STREAMING // (Album) BLUEPRINT – “Sophisticated Ignorance”
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Track List: Veil, Copycat, Drown, Decay, Thirst For Power, Freedom, Nail In The Coffin, Point The Finger, Y.D.K.M., My Own Way, Fiction
STREAMING // (Video) Armand Hammer X The Alchemist – “Robert Moses” + “God’s Feet”
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Video By: Joseph Mault
Vocals By: billy woods + ELUCID
Produced By The Alchemist
Mixed, Mastered, + Engineered By: Willie Green
Additional Engineering By: Tevin Prince + Steel Tipped Dove
Album Photography By: Alexander Richter
STREAMING // (Track) Grouse – “Rank Outsider”
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STREAMING // (Video) Snail’s House – “SUPERGIRL”
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Director + Animator: Wataru Uekusa
Animator: Chikako Iwasaki, Hiroshi Sakai, Kazunoko, Kei Fujishima
Background: Hiroshi Sakai
Color Design: Totorika
3D Effect: Ina
Animation Assistant: 2z2
STREAMING // (Track) Macroblank – “理由を教えて”
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Misc. Day – Rapid Declining
Sometimes the best approach can be the one that requires the least amount of planning. Skull Cult is a band that rushes into the audience with a full force and belligerent attitude with some areas of New Wave improvement on a Punk sound.
Braindead is the five-track EP that spends eight-and-a-half minutes as a five-piece sucker punch. Opening with the title cut, “Braindead” blitzes through the mind with harsh cymbal dome hits to form a count-off. As the strings blow the doors in like a sonic boom, the production becomes this synth-punk display of sound.
Truthfully, Skull Cult is innovative in this lost diamond sense of the way, becoming cracking but not too destructive to be off-putting. Instead, that prowess toward aggression is used in the right places like a carefully planned blueprint for instrumentation.
“Braindead” especially has moments of rising zeniths, but also this two-stepping pattern that can get even grandma out of her chair. The quick slashes of strings are overshadowed by the shouting and somewhat nihilistic vocal outputs.
Describing, “I look around and see that everything is fucking boring…” continuing on later to illustrate, “I look around to see that everything is fucking dead.” This nihilism transfers into the second track “Mutilator” which is slowed and forms more of a gentle beating.
The production here is still dangerous but shifts the focus to the percussive elements where the drums become this consistent rattle of snare snaps and transitions to punchy bass. More exhilarating comes “Who Are You” which has Skull Cult forming as this mass of sound and fury.
Shouts return and walls of noise become the main method of approach for Braindead moving forward. Even as the ascending synths march on, “Who Are You” is the shortest display clocking in at barely a minute.
One of the final pieces is a cover of the Talking Heads famous “Psycho Killer,” only being renamed to “Cyco Killer” and having this more shouted and ambitious vocal display attacking ahead. The instrumentation is changed, not drastically but the eyes focus entirely on the vocal performance.
The drums hit, but less about being as rambunctious as before, Skull Cult takes “Cyco Killer” and makes one last dig at the audience before packing in their broken disco balls and shattered productions in one sweat-soaked bow.
Listen To Braindead Here!!! – BandCamp/Spotify/iTunes
SUNDAY SAMPLER // (Playlist) “01/09/2022″
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“A playlist of tracks that were featured on MattsMusicMine.com from the week of January 3rd – 9th. From Reviews to Streams, never miss a track with these playlists that are uploaded every single Sunday till I drop dead.”
Featuring: Bones, Barron, Kilig, Pink Siifu, Big Rube, Liv.e, V.C.R., Nick Hakim, DJ Harrison, Malignant Alter, Prolaps, Àbáse, Bathory, life, Boldy James, The Alchemist, ICECOLDBISHOP, Locked Club, Sentient Horror, Kill Alters, Cloakroom, Vein.FM
Track List: DeadBoy, Wi-Fi, Gimme, Dream Logic, Gumbo’! 4 The Folks Hold On, Belial Rebirth, Sky Diamonds, Onire, Total Destruction, Reap Of Evil, coma garden, Hot Water Tank, Moth In The Flame, After Cake, Till Death Do Us Rot, Dissect Me, A Force At Play, The Killing Womb
STREAMING // (Album) UGLY SHADOWS – “Self-Titled EP”
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Mixed By: George
Mastered By: Harris P.
