MIAMI GETS GUTTER AS AARON LACRATE AND MASTA ACE
PERFORM MARCH 28 AT WINTER MUSIC CONFERENCE
On Friday, March 28th, 2008, Miami will go full gutter gluttony as hip-hop hall-of-famer Masta Ace takes the stage alongside Baltimore Club king Aaron LaCrate and Ed Banger's own DJ Medhi to wreck shop at The Florida Room at Delano Beach.
Recently rush released on Delicious Vinyl (and out in the UK on March 31), the Delicious Gutter 12" is already lighting up the lives of those who know. MistaJam, the ruling big beat big man in the UK, has declared the Delicious Gutter version of Young MC's "Know How" his Jam Of the Week (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/mistajam/), Radio 1's Annie Mac is pushing Gutter cuts to her devotees' delight, and L.A.'s rising star Bobby Evans recently laced his legendary open-air "digestif" Sunday dance-off in L.A.'s Elysian Park with Delicous Gutter glory.
"Jeep Ass Niguh" -- originally released on Masta Ace Incorporated's album SlaughtaHouse in 1993 — was a shade-tree rap classic deserving of another look. Now Aaron LaCrate & Debonair Samir — top purveyors of the explosive Baltimore club sound — have bolstered Masta Ace's lyrical command "Don't play when it come to my bass" with hyperkinetic beats fit for today's dancefloor.
As Aaron LaCrate says: "When I was a kid growing up in Baltimore I bought two copies of the clear vinyl 12" of Masta Ace 'Jeep Ass'. I would make mixtapes where one side would be up-tempo club jams and the other side would be golden era hip-hop. So now to merge them into one thing is a dream come true. It's the best of two kinds of party music, and when we take this to Miami we're going to be living proof!"
So if you're dippin' down in the Sunshine State for Miami Winter Music Conference, treat yourself to a night to remember with a live performance by Masta Ace, Aaron LaCrate, and DJ Medhi, and feel the Delicious Gutter love...
Masta Ace and Aaron LaCrate at The Florida Room is a guest-list only event.
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For information on Delicious Gutter contact Kip Kouri: [email protected], 212-226-3792
Delicious Vinyl Proudly Presents
DELICIOUS GUTTER RMXS!!
Club kings LaCrate & Samir reinvent hip-hop classics by Young MC and Masta Ace Inc. Today's boldest club music running riot atop suave vintage rap!! ?
Meld today's most explosive club music with the eternally fresh lyrical styles of golden age rap stars and whaddya get? A stunning high point in the continuum of hip-hop history. Say what? The new DELICIOUS GUTTER release from Delicious Vinyl.
Aaron LaCrate & Debonair Samir — top purveyors of the explosive Baltimore club sound — have stepped to the plate to overhaul classic tracks from Young MC ("Know How") and Masta Ace ("Jeep Ass N$%"). Not only are Young MC's fast-rap rhymes ideally suited to LaCrate & Samir's hyperactive beats, but Masta Ace's lyrical command "Don't play when it come to my bass" has become a mantra for the dancefloor-savvy duo.
As Lacrate says: "When I was a kid growing up in Baltimore I loved Young MC, and bought two copies of the clear vinyl 12" of Masta Ace 'Jeep Ass'.? I would make mixtapes where one side would be up-tempo club jams and the other side would be golden era hip-hop. So now for me and Samir to merge them into one thing is a dream come true. It's the best of two kinds of party music."
Featuring utterly ill artwork? that flips the classic Delicious Vinyl logo in the same way that LaCrate & Samir have re-thunk the original music, the vinyl 12" release is destined to be a must-have for DJs and art collectors worldwide. Also available on CD single and digital download, DELICIOUS GUTTER is a classic example of how Delicious Vinyl and today's hottest artists are going back to the future...together.
The four track release includes:
Young MC "Know How Theme"
Young MC "Know How" (Gutter Remix)
Masta Ace Inc. "Jeep Ass Gutter" (Vocal)
Masta Ace Inc. "Jeep Ass Gutter" (Instrumental)
Available February 26, 2008 on Vinyl 12", CD single and digital download.
DELICIOUS GUTTER is taken from the forthcoming full-length RMXXOLOGY, out this spring. RMXXOLOGY features Delicious Vinyl classics by the likes of Tone-Loc, The Pharcyde, Masta Ace, The Brand New Heavies, and Born Jamericans re-imagined by artists including Peaches, Diplo, Hot Chip, Spank Rock & Amanda Blank, Philippians, Ed Banger's Mr. Flash, and Bobby Evans.
New Signing - Gangsta Rap & their bangin' debut single "House Shoes" !
?F O R? I M M E D I A T E?? R E L E A S E
—GANGSTA RAP BREATHES NEW BREATH INTO GANGSTA RAP—
Formerly Respectable West Coast Rap Label Delicious Vinyl
Confounds Faithful Fans By Releasing Gangsta Rap's The Glockumentary
Every musical genre has one artist that defines it. Grunge had Nirvana.
Django Reinhardt is synonymous with gypsy jazz. And gangsta rap will forever be equated with N.W.A.
Big fuggin' deal. Has there ever a group bold enough to name themselves after their chosen genre?
Get ready busters, because now there is: Gangsta Rap.
Meet Murder Mike, Du-Rag, and DJ Ballistics, three house shoes-wearing cronies from Compton.
Meet Gangsta Rap.
Finger waves, dookie braids, and curl activator are back with a vengeance. Beatdowns, beepers, and A-K spray are here to stay. And Gangsta Rap's The Glockumentary is the album of the year. "Well, it would've been album of the year in 1988," says Murder Mike, Gangsta Rap's jheri-curled giant. "We just couldn't get it put out until 2008."
