Pick Up The Pace 11. Got More Rhymes 12. Stone Cold Buggin’ 13. Just Say No BONUS TRACKS 14. I Come Off (Southern Comfort Mix) 15. Principal’s Office (Impact Remix) 16. Bust A Move (Diplo RMX) 17. Know How Theme (RMX by Aaron LaCrate & Debonair Samir) 18. I Let ‘Em Know (Matt Dike Remix) 19. Pick Up The Pace 1990
When it comes to playing it straight, Stone Cold Rhymin’ is almost shocking had also largely written. (The other songs nominated for Best Rap in its innocence. Thirteen songs and zero curse words, the album endures Performance were De La Soul’s anti-anthem “Me Myself And I”, DJ Jazzy as a quality listen because of Young MC’s wit, wordplay, and dazzling Jeff & The Fresh Prince’s tepid claim “I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson”, and elocution... not to mention the funkiness of the music. The album bridges Public Enemy’s immortal “Fight The Power”). The follow-up to “Bust A old school sounds and what at the time passed for cutting edge production. Move” was “Principal’s Office”. A midtempo mixture of high school lyrical high jinks over a hurdy-gurdy sample, the track gave Young MC his Twenty years after its original release, this exclusive import of Stone Cold second consecutive Top Forty hit, and helped propel sales of his debut Rhymin’ comes with six additional tracks not on the original LP. album to double platinum. “Principal’s Office (Impact Remix)” and “I Come Off (Southern Comfort Mix”) are rare mixes from original 12-inches. “I Let Em Know (Matt Dike Another stand-out cut, “Know How” is an early production by Dust Remix)” is a promotional mix never before released commercially, while Brothers Michael “EZ Mike” Simpson and John “King Gimzo” King. The “Pick Up The Pace (1990)” first appeared on the soundtrack to the Steven song begins with a straightforward, even obvious stacking of samples but Seagal movie “Marked For Death.” The other two bonus tracks come at the two minute mark it explodes into a sequence of searing rock guitar from 2008’s RMXXOLOGY project: Diplo’s turbocharged versioning of licks and tasteful, precise, stereo-panned scratching by EZ Mike. With an “Bust A Move,” and Aaron LaCrate and Debonair Samir’s massive club astutely funky bass line, the song’s tight cuts and stacked breaks are the banger “Know How Theme”. closest prequel to the Dust Brothers’ subsequent cosmic cut collage on Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique. Produced by Michael Ross and Matt Dike, “Bust A Move” is the song that broke Young MC. It won him a coveted statuette for Best Rap With contributions from Michael Ross, Matt Dike, The Dust Brothers, Flea, Performance at the Grammy Awards, where he beat out Delicious Vinyl Quincy Jones III, Kevin O’Neal and Mario Caldato, Jr., Stone Cold Rhymin’ label mate Tone Loc’s “Funky Cold Medina”, a song whose lyrics Young was a monumental achievement for modern Hip-Hop and pop music.
ORDER CUT OFF DATE FOR THIS ITEM: JUNE 23rd
Format: CD Cat. No: DV 9049 Label: Delicious Vinyl Available: JULY 14th
Traffic Ent. Group 39 Broad Street, Suite 4, Quincy, MA 02169 • tel: 617-845-0088 • fax: 617-845-0090 01. Frog Among Queens 02. It Ain’t The 80s 03. Water Ice (With A Gaseous Center) 04. Alternate Earth 05. Infinite Hourglass 06. Synthetic Genetics feat. Esoteric 07. Zodiac Extension 08. Trainspotting 09. The Places 10. Be Yourself Syndrome 11. Uncle Owen (Extended Re-edit) 12. Recurring Dream 13. Losers 14. Evil In The Mirror
Evil In The Mirror is the debut full length from recording point. The given circumstance has brought to fruition an artist Will C. A young mind with an against-the-grain view album that I am proud of and hope you enjoy.” on making music, Will has managed to put together an exciting album in a genre where listeners generally aren’t Though his description is strikingly serious, there is a sense given enough credit. He explains the general idea behind of humor and compassion that makes Evil In The Mirror Evil In The Mirror below: both enjoyable and refreshing. Dense enough lyrically and musically to become increasingly rewarding upon repeated “Sometimes the fork in the road in itself is scenic. Evil in the listens, Evil... however does not demand the listener to stop mirror represents the duality within all of us, but more having fun and “dissect” in order to appreciate the record. specifically to this record, one’s confidence backed with their humility… their jubilation in a balancing act with a Evil In The Mirror sports it’s highly talked/typed about