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Deep Puddle Dynamics - Heavy Ceiling

“Something They Don’t Know” contains twenty four samples. We will send a free, one-of-kind, edition-of-one, Clipping t-shirt to the first fan who can name them all. (Note, this count does not include the samples from CLPPNG which appear in the scratch solo.)

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something they don't know (ft. sb the moor, nocando, open mike eagle, and cuts by baseck)

Release Date: Feb 18th, 2008

For many, the current state of alt. Hip-hop has been, well, rather sad lately. It’s heroes either burned out or gone astray.  The ideology that filled so many notebooks with raps, now feels a bit mainstream; the music that moved so many young men with backpacks, now somehow stale. The labels that brought so much awesome music now, like so many, struggling to keep their heads above water. Some have said the movement is dead, but we know better. Hip-hop is something that can never die, and especially not now, when the world seems to be more screwed up than we thought it could be. 

So it comes as our extreme pleasure to offer to you today what we think will be one of the most groundbreaking debut full-lengths in recent memory. Food For Animals, straight outta Washington DC, this power trio (Vulture V, Ricky Rabbit, aided now by Hy on vocals) deliver their first full-length full of busted speaker beats, bizarre noise-soundscapes and slammin raps delivered with every bit of force like the hurricane they fly through. 

When Chuck D said “bring the noise” he had no idea noise like this was possible. The music, a combination of raw digital noise, elephant size beats, samples of everything from jazz to top-40 twisted, distorted, and distorted again. It’s loud as hell. It’s the noise music people spoke of in the 30’s. 

Belly is a statement. A manifesto. A record that screams- literally- and pushes the listener around, it’s tough as hell, raucous, and actually might mean something in the long-term. 

14 Swampy (Summer Jam)

from the upcoming "A Special Episode of" - EP (2/3)
prod. by lo-phi / mastered by Brian "Big Bass" Gardner


Open Mike Eagle - Raps For When It's Just You And The Abyss

Michal Menert's debut solo album "Dreaming of a Bigger Life" is available for free at prettylightsmusic.com. 

The Ratio (co-produced by Paul Arnaud Brandt)

Souleance, c'est le duo composé de Fulgeance (Musique Large / MPM) et de DJ Soulist (What the Funk). Depuis la sortie de leur premier EP, Le Monde, en 2009, ils se sont forgés une solide réputation en se réappropriant de manière très personnelle rythmes soul et electro. Comptant parmi leurs fans, Gilles Peterson, Danny Breaks ou Mr Thing, leur premier album, La Belle Vie, a couronné 3 ans de beat-making et de concerts.
Alors que d'autres producteurs se seraient reposés sur leurs lauriers après un premier album, Souleance est retourné rapidement en studio produire La Beat Tape. La variété des styles de cette beat tape est la clef et Souleance ne déçoit pas.
On y retrouve des musiques turques traditionnelles ("Sauce Samurai"), un orgue Hammond funk ("L'Insouleance"), des extraits de western hallucinés ("Tout Doux"), du jazz trouble ("Kipseli Street Interlude"), des rythmes fantômes ("Strongest love"), des mélodies hip-hop cuivrées flamboyantes ("Como Estan Bitches"), des synthés 80iess ("Cocktail Time")...
BOOKING: francois@lestontonstourneurs.com www.lestontonstourneurs.com
INFO: sri@firstwordrecords.com | aly@firstwordrecords.com
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Following on from the success of their debut LP 'La Belle Vie' from earlier this year, the French duo have been busy in the studio producing La Beat Tape. 20 tracks deep, the release is aimed squarely at the DJs, with a succession of guaranteed party-starters. This is rounded out with some typically quirky interludes, jazzy beat excursions and blissed out trip hop.
Souleance are producer Fulgeance (Musique Large / One Handed Music) and DJ Soulist (What The Funk Paris?). Since releasing their debut EP (Le Monde) back in 2009, they have built a solid reputation for their idiosyncratic take on modern beats. With fans including Gilles Peterson, Danny Breaks, Lefto and Mr Thing, their debut album was the culmination of 3 years of beat-making, touring, partying and drinking too much Pimms. Whilst other producers would rest on their laurels after releasing their debut, Souleance got straight back into the studio to produce La Beat Tape - their sole aim to create tracks that they would DJ with themselves. The result is 20 tracks of pure dancefloor fire peppered with a smattering of chilled, lounge tracks in classic Souleance style.
Like any classic beat tape, variety is the key, and Souleance do not disappoint. La Beat Tape takes in heavy Turkish breaks (Sauce Samourai), Hammond funk (L'insouleance), tripped out western cinematics (Tout Doux), brooding jazz (Kipseli Street Interlude), Shadow-esque breaks (Strongest Love), Just Blaze-style horn-heavy hip hop (Como Estan Bitches), 80s synth-hop (Cocktail Time) and much much more.
The release is available as a budget-priced download with a limited edition 7" containing four tracks that we feel will be most useful for the DJs. With artwork by long-term collaborator Alice Dufay, it's sure to join their previous vinyl releases as a genuine collectors item.
For more information or to interview Souleance contact:
<b>sri@firstwordrecords.com</b> or <b>aly@firstwordrecords.com</b>

05. Tout Doux

Monsters Eating People Eating Monsters...

