DOTTA - ‘Young, Black, And Gifted’ (Beat Tape) - download here…
#ATFU simply doesn’t stop. Dotta is back on the scene with a free beat tape for y’all out there that need something to ride to, something to rhyme to, something to vibe to.
Click the pic to go to DatPiff.com to download ‘Young, Black, And Gifted’.
or use this Mediafire link…
POW.
#ATFU
Download @DOTTA9’s new beat tape here.
Man, #ATFU got that WORK.
RR
#ATFU & NATIVE SUN TOO. (Practice Reel)
Had a great practice with the team today. Power unit. We out here stompin and fonkin. Just a little behind the scenes before you see us out here…
Check us out Friday at The Mousetrap in Naptown and Saturday at Folly Moon in Muncie.
Finna shake some shit, man.
You GON jam.
RR
#LOWER - ‘Missing’ (Listen Here).
#ATFU
My excuse…?
“This is my ‘Duran Duran song’.
(…and it jams)
‘LOWER’ is available on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify now.
#LOWER sessions. ‘Roundabouthere (Rightaboutnow)’ LISTEN HERE. #ATFU
Peace peace…
Recorded for ‘LOWER’, definitely fun, kinda the companion piece to ‘Shake’ from ‘The Tinkerer’. Just a dirty, techno fonkin, poppin, lockin ass shaker…Twerk fummy.
Anyway, up until about 10 days ago, it was the second track on the album…now, it’s a bonus track or sumn. I dig it, personally, but had to accept that within the concept of the ALBUM I was trying to make, it didn’t work as well as I wanted it to.
I moved it around in the sequence, I remixed it, I rethought it…just couldn’t find a way to make it work for ‘LOWER’ when it was all said and done…
…still want y’all to hear it tho…
There it is.
Twerk fummy.
#LOWER #ATFU
So, yeah, man…if you’ve been keeping up, you know I’m about a year into this whole new thang where I do everything on the albums. They’re really ‘solo’ albums, so if you don’t dif them, there’s no one to blame but me.
There’s a totally incredible feeling when you’re doing everything for the album. You LIVE with it, literally…and so do the people around you.
I have always said these albums that I have put out were like ‘children’. I live with em, I work with em all day, just getting them to a point where I can send them out into the world to represent me and themselves well.
With ‘The Tinkerer’, I was learning to paint…with ‘LOWER’, I’m sculpting, comfortably.
‘The Tinkerer’ was more or less, a loose concept album about the joy of discovery, science, and having to overcome fear of the unknown to get to (and create something) great. It was my first time being responsible for everything on an album, from the music, to the narrative, to the mixdown…everything. I tied all that into the album itself; it really is an album about making the album, dressed up as a mad scientist/monster flick.
I was at home, in my little music-room (calling it a ‘studio’ sounds pretentious. I made ‘The Tinkerer’ and ‘LOWER’ on the laptop on which I am typing this and there ain’t no ‘drum room’ in my house), figuring out how to use all this stuff that had been sitting here at my disposal for YEARS. ’The Tinkerer’ was about creating a whole new thing from bits and pieces of what was already there, just like Dr. Frankenstein zapping life into dead body parts…
…or Afrika Bambaataa playing ‘breaks’ in the park…
…or Jimi Hendrix utilizing the ‘mistake’ of feedback to make a guitar sound like a dolphin.
…or Andy Warhol realizing that those soup cans might look cool presented differently.
You get the idea by now…I think I’m Nikolai Tesla, yo. Art is science, science is art.
I didn’t realize I was starting ‘LOWER’ when I started it. That’s kinda how it works, I write a few tunes…and a few weeks later, I’m looking at a batch of songs for a project. The project then begins to define itself as I follow where the spirit takes me to make the music.
The whole time I was crafting what would become ‘LOWER’, I was listening to (and studying) David Bowie. I’d bang out the rare new release here-and-there, but would always go back to the Bowie. I bought pretty much all his studio albums and absorbed them, totally enjoying the process of discovering this ‘new’ classic artist. It was ‘new’ to me; obviously, I was familiar with his work and had a singles collection, but this was my first time delving into the albums and the characters and mythology he created. It was pretty awesome, yo, pretty damn awesome. Maybe I can be that for someone else; I sure enough have the discography…and I’m still adding on and growing.
I found the focus of my album at some point during that year. I had recorded about 10 songs at that point. Once I knew what I wanted to do, I kept writing, remixing, producing, adding on…I ended up with about 35 songs to pick from for ‘LOWER’. I had the album down to 19 tracks up until about a week ago, when the process of resequencing required me to actually cut some tracks. Sometimes, you hafta cut things away to get to what you’re really trying to do.
Now, I’m there, man. I took the bandages off and realized I was ‘The Thin Beige Duke’.
All the Bowie, the science-fiction, ‘space’, the sounds, the soul, the synths, the FONK…it’s there. ‘The Tinkerer’ was The ‘Kid ‘making a man’. ‘LOWER’ is the soundtrack to a movie about that very man building a spaceship in his back yard. (I don’t wanna give it away, but the spaceship actually ends up working…)
I guess the next move is to get the finished product to you, huh? Word…I can’t wait and we’re tryna make that happen asaptually…
…along with some ‘…other’ things.
