mp3 : Shad "Flawless" produced by Frank Dukes

download : Shad - "Flawless" produced by Frank Dukes.mp3

Starting from humble beginnings, The Real Frequency became the premier hip-hop show on Canada's first commercial urban radio station FLOW 93.5 FM by featuring up and coming local artists who eventually became international stars. By giving early support to artists such as Drake, Shad, Boi 1-Da, and Tona, the show consistently showed its dedication to Toronto's burgeoning hip-hop community. Though The Real Frequency show recently stopped broadcasting due to the sale of its parent station, its dedication to hip-hop lives on in the form of a new album project.

Now, running full heartedly with an idea that evolved from one of the most popular segments on the show, The New North, The Real Frequency has put together a compilation album, also titled The New North, being released by the Real Frequency crew, comprised of Muziklee Inzane, Arcee, and P-Plus, The New North carries on the tradition that began with the radio show, bringing together over 30 artists best representing Toronto's up-and-coming talent. Pairing together MC's, producers, singers, and DJ's from the city, Real Frequency has created a project that features the likes of JD Era, Marco Polo, Kardinal Offishall, Moss, and more, including aforementioned artists Tona and Boi-1-Da.

Also coming together for the album is Shad and Frank Dukes, who crafted the lead single from The New North, with the song "Flawless." The song, which also features cuts from DJ Dopey, kicks into full gear from jump, with Frank Dukes' gritty beat. Shad's slick wordplay fits snuggly over the driving bass line and well-placed horn chops, an instrument selection that was a conscious decision for Dukes. "After hearing that I would be working with Shad, I knew I wanted to bring him into a different zone," explains Dukes. "I gave him a rugged, aggressive beat that he absolutely bodied – it was his performance that helped inspire the song title."

The Real Frequency's The New North is out now and available for purchase via mondomedeusah musique and all digital retailers. You can grab the free download here and purchase the compilation here on iTunes and on Bandcamp.

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MICHAL JANKOWSKI "Astronauts" ZAK | BRANICKA Gallery, Berlin

Michal Jankowski, Astronaut VIII, 2011 // 50x40 cm, oil on canvas // © the artist, courtesy ZAK | BRANICKA, Berlin

MICHAL JANKOWSKI // Astronauts // July 1, 2011 until September 3, 2011 // ZAK | BRANICKA // Berlin, Germany

Michal Jankowski is part of the younger generation of artists, often labelled as “tired of reality,” the source of whose art is to be found not in the surrounding reality, but in the imagination, dreams, or hallucinations.

Jankowski is following the path of surrealism in full consciousness of the decades and movements that have passed. His latest series, Astronauts (2011), is inspired by the work of two classics of experimental filmmaking from the turn of the 1950s/60s – Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica – who are regarded as pioneers and precursors of the world surrealism scene in the cinema of the absurd. This avant-garde arts duo was inspired, in turn, by the French avant-garde of the 1920s, chiefly by the surrealists and the dadaists. “The films of Borowczyk and Lenica are my point of departure, my starting point ... I try to submit to that remarkable atmosphere of horror, grotesque, and absurdity I found in them, and which is very close to my own sensibility”, says Jankowski. For him, the animation of the 1950s is not only a visual goldmine of motifs and "retro" aesthetics (his pictures draw such motifs from Lenica and Borowczyk as a man in a bowler hat, and a woman with a flower-face), but above all it is an ironic commentary on the conditio humana. Under the thin layer of black humor and horror are existential themes culled from Franz Kafka or Eugène Ionesco. This is not Jankowski’s first allusion to the cinema in his work: his earlier series of works drew from Werner Herzog’s Stroszek and Kaspar Hauser. They all can be read as metaphors of human fate.

The subject of his work is often the isolation, rebellion and negation that accompanies every birth of the new. Can today’s artist be so cheerfully innovative, so painlessly adventurous? It seems unlikely, because the consciousness or knowledge of the viewer is as much a burden as the consciousness of the artist. When every glance at a painting by Jankowski casts a shadow of Philip Guston, Hieronymus Bosch or Francis Bacon, nothing remains but a conscious game of hopscotch with art history.

