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
#LOWER - available NOW on iTUNES.
Welcome to the bottom.
Click the pic to go to the iTunes page for my latest album.
Thanks.
RR
#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.
DOTTA - ‘FOREVER DOPE’ (LP) on BANDCAMP now!
Click the pic, it’ll take ya right over there to cop the new LP from DOTTA. Co-Produced by our man, GD HARPO, this is another certified dope #ATFU endeavor.
We ain’t for the talkin…the music speaks for itself. We stay forever dope.
We are #ATFU.
Cop that.
More coming…we here. 10/22 is nigh…
NEW DOTTA!!!!!!
Click the pic and cop ‘FOREVER DOPE’! 16 new tracks! Co-Produced by HARPO!
NEW #ATFU!!!
pow.
RR
Faces will rock.
Tracklist and links to everything so far coming very soon.
There’s a lot to check for and I appreciate you doing so.
Thanks.
#ATFU
#NewVideo - ‘Slim Get Fonkay (Slim Gon Tell It)’ - #LOWER #ATFU
Shot this with the iPhone again. Having too much fun to stop.
Wanted to get something to y’all until the ‘SHAKE’ video is ready. Saw some of it yesterday…it was looking GOOD, man. Lefty The Eye is cooking something special for The Tinkerer.
You can download ‘Slim Get Fonkay (Slim Gon Tell It)’ here…
or here.
Right on…I’ll be rocking your face more soon.
LOWER is really gonna rock your face.
I really want y’all to check for this ‘Slim Get Fonkay (Slim Gon Tell It)’
#LOWER IS SOOOOOOO GONNA ROCK YOUR FACE!!!
#ATFU, YO.
As always, salute @HotMixPrinceJay for the great look and constant support. You can go here to hear this buzzy, fonkay, body-rocking shit I dropped last night, #ASWELL.
TYWBG.
#ATFU IS THE VIBE AND THE CREW. GET HIP NOW.
Shouts to @MeenaFresh and @KevinNottingham for the great look. Hit the link and get this new shit I dropped last night.
#LOWER IS GONNA ROCK YOUR FACE.
#ATFU is the vibe and the crew.
#NaptownSlim #LOWER #OTHER #ATFU #GMGC
Probably gonna drop this on my Bandcamp soon.
Slim be preachin. Slim gon tell it.
#LOWER is being mastered. Really close to done and it BANGS. Picking final sequence now. It’s deep, baby. There’s a lot to choose from; Slim puts in WORK.
If you don’t, I’d rather you not try to relate to me. You can’t. I work for whatever I get and hold my head high knowing that I earned it doing ‘ME’.
We might be talking about ‘work ethic’ soon…
‘Get Money, Get Cake’…but every dollar ain’t a good dollar.
NEW TYLER KNAPP! ‘LISTENING SKILLS’!
AHHHHHHH!!!!! Tyler Knapp (ELP-MASS, the producer of Mudkids) has a dope album out!!
Tyler told me he’s “catching up with technology” when I saw him the other night. It was so great to holler at the homey! He’s still crafting those super dope tracks.
If you’re into Dilla, Madlib, DOOM or any other producer that really crafts tracks that speak on their own, you would definitely enjoy Tyler’s work. I think he is an absolute genius that made me a better artist just by being around him. I have five Mudkids releases and a legacy of incredible memories and lessons to show for it.
Check out Tyler Knapp’s website to catch up with him as he catches up with technology.
Mudkids for life.
RR
