"Crossing The Line" opens the album with dramatic piano loops and samples of military orders delivered through a speakerphone. At just over a minute long, the intro serves the purpose of bringing you into a strange and uncomfortable World where Armageddon seems imminent. "Game Boy Predator" is an all out audio assault on your eardrums.
Bigg Jus - Machines That Make Civilization Fun Mush Records: 2012 (Here is where the reformed English grad student in me makes an appearance.) Ishmael Reed is one of my all-time favorite authors. His seminal work, 1972's Mumbo Jumbo , is a true literary collage. It is a dense 220 pages (depending on which edition you consider). The book incorporates footnotes, quotes from other texts, seemingly misplaced pictures, different fonts designed to offset specific passages, and asides that are signed by the author himself. All of these pieces seem dissimilar when considered separately, [...]
Bigg Jus triumphantly returns with "Black Roses" an aggressive and menacing single that puts his lyrical incisiveness front and center as he rails against wealth, power, and oppression with the trademark flow that has made him a legend of the underground rap game. Like Machines That Make Civilizations Fun, the album from which it is culled, "Black Roses" is free-flowing and forceful. On top of a down-and-dirty horn loop, Bigg Jus intensely spits lines with "the audacity of a pitbull fucking a hippopotamus." The single comes with two remixes, including the first studio collaboration between Jus and El-P since the [...]
![[Listen] Bigg Jus (of Company Flow) "Black Roses" x El-P's Brooklyn Heatwave Mix](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4148767_lg.jpg)
Company Flow ryhme spitter Bigg Jus returns for LP #4, Machines That Make Civilization Fun dropping May 8th via (Laitdbac/Module/Mush Records). The first single "Black Roses" from the upcoming album hit digital shelves this week which and features remixes from Saul Williams producer Thavius Beck and Company Flow co-hort El-P , marking the first studio collaboration between the Company Flow members since 1997's Funcrusher Plus. Check out the single as well as El-P's remix below. With the groups recent live reunion and this collaboration, hopefully, we can get [...]
Having reconvened with Bigg Jus and Mr. Len for July's inaugural London leg of ATP's I'll Be Your Mirror , Jaime Meline (as he's known to the feds) or El-P (as he's known to both we and his new discographic home Fat Possum) again goes it alone for third studio full-length Cancer for Cure. Expected May, it's Meline's first recorded output in five years and, if second single The Full Retard may be regarded as an accurate benchmark for the record's general standard it'd seem that the sonic schizophrenia's been exacerbated if anything. I'll Sleep When You're [...]
Bigg Jus (Company Flow) returns with a new track "Advance Lightbody Activation", off his forthcoming Machines That Make Civilization Fun dropping May 8th via Mush Records. MushRecords.com
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Bigg Jus - This Is Poor People's Day This post is a response to something that a friend of mine shared on Facebook. He posted an anti-Occupy picture that I found offensive. If you'd like to look at the picture, it's here (I linked instead of embedding because it's mean-spirited and makes me a bit queasy). Basically, the picture is of a teenager who has never worked a day in her life holding a sign accusing the protesters of being lazy and calling them spoiled. It made me angry, so I made my second donation [...]
On Friday's, content becomes a free-for-all and perfect time for us to share this lost remix of Company Flow's "N2N Burners" circa 1998. Complete with flecks of dust, the newfound version is composed of a lo-fi groove similar to ones which made the group kings of the underground once upon a time and creates an aura that feels like old times again, if only for four minutes. FYI, El-P, Bigg Jus, and Mr. Len are reuniting for their first show in ten years on July 16th at Santos Party House, NYC. [...]
![[Download] Company Flow Reunite For NYC Show, El-P Gives Out Rare Remix For Free](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3543681_lg.jpg)
Before heading over to London to perform with Portishead at the I'll Be Your Mirror festival, Company Flow (EL-P, Bigg Jus and Mr. Len) will share the stage once again, as the full outfit, for the first time in over 10 years at Santos Party House on July 16th. Some may recall a Co Flow reunion back in 2007 during the Def Jux Showcase at CMJ, however, it was only 2/3rds of the group as DJ Mr. Len was not present. Many old friends and special guests are still to be announced for this upcoming show (fingers crossed [...]
The Ninjatune label is twenty years ago this year, and in September are releasing a slick 6 CD boxset with favorites and rarities. The artwork for the project has been done by openmind. Additionally a book, Ninja Tune: 20 Years of Beats and Pieces written by music journalist Stevie Chick will be available in August. [...]
El-P , Bigg Jus , and Mr. Len have parted ways since the break up of Company Flow in 2001, but the once influential hip-hop group is gaining collective recognition once more, as El-P's record label, Definitive Jux Records , plans to re-release a reissued copy of 1997's Funcrusher Plus in May. The critically acclaimed Funcrusher Plus has been off of shelves since 2006, but will be available once more on May 5th, with exclusive rare tracks from the groundbreaking hip-hop group added into the [...]
Audiversity's weekly column on random music in a predetermined number of words. This week's randomly generated number: 133. (We got sick of 144) MA: (#133 of a random playlist generated from my ever-changing database of 12,500+ songs) Bigg Jus - Anything You See Fit (Change by Design) - Poor People's Day ( Mush 2005) When we think Company Flow, we think the reinvention of underground hip-hop in the mid-90s, we think aggressive, witty, dense, unrelenting rap, we think Rawkus, we think [...]
First some MP3s by hip hop artists playing SXSW.... DOWNLOAD: Bigg Jus - Illustrations Of Hieronymus (NYC) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Brother Ali - Truth Is (Minneapolis) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Buck 65 - Kennedy Killed the Hat (Canada) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Cadence Weapon - Sharks (Canada) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Dujeous - Sometimes (NYC) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Doujah [...]
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