This sad recognition that everything has already been done thus leads to instinctive selfdestruction, and to the destruction of the components of the picture. The beautiful figures and objects in Jankowski’s work, painted almost Dutch-style, disintegrate into individual atoms, or something recalling a magic, cosmic dust – just to be reborn like a Phoenix from the ashes.

www.zak-branicka.com

Swimming

Abel Baker Gutierrez, Rescue Breathing No. 2, 2010 // Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6 cm // courtesy of Luis De Jesus Los Angeles

ABEL BAKER GUTIERREZ // Swimming // July 23, 2011 until August 27, 2011 // LUIS DE JESUS // Los Angeles, CA

Abel Baker Gutierrez’s work explores the way images acquire different meaning over time and the overlapping systems that shape perceptions about the archetypal male. Taking inspiration from rock music's aesthetic trends to Scout culture and Old Master paintings, Gutierrez utilizes a diverse range of source material to create paintings, photographs, sculpture and video installations loaded with potential interpretations. His recent work reflects upon society’s obsession with youth culture, issues of "growing up", and ideals of masculinity, yet these subjects are negotiated through a visual vocabulary that effectively blurs the distinction between social critique and melancholic nostalgia.

Gutierrez’s newest body of work, presented in this series titled "Swimming", is comprised of oil paintings and a video installation that looks to Scouting culture and the Realist traditions of bathers (e.g., Courbet, Millet) for point of reference. Inspired by painters such as Thomas Eakins and Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, who painted adolescent figures engaged in outdoor activities during the Victorian era, Gutierrez’s own subjects are decontextualized from a specific temporal or social scenario - unaware of the contemporary viewer’s idealizing, eroticizing, and prejudicial gaze. This complicity of the physical, perceptual, and philosophical - classical painterly techniques, art historical references, and 20th century Scout ideologies - operate as an inquiry into the complex structures of masculine hegemony (issues dealing with learning and performing gender; definitions of masculine behavior), ideas about continuity, and prompts the viewer to reevaluate his or her position in ever-shifting social constructs.

Based on black-and-white and colour photographs sourced from 1950s and 60s scouting manuals and magazines as well as found film footage, Gutierrez’s appropriated images from this bygone era further underscore a sense of ambiguity and ephemerality. Intimately scaled and emotionally charged, his new work portrays slight and languid figures set against an atmosphere of peril. Using contrasting layers of thin and dark glazes, loosely rendered figures of young men and boys occupy amorphous bodies of water, build rafts, and demonstrate rescue breathing techniques. Evoking a sense of the uncanny, the figures are removed from their original context through the ritual of brushstroke, and in the case of his video, digitization. In the video, a found colour film excerpt of boys playing is transformed into a slow moving and haunting silvery digital specter.

Abel Baker Gutierrez was born in California and earned his BFA (2009) and MFA (2011) at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA. Gutierrez's work has been included in numerous group exhibitions in California, including Back to the Future, Think Tank, Los Angeles; Keeper of Light, Sandroni Rey Gallery, Culver City; A Picnic in Eden (as part of a collaborative project with artist Bettina Hubby), The Company, Los Angeles; Playing Dumb, Amy Adler’s Studio, Los Angeles; as well as L.A. Napoli, Cercle Blanc Gallery, Berlin. He lives and works in Los Angeles. Swimming runs through until August 27th at LUIS DE JESUS, LA

www.luisdejesus.com

For Lori

Kim Dorland, For Matisse, 2008 // Oil and acrylic on wood, 96 x 96 inches // courtesy of Mike Weiss Gallery, New York

KIM DORLAND // For Lori // June 23 until August 27, 2011 // Mike Weiss Gallery // New York, NY

Mike Weiss Gallery presents For Lori by Canadian artist, Kim Dorland. Over the past decade, Kim Dorland’s wife, Lori, has been the subject and inspiration of countless paintings. Consisting of eight paintings and three works on paper dating from 2008 to present, this show is a mere snapshot of a much larger oeuvre.

Often the trajectory of an artist’s career is mapped and elucidated by a closer study of the repeated and constant in the work. Known for his paintings of graffitied landscapes, the suburban mundane, and most recently, phantasmagoric woods with ghostly inhabitants, Dorland has always painted that with which he is closely acquainted. For Lori is a historical examination of the artist’s adoration for his lifelong partner as seen through a collective narrative typified by as much richness in paint as emotional weight.

In works such as For Matisse, Coy Girl, Lori and Silly Smile, the thickly textured surface is a recreation of the muse’s flesh and ultimately, presence - bringing an immediate sense of palpable corporeality to the works. While the paintings could initially be seen as aggressive and grotesque, Dorland insists they reflect a simple, honest adoration. It is impossible not to sense the energy, passion and profundity of the artist’s feelings for the subject and his desire to evoke her presence.

