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Baltimorean group, Hollertronix-by-proxy, feted by Diplo. Booty Bass meets polyrhythmic hip-hop with porno lyrics. First single, Put The Pussy On Me, just kills - stabbing vocals, synth-heavy but spare production, writhing precussion rattling all the way through. The Voila mixtape is something else, tracks from the forthcoming album cut in with a liberal blizzard of pop from, well, everywhere - a mix that finds space for Baltimore Girls, Led Zeppelin, Frankie Valli and Laurie Anderson. Mindblowing.

And this morning I got their 'rick rubin' single through the post, and it has utterly floored me.

Anyone else excited by this lot?

http://www.spankrock.net/

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Friday, 23 December 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

worst name ever.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 23 December 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

there's an mp3 of 'rick rubin' on the site. it KILLS.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Friday, 23 December 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

I love the few things I've heard. Both "Put That Pussy on Me" and "What It Look Like" were runners-up for my top 10 singles list. Where's the mixtape available?

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 23 December 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Worst live show ever. The collegiate 2 Live Crew, without the crew.

― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 23 December 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

I'd go see them if it were dark and they put paper bags over their heads.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 23 December 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

I avoid this shit like the plague. all the indie stores around here that rarely/never stock Baltimore club music are putting that Hollertronix "bmore gutter music" CD with the drawings of crack vials and an Orioles logo with x'd eyes on prominent display and selling a ton of them.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Friday, 23 December 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

that said I saw a quote from the Spank Rock kid about how he finds it distasteful for new jacks to insert themselves into a pre-existing history re: club music, so I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt that they don't want to become a certain breed of hipster's definition of what Baltimore club music is.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Friday, 23 December 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

They sent me some shit, I haven't checked it out yet. I'm not sure why I'm even posting in this thread, but there you have it.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 23 December 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

If I were feelin' a bit devilish, deej, I'd pop that into ILEpitaphs...

Live, they are pretty unwatchable and I've avoided any recordings.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 December 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

Shouldn't this be C/D rather than S/D?

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Friday, 23 December 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

More on spank rock here:

Baltimore Breakbeat

― dali madison's nut (donut), Friday, 23 December 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

Never having heard of 'em, I saw the phrase "Spank Rock" and thought "Finally: A catchall term for the entirety of Hispanic-American punk rock, from Sam the Sham to ? and The Mysterians to the Plugz!"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 24 December 2005 08:07 (twenty years ago)

distasteful

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 24 December 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

the clips on their site sound like if antipop were trying to actually have fun

― jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 24 December 2005 08:51 (twenty years ago)

antipop trying to have fun sounds like a good thing, but that metaphor doesn't necessarily make spank rock sound like a good thing, if you know what i mean.

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 24 December 2005 08:55 (twenty years ago)

exactly

― jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 24 December 2005 09:03 (twenty years ago)

apparently disco d did the beat in the video on their site. i've been wanting to check him out ever since (get this) i heard that Kevin Federline song he did the beat for.

― jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 24 December 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

OTT: Anti-pop had lots of fun, at least on their last album! I like that album. THIS TRACK IS CALLED BUBBLES.

― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 24 December 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

That mix CD they released this past year was really fun, but I'm finding that I really never want to hear it again. :/

― dali madison's nut (donut), Sunday, 25 December 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

i listened to the bmore gutta music ep today. whatever.

the stuff that worked best for me were the amanda blank / aaron lacrate contributions. but still, it's sort of like, whatever. there's nothing inherently wrong w/ trendy young goodlooking white kids getting over on "it takes two", it's a classic beat, mr t could do his "be nice to your moms" rap over it and it'll still kill w/ that beat, but do they really think they're improving the beat? or are they just avoiding having a real job / using their college degree?

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 25 December 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

impersonating salt'n'pepa in 2006 is basically like one step up from that nerd-rap shit custos posted yesterday (dude from NZ impersonating slick rick but rapping about calculus)

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 25 December 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

yeah, that's too mean. i actually really like the amanda blank parts, esp on "grit city". but maybe to some extent female rap gets a bit of a pass from me. it's prob easier to be convincingly SASSY for a male audience than it is to be ... whatever spank rock's trying to be.

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 25 December 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

i haven't yet heard a line from spank rock yet that sounds as convincing as "it's corrupt where i'm from / edmonton", which is not at all a dis on rollie, but just to say the only reason this guy has an album coming out on big dada is the diplo connection.

