Lava Bangers, by Lazerbeak

Lava Bangers

by Lazerbeak

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1.	Mighty Jungle 02:19	download
2.	Walk It Out 01:35	download
3.	Smash Hit 02:08	download
4.	LRL 02:09	download
5.	Bully 01:58	download
6.	Ay Bay Bee 01:23	download
7.	Like That 02:28	download
8.	Xylophone 02:25	download
9.	Had Enough 01:47	download
10.	Sweat Set 01:39	download
11.	Finally Back 01:47	download
12.	Cement Blocks 02:37	download
13.	Knight Fighter 01:15	download
14.	Ghostdust 01:57	download
15.	Buffalo Plaid 01:34	download
16.	Eleventh Hour 01:12	download
17.	Thimble Man 01:33	download
18.	Skronked Up 01:44	download
19.	Cloud Crawl 02:16	download
20.	Lift Every Voice 03:01	download

about

Fresh off his success with Doomtree’s No Kings album, super producer Lazerbeak has announced a new solo project: LAVA BANGERS, due on January 24th. His contributions to No Kings helped earn the album a pile of accolades from critics across the country, including Pitchfork, CMJ (“great hip-hop”), The Onion (A-), and The Star Tribune (Twin Cities album of the year).

LAVA BANGERS is a seamless mix of 20 unreleased Beak instrumental tracks, with transitions, blends, and scratches by DJ Plain Ole Bill. Where many hip hop instrumental albums lean toward the brooding melancholy of strings, down-tempo drums, and slow builds—or simplistic 4-bar loops—Lazerbeak breaks from the pack to create a hard-hitting collection of head-nodders with victorious horn-lines, layered melodies, and monstrous percussion. The tracks are brief and full, songs in their own right with swift dynamic changes and purposeful, deliberate structures. Start to finish, LAVA BANGERS is a composition in motion, never affording listeners the opportunity for boredom or fatigue. One of Lazerbeak’s great strengths may be his flawless timing, his ability to anticipate the exact moment the listener is primed for a change: a dramatic drop, a new, rising melody, an onslaught of fresh drums. In the end, LAVA BANGERS has a closer cousin in Ratatat than in DJ Shadow.

LAVA BANGERS began in Beak’s basement studio as a collection of 150 beats, all created and stored in his MPC. Plain Ole Bill (live DJ for P.O.S and Brother Ali, and contributor to Atmosphere’s Strictly Leak- age and Wugazi’s 13 Chambers) helped to transform the project into a curated collection of Beak’s best work, more polished and more dynamic than the standard beat tape. An internationally touring DJ with more than ten years in the game, Bill’s ear and technical ability (particularly for sequence and transitions) create a higher standard for the project, and it shows. LAVA BANGERS sounds like the work of young veterans, whose talents and enthusiasm are backed and carried by their mastery of craft.

“Lazerbeak is King of the Lavabangers...a king of his craft.” –San Francisco Weekly

“Flawless production.”
–Absolute Punk

“One of Minnesota's most prominent young hip-hop producers.”
–Pitchfork

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released 24 January 2012

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Doomtree is a collective of seven friends who live in Minneapolis and make music together. They’ve earned acclaim for genre- defying recordings, explosive live performances, and their fierce loyalty to one another. Members include P.O.S, Dessa, Sims, Cecil Otter, Mike Mictlan, Lazerbeak, and Paper Tiger. The DIY outfit has built an international fanbase one city, one show, and one song at a time. ... more