from the upcoming album "The Night Took Us In Like Family"
Pre-Order (4/21): https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/night-took-us-in-like-family/id962648340

Premeired @ Pigeons & Planes: http://pigeonsandplanes.com/2015/03/premiere-lorange-jeremiah-jae-taken-by-the-night/

About the Album:
Enter those bloody alleys blocked off with yellow tape and chalk outlines. Secret backrooms riddled with sly crooks and blunt smoke. Slink into the underworld, the seedy shadowland owned by Jeremiah Jae and L’Orange on their noir-hop opus, "The Night Took Us In Like Family."

Consider it the alchemy of Madvillain and "The Maltese Falcon": a five-part fable of tangled crimes, narrow escapes, and raining lead. The door busts open with “A Conspicuous Man.” L’Orange’s carefully severed cinematic clips hold the frame steady. The Windy City-raised Jae muscles the narrative forward—the hitman creeping.

Beats bend sinister with imagery aiming for the temples. Jae invokes dark clouds, crowns of thorns and LSD eyes. Bars written in dirt. Samples are disembodied and ethereal. It’s like a grand jury indictment doubling as a Greek chorus.  A song title like “Ice Obsidian” says it all. This is frozen lava, black and white celluloid, the spoils won by sinners. Watch your back rap.

Or maybe it’s the hip-hop version of the gangster flicks made before the Hays Code—raw and uncensored, deeply artful without pretension. Pitchfork once described Jae as: “a lot of people talk loud and say nothing; Jeremiah Jae finds strength in the inverse." On "The Night Took Us In Like Family," he inhabits both eulogizer and executioner. He triumphantly looms over the corpses and explains how this all came to be. L’Orange supplies concrete requiems of dusted soul: beats to crack safes, soundtracks to stealth assassinations. 

If gangsta rap remains one of the genre’s most well worn tropes, Jae and L’Orange take inspiration from the rarely tapped roots of the tradition. This isn’t riffing on Oliver Stone’s "Scarface" like popular cliché, but rather the original Al Capone exploitation flick from the early 30s. Jae conjures a villain who vaporizes. Run-the-Jewels-raw but still sophisticated. Cuban cigars stuffed with California chronic.

The picture unfolds wide frame. Guest stars include New York poison dart-thrower, Homeboy Sandman and Blackalicious’ Gift of Gab. The chapters flesh out the story: The Conspicuous Man skulks into “God Complex,” “The Damning,” “Revenge and Escape.” Jae and L’ Orange build their world as a catacomb and find a way to escape just as the walls feel like they’re closing in. It fades out as “A Macabre Instrumental” plays. The funeral is closed casket. The memories aren’t easily disposed. 



L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae - Taken By The Night

The Next Level

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Danger

I Excel

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THE LONG-AWAITED VINYL REISSUE OF AIM’S CLASSIC DEBUT ALBUM 'COLD WATER MUSIC'. REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL TAPES. RELEASE FORMATS : VINYL (2X12” 140g ICE-BLUE WAX) / DIGITAL / LIMITED EDITION COMPACT CASSETTE.

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PRESS RELEASE

When Aim’s Cold Water Music dropped in 1999 on cult Manchester label Grand Central Records, it was an underground sensation. Preceded by a string of well received 12”s and EP’s the album was eagerly anticipated and Aim delivered in a big way, elevating his trademark sound to new heights with a collection of uplifting cinematic soundscapes, dark jazz fuelled breaks and hard hitting hip-hop beats (featuring guest rap legends QNC, AG and YZ). Uniquely, there was a sense of nostalgic sentimentality running through the record and the whole thing was underpinned by a musicality often missing in sample based production.

Pushed on by organic, word-of-mouth promotion and the success of the Aim Live band that sold out Shepherds Bush Empire and smashed Glastonbury’s Jazz World stage in 2007, Cold Water Music went on to shift over 100,000 units and is now seen as a ground-breaking, genre defining UK classic that has inspired legions of bedroom beat-makers.

The original vinyl pressing sold out within weeks of it’s release making it a sought after collectors piece with rocketing Ebay prices for clean copies. After years of fan requests, both ATIC and Aim felt the time was right to finally repress the wax. Says Andy Turner (Aim), “Rather than just repress the original album, we remastered and recut it from scratch using the original DAT master tapes.”

Every now and then an album comes along that both resonates and endures. An album that stays with those first to hear it and one that is discovered and treasured by generations to follow. Seventeen years on from it’s initial release Cold Water Music sounds as fresh, as inventive and as necessary as it ever did.

For more information please contact Nicole@aticrecords.com

Cold Water Music (Remastered)

Ain't Got Time To Waste

Ain't Got Time To Waste feat. YZ

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Happy Birthday, P! 

I'm honored to release this song featuring brother Price. Love and miss you, fam.

Rest in Peace, Sean Price.

Another single from my upcoming mixtape "Who Taught You To Hate Yourself?" which is coming soon.

Cover art by wa55up

Written by McKinley Dixon &amp; Sean Price
Produced by P.R
Mixed &amp; Mastered by Vincent Duke
Guitar by Jake Adams
Trumpet by Jackson Shurlds
Saxophone by Nathanael Clark
Trombone by Gabriel Luciano
Cuts by DJ M80

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Bare Knuckle (Feat. Sean Price) - OFF OF "WHO TAUGHT YOU TO HATE YOURSELF?"

Another Dimension

La La La, Pt. 1

Vignettes

Rememberance

How It Should Sound, Vol. 5

Diamond Digging (2004)

Checkmate Execution (2004)

The Pro Tools Instrumentals

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