Kim Dorland was born in Wainwright, Alberta and currently lives and works in Toronto, ON. He attended the Emily Carr Institute of Art and received his Masters from York University in Toronto. His previous shows received reviews from The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. His work is included in public and private collections most notably: the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas, Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation in New York, the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Neumann Family Collection in New York, and The Oppenheimer Collection at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, MO.

www.mikeweissgallery.com

The Weeknd (live show) July 24 (Toronto)

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The Weeknd // Mod Club - 722 College Street // Toronto, ON // Sunday July 24, 2011 // facebook // no guest list, no cameras, no media // this event is sold out // the afterparty no guest list, no cover, no bullshit

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Project Mooncircle release: Aug 5, 2011

The compilation is compiled of Irish and British producers. Look for it on Project Mooncircle August 5, 2011.

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McNeill Street Pumping Station New Music Festival

OPEN CALL TO SOUND ARTISTS // Deadline Monday, August 1, 2011

MSPS New Music Festival 2011 seeks to bring together a community of emerging and established artists from around the world whose work challenges the reality of space and desires to arrive at new modes of thought and meaning-making surrounding the potentials of our architectural environments through the sonic arts. They are looking for artists who will bring to the exhibition a unique set of tools, techniques and theoretical positions with which to call into question and explore the potentials of sound as a medium through which new definitions and conceptions of space may be divined.

MSPS New Music Festival 2011 is an exhibition set in the historic McNeill Street Pumping Station located on Cross Bayou, Shreveport, Louisiana. The pumping station house is a 124 year old brick building that has both indoor and outdoor spaces available for installation. Massive brass tanks, deep wells and concrete separation pool structures are but a few of the potential sonic environments to choose from.

READ THE FULL PROSPECTUS:

DATES :: ARTWORK :: LOCATION :: FORMS :: FEE :: JURY :: DEADLINE :: SUBMIT :: RESULTS

Please read the guidelines carefully. Artists worldwide, at any career-stage may submit an application.

DATES
The exhibition will take place on Friday 14 October 2011.

ARTWORK
Artwork may be embedded in your submission documents or simply included as email attachments.

PERFORMANCE CATEGORY

-In reference to the thematic information above, send the best representative original
sound work or segment of an original sound work no longer than 10 minutes in
length.
-You may also send us links to sound works or video documentation of performances
currently online. Please prepare it for review as above, nothing in excess than 10
minutes will be reviewed for entry.

-Include title, date, and (maximum) 250 word description of the submitted work
-Please send work made within the last two years

LISTENING CATEGORY

In reference to the thematic information above, send two to three samples of original
sound works or segments of original sound works no longer than 8 minutes
each.-Include title, date, and 250 word descriptions of all works-Please send works
made within the last two years

LOCATION

The exhibition will be held at the McNeill Street Pumping Station, 142 North Common Street, Shreveport, LA 71101

FORMS

Requested information to include with all proposals

-Artist biography (500 words max)
-Artist statement (500 words max)
-Curriculum Vitae

JURY

The exhibiting artists will be chosen by MSPS curatorial team.

DEADLINE

Application deadline midnight MONDAY AUGUST 1, 2011

SUBMIT

Artists both nationally and internationally are invited to submit a proposal.
Submission of proposals are free and open to all.In order to save resources email submissions preferred

RESULTS

Artists chosen will be notified late August.

*NOTE : DO NOT SEND ORIGINAL COPIES

McNeill Street Pumping Station New Music Festival 2011

MSPS Curatorial Team
1810 Market Street
Shreveport, Louisiana 71101
http://mspsnmf2011.tumblr.com
submit.msps@gmail.com

Athens Photo Festival 2011 / Call for Submissions

CALL FOR ARTISTS, CURATORS AND ORGANIZATIONS // Deadline: 20 August, 2011

Athens Photo Festival 2011, is the annual festival of contemporary photography in Greece and a premiere cultural event in Athens, organized by the Hellenic Centre for Photography. The festival's programme covers a wide range of solo and group exhibitions with international and national artists as well as a number of other parallel events throughout the city.

The Hellenic Centre for Photography invites submissions for the Athens Photo Festival 2011 exhibition program. They accept proposals from established or emerging artists, galleries, curators and organizations world-wide in all areas of contemporary photography practice and forms, ranging from art and documentary photography to photographic installations, film and video.

The selected artists will be exhibited in upcoming Αthens Photo Festival, which takes place in Athens during the months of October and November.