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 25 December 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

"What It Look Like" is great. None of the hating on this thread makes any sense.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 25 December 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

I saw Spank Rock when he opened for M.I.A. in Pomona a few months ago and his live show was really fun. Not too much polish, but he did get some uptight girls onstage to ~~dance~~ freak with him. I wanted to get the CD, but they were selling them for like $15! At the merch table! Sorry, but with no distributor/record store markup, I'm not paying more than $10.

― naus (Robert T), Monday, 26 December 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

the beat to rick rubin is amazing but that rapping is fucking horrendous

― okok, Monday, 26 December 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

I've seen spankrock a few times in philly and new york and surprisingly all the shows I saw were pretty fun. They get real crewd and hype (always a good thing). at the last show that girl amanda did some weird acapella rap about being the black ally mcbeal or something and it was weird, but pretty fucking funny and oddly catchy. If I remeber correctly, she then spit her beer all over the audience and said something about artfags and cocaine...it was pretty funny. that said, so far spankrock has yet to disappoint me. I don't know how much i'd pay for his cd but i'd pay a lot to see that shit live

― salome, Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:06 (twenty years ago)

I think Spank Rock is pretty dope. They always look like there having a great time! Plus their DJs rock some serious shit. I can't wait to her the Big Dada album.

― ronye west, Saturday, 7 January 2006 23:23 (twenty years ago)

RonyeDarko? never heard of em

― SpnngDblA.C.T., Sunday, 8 January 2006 08:05 (twenty years ago)

but just to say the only reason this guy has an album coming out on big dada is the diplo connection.

Spank Rock is a group, not a guy, and I'd imagine the reason they have an album coming out on Big Dada is that Will who runs the label puts out what he likes, and has been bigging up this stuff for ages (i remember him telling me about Diplo a few years back, when Diplo was sending him demos).

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Sunday, 8 January 2006 14:27 (twenty years ago)

On first listen I'm surprised at how much I'm enjoying BMore Gutter Music. I could do without the rather suspect "Orioles logo" on the cover, but damnit, this is a good dance mix. And honestly, I don't think it makes much difference whether I get turned on to this sort of thing by slumming white DJs or "authentic" black djs, and it doesn't matter how much class consciousness and skepticism I have about the whole thing -- I'll still be a white guy living in a gentrifying neighborhood, listening to "gutter music" from a safe perch.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 22:14 (twenty years ago)

Ronye Darko. You will hear of 'im.

― ninjuzky, Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

There's a good piece in the current issue of Clash magazine about Baltimore Club... The guy has interviewed Diplo/Spank Rock/LaCrate etc. and none of them want owt to do with the scene! They basically spend the article distancing themselves from any notion of Baltimore Club.

― Leeroy, Friday, 20 January 2006 18:08 (twenty years ago)

that might be because none of them have anything to do with it.

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 20 January 2006 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Isn't Spank Rock from Baltimore?

― Leeroy, Friday, 20 January 2006 18:40 (twenty years ago)

one of them, i think. either way, so are a lot of other people who have nothing to do with club music.

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 20 January 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

just like senor diplo has nothing to do with whatever we're calling that brazillian shit this week

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 20 January 2006 18:53 (twenty years ago)

baileton?

― Dom iNut (donut), Friday, 20 January 2006 18:54 (twenty years ago)

graileton club

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 20 January 2006 18:56 (twenty years ago)

yizzeard?

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 20 January 2006 18:56 (twenty years ago)

...let me answers a few questions for you dilltante muthafuckers

1. they are all from Baltimore originally, its where they met.
2. Spank Rock is the band, the MC is MC Spankrock , or MC Cool Disco Spankrock
3. Spank Rock appreciates Baltimore Club- but doesn't consider themselves B Club.

if you gonna talk- know what you are talking about.

― blegger funyuns, Saturday, 21 January 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

hollertronixtonimeacidrainsparklesparttilyoupukecocainesexjams.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 21 January 2006 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Haha, dilletantes PWNED!

BTW I'm pretty sure at least some of the people involved in that CD are directly involved with Baltimore Club Music (Unruly is a name I've seen)

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 21 January 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

anyone who calls themselves MC Cool Disco Spankrock needs to be punched in the cock, hard

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 21 January 2006 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Cool disco spanked cock.

― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 21 January 2006 23:14 (twenty years ago)

BTW I'm pretty sure at least some of the people involved in that CD are directly involved with Baltimore Club Music (Unruly is a name I've seen)

yeah, Scottie B (founder of Unruly Records, pretty important figure in the history of club music, also posted here on ILM a few times) had some kind of exec producer type credit on that "Bmore Gutter Music" thing, although I don't know if he had any kind of hands-on involvement or just kind of gave them his endorsement. I think I offended him one time when I questioned why he's messing around with Hollertronix people.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Saturday, 21 January 2006 23:49 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

"that said I saw a quote from the Spank Rock kid about how he finds it distasteful for new jacks to insert themselves into a pre-existing history re: club music, so I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt that they don't want to become a certain breed of hipster's definition of what Baltimore club music is. "

hey where can one find that interview????

also, why does everyone hate the group's name so much???

― diletttante, Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

You guys... Too bad all your hang-ups and jealousy about "hipsters" prevent you from enjoying great music. Sue me: I love Spank Rock, Hollertronix *AND* Lil Wayne. I have over 200 Baltimore Club Music joints on my PC, I know the real thing when I hear it. Haters keep hatin' cos they makin' money but Spank ROck got that .

― Guns don't kill people. Chuck Norris kills People., Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

haha yes I'm very proud of you for downloading all that club music, that's really gonna keep the scene afloat! I've got no problem with out-of-towners feeling the music, but all these "early adapters" jumping on it (and not actually giving much/any money to the people actually making it) just means a year or two down the road they'll proclaim it a dead scene and the local DJs/artists/producers won't have much to show for it besides a bunch of magazine clippings.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Skipping 25 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Honestly, i have not gotten sick of listening to Yoyoyoyoyo, even though it is one of the wors album names of all time.

lol, yeah, loven it

― max r, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

am0n you wanna roll up on Diplo's show tomorrow and bust some heads?

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

j/k...i think.

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

jawn @ sonar

― am0n, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

post more diplo emails plz

― deej, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Destroy = Everything

― Jeb, Thursday, 27 September 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

Every old thread I see myself getting amped on something I don't really care about now, god kills a masturbating kitten.

― jaxon, Thursday, 27 September 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

i'm more surprised to read about you getting amped about that kano track, i mean great song and all but thats been getting played out all over the place for awhile!

― deej, Thursday, 27 September 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.djouls.com/ninjatune/images/Spank_Rock-Rick_Rubin_b.jpg

― am0n, Thursday, 27 September 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

http://a35.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/81/l_29ab843d9c48186b7d846be895a9825a.jpg

― max r, Thursday, 27 September 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

xpost - they misspelled "Philadelphia" on that

― am0n, Thursday, 27 September 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

What it boils down to is that most underground hip hop is boring, but this is fun.

― max r, Thursday, 27 September 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

-- Guns don't kill people. Chuck Norris kills People., Thursday, March 16, 2006 5:06 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

― and what, Thursday, 27 September 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

What is a hipster now anyway? 12 year old sunday school kids have green hair and skull tattoos these days.

It's hip to be square!

― max r, Thursday, 27 September 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

What it boils down to is that most underground hip hop is ~~boring, but this is fun.~~ so self-righteously serious that undie heads are ready to go apeshit for the first ironic 'fun' bullshit that comes down the pike that still sounds like dinky IDM rap.

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 27 September 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

and you don't have to listen to vivrant thing. a bonus.
-- scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 17:10 (1 year ago) Link

scotty is tripping billies here.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 27 September 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

x-post

Heads don't really listen to Spank Rock, I don't think.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 27 September 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

What it boils down to is that most underground hip hop is boring, but this is fun. so self-righteously serious that undie heads are ready to go apeshit for the first ironic 'fun' bullshit that comes down the pike that still sounds like dinky IDM rap.

They are not the best producers or MCs, and they are ripping Baltimore House or whatever...

still fun tho.

― max r, Thursday, 27 September 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not talking about heads who were bumping Cormega five years ago, I'm talking about heads who were bumping Anticon five years ago.

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 27 September 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

I see what you mean. I don't think this is quite as nerdy, tho.

