really like this freestyle, and good beat, did you produce it yourself !!!

I met The Commotion when I first moved downtown. They are a more or less secret rap collective of a few dudes. Their membership waxes and wanes. In between completing the mixes of Broken Machine in Brent's apartment and working one of the most demanding / shitty jobs I've ever had I would go to a house in Cap Hill and rap with The Commotion. We would sometimes rap for 8 hours straight. If we couldn't convince Brent to make live beats we'd rap over youtube or anything instrumental and free.  I would say a 3 hour session was minimal. I didn't think that after having made music for so long it could become that fun again. I was filled with confusion in my personal life and The Commotion was something between therapy, speaking in tongues, and bro-mance. We recorded everything as voice memos on our mobiles and then one day, like a caveman returning to cave with stick of fire Stash brought microphone and audio interface. Yes, Stash The Realist is part of The Commotion. So we decided to make a concept album based on the idea of Rappers Anonymous because, as we put it, "freestyles ruined my life."

Maybe one day The Commotion will share the complete FixTape with you, the album that we made together that summer threading together freestyles and stories about an eccentric group of rappers who have found one another at the bottom. But for now you will have to accept this single take freestyle over a beat Stash made. When we neared the end point of the album we just started making songs this way. "Hey, your turn." you'd be handed headphones and someone would hit space bar then everyone left the room. The harder you dig, the more things you dig up. Whack is fine. Maybe the theme of The Commotion is that if you approach a task nude and fearless you will reach the highest of highs alongside your greatest lows, like dirt between teeth or something. If that sentiment lacks artistic beauty it is because freestyling lacks discipline, purpose, and conventional songwriting motivation. If you can hide the fact that your brain is doggy-paddling between words and your mouth is slapping against itself to keep up you may have succeeded. Or you may have been atrocious. Had to be there to know.

You can hear an overdubbed voice in the introduction but the rest is grade C un-certified freestyles. They are still ruining my life. Happy birthday to me. Whack is fine. --Love Jake

No Rap Forgiveness Freestyle

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Absorbing Colin’s musical output intensely over the past few days. I’m so grateful that he was so prolific and opened so much of himself up to all of us. These songs particularly help me right now, they remind me of conversations we would have about music, mostly his excitement for the latest piece he had finished. I would often tell him that I hadn’t even got to the last two releases he just put out. I always listened to him, deeply. This was a hard mix for me. It’s taken several days and painful nights, but I think it’s really essential right now, especially for people who want him close but either can’t emotionally handle the process of digging through his archives or just don’t know where to begin. I cried the entire time. I’m still sobbing. The hardest part about making the mix was ending it. I didn’t want it to end, I just want it to go on forever. I know it will, I know there’s still so much to be discovered. Thankfully he meant so much to so many people, I look forward to every mix that comes out. The best part is I doubt any two would be the same, this barely scrapes the surface. He is that beautiful and inspiring. That powerful.

This music spans from 2007-2016.

Dedication - For Colin

Alphabets - Untitled
Alphabets - Lego Museum
Alphabets - Gel Pens
Alphabets - Smile Attack Gleam Force
Alphabets - DIAMONDII
Alphabets - claw
Alphabets - oh my stars
Alphabets - magi lash
Alphabets - FINE CHINA
Alphabets - wink practice
Alphabets - Dreamdance special
Alphabets/Phonebooks - brain waves dance hall
Phonebooks - crescent fresh
Alphabets - RAPTOR JAZZ
Alphabets/Phonebooks - cheree (SUICIDE cover)
killd by - on fly
Alphabets - spooky sports mixtape
Alphabets - in it through it
Lil Pompeii - CAPS LOCKD 2046
Alphabets/Phonebooks - cat tats
Alphabets - wink practice
Alphabets - Rory Dog Monster Sleeps Forever
killd by - generation-zebra
Alphabets - alice invents a litte game and alice always wins- - 06 IIi-Ii
killd by - afterlife on loop / colin ferguson ward - stand up demo reel (4 reel)
killd by - kiss over glass
killd by / DJ pooLsiDe - 13 x 13x
killd by - out of your head
killd by & entrancer - untitled
Alphabets - R’s synth gift to use
killd by - cant stand still
Alphabets - [HIDEOUSMEN} TALONS
Alphabets - They Live (Dawn Mall Remix)
Alphabets - Magic Knives at the Equator
Alphabets - Untitled
killd by - apt11ii
Alphabets/Phonebooks - let go of stress

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Dedication - For Colin Ward

What Say Who Be Will To (prod. The Shirt Pocket Commission)

from the upcoming Illingsworth album "You're No Fun" on Mello Music Group September 28th.

You're No Fun Mp3

You're No Fun

Illingsworth - Peeves (feat. Open Mike Eagle)

New tunes by: Christopher Whitley, Less Bells, Yuto Ohashi, Anthené, WIZARD APPRENTICE, Nursalim Yadi Anugerah, Julian Abraham Togar, African Ghost Valley, Babe, Terror, Two Hands, One Engine, Max Ananyev, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Little Wings.

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Tome to the Weather Machine Podcast 040

First single from upcoming album The Shoulder You Lean On

Produced by: J. Kelr
Lyrics and Vocals by: Rich Jones

Cover photo: Katie Levine

www.richjonesmusic.net

If I’d had it my way
I’d be half way across the globe
Living off the road
Making friends everywhere I go
But you know plans
They never go as you want
Stuck inside my woes
Stuck inside my haunts

Ain’t nothing doing
But
Ain’t nothing better
Easy as we do it
I’m yours
Especally in the winter
Hiding out together  
Ain’t nothing better
I’m whole

No coin to toss
Won’t chance my love to games
No coin to toss
Won’t chance my love to games

If I’d had it my way
I’d be way too removed
From all the things I love
All the friends who saved my soul
Cause you know plans
They never go as you want
Can save you from a disaster
And put love into my heart

Ain’t nothing doing
But
Ain’t nothing better
Easy as we do it
I’m yours
Especally in the winter
Hiding out together  
Ain’t nothing better
I’m whole

No coin to toss
Won’t chance my love to games
No coin to toss
Won’t chance my love to games
No coin to toss
Won’t chance my love to games
No coin to toss
Won’t chance my love to games

No Rap Forgiveness Freestyle

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