On Love Him, Italian turntablist and sampling artist, Økapi (Filippo Paolini), masterfully conducts a plundered symphony of more than 100 elements to celebrate the notorious Kyrgyz composer Aldo Kapi (1896-1952). Somewhere in between record digging, electro-acoustic tomfoolerly and slot-machine soundcards, lies the break-NOT-core, bubble-gum experimentalism of this new full-length from Italy's own "Daft Giraffe."
Junk Culture
West Coast - CD / download
Junk Culture - West Coast
A new project by Deepak Mantena, who was recently signed to Illegal Art. On “West Coast,” Deepak's samples are all run through a handheld recorder that gives his constructions a gritty lo-fi loop-based sound, mixing fractured vocals, pop hooks, and an overall euphoric warmth.
also: Junk Culture t-shirt only available with the CD purchase or at a show. When ordering put your size in the comments (S, M, L, XL, and ladies L)
The Bran Flakes
I Have Hands - CD / download
The Bran Flakes - Van Pop
Formed in 1992 amidst tape and zine trading scenes, The Bran Flakes already have seven releases of zany mashups and poppy audio collages that are more likely to cop a riff from Evel Knievel than anything on the current radio dial. Six years since their last release, they return with the absurdly entertaining I Have Hands.
Girl Talk
Feed The Animals - CD / download
Girl Talk - Set It Off
Pittsburgh artist Gregg Gillis (aka Girl Talk) has scrupulously created music from samples for over eight years. His fourth album, Feed the Animals, continues his sonic evolution towards his party-infested live shows. With hours of material collected from two years of live shows, Gillis meticulously edited together a seamless album that combines 300+ samples.
Steve Stein is one of the most influential producers in hiphop, sampling, and cut & paste. Known simply as Steinski, his legendary mixes with Double Dee, “The Lessons,” are cited as definitive influences by DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist and Fatboy Slim, among others. What Does It All Mean?: 1983-2006 Retrospective is the first and only official Steinski collection.
Oh Astro
Champions of Wonder - CD / download
Oh Astro - Hello Fuji Boy
"In true Illegal Art fashion, Jane Dowe and Hank Hofler’s first full-length as Oh Astro is comprised almost solely of sampled material. Champions of Wonder is an experimental conglomeration of glitchy techno, ambient, and broken-beat, all layered with distorted vocals that offset the album’s poppier moments with ghostly eeriness." -XLR8R
Realistic
Perpetual Memory Loss - CD / download
Realistic - The Camera Track
Realistic's third album, Perpetual Memory Loss, features sixteen tracks of intricate sample-based compositions - a beautifully sophisticated celebration of found sound, recorded media, technology, and electronic composition. Slices of field recordings mesh with surreal electronic melodies, which creates enjoyably odd multi-layered musical fun. Realistic is the guise of sound collage artist James Towning, by day a Brooklyn-based motion-graphics designer.
Girl Talk
Night Ripper - CD / download
Girl Talk - Bounce That
Girl Talk's 3rd album. It bangs as a continuous mix packed with wildly disparate Top 40 genres and eras. Hip hop hits, soft rock radio standards, party classics, grunge masterpieces, R&B singles, glossy club-shakers, and rock anthems are all layered and pieced meticulously together into one non-stop celebration of pop and excess.
Vinyl versions: 180 gram double LP in deluxe gatefold packaging.
P. Miles Bryson - (A brief but incongruous) Introduction on How to..
P. Miles carves out an addictive mix where the songs are both altered and preserved. In the end the listener is left with a dizzying yet amazingly friendly collage that merges fascism with interior decorating.
Girl Talk
Unstoppable - CD
Girl Talk - Bodies Hit the Floor
Classic Girl Talk, from 2004! Cuts up endless top 40 sources at a breakneck pace to create the perfect A.D.D. club mix. This is the jump off!
B'O'K'
Afraid of Enduring Freedom - CD
B'O'K' - Too Much Anthrax
A 'War on Terrorism' Documentary by B'O'K
1 a) Footage Louder than a Bomb b) Hunt Down and Punish c) I'm Afraid 2 a) Polite Means b) I'm Quite Afraid 3 a) Too Much Anthrax b) Escape from New York 4 a) The Judgment of Lesser Nations b) I'm Rather Afraid c) What's Been Going on? 5 a) I'm Very Afraid b) The Opposite of Peace c) Oilfinger 6 a) I'm Extremely Afraid b) Terror and Suicide c) To Carry On
Girl Talk
Secret Diary - CD
Girl Talk - I Want You Back
The debut Girl Talk album from 2002! Glitchy!! Imagine The Jackson 5 riding pink unicorns on digital heroin through a rainbow of pure emotion. Your CD player is not skipping!
Corporal Blossom
Mutated Christmas - CD / download
Corporal Blossom - White Christmas
Armed with 100s of recordings taken from file sharing, thrift store vinyl, and other sources, several artists were enlisted to remix and reassemble classic Christmas songs. The project was conceived by New York artist Corporal Blossom and also contains material from other underground musicians such as DJ Olive, Fognode, No-L, Mom and Daddy, Lustmord, Grassy Knoll, Lovecraft Technologies, and more.
Okapi - Love Him