― max r, Thursday, 27 September 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

I hate to pull the Fennessey card once again, but:

Frankly Spankro sounds like he looks, squeezing geek chic for all its nu-cool cache. This is something lots of people can relate to, we all want to rock horn rims while the girl twirls her assets right next to us on-stage.

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 27 September 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

well, that is part of the appeal, also i am a sucker for video game noises

― max r, Thursday, 27 September 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not talking about heads who were bumping Cormega five years ago, I'm talking about heads who were bumping Anticon five years ago.
-- Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, September 27, 2007 6:04 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

So, indie-rock kids.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 27 September 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

Not necessarily. There's a lot of kids who like/liked corny indie rap that don't fuck with rock music at all. Obviously there's plenty of crossover there, though.

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 27 September 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

sergdun lol

― and what, Thursday, 27 September 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

and what lol

http://www.hiphoplinguistics.com/reviews/albums/2006/images/7l&esoteric.jpg

― deej, Thursday, 27 September 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

ahhh it's been a while since we've had a good old-fashioned Esoteric picture thread.

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 27 September 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

esoteric is wack but >>>> your sage francis fansite

― and what, Thursday, 27 September 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

i'm just saying, glasshouses.ppt

― deej, Thursday, 27 September 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

I like indie rap with a sense of humour, J-Zone, Plastic Little, etc...
plus I like some techno and electronic bobbins, therefore I like Spank Rock.

yoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyo

― max r, Thursday, 27 September 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

plastic little's blog is a poor man's beer and rap blog
http://jaysonmusson.com/fuckyourblogson.html

― deej, Thursday, 27 September 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

i mean seriously they review the KLAXONS

― deej, Thursday, 27 September 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.jaysonmusson.com/2007/03/packofrats-saturday-night-3-10-07-what.html

― deej, Thursday, 27 September 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

^^ passantino?

― and what, Thursday, 27 September 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

that blog's got a couple of lols in there

― max r, Thursday, 27 September 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

i just listened to these dudes on myspace. it's okay but goddamn i could see this getting annoying as fuck after a couple listen.

it's like someone decided to make a career out of "booty clap" off that prince paul psychoanalysis record

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 27 September 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

with a little peaches influence i guess

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 27 September 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

haha exactly

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 27 September 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

i'm more surprised to read about you getting amped about that kano track, i mean great song and all but thats been getting played out all over the place for awhile!
-- deej, Thursday, 27 September 2007 17:12 (3 hours ago) Link

heh, it wasn' that they just played the kano track, it was that they rapped over it, which, to my drunk ears, sounded fantastic

― jaxon, Thursday, 27 September 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

^^ passantino?

-- and what, Thursday, 27 September 2007 19:23 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

Fuck off for suggesting that I'd drink Australian Pinot Grigio.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 27 September 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

spank rock isnt funny

― max, Thursday, 27 September 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

Amanda Blank RIP

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 27 September 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

heh, it wasn' that they just played the kano track, it was that they rapped over it, which, to my drunk ears, sounded fantastic

-- jaxon, Thursday, September 27, 2007 8:58 PM (2 weeks ago)

uh did you spend the 90s in antarctica or something

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/images/album_images/cov200/pop/cov200/drc600/c657/c65700nw8ll.jpg

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 04:53 (eighteen years ago)

oh sorry, i just read the original post and i see you already made that connection

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 04:54 (eighteen years ago)

i'm spittin bile in your direction because i bought this album and the "b'more gutter music" comp this weekend and i think they both sorta suck

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 04:55 (eighteen years ago)

What it boils down to is that most underground hip hop so self-righteously serious that undie heads are ready to go apeshit for the first ironic 'fun' bullshit that comes down the pike that still sounds like dinky IDM rap.

-- Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, September 27, 2007 1:59 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

this from a cex fan

― and what, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 05:00 (eighteen years ago)

took you 3 weeks to come up with that zing, eh?

― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 13:04 (eighteen years ago)

nine months pass...

"Keep My Composure" is pretty good!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 14 August 2008 17:10 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.thedailyswarm.com/watch/spank-rock-bump-wishbone-salad-dressing-spot/

― and what, Friday, 15 August 2008 16:13 (seventeen years ago)

thank god i have the sound off on my computer at work, and i have a salad in the fridge downstairs to eat after watching that.

― some dude, Friday, 15 August 2008 16:18 (seventeen years ago)

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