First up, the Madison heavyweight hip hop live band dumate has been having an amazing year, and to celebrate, they’re offering their full length album, We Have the Technology, for free through Bandcamp. Click here to get yours. This is a limited time offer deal.
The dumate team has been very, very busy this year…especially MPC player / producer Man Mantis. He’s dropped an experimentally awesome EP’s with J. Dante, Whole New World, and a classic-flavored EP with dumate emcee DLO titled The IceMantis EP, which has been getting great reviews.
I mean, really great reviews. The Onion’s A/V Club gave it an “A” rating, concluding that the dumate crew was “grotesquely underrated on both a local and national scale.” Amen.
Up next, Man Mantis is working on an instrumental release, Cities Without Houses. Based on what I’ve heard, I think it’s going to make some serious noise for him…stay tuned.
We’ve got a lot of extremely dope producers on the World Around roster.
This year has seen incredible releases from nearly all of them. First we dropped Naturetone’s debut, Nihon, an ambitious and exotic tribute to the music and culture of Japan. Naturetone was fortunate enough to make a pilgrimage there this year…and he got married this year, too!
Then came Dr. Quandary’s magnum opus, Beyond All Spheres of Force and Matter. It’s been a trip watching this release ripple through Teh Internets — we see a ...
Fresh out of a court-mandated rehab vacation, Humpasaur Jones has been sleeping in the studio again. The first new release is the “2010 Anthembanger”, which we’ve built into a remix contest. If you’re not the producer type, great news: there’s already 3 remixes done, courtesy of Louis Mackey, Naturetone, and our newest addition to the roster, Custom. (More on him soon.)
The accapella file is the last track and the tempo is precisely 99 BPM. The deadline for the Contest contest is August 29th, 2010. (Because it’s a Sunday…and because we want to post the winners on September 1st.) All submissions go to: powerweirdo at gmail dot com.
Click on the image above to download 18 exclusive and upcoming tracks from the entire World Around roster, along with high-quality album art and PDF liner notes. Happy New Year!
Tracklist:
S.maharba - The Look
STINK TANK™ - NSFA
Humpasaur Jones - Breakup Music
Naturetone - Lone Wolf
dumate - Devil is Dope
IceMantis - In rmary (feat. Dudu Stinks)
Daimyo! - Two (feat. Louis Mackey)
DJ Multiple Sex Partners - Serious Mammals
Man Mantis - Les Yeux
Algorhythms - No Flower (Snippet)
S.maharba - Briefcase Found
Dr. Quandary - Feijão
Louis Mackey - Hades Isn’t Real (feat. Adam Kadmon)
This Dr. Quandary banger has been in our secret files for at least two years now. That’s…way too long. Dr. John remixed by aliens with stolen drum machines. This is also excellent morning music for a turbo-charged wakeup routine.
Humpasaur Jones - Breakup Music
Dr. Quandary - I Walk on Gilded Splinters (Remix)
