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Prinzenallee (bleubird and Jayrope) ”Don’t Let Nerds Take Over Your Life”

File under: Sidetracked Hiphop, Rap, Noiserock, Electronic

Prinzenallee is the super – psycho -hyper -interdimensional hybrid of Florida born, international underground alt – rap noise legend bleubird (vocals/noise) and musical back flips and electro – mechanical morphs of producer / musician / alchemist Jayrope. Named after the street in a West German / Turkish ghetto utopia in Berlin we’re they lived and recorded in 2008, ‘Don’t Let Nerds Take Over Your Life’ was born out of their mutual disdain for music they do not hear on the radio. The 10-track debut release “Don’t Let Nerds Take Over Your Life” was released Oct. 28, 2009 in Asia on Granma Music and is available on CD and 10″ vinyl on Endemikmusic.com.The album features contributions from Irina Artamonova and Amel Mathlouthi as well as remixes by Scott Da Ros, INSTRUMENTS and Neil Carlill (Vedette) Prinzenallee’s ”Don’t Let Nerds Take Over Your Life” is available now through Endemik Music.

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prinzenallee-whoo-(jayrope_rough_mix).mp3
Prinzenallee – Whoo
Note from Jayrope: This version of Whoo is not on any album release. It’s my first rough mix, before we finalmixed at Bridge and Tunnel Mobile in Berlin. It doesn’t sound worse or so, just has a different approach in mixing the otherwise same music. Bit more rough, bit more punch.

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The Wack Blog: ”Don’t Let Nerds Take Over Your Life” is more than a rap, or a rock, or an indie record. How would you describe the record to a stupid interviewer asking you how you would describe the record as the very first question?

bleubird: It’s an audio indoor water park in the winter, with a heated wave pool and a free beer/youth fountain. It’s jack-in-the-box with avocados minus the stigma of death, it’s a 24 hour candy shop with a dental plan.

Jayrope: It’s audible doodlepunz. Sometimes with a tiny bit of erm erm depth.

”Don’t Let Nerds Take Over Your Life” has a very heavy and distinctive hi-quality / lo-fidelity sound. Can you shed some light on the, production, recording and mixing processes?

J We sampled Betty, when she travelled with the Martians. Police sirens, fifteen times an hour, at 4 a.m. Chopsticks. Ductamp. Guitars need always have pickup on top of strings. Overmiking, using not so carefully selected equipment. Test it, sounds good, record right away. That was too loud! Good. Can you try rhythmical speak-sing a bit more relaxed, and dark? Nah okay, doesn’t work. I can’t play that percussion again, either. Mark, please don’t kill that resonance, even if mastering complains. Sorry can’t talk atm, we’re working on something. Oh honey, you need materials for school? Damn, i’m broke. Should have kept those old strings. Yes, i love you, too. I think, this hard disk will die soon. …it’s dead already. Hmm. I feel relieved now. Queen played drums on us. Thank you, Irina, that was killer good. Three lyrics written in a different place, at a different time, now on one track, perfectly complementing each other. There’s no making sense, it’s brains constructing this, and always perfectly reliable under all circumstances. Giggling in a dark corner. Wait, my vampire needs kill zombies. Please kill my character data. The Ibook works flawlessly, when attached to a table surface with a clamp. Board break. She can do beautiful things, i just don;t understand how. At noon, Jeff came in and said: Nymphomation, everybody! Laserdave. Nofuckingwebsite dot com. This is completely overdone, let’s take it apart.
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calgary zoo – two blue apes wreak havoc

File under rap / boom bap / soul / funk / indie

Calgary, Alberta to Vancouver, BC transplant producer / rapper Planit aka The Dirty Sample is on a serious roll. Canada’s hottest up and coming producer, for obvious reasons, and for even more you’re baby ears may not realize. The Dirty Sample is a dope emcee who’s turntablism based production style is a mix of old soul and crunchy boom bap. A gritty flow rooted in witty, confessional storytelling and a preference for rich, sample based, slightly dark, but neck snapping production. Equally impressive is the tense and urgent mood that ‘Two Blue Apes’ manifests and maintains from start to finish. Incorporating random vinyl and movie clips to root the projects flow and momentum. The attention and development of detail in ‘Two Blue Apes’ is a refreshing change from the latter of the homogenized norm.

Imaginations Treetrunk’s Chadio flows like your mom watching a Tom cruise movie on the banger ‘Wake up’. ‘Hunting cats’ is shit your pants dope with a Madlib kind of bump producers cream all over themselves to get. The albums best song and beat are a dirty sample solo ‘Time To Get Ill’. A wicked homage to wildin’ out a little too much on the liquid courage. Planit raps ‘I don’t drink often, but when I do, I unleash.’ A close second would be ‘Visions part 2′ featuring Cam the Wizzard. Both emcee’s kill a simple, but effective beat with dope verses. If you’re not a Cam the Wizzard fan I will not hesitate to punch you in the face.
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Alberta producer Metawon comes out swinging on progressive BC based hip-hop/electronic label Neferiu, with his new compilation album ‘Choplifter’.

Cam the Wizzard in his seemingly effortless flow and trademark baritone rap’s ‘people eating people, and then those dead people get back up’ on the albums best track, ‘Zombie Apocalypse’. A wickedly nerdy concept, brilliantly executed. Royal – T delivers with a sweet K-Os diss and solidify’s his status as the lost Fu-Schnick. The father of Edmonton rap, Touch is on a ‘Real Sirius’ mission destroying a dark, floating, wireless apocalypse. The clinically insane Lexington and Whatevski (Calgary, AB) rape the tense, operatic audioscape and crispy drums of ‘Best Western Medicine’ and ‘Real Ill’ ft. Planit is exactly what the title promises. Ghettosocks’s smooth-daddy-delivery on ‘Right on Time’ proves too much for Jeff Spec, and Treetrunk Imaginations Chadio and Azrael trade dope verses over an airy, synthy boom-bap beat on ‘Discriminating Tastes’. Just B really gives ‘er, but winds up getting pinned to the mat by the dopest beat on the album ‘Joy and Pain’ Read More

We go out of our way at thewackblog to avoid groups just like this one we’re not avoiding right now. Even though Die Antwoord (Die Antwoord are lead rapper NINJA (ex Max Normal), YO-LANDI VI$$ER and DJ HI-TEK.), a brand new South African band stinks like corporate agenda, fuck is Enter the Ninja an awesome video. Concept through execution. Futuristic chav ninja rap, to phat beats and dolops of no holds barred chutzpfah. This video has the same feeling as the hose scene in Julien Donkey Boy, or the incest scene in Oldboy. Check the white mice everywhere in the dark shots.

Thanks to UGSMag for this one!