lead deep sense of the melancholy. My selfishness and single, “Losers” (BRK 8805) and also features a guest empathy. My comfort and paranoia. I’ve come to the appearance from Esoteric, one of Hip Hop’s most gifted conclusion that to suppress or keep either side of this minds and entertaining artists. The two push things to the dichotomy hidden would only hurt me as an artist and brink of insanity on the uptempo sonic tour-de-force, disconnect me from the listener. Becoming increasingly “Synthetic Genetics.” conscious of the numerous flaws that compliment my strengths, I stand idle at a fork in the road, unsure of the For more information please visit: direction to take my life but ironically admiring this vantage willcwillc.blogspot.com and www.myspace.com/willc6
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Format: CD Cat. No: BRK 095
Label: Brick Records www.myspace.com/brickrecords Available: JULY 14th
Traffic Ent. Group 39 Broad Street, Suite 4, Quincy, MA 02169 • tel: 617-845-0088 • fax: 617-845-0090 PAUL WHITE “The Strange Dreams Of Paul White”
1. Cheese Special and a Draw 2. Flying Across Tokyo 3. The Uprising of the Insane 4. Time Wars 5. City Bright Lights 6. Alien Nature 7. One Eye Open 8. The Composers Soundtrack 9. Burnt By the Sun 10. Waiting For Time 11. Sugart Free Airlines 12. Floating Free 13. Looking Out to See 14. Surfing off the Coast of Mexico 15. The Magic Tunetop 16. Road Rage 17. Sea life 18. The Punch Drummer 19. Sleep Clapping 20. Let Your Imagination go 21. Cant Sleep make Music
Paul White is a London-based beat machine whose popularity is rising fast among fans of like-minded chopped music, that is Flying Lotus, Fulgeance, Hudson Mohawke, Samiyam and Exile. Part found-sounds, samples and cut-ups, and rooted half in Electronic, Dub and Hip Hop, Paul has carved out a new, blunted niche for himself that is anything but boring, picking up somewhere between where “Nightmares on Wax” left off in 1996 and the sonic buffet that permeates grime, Paul's compositions are non-stop engaging AND funky.
Influences: Miles Davis, Scientist, Kraftwerk, George Michael, Tony Williams Lifetime & Frank-n-Dank.
The CD comes packaged in a slip case that lives inside a custom pillow!
FORMAT: CD —— CATALOG NUMBER: HANDCD 001 —— EAN NUMBER: 5 065001 576003 LABEL: One-Handed Music —— AVAILABLE: July 14th 2009 A BOLHA “Um Passo A Frente”
1. Um Passo A Frente (9:08) 2. A Esfera (3:40) 3. Epitáfio (6:04) 4. Bye My Friend (2:57) 5. Tempos Constantes (5:36) 6. Neste Rock Forever (10:02) 7. Razão De Existir (4:37)
Bonus Tracks: 8. Sem Nada (3:46) 9. 18.30 – Parte 1/Os Hemadecons Cantavam Em Coro Chôôôô (5:31)
Brazilian band The Bubbles became the toast of the underground Rio de Janeiro scene, backing Tropicalist singer Gal Costa’s residence at the Sucata night club in 1970. They won the “Best Band of the Festival” award at the VII FIC of 1971 (International Festival of Songs), the same year they appeared on Leno’s “Vida y obra de Johnny McCartney” album. After venturing to England to attend the Isle of Wight Festival, they decided to experiment with a heavier sound, more akin to UK bands of that era (Deep Purple, Cream, King Crimson, Humble Pie, with a little Beatles’ “White Album” in for good measure) than that of their Brazilian cohorts. At this point they changed their name to A Bolha. Still loaded with verve, swagger, and fueled by drugs, they recorded their first album, which has secured a permanent place as one of the best hard psych rock albums to ever emerge from South America. The LP, “Um Passo a frente” (A step forward), was released in 1973 by the Continental label, in a gatefold cover which was quite luxurious for the era. This masterpiece, now impossibly hard to find as an original, certainly made a name for A Bolha in the pantheon of 1970’s Brazilian rock. But success in the early 1970’s was not like it had once been in the old Jovem Guarda or Tropicalist days, when bands had weekly TV shows to help them become well-known nationwide—and eventually, worldwide. In other words, the meager abilities of Continental to promote the album made it a collector’s item, not the fate a band would actively seek for their recordings. Luckily, we at Lion Productions are able to present these recordings to the world all over again, with the additional benefit of a 20-page booklet with band history, photos, and comments on the songs by band leader Renato Ledeira. Includes both sides of the band’s infamous hard-rocking 1971 single as bonus tracks.
