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Prime Ape Got the Blues

Trash-Hop is the new 'it'!

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HELP US OUT!
THE ALBUM'S BACK IN STOCK!
Debut album out now!

Album title: "It's Not Easy Being A Digital Being"
Format: CD LP, Gourmé! Records, 2008
Tracklist:
01 Ain't But One Kind of Blues - 01:16
02 Baggage - 05:13
03 Kewl Wit it - 06:43
04 Micromantic - 04:32
05 Wassup! - 05:15
06 A Good One Percent - 06:42
07 Monkey Boy Wit A Chain 'Round His Wrist - 04:44
08 All I Have is My Spit - 06:21
09 My Last Complaints - 06:58
10 My Happy Valentine - 04:55
11 Funeral (interlude) - 02:36
12 Deal Wit the Devil - 06:44
Total runtime: 1:11:17 (That's right, the numbers don't add up! We'll let you find out why yourself.)
Score: 8/10 - HighBeamReviews
"..This is hip-hop. Not the rap-pop garbage that's dominating the so-called hip-hop scene.. ..I really hope this helps hip-hop make a real comeback. In an age where the only real hip-hop artists tend to get ignored in favor of gimmick-riding rappers, Prime Ape Got The Blues is a welcome relief.."(click here to read the whole review)
Additional info on where to buy "It's Not Easy Being a Digital Being":
CdBaby.com
Klicktrack.com
Kulturbutiken.com
Bengans
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Bio etc:
" The Pantera of Hiphop. Hardcore razorblade blues. Crossfading between 80's Castlevania synths and 70's rock in a flipped landscape of drums and noise. - I made a deal wit the devil for these rap skills, so wassup!" - Shu' 2008
Summation: Formed in 2005 as a co-lab between friends, with three members, one shadow-lurking MC and one low-key producing duo. One of the producers soon deserted the project and in doing so created a new duo out of the two remaining members; Shuriken and Nois etc.
Cut off by the ankles: With five tracks created (more or less the first half of the album), recorded and mixed "Prime Ape" suffered a great loss, when, in Oct. -06 the recording studio chosen to be the home of creation for their first LP was broken in to, and all tracks plus loads of pre-production material was lost. Since the tracks had been developing for over a year and were of a very personal nature, to the duo, this was a serious back blow and a real confidence shatterer. The "Prime Ape" got the blues, literally.
Three Months Later: The duo is back in the game, recreating the album, from beginning to end, more furious and loaded with negativity than ever.
The follow up: Racing against time, the LP took form somewhere in the deep forests of middle Sweden. Rapping and producing were the two key words in the lives of the two band members thru out the following year and as the light in the end of the tunnel started to grow stronger the duo kicked in the high gear and went for the price. Still, in the endless tradition of set backs, the record was delayed further more due to several DJ drop outs, and left Nois no other option then to skip the scratch parts of the album and re-produce parts of it.
The present: Prime Ape Got the Blues’ debut album “ It’s not easy being a digital being” is now in stores!
Please check the blog for more info on the exact where abouts of the duo at this time.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/15/2007
Band Website: chainsawbaby.com/pagtb
Band Members: Shuriken - Raps, words and brawls
Nois etc - Noise and rythms, programming and live instrumentation

Influences: "Prime Ape Got the Blues" is a project spun from various brainstorming sessions and discussions about life, love and music, often from a humorous and sometimes philosofical point of view.
Sounds Like: Hopefully like nothing else. But just to be shure: Namedrop, namedrop, namedrop!

Record Label:
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Awesome new review!

Check out this awesome new review of our album "It's Not Easy Being A Digital Being" --> HERE! Thanks to Andrew at HighBeamReviews for the awesome score 8/10!...
Posted by Prime Ape Got the Blues on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:42:00 PST

IN STORES NOW!

.. our debut that is.The release was actually last week, but we experienced a delay of 5 days 'cause of a mix up in the mail. The cd's were hangin' out in some warehouse... *going postal*We can finall...
Posted by Prime Ape Got the Blues on Tue, 27 May 2008 07:39:00 PST

The LP is finally being printed!

After many if's and but's the LP is finally at the printers down in the UK. The delay has been delayed and the delayed delay has been pushed forward for too long now, but we're finally in production....
Posted by Prime Ape Got the Blues on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:57:00 PST

We need your help!

Late nights and raeserbajs! No - but seriously.Working around the clock at the moment, the album'll be pressed in a few weeks. "INEBADB" is nbr 2 on our(Gourmé!) priority list right now, which doesn't...
Posted by Prime Ape Got the Blues on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:41:00 PST

P3 Lab, Tors 7:e 22.03 !

The air date has been changed to Feb 7th. Tune in!
Posted by Prime Ape Got the Blues on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:34:00 PST

The first album review!

Check out the first ever Prime Ape Got the Blues album review (in swedish) at www.justdet.seVery posetive.Corrections though: Nois is called Nois etc, not just Nois. Well Nois is a shortage for Nois e...
Posted by Prime Ape Got the Blues on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:52:00 PST

Yao!

Just listened thru the mastered album, and yea, I'm satisfied!Goin' of to the printers any day now! A fly trash-hop rekkerrd with a touch of vinyl comin' up!/NoisPS. Shu! Thanks for givin' me total fr...
Posted by Prime Ape Got the Blues on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:04:00 PST

Its finnsihed

yea, the album is finnished. The mastering is completed. Haven't yet heard the results but i guess I trust my old sound-engineer teacher to do a good job. he's a pro. Its gonna be the flyest shit evva...
Posted by Prime Ape Got the Blues on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 05:01:00 PST

Haleluja!

Well, after many if's and but's we finally agreed to skip the Dj-part, no scratching. The record has been redone, atleast the parts where the scratch was supposed to be. And we are off to the masters...
Posted by Prime Ape Got the Blues on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:55:00 PST

New Album and Side Projects

While waiting for some additional stuff + mastering of the finished album we've started planning the next LP + a smaller project, something 'round the size of an EP.I (Nois) have done a heap load of d...
Posted by Prime Ape Got the Blues on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:41:00 PST