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Rappers Rule The World.
So, as the summer quickly approaches, we will most likely disappear into a blur of mojitos and bass bins, but before we get too deep into jumping guns (and pool fences) let us just give a quick update: Megasoid are working on a record. We already got some good songs recorded for it, and have sent out beats to a bunch of rapper friends for tracking. The lineup is already heat, but if we have our way, it's gonna be fucking insane by the time it is done.
We recently delivered a remix to Thunderheist that will be on their Jerkit 12". It is a great track, Isis is rapping dirty on it, we like dirty raps. You can hear the rough mix on our Tank Thong mixtape (which is posted on the page here, down below), and you can buy it soon. Buddle Leezle (215: TFK) sent us some murderous party shit, which is on the chopping block as we speak, we got another joint on deck for 215... and will be working with some other bay area cats as well (shhh). We just laced up Elecholo with a BURNER for his record, and have another one in the bag for our record. We also have sent/are working on a beats for a bunch of other folks that we want to keep under raps for the time being, as nothing is confirmed yet, and we want to keep the quality control up.
The LP will also have a couple aggressive instrumental joints, some singing and a couple legit digital dancehall type heaters with our good friend / favorite person to work with, Zulu. Zulu is murderous. We were so psyched that he got to jump up with us for SXSW (alongside Grand Analog, Skratch Bastid, Ghislain Poirier, Giovanni Marks and Cadence Weapon, no less!). We like rap more than we like club music, especially stuff that works on a couple levels (ie. the club AND the ipod, jeep, bedroom, gunshop, etc.) and shows actual prowess on the production tip... If we can get that type of scenario cracking for this stuff, we will be real happy.
We aren't even trying to think about a release date or anything like that, and most likely there will be another volume of Speed Knot remixes before that shit surfaces. But yeah... we are getting the shit together.
Some people that we are feeling (off the top) right now: Cory Guns (on the Little Wayne joint, my god!), Santo, Too Short, Trackademics, Wale, Red Cafe, Too much South / Chicago / Detroit shit, Fixxers, Black Milk, Gorilla Zoe, BNC Prince, Dude N Nem, Dizzy, Young L / Pack, Cool Kids and of course everyone that we are fucking with for our project. Anyways, 'nuff bullshitting about all that... SHOWS.
So the rumormill is already starting about some street-party type shit. All we can say is, when it goes down, its going down HUGE. We got some big things planned, fun things. Huge things. HEATERS. Also, some fun shits coming up with SERIAL guests for the Turbo Crunk nights, which will probably spill over to some other crazy shit in the wee hours. Come to montreal and hang out with us. We take summer serious.
Anyways, keep your eyes open to that front page. We will keep it updated. We also got that myspace shit, spacebot just approves m*therfuckers so you can do that also.... myspace.com/megasoidkult
We should also say thanks to everyone that has came and rocked at our nights in the last little while: Nosaj Thing, Lorn, Pursuit Grooves, Machinedrum and everyone else that has come to support! This month is gonna be nuts! LAZER SWORD will be in the building, ME's Bday and Sunday BBQ!
and of course: FREE HITMAYNE!
So a couple weeks back our only friend in any position of media power (okay there are other dudes[+ettes] that ride for us hard, only in broken English) wrote an article on "Lazer Bass" for The New Yorker Magazine's blog. Within minutes our inbox was full with messages from people mentioned in the article, homies getting excited for us, our parents and some random ass record labels trying to pump us for some remixes (for bands that have no idea who we are or what we are about). It was a big nod from a legit critic who we actually respect; something uncommon for dudes that have been / stay making stuff, as most music critics aren't musicians, don't know shit about music or vice versa.
Montreal is the bastard shithead / beaten stepchild of the international music thing. We are not American. We eat things that people name after body movements and pre-adult years. We get 6 months of fucked up weather to keep us inside making shit and then six months to do it HUGE before we get back to work. But more than that, our team likes like to get fucked up. We procrastinate. We talk shit. We sleep rarely. We wake up late. We are also academics and designers that have lives and responsibilities outside of this stuff, but people don't care much about that shit. Screaming Rap and R&B songs at each other is more interesting than dancing to Techno or Electro or whatever spur-of-the-moment shit that happens to be 'hotly-mashed' by a circle of 100 profile DJs that need to protect each others longevity. Johnny Cash is the only Kareoke-worthy music in the boxes here.
