Tobacco - La Uti

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4...according to our Business Lady on Thu 18 Nov, 2010.

That Black Moth Super Rainbow dude returns with a companion piece to the summer's 'Maniac Meat' LP. Here we get three brand new tracks accompanied by four super reworked numbers from 'Maniac Meat' with collaborative assistance provided by Anti-Pop Consortium, Doseone, Rob Sonic (Def Jux), Serengeti, Zackey Force Funk, Wham City associate Height, and Icicle Frog. If you've heard either Tobacco, or any other Anticon releases for that matter, you'll be aware that they trade in wild ass underground reinterpretations of traditional hip-hop forms, twisting that shit inside out to create new and exciting flavours. I thought 'Maniac Meat' had some pretty sweet moments and it doesn't surprise me that the album was a collaboration with Beck, another artist known to dabble in genre mashing, beats and rhymes... This shit is certainly on the same page. The rhyme collaborators really go for it on LA Uti with Doseone and Anti-Pop Consortium being particularly memorable efforts. Musically, we're talking loud, lairy and out of control with distorted samples and massive beats assaulting the ear throughout. You can totally feel that compression. An awesome 12" with super ridiculous artwork. Check it out YO! YO! YO! YO!

* 7 track picture disc LP strictly limited to 300 units for Europe. Download coupon included.

* Features collaboration with Anti-Pop Consortium, Doseone, Rob Sonic (Def Jux), Serengeti, Zackey Force Funk,
Height, and Icicle Frog.

* Hot on the heels of his acclaimed second album, Maniac Meat (Pitchfork’s “feel-weird hit of the summer,” 4/5 from
Spin), TOBACCO returns with LA UTI. A companion piece to that late May release, this EP delivers three brand new
tracks and four considerable reworkings, all featuring guest raps from a cross-country, cross-crew line-up of hip-hop
misfits. Previous TOBACCO team-ups -- Aesop Rock appeared on Fucked Up Friends (2008), and Beck on Maniac Meat
-- hinted at a world where his psychedelic synth funk scores others’ cracked musings. LA UTI wrangles Anti-Pop
Consortium, Rob Sonic, Doseone, Zackey Force Funk and more to become the screwed-up, bog-dwelling rap tape
TOBACCO fans always knew he had in him.

* The familiar rhythmic crunch of “TV All Greasy” greets listeners, but this time APC’s Beans kicks things off with an
alliterative salvo, adding his own odd imagery to the analogue beat stew. Likewise, “Lick the Witch” gets worked over by
the propulsive flow of Def Jux’s Rob Sonic, while Baltimore resident and Wham City associate Height lays down some
lyrical boom-bap over “Sweatmother.” Maniac Meat’s “Unholy Demon Rhythms” gets the strangest rebirth, here featuring
the Mooninite-style toasting of a mysterious entity known only as Icicle Frog.

* Scattered throughout are the new ones, crusty sludge-slathered bangers custom made for their vocalists. TOBACCO’s
own ghostly crooning offsets the maximalist style-hopping of Doseone (Subtle, Themselves) on the relatively minimal
track “The Injury.” Chicago’s Serengeti gets “2 Thick Scoops” of clanging drums and distorted synth throb to accompany
his associative doom rap. And closer “Lamborghini Meltdown,” featuring Tuscon up-and-comer Zackey Force Funk, is the
perfect collaboration, finding the falsetto’d soul vocals of the Machina Muerte member buttressed by a something that’s
equal parts strip club sleaze, gangsta jam and art-house noir.

TRACKLIST:

1. TV All Greasy (ft. Anti-Pop Consortium) 2. The Injury (ft. Doseone) 3. Lick The Witch (ft. Rob Sonic)
4. 2 Thick Scoops (ft. Serengeti) 5. Sweatmother (ft. Height) 6. Unholy Demon Rhythms (ft. Icicle Frog) 7. Lamborghini
Meltdown (ft. Zackey Force Funk)

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