Lead-off single "House Shoes" (peep the video at http://www.youtube.com/deliciousvinyl) directed by notable cinematic also-ran Coke Daniels, offers fans a malt-liquored taste of what they can witness in gut-churning excess with the movie Gangsta Rap: The Glockumentary (due on DVD from Th!nkFilm on out February 5, 2008). And "House Shoes" — a tribute to those cheap-ass faux-corduroy footwear so beloved in the 'hood — is but one of the eleven songs on The Glockumentary. Consider it a soundtrack that can stand apart from the film that inspired it. It's kinda like Six-String Samurai that way.
"Bitch Stop Lyin", "My Mama's A Bitch" and "N***a N***a N***a" are just three of Gangsta Rap's belowest common denominator tracks designed to puncture teflon-coated eardrums. The Glockumentary makes Parental Advisory Warning stickers seem as inadequate as sandbags on a New Orleans levee. As Gangsta Rap's ruthlessest rapper Du-Rag thoughtfully observes: "Our music is not suitable for children, who are sure to love it."
"I can't possibly see how this is sort of regressive, profane, been-done-before gangsta rap is going to work," one L.A. Times journalist said upon heading into a grossly-underattended listening session for The Glockumentary. An hour later the same hack was headed to the emergency ward, his guts having exploded from laughing so hard. "As long as we put 'em in the hospital," says Du Rag, "I don't care how they get there."
Gangsta Rap was a surprise signing to Delicious Vinyl, the long-respected Los Angeles home to groups like Tone-Loc and The Pharcyde. When asked about the signing, Delicious Vinyl president Michael Ross admitted, "We're officially hemorrhaging credibility like there's no tomorrow." When asked about this dispiriting comment from the head of their label, Du-Rag had this to say: "Hemorrhaging, that means they bleeding right? Cool." And Murder Mike clarified: "What he mean 'like no tomorrow'? There is no tomorrow, fool!"
If that's true, and Gangsta Rap never lives to contribute another opus, well, Du-Rag has but one request:
"When I die put D's on my hearse." Gangsta Rap is gangsta rap. And vice versa.
DV Announces Release of Tone-Loc + Peaches "Wild Thing" 20th Anniversary Version!
KICKING OFF A YEAR OF EVENTS, RELEASES, & GENERAL MAYHEM
Commemorating Delicious Vinyl's 20th Anniversary, DV Announces Release of Tone-Loc + Peaches "Wild Thing" 20th Anniversary Version!
Some marriages are made in heaven. Some get consummated in a booty club. And every once in a very great while...if you're lucky enough... you get both.
Exactly twenty years after the release of Tone-Loc's scandalous rap classic "Wild Thing" - then the fastest selling single in record industry history - Delicious Vinyl is proud to announce the release of a special duet version of "Wild Thing" featuring none other pioneering electro goddess Peaches.
The question on everyone's mind of course, is who's gonna be wearing the pants in this partnership? Tone? Peaches? To which we can only say: What pants?
From the laboratory in her Berlin bunker, Peaches has created a sizzling, bass-laced track, updating the original Matt Dike/Mike Ross production for today's active lifestyles, and adding her own vocals to Tone-Loc's immortal rap. You'll have to hear it to believe it. And even then...
"Wild Thing" will be available in 12" vinyl format (via Traffic Distribution) on November 13. It's sure to be a must-have in the record bags of DJs and an essential download for groovers worldwide. In addition to the main version, the Fontana Distributed CD Maxi Single (like the 12") will include an instrumental version, an acapella, bonus beats, and a special beat box version of the track courtesy of Tez.
This new version of "Wild Thing" had its preview debut at a special party held on September '07 at the revered Tape Club in Berlin, Germany, hosted by Peaches herself. And make no mistake, this release is just the beginning of something very special. Over the next twelve months, Delicious Vinyl will release a full slate of the label's classic records re-imagined by artists including A-Trak, Diplo, Hot Chip, Spank Rock, Bonde Do Role, Ed Banger's Mr. Flash & DJ Medhi onto an unsuspecting public. Of course, that public still fondly remembers Delicious artists whose tunes will be featured, including The Pharcyde, Masta Ace, The Brand New Heavies, Def Jef, and Born Jamericans.
Each release will be available on CD Maxi Single, 12", and will have a special party in a different city to celebrate its release (Stay tuned for more dates and locations to be announced soon). The tracks will be collected on a special Delicious Reimagined full-length album slated for release in 2008.
New FatLip + Tre Hardson aka Slim Kid3 (of The Pharcyde) Song!
DELICIOUS VINYL'S DREAM DUO OF FATLIP & TRE (THE PHARCYDE) UNITE FOR NEW SINGLE
"ALL I WANT 4 XMAS (IS SOMEBODY ELSE)" RELEASED DIGITALLY VIA iTUNES & DeliciousVinyl.com
The holiday season ain't always easy. If it isn't a stocking full of coal or rusty runners on your favorite sleigh, there are the personal relationships that always seem to come up for their year-end review. And, truth be told, sometimes those love troubles that can't be cured by even the biggest bushel of mistletoe.Giving vent to these seasonal pressures is the new single by The Pharcyde's Fatlip and Tre, "All I Want 4 Xmas (Is Somebody Else)". Fresh off their successful autumn tag-team tour of the Western U.S.A., Fatlip and Tre are joined on the single by St. Imey of the Wascals (the group whose shelved masterpiece, the far-sightedly titled Greatest Hits, was released by Delicious Vinyl this year a full 14 years after it was recorded). As all three MCs express their lyrical hope for something better, legendary producer J-Swift (Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde) supplies a blue note filled piano lick and a boot-knocking beat.
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