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[Download] Marijuana Deathsquads - 'Tamper. Disable. Destroy' (Mixtape)
It's been nearly a year since the release of Marijuana Deathsquad's debut EP Crazy Master Now the crew consisting of GAYNGS mastermind Ryan Olson, Doomtree/Rhymesayers' emcee/producer P.O.S. along with his former Building Better Bombs bandmate now video director Isaac Gale, Freddy Votel of Cows and Ben Ivascu of Stnnng and Total Fucking Blood fame are back with their latest mixtape, Tamper. Disable. Destroy.
Tamper. Disable. Destroy kicks off right where Crazy Master left off giving you 10 dope new tracks of loud, bass dropping beats and guest features from the crew's extended fam like Astronautalis, Poliça's Channy Leaneagh, Doomtree's Mike Mictlan and more including some rhymes from P.O.S. himself. So if you love GAYNGS, Digitata, Doomtree, Mel Gibson and The Pants or Poliça, MDS' Tamper. Disable. Destroy and Crazy Master will fit right in with your musicial tendencies.
Take a listen for yourself with the track "Top Down" featuring Astronautalis and Poliça's Channy Leaneagh and download the full mixtape below.
Download Tamper. Disable. Destroy (64.2MB)
[Listen] Gardens and Villa - "Orange Blossom" (Gayngs Remix)
Gayngs have given the remix treatment to remix of the Santa Barbara quintet Garden and Villa's track "Orange Blossom." It's nice to just see the name 'Gayngs' again, is anoyone else hoping they really keep the same lineup and follow up Relayted? Anyway give the track a listen below and to hear the original head on over to Garden and Villa's Facebook page.
[Download] Marijuana Deathsquads - Daytrotter Session
The midwest loves their supergroups or maybe it's just GAYNGS' member Ryan Olson. For those that have missed out, Marijuana Deathsquads, which originally started as a back up band for rapper P.O.S., consists of P.O.S. himself and his Building Better Bombs bandmate Isaac Gale, Ryan Olson of Gayngs, Har Mar Superstar, Ben Ivascu and Freddy Votel of the defunct '90s cult blues-punk band Cows as well as Doomtree's Mike Mictlan. As Daytrotter states, it's another cast of super friends, with a revolving door/whomever's-in-town-that-night.
Unlike Ryan's other group GAYNGS smooth Jazzy sound, Deathsquads are more experimental, psychedelic, bizarre and loud. Just the way we like it. Check out their recent Daytrotter session which features 3 new songs from the band. So far the band has only released one official track "John Cage Match" which was featured on MPLS.TV City of Music series and on their label's, Totally Gross National Product, free sampler. You can listen to the full session below and then head over to the Daytrotter site to download the session.
"Welcome To Daytrotter"
"Flavor Failure"
"Ewok Sadness"
"Ghostcop"
New Bon Iver LP due out in June
Since the release of Emma, Forever Ago three years ago, Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon has been wrapped up in various other projects, including the supergroup GAYNGS and Kanye West's latest album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. So, where does that leave Bon Iver?
While talking with Rolling Stone, Vernon said that the as-of-yet-untitled follow up to the incredible Emma, Forever Ago "is scheduled to come out sometime in June." The album will feature saxophonist Colin Stetson (Tom Waits, Arcade Fire) and pedal-steel guitarist Greg Leisz (Wilco), and will boast "a lush 10-track collage in which each song represents a place." The album's opening track, titled "Perth," and "features a marching drum beat, a childrens’ choir and wailing guitars," while another track, titled "Minnesota Wisconsin," features double bass drums and a distorted bass saxophone. Expect to hear more from Bon Iver in the coming months.
[Download] GAYNGS x Doomtree - 'Affiliyated' (Regrind EP)
The fine folks over at Stereogum just premiered the amazingly awesome GAYNGS x Doomtree remix EP Affiliyated. This EP features 7 tracks taken from midwest super group GAYNGS debut album Relayted and combines them with the awesome hip hop Voltron force that is Doomtree. Read more info on how this awesome creation came together:
To create the GAYNGS’ Regrind EP all of the stems from the bands debut album, Relayted, were arbitrarily named and compiled into a list … [A] collection of producers and musicians … were then instructed to choose only 10, without knowing what songs they came from or what instruments they contained. One could choose anything from four sax solos and six bass lines, to eight keyboards and two background vocals. The combinations that could be chosen were indefinite…the only certainty was that the parts would all be set to the tempo of 69 beats per minute.
From there, the re-grinders were free to chop, pitch-shift, and otherwise pulverize the stems into a new, cohesive song. The only rule was that they must use all 10 stems they were given, and that the tempo must remain at GAYNGS’ standard 69 bpm.
Download the album in full here or listen and download each track below.
[Watch] Marijuana Deathsquads Perform "John Cage Match" For MPLS.TV's City of Music Series
Check out this week's video from MPLS.TV City of Music series featuring experimental/noise rock band Marijuana Deathsquads performing the first officially named track "John Cage Match."
For those that don't know, Marijuana Deathsquads consists of Rhymesayers Emcee P.O.S. and his Building Better Bombs bandmate Isaac Gale, Ryan Olson of Gayngs, Har Mar Superstar, Ben Ivascu and Freddy Votel of the defunct '90s cult blues-punk band Cows. In a recent City Pages article Issac Gale talks about how the band came together, "We were needing something to do, Ryan [Olson] and I, while P.O.S. was on tour all the time." "We were looking for something interesting. So we had an idea to do a project that could be assembled with anyone, anywhere, anytime." He adds: "A party squad."
What's up with the Midwest and supergroups? I'm not complaining but the Midwest always seems to have some interesting collabortions going on i.e. Gayngs, Dynospectrum
[Listen] Onry Ozzborn - "Way Out" Feat. Maggie Morrison (of Lookbook/Digitata)
Grayskul/Dark Time Sunshine/The Gigantics emcee Onry Ozzborn has released a new album titled Hold On For Dear Life. Check out a track from the album titled "Way Out" which features Gayngs contributor and Digitata/former Lookbook frontwoman Maggie Morrison. This track marks the second collaboration between Onry and Morrison, the previous track "E.R." was featured on Onry's Dark Time Sunshine project. Check out that song here. Recommended by the homie Astronautalis, we highly suggest you pick this album up right away on iTunes or at the Fake Four Records website. Looking at Ozzborn's track record with his solo records, Grayskul, Dark Time Sunshine and The Gigantics, you know he always puts out quality fresh shit and this one is a banger.
Onry Ozzborn - "Way Out" Feat. Maggie Morrison (of Lookbook/Digitata) by Some Kind of Awesome