Angry Songs About Food Vol. 4: Cereal - OnCue (prod. by CJ Luzi)

Whenever I hear this song I picture a group of really huge dudes eating bowls of Berry Berry Kix and nodding their heads in time. If I made the music video it would include multiple slow motion shots of spoons coming out bowls, milk dripping off the utensil sensually, before a tongue flicks into frame and tosses a single piece of cereal soaring up in the air and down into a mouth guarded by grill plastered teeth.

The track is a preview from Brooklyn based rapper OnCue's upcoming album Angry Young Man, and boy has that become even more of one to watch out for after this CJ Luzi produced explosion. To indulge your own sexy cereal fantasies (or you know, nod your head in personal sacrificial solidarity and resonance as that's really more what the song is about) you can grab a download of the song for free off of OnCue's Soundcloud here.

Photo courtesy of Karli Bonnie Photography

Chiptune Chuesday: Endboss - Marteria & The Krauts

So ever since I wrote about Peter Fox I've become hooked on production group The Krauts, a trio of German born DJs who pride themselves on combining retro-electro warmth with modern instrumentation. I decided to check out their most recent producing effort the album Zum Gluck in die Zukunft (Fortunately in the Future) for German rapper Marteria. And to my pleasant surprise the first song is (sort of) a chiptune number!

First track Endboss samples what sounds to me like both the soundtrack and sound effects of Sega classic Streets of Rage. Alongside this are Mario bleeps, arcade era voice sampling, and a smattering of geek culture references. All the best ingredients for a chip-hop beat.

I love the late night-club-lights-booming inside of an arcade cabinet mood of the track, and absolutely must share the final line (translated natch) 'The game is over, the last drink is for free, but there's a trick I'm gonna tell it to you, become a Buddhist and then you can restart it.' As a gamer this line makes me happier than it probably should.

Also! The video! Did you SEE that video? Chun Li needs to be in more rap videos. As do tetrominos.

Happy Chuesday!

Kitchen Sink Music Vol. 4: Let That Beat Ride - Lyrical God

Kitchen Sink Music is our ongoing series focusing on using non-musical items to create songs.

Lyrical God (a.k.a Julius Wright) literally slams out his song Let That Beat Ride with nothing but his voice, a biro, and a school desk. He is known for using his percussive talents to drum on just about any surface he can (from trash cans to street signs) to create unique beats. Reminds me a bit of the singing oil barrels of Bongo Joe. It's a raw and booming performance and the very definition of Kitchen Sink Music.

Mowgli - The Historian Himself

Click Here To Listen To Mowgli

The Historian Himself (a.k.a. Brian Engh) is awesome. This dinosaur enthused artist/musician/monsterologist has given the world an entire concept album of prehistoric themed hip-hop FOR FREE. Called Earth Beasts Awaken, it's seventeen tracks of dinosaur groove. Get it from his site. Now.

Our personal favorite slice of the album is a little track called Mowgli.

Mowgli is a chilling piece of music. With winding organs and echoing plucked strings (sampled from animated short Slim Pickings) the song wrenches out the spine of Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli and sews it into a hypnotically terrifying allegory of the unstoppable force of nature.

The lyrics are equal parts measured scientific terminology and the fever dream ranting of a paleontologist caught in the apocalypse. Anyone who can pull off the word 'chromatophoric' and not only make it sound cool but kind of scary as well deserves a medal.

It's great, it's unusual, it's dinosaurs. You have no excuse.

Here's that download link again.

The Historian Himself Main Site

Slim Pickings directed by Anthony Lucas, music composed by Chris Copping.