All artists interested to submit their work for the Athens Photo Festival 2011, must fill out and submit a participation form, which can be found at the website http://photofestival.hcp.gr along with their images and/or videos.

Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2011

Once upon a Time…
Deadline July 29, 2011

The Festival has a six-year history, screening over 350 individual works from 35 countries, including 40 UK and European premieres. Each event has attracted up to 10,000 audiences from across the UK to engage with screenings, events and installations in up to 20 different locations across Berwick-upon-Tweed – illuminating the whole town.

The next festival is set to return Friday 23 – Sunday 25 September 2011, and is currently seeking moving image works of all types - narrative and artist video, live action and animation, fiction and documentary, and dance on film – to screen as part of the Festival.

Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2011: Once upon a Time…

Each year, the Festival is curated thematically, and this year ventures into the land of make-believe, exploring the enchantment – and the dark side – of the fairy tale on film. Through presenting the familiar stories, characters and imagery of childhood folk tales, the Festival celebrates the art of story-telling. on screen.

Visit: http://berwickfilm-artsfest.com/submit-your-film for the submissions guidelines and online form.

European Performance Art Festival EPAF 2011, Poland

Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle - European Performance Art Festival EPAF 2011 Call for openEPAF

Deadline: July 30, 2011

The Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Art and the Present Foundation, Performance Art Foundation and Labirynt Gallery in Lublin invites young emerging performance artists (born after 1st January 1976) to submit proposals of performance art works for the openEPAF 2011 - open programme of the European Performance Art Festival EPAF 2011.

http://www.epaf-festival.blogspot.com

The festival will take place from 30th September to 2nd October 2011 at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle and from 4th to 7th October in Labirynt Gallery in Lublin during Performance Platform Lublin.

EPAF is interested in programming experimental practices that may be described as: Performance Art, Live Art, Time-based art.

Note: they are not interested in programming conventional theatre, dance, ballet, music.

Applications will be accepted from artists from all areas of the world.

How to apply:

In order to participate in openEPAF 2011, send application and documentation of recent performances


I. Application should contain the following:

a) full name, postal address, website (optional), e-mail, phone number, information about education and list of the most important exhibitions or artistic projects (100 words at most)

b) short artistic statement (100 words at most)

c) short description (100 words at most) of proposed performance including its expected duration as well as materials and equipment required.


II. Documentation of recent performances:
a) 5 photographs (300 dpi, preferred formats are: tiff, jpg) recorded on CD or DVD

b) video documentation of 3-5 performances (preferred formats are:
DVDVideo, avi, mov) recorded on DVD

The documentation should be accompanied by a description containing: title, date, place and name the photographer/video-maker.

The application must be sent by email at the e-mail address below.
Documentation must be delivered to the address below.

The application and documentation must be submitted by July 30, 2011, 7:00 pm to be considered.


The materials submitted will not be returned.
Succesful applicants will receive:
- board and lodging
- artists fee of 800 PLN
- financial assistance towards international travel costs
- copy of photographic and video documentation of performances presented during festival


The list of artists invited to participate in the festival will be announced 10th August 2011 at EPAF website.

Galeria Labirynt
openEPAF 2011
ul. Grodzka 5a
20-112 Lublin Poland

epafwarsaw@gmail.com
http://www.epaf-festival.blogspot.com

Shady Nate - "Tell Me I Don't Go" +Album Release

download : Shady Nate - Still Based On A True Story


A little while back, two of the Bay Area's finest, Shady Nate and DJ Fresh, announced the forthcoming release of Still Based On A True Story. The new album, jointly released on Tuesday between DJ Fresh's Fresh In The Flesh and Nate's Shady Nation labels, is a follow-up to the pair's Based On A True Story album released back in 2007, a project that remains one of the most successful albums for both artists. Still Based On A True Story follows well in the footsteps of its predecessor, with Nate's quick-fire, street-wise rhymes playing off Fresh's dynamic, synth- and 808-driven production.

To celebrate the new album, Shady Nate and DJ Fresh are releasing a brand new single, "Tell Me I Don't Go," a track that features fellow Bay rapper J. Stalin, along with recent Bay Area Freshmen class inductee Lil' Rue.

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video : A-Plus - "Road Trippin'" (Red Hot Chili Peppers Cover)

Fresh off the release of his new EP, Pepper Spray, A-Plus is happy to release the second video from the project, this one for the song "Road Trippin." Pepper Spray is A-Plus' collaborative project with his brother, AAGEE, who along with A-Plus make up the EP's primary production team, Compound 7, and is a tribute album to the music of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The new EP is currently available as a free download on A-Plus' website, compliments of Compound 7.

