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― ep, Tuesday, 12 November 2002 08:50 (twenty-three years ago)

oh fuck this is the 'original thread' im going to be linking to in two months isnt it

― ep, Tuesday, 12 November 2002 08:55 (twenty-three years ago)

haha ethan wants to "fuck the majesticons"

― minna (minna), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 09:34 (twenty-three years ago)

the album is awesome

― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 10:30 (twenty-three years ago)

i get headaches thinking how bad i want this lp

― bob zemko (bob), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 10:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Is it out yet?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 11:18 (twenty-three years ago)

january 27th 2003!

also heard the rest if big dada's roster of releases for next year this afternoon. good stuff! esp. MF Doom's next project.

― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 21:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Hell yeah. So who else is in this besides Mike Ladd? And, um, I thought the Infesticons were the 'good guys' in Mike Ladd mythology land?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 22:17 (twenty-three years ago)

yes yes YES thats why im hoping itll be full of d prez style ironic mainstream production!!! i mean gun hill road was just incredibly painfully ill, dont tell anybody on ilm but its dangerously close to what id come up with if i made an album :-X, majesticons is going to be the lick!!

― ep, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 06:49 (twenty-three years ago)

By Christ I want to hear this album! Pleeeeeease! Nooooow....

― Charlie (Charlie), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 07:01 (twenty-three years ago)

what mine

― ep, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 07:18 (twenty-three years ago)

ethan, i trust this mythical album would feature fairlight orchestral stabs & big, gated hexagonal drums.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 07:23 (twenty-three years ago)

big juss LP will be on big dada

*swoon*

― bob zemko (bob), Thursday, 14 November 2002 02:45 (twenty-three years ago)

So what's the single sound like?

― Dan I., Thursday, 14 November 2002 08:20 (twenty-three years ago)

2 months? ep you underestimate, a week later and I'm hearing this and I am def. seeing the ironic dead prez thing you keep banging on about. This makes Gun Hill Road sound incredibly dreary and boring in comparison. Themes vs. Parties. I will be hearing the album soon so I am wondering if this will deliver.

― Honda (Honda), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 04:39 (twenty-three years ago)

So I'm lost here -- I know Mike Ladd and Dead Prez, but nobody else who has been mentioned (not to mention the labels). More context, please?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 05:55 (twenty-three years ago)

big dada is ninja tunes hiphop label, probably my fav 'undie' rap label ever, these dudes put out mike ladd's infesticons - gun hill road lp in 2000, it was on this ill grimy futuristic tip but not in a gay cann ox style, majesticons were the antagonists in mike ladds world, their one track on the cd was this beautiful jack of black shampoo from wu tang forever, anyway now theres a whole majesticons thing coming out

― s trife (simon_tr), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 06:01 (twenty-three years ago)

so ned...

― s trife (simon_tr), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 06:08 (twenty-three years ago)

you think youll cop it when it comes out?!!

― s trife (simon_tr), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 06:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Mike Ladd. It's a start!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 06:10 (twenty-three years ago)

did you get into him off my review

― s trife (simon_tr), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 06:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Nope, stumbled across some album of his a few years back. That thing that surfaced on Scratchie, I think.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 06:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn... Why to launch a Majesticons stuff in place of another Infesticons battle theme work? I hope really hope they're will be countersrikes of the Infesticons on the LP. We'll have to wait in caught beetween now and Mike Ladd's afterfutre.

― Some Body, Wednesday, 27 November 2002 09:14 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

it's a trilogy

― minna (minna), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 13:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Third chapter = synthesis. "Xesticons 4ever"

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:57 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

Just got the album ("Beauty Party"). It's a piss-take on gold chain/r'n'b hip hop, most of the tracks are clever parodies of that genré. The funny thing is, Beauty Party works exactly because the tracks are so smooth (it would be a great party record even without the irony). None of that artsy arythmic spoken-word stuff, even Mr. Ladd himself sounds an old-school lover man. Of course, the beats and electro backgrounds are great, otherwise Beauty Party would be too near to the thing it mocks.

― Tuomas Alho, Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the jokes are pretty good and the sounds are often really pretty (the cheapness sort of works in their favour, sort of doesn't) but the whole thing's lacking energy - it's like the producer (and I've never heard his other stuff) has completely mastered the head-nodding groove but can't up the tempo and drive. It's a shame because this could have been hip-hop's Scritti Politti!

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 21 February 2003 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm really mad my review got lost in the pazz&jop slush

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 21 February 2003 16:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah I totally missed it! You should advertise them on NYLPM :)

Good review. The thing I like about it is how magnificently and likeably OTT some of the ultra-capitalist stuff is - that's when it works as a sitcom (one where you identify with the 'bad' guys) rather than not-quite-working as a satire.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 21 February 2003 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

The Pitchfork review of it will be the next big ILM thread I predict.

(Whatever it says).

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 21 February 2003 16:49 (twenty-three years ago)

hey is that jeff koons at the top of the thread?

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 22 February 2003 04:39 (twenty-three years ago)

there was way more energy on 'gun hill road' funnily enough

― zemko (bob), Saturday, 22 February 2003 18:34 (twenty-three years ago)

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