In the meantime, please check out the DIY videos on YouTube that I made for ‘LOWER’…
‘LOWER’ playlist on YouTube.
…and the free ‘LEMMIGITPAID’ Maxi-Single on my Bandcamp page…
‘LEMMIGITPAID’ Maxi-Single on Bandcamp
and get that ‘Slim Get Fonkay (Slim Gon Tell It)’ while you’re at it…
‘Slim Get Fonkay (Slim Gon Tell It)’ on Bandcamp
…and you can click the pic to go to my Soundcloud page to hear more…I stay workin.
Rusty Redenbacher Soundcloud Page
Awww…my last album, ‘The Tinkerer’ is streaming on Spotify, if you wanna hear what I was talking about…you can buy it on iTunes and Amazon too, man.
Rusty Redenbacher Page on Spotify
Ayyyy…Slim would not be mad if you hit ‘like’ on my Facebook page, yo…
Rusty Redenbacher Facebook Page
Aight, I’m gonna be streaming some tunes and letting you hear more of what has been going on over cheah soon, man.
Thanks for everything to all y’all out there rocking with #ATFU and myself.
‘LOWER’ IS GONNA ROCK YOUR FACE.
#LOWER - final sequence, finally. #ATFU
So yeah…
This is it. 16 tracks. I resequenced it, trimmed some fat, got it to where it’s a nice, lean machine that rooooolls the way it’s supposed to.
I wrote, produced, performed, recorded, and mixed about 35 songs for this album, man. To get it to a point where it became ‘LOWER’, I had to make some moves, man…moving tracks around, remove some tracks. I wanted to give y’all an ALBUM. I alw
‘LOWER’ is now AN ALBUM. It was AN ALBUM when it had 20 tracks, it’s a BETTER ALBUM with 16 tracks. It’s focused. I had announced a sequence before, probably a little premature with that. Heh.
Bangin now tho….gonna be hitting y’all with some more tracks here soon and figuring out a release date. Proud of this one, man. Another fonkay Naptown Slim production, I am The Thin Beige Duke. Cooooold-blooded.
‘LOWER’…soon, man. This is it.
#ATFU
#Tinkerer @rustymk2 #truth #ATFU #therealIndy (Taken with Instagram)
My man! Right on, @troyjpadilla!
#FreeDownloads #2HoursOfMixedMusic
Got in the mix today and had a gang of fun with it. Thought I’d share.
They’re two…well…four separate sets, but they’re paired up to work together. Basically, two separate hours of mixing…You can see what’s on there with the pics.
Just rock with me, I like a lotta stuff. Always glad to turn folks on to sometjing they may not be hip to or play something they dig already in a different way.
‘RUSTY’S MONDAY GROOVE (PARTS 1 & 2)’ (Mediafire)
‘SLIM’S PICKIN’S (Parts 1 & 2)’ (Mediafire)
Y’all have fun with those.
Holler at ya on the TV, radio and online.
I AM out cheah.
#FreeDownload #NewMusic #Lemmigitpaid #LOWER #ATFU
CLICK THE PIC TO DOWNLOAD THE ‘LEMMIGITPAID’ MAXI-SINGLE.
RIGHT ON,
#LEMMIGITPAID #LOWER #other #ATFU
Been cranking out mad work in the Iron Man Monster Factory. I got two albums coming to y’all and one of em is free.
Thought I would give y’all a bit of an idea of what I’m working with, Check me out. You dig it, pass it on.
Grassroots from the crossroads.
Listen…
Click the pic to download from my Bandcamp page.
Click HERE to download directly from Soundcloud.
2 albums, 38 tracks…so far…one of em’ll be free. Slim got you.
Get ready for ‘LOWER’.
Get ready for ‘…other’.
#LOWER - Tracklist and links to the stuff you can mess with now…
Let’s get to it…
Rusty Redenbacher (#ATFU) - ‘LOWER’
1. Test Marketing/Celebrity Endorsement/The Solution (intro)
3. Roundabouthere (Rightaboutnow)
4. My Game, My Time
5. Kindergarten/School
6. Warm Thoughts
7. Good To See You Again
8. Double Dutch
11. Me And Jimi In The Hovercraft
12. Boogie With Slim
13. Slave
15. Insomnia
16. Slim Get Fonkay (Slim Gon Tell It)
17. Lemmigitpaid
18. Hot For You
19. EHWY
…and there it is. Now here’s where you can really get into it early.
Rusty Redenbacher (#ATFU) - ‘LOWER’ playlist on (YouTube)
Rusty Redenbacher (#ATFU) - ‘LOWER’, 5 song preview (Soundcloud)
Rusty Redenbacher (#ATFU) - ‘Slim Get Fonkay (Slim Gon Tell It)’ (Bandcamp)
Yeah, this joint gonna rock your face. I look forward to getting the complete work to you.
Peace, Respect, and Grace, y’all. Get LOWER.
