L.A. producer Thavius Beck is back with Dialogue, a new set of dissonances and noise experiments. Oddly, it comes out in the UK and Europe next week (October 5) via Big Dada; however, Mush Records does not have a domestic release date yet. I’ll let you know when that changes.
(October 29 update: The U.S. release date for CD/vinyl is January 26, 2010. However, it is already available on iTunes and other digital retailers.)
Mush Records, one of my favorite experimental labels, celebrated its tenth anniversary last year. (Its first release was Boom Bip’s The Low End Sequence EP). To mark the occasion, it recruited Los Angeles producer Thavius Beck, whose track record includes acclaimed projects such as Saul Williams’ Niggy Tardust! affair and K-The-I???’s recent Yesterday, Today and Forever. Beck created a two “disc” mix of tracks from the label’s catalog for your downloading pleasure.
On October 30, Mush Records will release K-The-I???’s Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, an album completely produced by L.A. beat vet Thavius Beck.
“After the man known as Kiki relocated from Cambridge to LA in ‘07, after 2 months of sweating in a hot ass room at the Mush house in the dead of summer, after another 2 months of waiting for verses from High Priest (aka Hprizm) and Big Jus (and after only getting one of them… but thats a story for another blog), the hard work has paid off,” writes Thavius Beck in a MySpace post.
The elliptically-named K-The-I??? is a rapper of protean strength, and given to broken poetry that can be both powerfully moving and frustratingly cryptic. His 2006 debut, Broken Love Letter, drew respectable reviews and fans in like-minded avant-garde rappers, many of whom appear on Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. They include High Priest, Busdriver, Mestizo and Subtitle. Meanwhile, Thavius Beck, formerly known as Adlib and one-half of Lab Waste (along with Subtitle), has benefited from increased exposure for his work on Saul Williams’ acclaimed The Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust!
“Me and Thavius worked real hard on this record and put all are [sic] time, blood, sweat and tears into making this record sound fresh, brand new and creatively original,” writes K-The-I??? on his MySpace page.
The track listing for Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is below.
Arizona-bred, Brooklyn-based beatmaker Eliot Lipp drops his third album, The Outside, via Mush Records on April 8. The album, his third, may be his best to date. It finds him adding deeper and more complex electronic melodies to his hip-hop-inflected beats, resulting in instrumental synth suites reminiscent of 80s electro classics such as Paul Hardcastle’s “Rain Forest.”
“Eliot Lipp continues his impressive retooling of analog infused electro-funk with his latest full-length, The Outside, his first for Mush Records,” reads a press release. “Techno and hip-hop in their earliest, formative stages have inspired Eliot throughout his career, and form the common thread running through the album.”
So there you have it. Check out the new Eliot Lipp album when it drops next month, and see him perform if he happens to hit your town next month. The track listing and the tour itinerary are below.
Here’s the tour dates:
www.myspace.com/eliotlipp
www.eliotlipp.blogspot.com
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