"Road Trippin'" pays homage to touring, a subject matter found in many Red Hot Chili Peppers songs, and a topic that hits home plenty with A-Plus, who tours solo and with his Souls Of Mischief 100's of dates a year. "Memories and experiences of being on the road are a recurring theme with Red Hot Chili Peppers' music, as well as on Pepper Spray," says A-Plus. "'Road Trippin'' is a song about leaving to go on the road, and what it entails. It's a very hard, but amazing, job." The video is reminiscent of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' video for "Scar Tissue," but unlike that video, A-Plus' was on an actual road trip throughout the filming, with director Austin Steele in the passenger seat, as A-Plus made his way from Oakland to Los Angeles.

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Instant LA Summer 2: HEAVY HAPPY

July 16, 2011 until August 6, 2011 // Carmichael Gallery // opening reception: Sat July 16, 2011 18h30 until 22h // Culver City, CA

Carmichael Gallery is please to announce Instant LA Summer 2: HEAVY HAPPY a group exhibition curated by Esteban Schimpf and featuring works by emerging and mid-career artists Liz Craft, Sara Clendening, Chris Coy, Gerald David, Marc Horowitz, Pentti Monkkonen, Maha Saab, Sarah Sieradzki, and Estebam Schimpf. An audacious encore to Instant LA Summer, August 2010, HEAVY HAPPY is unmoved by vitreous polyresin and recruits its louche participants from chop-shops, tunnels of love, talk-show sets and haunted manors. HEAVY HAPPY is a congregation of sphinxes assembled from relics carried westward on dirty winds.

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mp3 : Dustin Prestige - "Mo. City Rock"

download : Dustin Prestige - "Mo. City Rock".mp3

"The main inspiration for the song was my rock and roll influence growing up," explains the emcee. And the influence is evident throughout Dustin's crafty word play as he drops the names of some of his favorite Rock and Rap artists, highlighting their role in the diversity of his musical upbringing.

The song is backed by a spacey beat, providing room for Dustin's lyrics to shine. "The song was produced by Chris Rockaway, as was the entire The Kelly & Jessie EP," explains Dustin. "When I create with a producer, I like doing more than one song, really building some sense of artistic rapport. When the chemistry is good, the end result is almost always positive." Indeed.

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LARA VIANA

Lara Viana, Untitled, 2011
Oil on board, 48 x 41 cm
courtesy: Conrads, Düsseldorf and Domobaal, London

July 1, 2011 until July 31, 2011 // Conrads // Düsseldorf, Germany

Lara Viana

" ... When taking in these works one can't help but think about how the photographic object has been previously handled in paint, by the likes of Gerhard Richter or Luc Tuymans. They radiate a peculiar energy that sits somewhere between the fuzzy warmth of recollection and the alchemical mystery of the re–dimensionalised subject. Viana appears at home within the representational hall of mirrors that connects the world of painting with that of imaging, drawing one's attention to the innate human desire to render things realistically and the ways that new technologies fracture our understanding of reality. Where Richter's and Tuymans' blurry re–contextualisation of familiar and mass–media imagery are associated with particular political themes, Viana hovers between the time–based evidence of an unspecified event and its fictional (mis)reading as if stage–managing fragments of a baroque drama. Her paintings may be more about the workings of the mind than the media machine but, like her predecessors, she appears alive to the difficulties of extrapolating one from the other.

It is no surprise, then, that Viana cites Velazquez as an influence, particularly when it comes to her chromatically complex interiors out of which social situations, or the aftermath of them, seem to have grown like soft–tissue attachments. So, too, her reductive approach to technique – Viana applies, moves and erases oily umbers, ochres and blues around and from the ground as if hesitant to pin the image down. Ever since her Royal College days, Viana has been making works in which the potential elements of a story appear to emerge, low–relief, from matter. The lurid gaseous compositional quality of her earlier paintings has given way to a more sophisticated set of mid–tonal propositions, the slippery smears of organic hues reminiscent at points of bodily fluids on glass – biopsy slide evidence of the painter's uncanny ability to describe space and the passage of time.

