Written by Liam Sternberg

Not for sale or download

Remix produced by Rich Lane to play at The Evil Acid Barons Weekender in Devon, late May Bank Holiday 2023.

Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian (Rich Lane Acid Barons Cotton Dub)

Suck My Disco

Suck My Disco (DJ Minx Remix)

Velocity

Outlaw

Suck My Disco (Extended Mix)

Turbulence

Introducing the latest DGTL Records release Captain Mustache & Shubostar - 'Echoes of Dolphins'. Deep rhythms, cosmic vocals and soulful energy, handcrafted for the afterhours. The collaboration between Captain Mustache & Shubostar is a project that pulls you in and keeps you there. Perfect for dim lights, city nights and everything in between. Out now, hit play and drift off.

DGTL051: Captain Mustache & Shubostar - 'Echoes Of Dolphins' (Radio Edit)

MJ Complex

Gonçalo Mental Help Dub Mix 126

Jonasclean & Omeria - Satellite (Original Mix)

Blood and Bone is a reckoning set to rhythm—an album built where the body meets myth, where memory scrapes against metal, and survival grows teeth. Its sonic palette threads drum-machine pulse through dust-bitten guitars, twang through circuitry, and flamenco flicker through industrial grit. Every track lives in the tension between ruin and insistence, between a world that shakes with fire, violence, wind, and destiny, and a narrator who keeps stepping forward anyway. The project treats rhythm not as a backdrop but as a heartbeat you can almost hear splitting, mending, and refusing collapse.

Across this landscape, the human form is battered, unmasked, hunted, resurrected, and set ablaze—but never surrendered. The music leans into acoustic grain, the sweat-salt of live strings, the grit of surf twang and outlaw twine, yet plants those textures in a scaffold of relentless electronic precision. What emerges is a bruised hymn to endurance: techno carved out of earth, alt-country scorched into myth, psychobilly swagger sharpened by war and weather. Blood and Bone doesn’t seek redemption so much as it chronicles the cost of staying alive when the elements, the mountains, the inner voices, and the gods all stare back—and demand a response.


Every Pulse a Sun

Here is a bootleg remix which I made for my live set on Beats In Space last September. It was only a very rough edit at the time, just the modular squawking away. But here it is after some care and attention, all finished, and downloadable.

You can watch a (sort of) video I made for the track here: https://rex.lnk.to/grooveytSo 

Listen back to the Beats In Space show in full here: https://rex.lnk.to/rexbisSo
http://rexthedog.net

Groove Is In The Heart - Rex The Dog Beats In Space Bootleg

Once upon a time, in a galaxy not far away, there lived two kings. Each was the ruler of his own deliciously glorious planet. The first king, Manchildblack, was well known throughout the cosmos for his ethereal vocals, celestial sonics and earthy musical messages. The other king, Monstah Black, was a star in the solar system for his gravity defying performances, gender​ bending fashions and spacey disposition. One magical night, an inexplicable ultra​magnetic pull forced the two planets to collide. A technicolored explosion occurred, turning night into day, with a feast of aural and visual delights. It was then that the universe was changed forever. Manchildblack and Monstah Black united and became The Illustrious Blacks.

With inspiration from extra terrestrials like Prince, David Bowie, Grace Jones, Boy George and George Clinton, The Illustrious Blacks have arrived with a mission to fuse futuristic funk, hypnotic house and cosmic pop into pulsating positivity for the planet. The real life married couple are not only co​-pilots on their artistic voyage, but are united in their fantastical journey through life.

In 2017, The Illustrious Blacks released their highly anticipated debut EP, NeoAfroFuturisticPsychedelicSurrealisticHippy, on Concierge Records. The EP features the high energy single "Blast Off," the seductive "Red Light," the thought provoking "Delusions of Grandeur" and the anthemic "Black Like Jesus." In the same year, the dynamic duo also found time to work with producer Nickodemus on a remake of the 90s dance floor classic "Funk That!," which spawned a popular music video. 

The acclaimed duo found even more praise for their epic live shows, which fuse music, dance, theater & fashion as the ingredients to expand minds, shake bootys and save the world one beat at a time. Toward the end of summer 2017, The Illustrious Blacks landed their electrifying live show, Hyperbolic, for a three month residency at the legendary Joe's Pub at The Public Theater. 

If their music and live shows are meant to elevate you into the stratosphere, then The Illustrious Blacks radio show, "On Air w/The Blacks," is an opportunity to experience their inner space. The entertaining and often hilarious weekly series invites listeners onto the mothership of the charismatic couple, where they discuss the latest happenings in global pop culture on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York.

Individually, Monstah Black and Manchildblack illuminate the galaxy with equal magnitude. Together, as The Illustrious Blacks, they have combined their powers and metamorphosed into supernovas, blazing through the Milky Way like a comet, with their own unique brand of cosmic freak nobility.

Booking Info:
Asia and Australia to Marc@FMLY.asia  // +62 (0) 812 36549786 
All other inquires to Abby at theillustriousblacks@gmail.com

Suck My Disco (Extended Mix)

The Illustrious Blacks

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