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Artist:	FOOD FOR ANIMALS
Title:	Belly
Label:	HOSS RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	HOSS 010LP

"Given the current climate of the hip-hop world -- where the most ear-bendingly innovative production often serves as aural sweetener for the by-rote thug lyricism of so much mainstream rap -- the notion of 'indie' hip-hop (at least as a signifier of boundary-pushing music) probably seems quaint at best and woefully outdated at worst. The Baltimore/Washington, DC-based Food For Animals are all-too-aware of this conundrum, but rather than retreating to Golden-Era boom-bapisms -- or simply bathing such warmed-over beat production in fuzz -- the three-man group take what they like, and blow the genre wide open. Moored by Ricky Rabbit's fractured, lush beat production -- which references the gamut of contemporary urban and electronic musics (Southern hip-hop, ghettotech, Baltimore club, dubstep, power electronics, straight-up noise) -- rappers Vulture V and new member Hy weave intricate back-and-forth flows explicating the highs and lows of life in 'the belly.' Belly is Food For Animals' first full-length album, following 2004's Scavengers EP. Drawing upon influences as disparate as Outkast, Pita, Wu-Tang, and The Pop Group, Food For Animals literally sound like no one else. Easily their opus, Belly is about being eaten and coming out different."

Artist:	MI AMI
Title:	Towers Fall
Label:	HOSS RECORDS
Format:	12"
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	HOSS 015EP

"Comprised of two former members of Washington, DC's Black Eyes (guitarist/singer Daniel Martin-McCormick and bassist Jacob Long) along with drummer Damon Palermo, San Francisco's Mi Ami have spent the past couple of years asserting themselves as a caterwauling dub-punk force, evidenced by both their recent scorched-earth tourdates with Thank You and their full-length debut Watersports (Quarterstick/Touch and Go). For the first volume of our new 'techno' series, Mi Ami take a lateral step away from the visceral punch of their live show toward something almost purely electronic. Using Shackleton's now-seminal 'Blood On My Hands' as a source/jumping-off point, 'Towers Fall' marries the band's slowly unfolding polyrhythmic grooves and washes of oceanic bass to a long-form synth-and-drum machines workout. 'Towers Fall (Cassette Mix)' -- perhaps best seen as a dub-style 'version' rather than a traditional remix -- revels in beats dirtier and more acid-tinged, but still indebted to the past twenty years of the dancefloor diaspora: Chicago house, Berlin minimal, U.K. dubstep -- 'techno,' however you define it."

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