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Featuring bars from Tariiiq, Selassie Drah, Wxsted Txlent, and Dirty Dev. 
Watch the visualizer on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/KNRYcQskid8
Production courtesy of Shmubu. 
Mix/master courtesy of Wxsted Txlent.
Video by Devon Acuna.
This project was directed by Sperniee.
The Absurd Collective operates on Treaty 6 territory. 

Follow the artists:
Shmubu: 
https://www.instagram.com/shmubu/

Tariiiq:
https://tariiiqmusic.com/whatido

Selassie Drah:
https://www.instagram.com/selassiedrah/

Wxsted Txlent:
https://www.instagram.com/wxstedtxlent/

Dirty Dev:
https://linktr.ee/dirtydev

Sperniee:
https://www.instagram.com/sperniee/

Absurd Cypher 1 - Selassie Drah, Wxsted Txlent, Tariiiq & Dirty Dev

Hi there! I’m D. Blade, a musician from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This is my first solo album. It is called Home Recordings 19-23. I’d like to thank you for taking the time to listen to it, and if you’ll indulge me I’d like to share a little about it with you.

As the title suggests, this is a collection of songs written and recorded between 2019 and 2023, although one or two of them are older (the first part of The God Shivers in particular was written in late 2016, if memory serves). The majority of the writing and recording was done in 2020 and 2021 during the COVID-19 lockdown, however the subject matter has nothing to do with the pandemic outside of the bossa nova I wrote commemorating my stay in a lockdown hotel during that time. This album is meant to be a time capsule of the feelings and experiences I had during the first five years of my adult life, expressed through musical styles that are a reflection of my tastes during that same span of time.

I’m not really sure how I feel about this album. It’s the end result of trying to fulfill a childhood dream of creating a record fully by myself and doing so by executing a vision that I had at 23, and part of me feels like it was a fool's errand. It certainly sounded better in my head before I recorded it, and it ended up kind of being a mess. But it’s a mess I’m proud to take responsibility for, and I feel like I have done right by honouring the wishes of my younger self and completing it. I certainly owe him that much.

Credits:
All tracks written, arranged and performed by D. Blade except track 6 which was written by Clay Parton and Dove Amber.
Tracks 2-6 and 8 produced by D. Blade. 
Track 1 produced by D. Blade and PHLLY.
Track 7 produced by D. Blade with additional production by Matt D. Jadischke.
Cover art designed by D. Blade and assembled by Devon Acuña.
“Extremely Cursed” symbol created by D. Blade and Brontë Chenier. 

Special thanks to:
Absurd Collective, for being so wonderfully accommodating and enthusiastic about helping me release my music.
The Blade and Spenst extended families, for always being curious about and supportive of my endeavours.
The innumerable friends and musical peers who continue to encourage and inspire me through their words and creations alike. 
Mom, Dad, and Savanna, for their continued patience and support, as well as their immense love of music that did so much to shape my own.
Brontë, for her contributions to the visual aspects of the music and for always believing in me.

Heading For The Door (Duster Cover)

Prod by EnvyOnGod

Mixed/Mastered by EnvyOnGod

DANCING WITH THE DEVIL

Prod by KiriTrippleSixx

Mixed/Mastered by KiriTrippleSixx

SMOKED OUT 2

It was a cold rainy night in downtown LA.. the spring of 2021, when JD stumbled into a Mick Jenkins session talking shit. After Mick said JD was not a real rapper, JD let out a horrifying cackle and challenged Mick to a dual. With 5 minutes on the clock, JD went in the booth first.... Mick had an extra 4 minutes with JD in the booth, or so the legend says... but the rest... is history.

produced + mixed by M

JD vs. Mick Jenkins (prod. by M)

BBL DRIZZY BPM 150.mp3

Cosmic Rays

No Need To Play This Again

Had these on the ol' lappy for goin on two years cause my girlfriend and such said I should "pan" the tracks and otherwise "mix" them and today I got around to it only to discover I never "saved" the samples and the "EXS24" is a "piece of shit" which attempts to invisibly enforce an arbitrary standard of entry to the industry which is dependent upon "practice" and "learning how to mix". This glass ceiling, as it were, is obscured by the notion that you can "just check out" a series of "easy to understand and relatively quick how-to-guides or youtube tutorials". Yeah, right. Why the fuck do you think I stopped practicing all the instruments I used to know and started yelling words out of key and time into a microphone. A deeply engrained anti-establishment sentiment, sure, but I'm also looking for the most I can get for the least amount of effort while still maintaining the kind of intellectual, artsy, thinker type vibe. So suck on these fat beats and the attached implications.

Guy Dew - Red Peppers

Guy Dew - Green Peppers

http://absurdcollective.com

Collective of artists based in Edmonton, AB

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