Kid Called Computer Essentials

Track from "The Art Of Dying" with myself and Sadistik

Ghost in the Machine

Veneer (KCC and Equalibrum)

In The Beginning (KCC and Equalibrum)

IT WILL BE THE DEATH OF YOU

The closing track, The Rabbithole, from Sadistik's new album Ultraviolet out today on Fake Four Records. Sad and I had the idea of starting the song with that feeling of uncertainty. That feeling you have right before you kind of lose control of everything. Then the song travels to the place where you are completely in your head, yet totally out of your mind. Like having a panic attack. After all of that, the dust starts to settle, and you feel drained, and in some way kind of at peace. Spiraling down  the Rabbithole. Being lost, and just letting it happen. One of my favorite songs I have ever done with Sad hands down. We gave it a real 80's vibe as well (which the album kind of has that general tone to it). Terra Lopez (of Sister Crayon) fits perfectly. Almost like another instrument drifting around the sounds building up to the loss of control. She is also one of my favorite female vocalists at the moment. Also, being that it's Sadistik and KCC, we couldn't accomplish all of this without the song being 7 minutes long. Haha. Enjoy!

Sadistik - The Rabbithole (feat. Terra Lopez of Rituals Of Mine)

The Lost And Found- (KCC & Equalibrum)

"Look What This World Did To Us." The command is rhetorical. You're already aware of the echo, the generational discontent and alienation, the whispered and denied calls for absolution. No need to look around, just check your bank account and sigh-or echo Biggie and scream, "fuck the world." 

Or melt into the couch and absorb Red Pill's debut for Mello Music Group-a novel disguised as an album, a surly hymn from poisoned lungs. It's a confirmation of what John Cage once declared: "all great art is a form of complaint." 

Or maybe the better comparison is Bukowski, memorializing the "broken factory windows of emptiness." That makes more sense in Ferndale, Michigan where Red Pill calls home. After college graduation, "Leonard Letdown" started working at a machine shop. A temporary gig turned into a labor daze. The dream of converting music into rent money seemed more elusive by the day. 

Depression compounded. The empty packs of cigarettes turned into cellophane towers. The whiskey mixed with an absence of hope. This album is a signal flare, an escape route, and catharsis. This isn't just hip-hop, this is an attempt to distill the disillusion and cure the hangover. It's both a brilliant mission statement and a jazzy funeral for what was promised but never delivered. 

This is for those who played by the rules only to discover that the game was rigged. This is a toast for those entering their late 20s and still acting like adolescents. It's an anti-Valentine to marriage and mortgages. It offers empathy for those buried under student loan and credit card debt, but who refuse to sink. Even if the smoke rings appear like nooses, this is an artful rebuttal to the nihilism. 

Your favorite song will be determined by what theme you relate to most. Look What This World Did To Us is in league with the best of early Atmosphere or Open Mike Eagle's Dark Comedy, a modern hustle of machinery and migraines. A commemoration of going a quarter century without a foundation and an acknowledgement of the nerves that accompany a future built atop fault lines. These are the late night conversations you have with your friends. The idle nights and empty bottles, the hard questions that come after you realize the world might not be yours.

Red Pill - Meh (prod. KuroiOta)

Dirt Nasty & Mickey Avalon - DOWN UNDA
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/fm_FPOOHDW4

Produced by @smoovbasket

Down Unda

Dirt Nasty & Mickey Avalon - DOWN UNDA

Chicago/Kansas City artist. Owner of Best Kept Recordings and 1/2 of the band Varier.

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