Where's Your Reality?

I WAS IN THE THROES OF ROME WITH GOAT'S LEGS, 
CLIP CLIP CLOP, IT WAS MISFIT O'CLOCK,   
WILL IT BE THE BATTY IN THE BELFRY
 OR WITCHES IN THE POND, IF YOU VISIT PICK AN IMAGE AND RESPOND,  BLISTER IN THE SUN,
KISS IT WITH YOUR TONGUE,
 LISTEN EVERY LITTLE SIGNAL HAS BEEN CRIMINALLY SPONGED  
OR MOLESTED BY A SYMPHONY OF THUMBS,   
AND EVENTUALLY NEGLECTED,
 HERE IS HOW THE SYMMETRY WAS WON,
-4THQUARTER IT'S INFINITY TO NONE,
-ARMS HUNG THROUGH THE PILLORY, 
AND SWUNG TIL THE HICKEY  AND THE GUILLOTINE ARE ONE, LITERALLY, CALLING ALL HEARTWORMS BACK 
TO THE CAN FROM WHENCE YOU CAME JITTERY AND DRUNK,
GET A GRIP ON THE IMMEDIATE BELITTLING, 
TRIGGERED FROM A VITIATED BRAIN 
THAT COULDN'T MEDIATE THE LITTLE THINGS, 
WAIT...STRANGER DANGER,
YOUR NAMES ESCAPE  ME IN A BLAZE OF MANGA, 
WHEN THE CEL-SHADES FADE AND CANCEL,  
ALL THE RAIN'S MADE OF ANVILS, 
YOU SHOULD START A BAND CALLED "THE STAND STILLS",
 ...PITTER PATTER ANTENNAE, ANTLERS,
ANIMATED MAN HAMMERED INTO CANNED SHAMBLES
AND EVERYONE IS NUZZLED IN THE BOSOM OF THEY HANDLERS,  
WATCH: CAN  I GET A GAMBIT OR NOT? NOT.DANG, FINALLY MET HIS WATERLOO AND WHAT ARE YOU, THE RECREANT WHO WOULDN'T CUT A TOOTH, HERE'S PROOF
Know that to know this
Strictly shark tank shit

to throw it son, stoned, frozen, low the omen
 in the blued out and hopened up above my Oakland knowing
No gods touch what no gods clock
cuts a killer free type locked
Been bent seen all my keyholes clot
With stern earnest
and anti matter a me worded
Ten hard in the blast furnace
Of last and a sole purpose
Berserked of  make
Dropping the safe
On this wink of awake under date…in a yolk
beside a blank for your signature
Isn’t the business a dead heading a customer bit of a 
undoing a kidd by the 
dreamstem its them and aes back to put the heroes to tests
Then give em something to trace
they fear where we best
Ears can get  stretched, heads we  will touch
With the undoable deathproofable eye tooth and a shiv out a luck
Believein-in lead leaver, the-mean-it-reaper, a day eater,
Who’ll break fever, contract, sheep or a  dive speaker
In the name of the ant and the seeker
Bane of the can’t and the weaker
doing his dutiful ether
nothing but justice
death loves this,
and life pets it
to illuminate aaaayyythang this side of the exit
quit hushing the thunder in you,
teeth up blood out
 shark what you’re slumbering through
or regret it…

know that to know this…
you can buy your time, I’ll hunt mine…


I COMMIT TO A SEQUENCE OF GESTURES
SIDE EFFECT OF A DEEP-END DIMENTIA
I COMMIT TO A SEQUENCE OF GESTURES

know that to know this 
we’re cutting it open and have chosen to  throat it to the shark tank that wrote it…

I COMMIT TO A SEQUENCE OF GESTURES
LIGHT THE WICK AND APPREHEND OFFENDERS
I COMMIT TO A SEQUENCE OF GESTURES

OFF of themselves "the FREE Houdini"...

themselves ft. AesopRock "Know that to know this"

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