CZARFACE / 7L & Esoteric

Brand-new remix of CZARFACE's song "Bizarro", from their 2019 vinyl release "The Odd Czar Against Us".

Vocals by Esoteric & Inspectah Deck.
feat. 7L, Tom Segura & Christina P.
Production by Matt Reyes of TYPE 4.

Original version here: https://youtu.be/DmKY9mg6Fl8
https://czarface.com
https://www.type4music.com

Make sure to hit your local record shop on Saturday April 23rd 2022 for Record Store Day and pick up your copy of the brand-new CZARFACE vinyl LP "CZARMAGEDDON!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADkCXsP8C_Q

Bizarro

Bizarro (Molecular Mass remix by Matt Reyes of TYPE 4)

Original version here!

CZARFACE - "Bizarro" (Molecular Mass Remix By Matt Reyes Of TYPE 4)

In 1996 7L & Esoteric (known at the time, with third partner Karma, as God Complex) came out to record one of their first songs at my home studio in Medford.  The first session consisted of finding and fooling around with loops and beats, and much freestyle fooling around on the mic with a friend who happened to be with them, Nabo The Jedi.  A week later the guys came back, sans Nabo, and dropped their final vocals and cuts, I ran a quick mix onto DAT for them, and that was it.  I wouldn't even say I "produced" it, merely recorded and engineered and mixed it, chiming in with some creative suggestions here and there.  But they wanted to keep it simple and direct, so that mix was what ended up on their first vinyl release (https://youtu.be/TKRO-uCmy_M). God Complex would soon refine itself without Karma into simply 7L & Esoteric, Nabo would go on to be Nabo Rawk of the Porn Theatre Ushers, and I threw myself single-mindedly into producing for TYPE 4 for the next 20 years.  But I always had this track in the back of my head, with a desire to go back in and remix it with a slightly more intricate (more "me") style of production and arrangement.  It wasn't until 2018 that I finally got around to it.  Luckily I still had the original ADAT masters, along with other source material like the VHS tape upon which was their oft-used "Strontium 90" voice sample, and also a cassette tape onto which I had run recordings of those first fun freestyle sessions.  It is from those tapes that I grabbed the Nabo freestyle verse with which I close out this remix; one of several little production in-jokes I threw in to keep the project fun for myself.  I hope you will also enjoy this 2018 spin on a formative slice of 90s Bostonian hip-hop history. Thanks for listening! - Matt Reyes

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After decades of recording and touring, and many turbulent ups and downs, Bostonians TYPE 4 are still going strong.  They've never let go of that golden age of hip-hop, still digging through vinyl for musical samples, and digging through life for lyrical stories.  Tommy O'Deed, Matt Reyes & Bill Ierardi make hip-hop for grownups, the old fashioned way: for the love of it.