Megasoid only plays the music we like and we aren't concerned with fitting comfortably into any one scene. We'd rather embrace parts of all of them, taxing only what we think is top-shelf. For dudes that have grown up in North America with Punkrock and Hiphop and Detroit Techno and Graffiti and Bmxes and Skateboarding... it is ALL he same shit to us. from Gucci caps to Skull Skates. From MCM to UT stripes. It is about taking the things that are dope from anywhere, saying "fuck you" and making your own shit out of it. Bottom line. That is what we think and is what we do. We won't be anything other than 'those dudes'.
All that being said, we have too much love for everyone right now despite the on-blast tone of everything said above. We sincerely want a return to 'real' music in the club. PA music. Soundsystem Music. Bass Music. Anything other than the same 30 songs sampling the same 25. We want new shit. We want people to have a conversation with it. We want fly shit. Hype shit. Dope shit. Tough Shit. We will book and support ANYTHING that rides with that idea if it is good. Get at us if you are on that level. Really. Music is incredibly exciting for us right now. We want to share it with people.
General shout outs and props list:
LA peoples: Daddy Kev, Glitchmob, FlyLo, Gaslamp, LowEnd, Daedelus, Nosaj, BEAR, D-Styles, etc.
SF Peoples: Ghosts on Tape, Lazer Sword, 215TFK , Trackademics, Disruption, and all the Hyphy dudes that are in it for real shit.
Berlin Peoples: Modeselektr, Robot Koch, etc.
Paris Dudes: Para, Debruit, Dimlite, etc.
NY Folks: Cassette, Machinedrum, Theophilus London, Lorn, Cosmo, etc.
Scottish Motherfuckers: Lucky Me, Dom, Rustie, Hudmo, etc. PS: buy Ooops! Shit is OWNING.
+ Chicago: Cool Kids, Prince BNC, Dude-n-Nem, etc.
+ Detroit: Too many dudes to even take a stab at names!
+The South in general.
+ Everywhere else rocking new shit.
For the record, the city we love, Montreal, just calls it 'Street Bass.'
All of it. From Danchall to Dilla to DeathBass to Spaceship.
All the little tags, the titles and the inside jokes are just that.
We cordially invite you to come hang out.
xo.
MEGASOID.
Oh yeah.
We are starting to work on a real record.
Real sick lineup of guests + SERIAL sound.
Late Fall 2008. Powerplay our asses of till then.
As the slow burn comes to the bitter end, we would like to thank everyone that managed to come and get retarded with the Megasoid sound throughout 2007!
Props list: Ghislain Poirier, Khiasma, Cocktail Club DJs, Kops, Jokers of the Scene, Blingmod, Randomizers, Giovanni Marks, Bluebird, Glitchmob, Pop Mtl, Daedelus, Machinedrum, Deadbeat, Bassculture, The Drake Hotel, Holy Fuck, Zoobizarre, Peer Pressure, Olivier and the loft, The Underpass, Scott's Loft Peoples, The Polish Frip... and everyone else that we got to rock out with! Thanks so much for allowing us to have such a good time. Legendary shit!
Megasoid will be it's monthly party from to the CODA SOCIAL CLUB this month, we invite you all to come out. The are already some sick things planned for this summer, and we will be at SXSW this spring to put Austin on smash.
The "Tank Thong" mixtape will be done by the end of the month (the instrumentals from this mix will be available here!). We have a formal remix for Thunderheist in the works (this is gonna hurt some folks feelings!) as well as a bunch of songs completed for an actual Megasoid LP, which we expect to have out for the summer madness.
Stay tuned in - MEGASOID FEB 2008.
Ghislain Poirier f. Face T "No More Blood" Megasoid Remix (OUT NOW!!). If you like it, please pick it up! You get the riddim + one bonus riddim + the 60hz F. Cecile "Bad Girl" (badass joint!) joint, coupled in a nice double pack (w. stongarm aesthetics by Weapons House!). preview in the player below! Order @ ninjatune.net / your favorite spot.
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