Experimental mixtape. Nine brand new songs in one 30-minute track. All beats jacked from Dungeon Family (Goodie Mob, Outkast, Cool Breeze, etc.) songs. Mixed by Big Cats.

1. Chill Touch
2. Knock
3. Fireball
4. Crushing Despair
5. Raise Dead
6. Chain Lightning
7. Prismatic Spray w/ Homeless, Heidi Barton Stink, Tony the Scribe, Kaoz, Just Wulf & See More Perspective
8. Greater Shout
9. Mage's Disjunction

For more info, check out http://www.guante.info/2014/02/guante-dungeons-free-download-thoughts.html

DUNGEONS (full project: nine songs in one track)

Produced by Dave Olson: https://soundcloud.com/daveolson

This is a piece of writing that has meant a lot to me over the years, the closest thing I have to a personal manifesto. It was originally part of a side project, so I’ve pretty much always performed just my own parts solo, and had wanted to build an actual song out of that for a long time. I guess good things take time, because Dave Olson is a musician I’ve liked and respected for 20 years (!) now; someone who was part of the very first community of artists that ever nurtured me, and it really feels special to collaborate with him on this song. Hope you like it.

Music, Mixing, and Artwork by Dave Olson | www.tracksmithaudio.com
Words by Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre | www.guante.info
Vocals Recorded by SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE at Luv 'n' Dedication Studio, St. Paul, MN

Download: https://guante.bandcamp.com/track/matches-olson-remix

Matches (Olson Remix)

Music & Mixing by BIG CATS (@big-cats).

In 2018, Minneapolis-based duo Guante & Big Cats released "War Balloons," an album of anthemic, explicitly political, sci-fi-tinged indie Hip Hop. To mark the five-year anniversary of that project (and its reintroduction to streaming services after being missing for a time), they’re releasing an extended version featuring a brand new track, "Roguelike." More info: https://guante.info/2023/06/17/roguelikesong/

Roguelike (prod. Big Cats)

This is a friends-and-media preview of the album, officially releasing on August 5.

Words by Kyle Tran Myhre
Music by Spencer Wirth Davis
Mixing by Eric Blomquist
Art by Destiny Davison

Never Tell Me the Odds

I Didn’t Believe in the Fight; the Fight Made Me a Believer (feat. b ferguson)

In the Endless Dark of Night, Eating Apples

It’s the End of Their World as They Know It, and I Feel Nothing (feat. Lydia Liza)

Look on My Despair, Ye Mighty, and Work!

Hey There Medusa

Roguelike

Nuke the Whales (feat. Lydia Liza)

Whatever You Do, Don’t Put the Words ‘Climate Crisis’ in the Title

What To Say To The Police

Get this song and the whole album for free at this link: http://guante.bandcamp.com/album/a-love-song-a-death-rattle-a-battle-cry

Produced by Graham O'Brien
Words by Guante
Mixed by Graham O'Brien at Bellows, STP
Art by Rogue Citizen- Matt McGorry: artwork, Lizardman: art direction.

Free Download

A Pragmatist's Guide To Revolution (Graham O'Brien Remix)

A 2014 re-recording of the 2010 Guante & Big Cats song "No Capes" from the album "An Unwelcome Guest." Get this song and the whole Guante sampler album for free at this link: guante.bandcamp.com/album/a-love-so…le-a-battle-cry

Produced by Big Cats
Words by Guante
Mixed by Graham O'Brien at Bellows, STP
Art by Rogue Citizen- Matt McGorry: artwork, Lizardman: art direction.

No Capes (prod. Big Cats) - Remastered

Get the full album here: https://guante.bandcamp.com/album/post-post-race

“White People on Twitter” is the first single from “Post-Post-Race,” the debut collaboration from the Twin Cities’ Guante & Katrah-Quey. Over Katrah-Quey’s disarmingly subtle, contemplative beat, Guante lays out many of the common complaints and evasions from white people whenever the subject of racism comes up, building from a clever, laugh-to-keep-from-crying deconstruction of "All Lives Matter" tropes to a devastatingly serious look at the real-life consequences of those attitudes.

Music: Katrah-Quey: www.twitter.com/kqbeats
Words: Guante: www.twitter.com/elguante
Mixing: Evan Bakke and Graham O'Brien

Find more from Katrah-Quey at @Katrah-Quey

Buy on Bandcamp

White People On Twitter (prod. Katrah-Quey)

Get the full album here: https://guante.bandcamp.com/album/post-post-race

"One Bad Cop" is the second single from “Post-Post-Race,” the debut collaboration from Twin Cities MC/poet Guante and producer Katrah-Quey. Featuring quotable guest verses from G.P. Jacob and Tish Jones, the song tackles not just police brutality in general, but one very specific element of it: how so much of the conversation in media focuses on the specific details of each individual case, while failing to make connections to the broader trends of police violence, institutional racism, and mass incarceration. Like the duo's first single, "White People on Twitter," this song is about digging deeper and striving to think critically-- especially important considering the current #justice4jamar protests growing in the artists' backyard, Minneapolis.