Viana's delectable, yet disquieting studies for a mental picnic open up many byways between personal and public territories: the influence of cultural production on the content and stylistics of memory, at every level. But back in the studio, and drawn into a Viana Rorschach–image conundrum, one remembers that these works are as much about the nature of living as the removed technical recording of it. Her curious handling of the half–remembered comes as a result of serious real–time observation, an acute sensitivity to the manner in which light alters objects and situations. And as one watches an eggy ovaloid visage melt into a mirror holding a secret interior, it's hard to care about the chicken. ... "

- Rebecca Geldard, an extract from her essay for Lara Viana's exhibition at Phoenix Arts, Exeter, in June 2009.

Lara Viana was born and brought up in Salvador, Brazil. She graduated from the Painting Department at the Royal College of Art in 2007, was selected for New Contemporaries in 2008 and the Whitechapel Gallery's East End Academy 2009 – The Painting Edition as well as a solo show at Phoenix Arts, Exeter. Lara Viana has exhibited in 'Psychic Geography' at Workplace Gallery, Gateshead.


CONRADS // Lindenstr. 167 // 40233 Düsseldorf, Germany
t : +49 211.3230720

Vans X Hellz

When two worlds collide and create a perfect match, it only makes sense to meet again. In spring 2010, Vans worked with Hellz on a shoe collaboration that not only shocked the market with it's designs, but left Vans and Hellz fans clamoring for more. After the successful sell-out run of the first collection, Hellz brain-child Lanie Alabanza-Barcena is back for a second season with two new shoe styles plus two handbags to add to the Vans x Hellz arsenal.

Lanie worked with Vans in designing the shoes first, giving a rock 'n' roll twist to the Paityn and Bailie Boot with buckle detailing. From there, the footwear designs were taken and implemented in the creation of a messenger and a bucket style handbag. The '80s punk rock-inspired collection features fine leather materials, faux zebra pony hair, gun metal and shiny silver trim.

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video: A Plus - Give it Away

A-Plus - Pepper Spray + Tour Updates

Hieroglyphics crew member and one-fourth of Souls Of Mischief, A-Plus is excited to announce the release of his new EP, Pepper Spray, now available for free download courtesy of Compound 7. The EP serves as the first of four in Compound 7's rock-inspired Tribute Series EP's, and accompanying each EP will be a special, limited edition t-shirt designed by Counter Balance, available here.

A-Plus and Compound 7 plan to release four installments for their rock-inspired Tribute Series EP's, collaborating with different artists for each project after this initial EP. Included in the series is an EP with Del The Funky Homosapien, which samples music by Rage Against The Machine, one with Opio, that flips music from the White Stripes, and finally the Nirvana inspired production with Eligh. "We started out real grass roots when creating Pepper Spray," explains A-Plus. "Pepper Spray was the first EP completed, and it was coming along so well that it inspired me to do more with other favorite bands of mine."

The first EP will take on the music of the Red Hot Chili Peppers aptly named Pepper Spray. Rather than recreate a single album from the group, A-Plus' EP will pull from their entire discography, sampling various songs from the legendary group's deep catalog, including classics such as "Give It Away," "Californication," "By The Way," and "Hey Oh" "Basically," says AAGEE on his choosing of songs to flip, "we decided what songs were our favorites, and from there it was all about figuring out how well each of those songs translated with our production style and what we were trying to accomplish on Pepper Spray."

In addition to his forthcoming EP releases, A-Plus will also be busy on the road this summer, performing a number of solo dates in addition to some very special performances with Souls Of Mischief. Souls Of Mischief will be performing a number of dates across the country this summer, including four stops as a part of the 2011 Rock The Bells Festival, where the group will be performing their long-time classic, '93 Til Infinity, in its entirety. Fans can find links to purchase tickets and keep up with all developing show information for A-Plus and Souls Of Mischief here: www.hieroglyphics.com

Later this year, once all four free EP's have been released, A-Plus also has plans for two new retail releases, which include brand new solo albums, Return Of Good Time Charlie and another called Molly's Dirty Water that will serve as a collaborative effort with AAGEE. "Both projects are different," explains A-Plus. "Return Of Good Time Charlie is more of a traditional progression for me – b-boy-style story telling – like my last album. For Molly's Dirty Water, AAGEE is on there. It's more fun – party, get drunk and smoke some weed type shit. Less b-boy bravado."

galerie mondomedeusah gallery - "your legs"

galerie mondomedeusah gallery - "your legs" by mondomedeusah // 11" x 8.8" // printed on archival canvas, stretched onto 3/4" or 1.5" stretcher frame, image wrap, black or white on sides. // purchase "your legs" click here to shop.

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