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Atmosphere - Onemosphere

Sage Francis and Buddy Peace came together to create "Needle" for Sage's 2009 mixtape release: Sick of Wasting: http://tinyurl.com/SageSickOfWasting
Not only did Buddy Peace produce the beat but he lays down an amazing scratch sentence at the end of the song. Beast mode. Limited/autographed CDs of "Sick of Wasting" are available at www.StrangeFamous.com

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NEEDLE - Sage Francis prod. by Buddy Peace

From Prolyphic &amp; Reanimator's "The Ugly Truth" album, available at http://tinyurl.com/UglyTruthLP Survive Another Winter is the first official SFR posse cut featuring B. Dolan, Alias and Sage Francis on vocals. This song is an ode to New Englanders with thick skin. It's also available on vinyl as part of the "Artist Goes Pop" single. The CD version comes with a free instrumental version of the album. 
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SURVIVE ANOTHER WINTER - Prolyphic, B. Dolan, Alias, Sage Francis

P.O.S's Album "We Don't Even Live Here" Remixed & Re-Imagined by Marijuana Death Squads.

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Weird Friends

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Step Brothers - Step Masters

Swollen Members- The Shining

We've had requests for a recording of this version for years at shows, and finally got one worthy of the live energy it creates.  This "Hunter / Paid Dues / Organ Grinder" mashup began as a Buddy Peace & Dan Le Sac live arrangement, got reworked by the new live band and fitted w/ a hellfire outtro, and finally resulted in this recording, performed in front of Boston hardcoah crowd, no less!

Audio is from B. DOLAN's sold out show at the Middle East last November with CIRCLE TAKES THE SQUARE.  The musicians featured here are ADAM SCHNEIDER on guitar, DAN THE GERMAN on backing tracks & Voyager, and BRAD CAETANO on drums.  

B. DOLAN will be touring throughout 2014 in support of HOUSE OF BEES VOL. 3 (due out this summer) and an official LP slated for release in the fall.  All of this begins TOMORROW NIGHT in DENVER, followed by shows in ALBUQUERQUE, DENTON TX and a March 14th Showcase at SXSW alongside Sage Francis, Wheelchair Sports Camp and more.  For full show scheduling and event / ticket links, check here: 
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B. DOLAN w/ LIVE BAND - The Hunter / Paid Dues (Live at the Middle East)

Artist: Madchild (from Swollen Members)
Title: Fresh Air
Album: Banned From America EP
Label: Battle Axe Records

Swollen Members - Fresh Air

This is the original version of "Slow Man" by Sage Francis which was completely reworked and re-recorded over different music for the LI(F)E album: www.tinyurl.com/sageLIFE This version has more of an aggressive feel as well as AN ADDITIONAL VERSE! The legendary Buck 65 produced the beat. Currently available for download at http://strangefamousrecords.bandcamp.com/track/slow-man-stance

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Sage Francis SLOW MAN STANCE (prod by Buck 65)

another mix using the same song by sage Francis but this time a deadmau5 instrumental 

Sage Francis Vs. Deadmau5

Metermaids "ROOFTOP SHAKE" LP available now on CD & MP3 at:
http://tinyurl.com/RooftopShakeLP
Also available on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/rooftop-shake/id453778911

This album features Sage Francis, Buck 65, cuts by DJ Rob Swift and production by 9th Wonder.
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KILL THE CROW - Metermaids w/ SAGE FRANCIS & BUCK 65

This is the Buck megamix from 2007. I'll show you the write-up I made all that time ago, which I put on my Myspace page at the time. Things have changed a lot since then... Anyway, here is some more info straight from 2007:

"...Dang! Here it is y'all. If you've managed to keep up with big Buck's movements this year then you'll hopefully be aware of his stunning new album, due October 30th this year, entitled 'Situation', with the year of 1957 featuring strongly in the album's narrative. With Skratch Bastid at the helm on the production (with a little help from DJ Signify), it's a stunning set with perhaps more of a straight up hip hop sound this time around. The beats and rhymes are just insane, seriously if you enjoy Buck 65 then you'll fall for this without a shadow of a doubt.

I completed this megamix around the start of October for the release of the album, and being something of a Buck librarian since the early days, must have been the first release of Vertex or thereabouts, I've got a fair bit of Buck in my collection so I've always had some ideas about what I might do if I was ever approached with this kind of assignment. So it was such a pleasure to be approached to complete this in an official capacity. I used parts from the 'Situation' as well as bits and pieces from the Buck back catalogue with some rarities and goodies, as well as the odd original sample here and there too. 