FORMAT: CD —— CATALOG NUMBER: LION 629 —— BARCODE: 7 78578 06292 7 LABEL: Lion Productions —— AVAILABLE: July 14th 2009 TETRAGON “Nature”
1. Fugue (15:59) 2. Jokus (0:19) 3. Irgendwas (5:58) 4. A Short Story (13:38) 5. Nature (7:41)
Bonus Track: 6. Doors in Between (14:16)
An ecology-inspired Krautrock album (1971) from a short-lived group comprised of German school-chums, some of whom had recorded an LP as Trikolon. Tetragon did not conform to any predetermined musical style: they played whatever they pleased, as long as it included groovy Hammond organ and very trippy, flanged wah-wah guitar, in various taut jamming modes that favored jazz/rock fusion à la Miles Davis with a small dose of classical music (adapting a Bach fugue along the way). The result is a bouquet of lush instrumentals, with elements of Egg or the Nice, and quite a bit of T2 to boot. The album was recorded in a converted barn, using a Revox A77 two-track tape recorder and seven microphones placed judiciously to best capture the sound of each instrument. Re-recording wasn’t possible, as the record was mixed live. Yet these challenging conditions inspired the band to great heights: Hendrik Schaper played organ and clavinet simultaneously, with one hand on each keyboard; meanwhile, Jürgen Jaehner unleashed rampaging electric guitar solos, then, in an instant, switched to acoustic guitar for the next musical passage; Schaper didn't own a piano, so he used a pre-amp with a wah-wah pedal to imitate that instrument’s sound. A virtuoso effort, from start to finish! Tetragon didn't bother contacting any record labels; they didn't believe their music would interest anyone. A mere 400 copies of the album were released on a private label, named Soma after the drug-induced effect described in Alduous Huxley’s Brave New World. Our edition includes all of the original pro-environment, anti-industrial pollution gatefold album art, a detailed band history, band photos, and a nearly fifteen-minute bonus track, recorded live in Georgsmarienhütte in 1972.
FORMAT: CD —— CATALOG NUMBER: LION 632 —— BARCODE: 7 78578 06322 1 LABEL: Lion Productions —— AVAILABLE: July 14th 2009 PROPER VILLIANS “Big Apple Bounce EP: Electro Bmore Figit Tracks”
SIDE A 1. Proper Villains - Ready or Not 2. Proper Villains - Get Down Method 3. Proper Villains - Big Booty Bounce 4. Proper Villains - Creamy
SIDE B 1. Machine Drum feat. Theophilus London – Late Night Operation (Proper Villains & Mike Dextro Remix) 2. Proper Villains - Ugly Woman 3. Proper Villains - Drop With Me 4. Proper Villains - Vampy
Flamin Hotz are back!
Philly's Flamin Hotz label is proud to announce the release of Brooklyn’s DJ Jon S aka Proper Villains, and the hard hitting Baltimore club remixes, includes the remix of Machine Drum’s "Midnight Operation" featunring Theophilus London, previously only available on Theo's "This Charming Mixtape", which has been downloaded over 30,000 times!
Representing NYC to the fullest, Proper Villains have been pushing the late night party scene to the limit. DJing next to everyone from Trouble & Bass and Scottie B, to doing after hours with the awesome 4am Jess, DJ Jon S has been killing it. Production wise his style blends influences from House, Hip Hop, and Rave, all with a base in Baltimore Club.
The A-side of the release is a tour de force of hybrid dance music smashers. Pairing elements of Baltimore Club, Figit House, and NYC Heavy Bass music with no filler. The B- side has Proper Villains pairing up with Mike Dextro (who was just written up in URB's next 100 artists to watch) to remix Machine Drum's “Late Night Operation.
For more information please visit www.flaminhotz.com
FORMAT: 12" —— CATALOG NUMBER: FHZ 015 —— BARCODE: No Barcode LABEL: Flamin Hotz —— AVAILABLE: NOW!!!