With the video tearing up MTV’s TRL (currently #6) and the single and initial remix featuring Bun B, Pusha T and Cool Kids doing so well, what better time to release the second “Drivin’ Down The Block” remix; this time with El-P contributing vocals and production.
VAST AIRE: HEADIN FOR THE TOP OF NY.
In 2001 something happened that even transcended Philip K Dick’s imagination. The mighty Twin Towers, the biggest symbols of American economy went down and the world would never be the same. An album that visionarily (it came out before 9/11) expressed that feeling of uncertainty and apocalyptic doom-thinking was Cannibal Ox’s (Vast Aire and Vordul Mega) ‘The Cold Vein’. A few projects and solo endeavours later, Vast Aire is now back with Karniege to release the Mighty Joseph album, inspired on the King Kong theme, Both artists are headin for the top of NY, like King Kong was headin for the top of another American symbol, the Empire State Building…
You’re about to release ‘Mighty Joseph’ through Urchin Studios, please tell us more about that project…When is the release date?
It should be out by February 12th 2008, the project is on I.G.C. Rec/Urchin Studios. This is a dope LP, it’s just raw and fun hip-hop that needs to come to the forefront! Vast Aire is bringing that raw again!
Queens-based emcee and graphic artist Bisc1 will be releasing his first full length album, When Electric Nights Fall, this spring on March 11, 2008 via the Brooklyn-based indie hip-hop label, Embedded Music.
Bisc1 recorded the majority of WENF in the evening hours, not only because of the demands of his day job as a graphic artist but also because this is when his creativity thrives. Nighttime is a time when most of us relax and try to make sense of our day, with all our successes, failures, conflicts, celebrations, doubts, and stresses. With When Electric Nights Fall, Bisc1 captures these emotions we all share with a blatant sense of urgency. Just as a train takes passengers on a ride from borough to borough with varying landscapes, WENF brings listeners on a nighttime ride through the realms of our psyche. The album ventures from our feelings of highs and lows in “Parallels,” being thankful for getting though another day in “Pandemonium,” the beauty of having loved ones in “Fire and Ice” and “Unconditional,” the perverse passion of pursuing our vices in “Strange Love,” and dreams, illusions, and escape from daily routine, in “Great Escape.” WENF is a glimpse into Bisc1’s personal journey but he deftly touches on emotions we’ve all experienced in our lives at one point of another. (more…)