Here's the tracklist:

Le 65isme / 15 Minutes To Live / Out Of Focus / Pope / Wicked And Weird / Killed By A Horse / TACHICHI & DJ MOVES : 'Head Up' (featuring Buck 65) / Square 4 / Kennedy Killed The Hat / Bandits / Boom Bip : 'The Unthinkable' (featuring Buck 65) / The Centaur / Situation Intro / Weirdo Magnet Track 20 / Riverbed 1 / Out Of Focus / Sounds From The Back Of The Bus / Square 1 / The Rebel [acapella] / Supper At Sundown / Weirdo Magnet Track 1 / Shutterbug / Shutterbug [acapella] / Pants On Fire / Bachelor Of Science / Hot Lunch / Sage Francis : 'Got Up This Morning' [instrumental] / Mr Dibbs : 'Healthy Serving' / Sebutones : 'Tranquilized Tones' / Weirdo Magnet Track 16 / Cop Shades [acapella] / Buck 65 & Kotep Omegatron : 'Fresh Juice' / Sore / Blood Of A Young Wolf / Square 1 / Diesel Treatment / Sebutones : '05 Pros' / Weirdo Magnet Track 9 / You Know The Science / 65 Buick / On All Fours / Drawing Curtains / 463 / Whitebread / Skill Saw / Memories Of The Passed / Way Back When [acapella] / Dirty Work / The Rebel / Way Back When / Lipstick [acapella] / Lipstick / The Centaur [source music] / Square 1 / Wicked And Weird / Heatwave / Heatwave [acapella] / Red To Black / The Beatific / 1957 / Cop Shades / Heatwave [source music] / Whitebread [acapella]

I guess I'll just leave it there and just remind y'all to keep checking the Myspaces and websites and whatnot, and do NOT miss 'Situation'. I'm very serious.

I made this mix with an MPC2000XL, turntables and CDJ1000."

Buck 65 Megamix ('The 47516 Megamix')

Mainstream mixed with Party In The USA. Inspired by this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4669ozY4faQ

Sage Francis / Miley Cyrus

The "For My Mother" album is available on CD & Vinyl (both signed) at http://tinyurl.com/BigCatsSFR
SFR is offering this single as a free MP3 to help spread the word on this beautiful album, so please download & share! In Big Cats' own words:
"This is a record that I've spent more than two years on. It began on April 29th 2010 when my I lost my mother, Christi, following a 3 1/2 year battle with ovarian cancer. When she was going through chemotherapy, surgeries and countless procedures, she often used music to help her relax and take her mind off of her treatment. When she passed, I knew I wanted to create something in her honor. It seemed only fitting that I create a new album. After all, if it weren't for her, I probably wouldn't be making music today. Growing up, she devoted an incredible amount of time, effort and money to my music. She drove me to lessons, rehearsals, and band practices. She put up with noise at all hours, records strewn around the house, and my tendency to play the largest instruments possible. She was always the first to hear any new music I was working on and give feedback. This album is my eulogy for her." 

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"One" by Big Cats!

"To Young Leaders" is the FREE DOWNLOAD first single from Guante & Big Cats' album "You Better Weaponize" - available on CD & MP3 here: http://tinyurl.com/YouBetterWeaponize

Guante is a rapper, two-time National Poetry Slam champion, activist and educator. Big Cats is a visionary producer and multi-instrumentalist who has worked with Sage Francis, P.O.S., TTxBC and others. Together, they've crafted an album brimming with substantive punchlines, gallows humor and a down-to-earth political edge, all over some of the most gorgeously banging production of the year. Featuring indie-rap visionaries like Toki Wright, Crescent Moon (of Kill the Vultures), Kristoff Krane and more, "You Better Weaponize" is one of the tightest, smartest, most singular projects ever to emerge from the lauded Twin Cities underground hip hop scene. 

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The Full Album is Here

"To Young Leaders" by Guante & Big Cats!

A gift from SFR to you. Thanks for all the support!
This FREE 36 minute mix by UK producer Theory 77 features his remixes of Sage Francis, B. Dolan, Sleep and Metermaids songs. He also lays down a verse of his own amidst a sound collage that is peppered with turntablism, interview samples and more. Artwork by Phil Cooper. STRANGE FAMOUS! 
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"SFR Deathmix" by Theory 77 - FREE MP3

"I am nothing but a shell of the man I once was. You could put me to your ear and year yesteryear's ocean."
Spoken word piece by Sage Francis, recorded live on 90.3 WRIU (2000.) 
Featured on the "Sick of Waging War" mixtape. 
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"Mermaids are Seasluts" - Sage Francis