Track List: Breeze, Kids Of Tomorrow, Riot Control
STREAMING // (Video) Vein.FM – “The Killing Womb”
Listen/Watch Here – Youtube
Directed, Produced, Edited, + VFX By: Max Moore
Concept By: Anothony DiDio + Max Moore
DP: Nate Spicer
Production Design: James Wise
Set Construction: Bryan Miller, James Wise, + Austin Koester
STREAMING // (Track) LOCKED CLUB – “After Cake”
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New Music – Bo Knows
Flying off the rails of one of my favorite team-ups in 2021, Boldy James and The Alchemist jump together not playing a two-player game of Madden, but as an arcade duo going gold on Tecmo Bowl.
Games aside, the newest project from Boldy James and Alchemist holds Super Tecmo Bo as this extended release, hot off the stirred stoves of Bo Jackson. Over nine tracks, both Boldy James and Alchemist feel as if they were at the height of creating touchdowns like Brady and Gronk.
Throwing deep on the first introduction, a hut 1 is called and the ball is flipped back to Boldy. Full of relaxed spite, “Level Tipping Scales” is a beautiful beat from Alchemist that Boldy knocks down like a weakened defender.
Describing, “I talk choppers, been heartbroke since I lost Moxy. First half a mil’ niggas did it off of all Roxies. Can never be Big Meech, in love with tippin’ scales.” As the production slides into a stutter step of disguised keys hidden behind a smokescreen of stomping snare rumbles, Boldy James continues on.
The quick transition to “No Laughing Matter” is less of a freight train and more of a reflective display from Boldy James over a more uplifting and optimistic creation from Alchemist.
Beginning with a whirlwind of strings resembling a tornado of sound, Boldy James keeps the audience grounded with his verse. He illustrates, “If I ain’t got it, then Double’ll tote it, we got the same vices. Same prices that them hustlers quoted. Can microwave, open the stove and over the sink. Dropped out of Cooley, but in this street shit, I got double promoted.”
Nothing cuts as deep as the production on Bo Jackson, but Super Tecmo Bo uses the third piece, “Hot Water Tank” to resemble this doped-chopped bass line.
Running through the sidelines like a frantic wide receiver, Boldy James recruits ICECOLDBISHOP for the only feature on the project. Their higher-pitched delivery is a clear diversity within Boldy’s often freezing and low vocal approach.
Crystals appear in the eyes of ICECOLDBISHOP who is able to illustrate, “Back and forth, shell casings scattered across the concrete. Pass the torch, bullet fragments splash across your mom jeep.”
As stated previously, the production from Alchemist on “Hot Water Tank” becomes an instant favorite and head-moving device. The low tuned bass is a slug compared to the rushed whistles that chime to the ears. Similar to ICECOLDBISHOP and Boldy James, the instrumentation coincides with the differences to be one of the strongest team-ups in performance for Super Tecmo Bo.
Again, Boldy James and Alchemist work seamlessly to orchestrate on Super Tecmo Bo just as they did on Bo Jackson. 2021 seemed to be the year of the Bo as 2022 turns to be a hopeful year of favoring the bold.
Listen To Super Tecmo Bo Here!!! – Spotify/Amazon/iTunes
STREAMING // (Video) Sentient Horror – “Till Death Do Us Rot”
Listen/Watch Here- Youtube
STREAMING // (Track) Kill Alters – “Dissect Me”
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Full Release On: February 11th, 2022
Produced By: Bonnie Baxter
Co-Produced By: Nicos Kennedy
Engineered + Mixed By: Nicos Kennedy
Drums Performed By: Hisham A. Bharoocha
Drums Engineered By: Alex Epton
Mastered By: David H. Little
STREAMING // (Album) The Martinez Brothers – “Space Jams Vol. 3”
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Track List: SJ3 Intro, Brillo, Tell me When To Go, Quiet Storm Remix, Fusion Dance Interlude, Wanna Love You Girl, Wait A Minute, AM To PM, Teddy Beats, La Habanera, Futebol, Seh Dem Bad, Final Kamehameha Wave Interlude, Backend, Suddenly, Touch, SJ3 Outro
STREAMING // (Album) Life – “Coma Garden”
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Track List: subject, blue as your wounds, i want to go home, coma garden, i am encircled by spring flowers
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