Worf

Intermission

Sick Script

Out Of Time

Slate

Chemistry

Cartoon Beats

Descent

Fumes (2nd Draft)

Pyrite

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Friar Cyanide (@friarcyanide) - Tongue, Buttons, Invisibility
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Rev. Stiv (@stevelabedz) - Throat, Synthesizer, Flight

Descending from the hydroponic laboratories of the far north woods comes Bellum, forging beats from dumpsters full of digital DJ needles – the meticulous obsession of geek-chic deep-fried in a raucous party atmosphere. With lyrical references to everything from John Nash to Shakespeare, accompanied by wailing blasts of brass and bass bumps that make pudding of gravity, Bellum blends enough literary credibility to make grad students cream their pants, and enough groove to make the dance floor erupt with the force of a collapsing star. By pairing classical musical training with psychedelic embellishments and gritty calls of anguish, Bellum occupies a space of cognitive dissonance that would seem to implode at any moment, but sustains itself to drastic, dramatic effect.

If anything, Bellum is antisocially-conscious, anti-spiritual, anti-capitalist, decrying rap’s obsession with material possessions in favor of seeking deeper truths about the nature of being, of the arbitrary forms taken by so-called “morality,” of calling out hypocrites and cutting down disconnect with nihilistic abandon.

((( Bellum )))

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