ZERO DEMO is from the SICK TO D(EAT)H mixtape: http://tinyurl.com/SickToDeathSFR
This a previously unheard version of "I Was Zero" off of Sage Francis' LI(F)E album (www.tinyurl.com/SageLife.) As you'll notice, it ended up being completely re-arranged and reworked by the time it was released in 2010. On this version you will hear the original beat that Buck 65 produced for it as well as an additional Sage Francis verse that was stricken from the album version. The artwork for this single was done by Falside, photo by Anthony St. James. 
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LYRICS:
If it wasn't for the bass, I wouldn't need these hearing aids. 
If it wasn't for mistakes, I probably wouldn't be here today.  
10 years ago I was 22. 20 years ago I was 12. 30 years ago I was 2. 
When I came out my momma I was zero.
 In the before life...I was undead. 
I was home schooled. There were no rules.
 But I gave it all up just for the chance to go public. 
A celestial scarecrow dancing with the puppets.
 A tug in my gut. I'm carrying the world in my stomach. 
I'm a surrogate motherfucker, the girls love it. 
Birth the suffix. Cut the visible string.
 Control is much more than a physical thing. 
Got an analog God and digital king,
An Adonis type bod with such brittle little wings.
I'm not an angel by any stretch of your halo,
But I've done the Lord's work and I'm not even on his payroll.
I stay low and do my dirt on a sea level.
Shoo away the crow while you flirt with the she-devil.
Grow up. You're old enough to know that dreams falter. 
I propose you leave that ego at the alter. 
The pauper and the prince switch roles,
Exchanging tattered clothes and silk robes.
The man behind the curtain at the end of the yellow brick road,
Shows envy for Geppetto and his one inch nose.

If it wasn't for the bass, I wouldn't need these hearing aids. 
If it wasn't for mistakes, I probably wouldn't be here today. 
When I came out my momma I was zero.
I was zero when I came out my momma, now everybody knows…

 I was born into it and before I knew it,
 I saw the students of poor getting hauled off to war. 
It's the law of Judas in the land of king's tax. 
 Partake in the Eucharist and then demand your kick backs.  
Spiritual wrist slap, please pass the sacrament ,
Ask if big, bad, black Jesus was African.  
They're selling a click track but they call it a soul clap.  
It's all in how you package it. The power of a magic trick.  
 Immaculate concepts are lost in the land of the cross. 
I'm standing off with a man of the cloth. 
He knows the ins and outs. All I want is the outs. 
He's selling real estate for some place in the clouds, but...
 I'm not investing in intellectual property,
 I'm inventing gender bending technology.  
'Cause maybe everybody needs to just become a sexual oddity, 
Leaving birth to the test tubes and death to the lottery. 
There's no one stopping me, I've got to be self-regulating.  
Wealth is escalating but my poverty was entertaining.  
Now I'm debating the value of a caste system,   
Cash back rewards and wars funded by my taxed income.
 If I'm a part of the problem then pardon me, 
 There's always been a difference between what I am and what I wanna be.
 It's either Jihadist freak or Jesus scenester. 
I heard God is coming...and she's a screamer. 
I couldn't understand what she was telling me, 
Why everybody thinks that they're their own worst enemy. 
I followed the manual. I swallowed the skeleton key...
And it unlocked the hell in me.  
So this is my gift to God.  Ribbon on my dick, like a tourniquet. Syphilis. 
This is my gift to God.  I'm jumping out the cake. Naked with a shank. 
This is my gift to God.  Unwrap the package. Confetti made of maggots. 
This...is my gift. "Ugh, you call that talent? "
Here's your image back. You can have it.  

10 years ago I was 22.  20 years ago I was 12. 
30 years ago I was 2.  When I came out my momma I was zero.

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SICK TO DEATH mixtape

ZERO DEMO - Sage Francis (prod. Buck 65)

01 Swollen Members - Inception (Darker Side Interlude)

"Death of the Boombox" is an upbeat, throwback posse-cut featuring verses from SAGE FRANCIS and METERMAIDS. This is the latest single from the "Working Man" album by PROLYPHIC & BUDDY PEACE, available now on Strange Famous Records: 
http://tinyurl.com/WorkingManLP
While a majority of the Working Man LP addresses the bleaker issues of working class society, Death of the Boombox provides a playful detour, acting as an old-school throw down over the kind of boombap production that intends on blowing out cheap subwoofers. This isn't a rehashing of the played out "hip-hop is dead" argument, nor is it a eulogy for the revered portable stereos of the past. It is an energetic return to a lost moment in time when sharing music with friends didn't involve an internet connection. Songs were simply blasted throughout the neighborhood from two speakers perched on top of a b-boy's shoulder. "Dig…put your back into it."

Special thanks to Pat Jensen for the "Death of the Boombox" artwork. 

Prolyphic, Metermaids and B. Dolan will all be joining Sage Francis on his NORTH EAST TOUR this weekend! 5/24 NYC (@ Knitting Factory), 5/25 Providence (@ Fete), 5/26 Portland (@ Space Gallery). All info and ticket links are available at http://tinyurl.com/SFRshows

WORKING MAN is available on MP3 and CD (signed) at: http://tinyurl.com/WorkingManLP
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