Music: Katrah-Quey: @katrah-quey
Words: G.P. Jacob, Guante, Tish Jones
Mixing: Katrah-Quey and Graham O'Brien

This is the radio edit; the unedited version will be on the album. More thoughts and commentary here: http://www.guante.info/2015/12/new-song-one-bad-cop-by-guante-katrah.html

One Bad Cop (prod. Katrah-Quey) featuring G.P. Jacob, Tish Jones

Produced by Big Cats!  Recorded live on the Current's Local Show.  Big ups to the backing band-- Chris Tures, Mike Ries and Mike Coyne from Dragons Power Up!, Eric Blomquist and Big Cats himself.

Dragons (Live, prod. Big Cats)

A storytelling track.  Kind of about broadening the definition of greed-- it's not just about mustache-twirling bad guys; it's about looking inside ourselves and dealing with the greed in all of us.  Produced by Big Cats.  For more music, videos and more, check out www.guante.info.

Greed (prod. Big Cats)

Guante & Katrah-Quey's "POST-POST-RACE" is available now! http://www.guante.info/2016/03/guante-katrah-quey-post-post-race.html

Music: Katrah-Quey: @katrah-quey
Vocals: Guante and Jayanthi Kyle
Mixing: Katrah-Quey 
Mastered by Huntley Miller

Our Relationship Is A Slowly Gentrifying Neighborhood (prod. Katrah-Quey) featuring Jayanthi Kyle

Guante & Katrah-Quey's "POST-POST-RACE" is available now! https://guante.bandcamp.com/album/post-post-race

Music: Katrah-Quey: @katrah-quey
Vocals: Lucien Parker (@lucien-parker) and Guante
Mixing: Katrah-Quey 
Mastered by Huntley Miller

POST-POST-RACE

Venom (prod. Katrah-Quey) featuring Lucien Parker

Music for the present moment. A 15-minute remix medley of previously released songs and guest verses. Get the full story and lyrics at https://guante.info/2017/07/26/guante-a-furious-vexation-free-download-lyrics/

Recorded, engineered, and arranged by SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE at Luv 'n' Dedication Studio. 

BEATS:
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross: In the Hall of the Mountain King
Gorillaz: Dirty Harry (Gorillaz/Danger Mouse)
Jidenna: Long Live the Chief (Best Kept Secret)
Amy Winehouse: Back to Black (Mark Ronson)
Birdman/Clipse: What Happened to that Boy (The Neptunes)
Method Man: Bring the Pain (RZA)

A Furious Vexation

FIRST SONG FROM THE NEW GUANTE & BIG CATS ALBUM: https://www.guante.info/2018/08/guante-big-cats-war-balloons-album.html

War Balloons MP3s

Fight Or Flight (prod. Big Cats)

FROM THE NEW GUANTE & BIG CATS ALBUM: https://www.guante.info/2018/09/guante-big-cats-you-say-millionaire.html

You Say Millionaire Like It's A Good Thing (Big Cats Remix)

Words by Guante
Produced by Graham O'Brien
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Graham O'Brien at Bellows Studio

Rapper, 2-time National Poetry Slam champion, activist and educator GUANTE teams up with drummer and producer GRAHAM O’BRIEN (of No Bird Sing, Prey for Paralysis, Junkyard Empire) for this remix of one of Guante’s most memorable songs.

We hope you like it.  Any re-tweets, FB posts, tumblr posts and all that are greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

www.guante.info | www.twitter.com/elguante
www.grahamobrien.com | www.twitter.com/grahamob

This Is The Opposite Of A Suicide Note (Graham O'Brien Remix)

From Guante & Big Cats' YOU BETTER WEAPONIZE.

Lightning w/ Chastity Brown

The Invisible Backpacker of Privilege w/ Chantz Erolin, Chris Hooks

Another song from Guante & Big Cats' 2019 release, "War Balloons." Get the whole album: https://guanteandbigcats.bandcamp.com/album/war-balloons

Bumbling Shithead Fascists (prod. Big Cats)

This is a song me and Kristoff wrote for Big Jess' "Honorable Mention" series at DJBooth. Check out the whole project here: http://www.djbooth.net/index/albums/review/big-jess-presents-honorable-mention-volume-2/

Also, check out this line-by-line breakdown of my verse here: http://www.guante.info/2012/10/guante-kristoff-krane-pushing.html

Pushing Boundaries w/ Kristoff Krane (prod. Big Jess)

Guante takes a left turn with this new track, his first musical followup to late 2012's  brooding, political "You Better Weaponize." Featuring the sunny, laid-back production of Katrah-Quey (M.anifest, Toki Wright, more), and a guest spot from Lydia Liza, this remix of Guante's "The Fourth Wall" is a warm, tragicomic ode to balancing day-to-day survival with leaving a legacy.

For more from Guante, check out www.guante.info
For more from Lydia LIza, check out www.bombadeluz.bandcamp.com
For more from Katrah-Quey, check out www.katrah-quey.bandcamp.com and www.soundcloud.com/katrah-quey

Recorded and Mixed by Graham O'Brien at Bellows Studio in St. Paul, MN.

The Fourth Wall (Katrah-Quey Remix) w/ Lydia Liza

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