SHIT IS MAD REAL!
Neferiu Records has joined forces with the dynamic duo from the mecca Edmonton, Touch and Nato and to celebrate, they blew the bank!
Don’t wince! It was money well spent!
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This is one of those stories where the Neferiu boys are either crazy as shit or smart as hell. Either way, they make wicked music, are now down to set trends and I love it. Read the press release below.
Neferiu Records, Western Canada’s groundbreaking hip hop and electronic music label, announce a formatting change designed to separate them from the hordes of music labels competing in today’s digital age. Henceforth, all releases on Neferiu Records will be exclusive to the 8-track format. Neferiu believes that by embracing this technology, unfairly marginalized by big box electronics stores and corporate digital age distributors, they will gain cult status, and differentiate themselves format-wise, just as they have content wise.
Nathan Schmold, the main mind behind Neferiu Records, explains, “It’s a bold step, I know, but the truth is: now that everything is digital, music has become so impersonal. It’s essentially a disposable resource – people’s attention spans to new music is almost non-existant. Unless someone else is telling them how dope something is, there’s no way they’ll pay attention long enough to find out for themselves.”
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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
“Satelle is the place beyond the dreams, where the darkness gathers.”
With a delicate minimalist aesthetic, Jon Bushaway AKA Zebrabook has composed a meditative chant of an ambient album with “Satelle”. Picking some of the finest pieces from his vast catalogue of work spanning hundreds of tracks and countless side projects, including collaborations with spoken word artists, and instrumental off-shoots, Zebrabook’s “Satelle” brings a blurry audio polaroid of a rich-yet-sleepy cinematic dreamworld to our ears. Please enjoy!
Via Neferiu Records
