Hot on the heels of Chris Goss' recent live appearances with Dave Grohl's Sound City Players, Masters Of Reality are back! The band is touring Europe throughout the month of June, in support of the recently released Masters Of Reality: Deluxe Edition, available now on 2xLP or 2xCD. Masters Of Reality: Deluxe Edition features the
1988, Rick Rubin-produced, debut self-titled LP (including all tracks
from both the Def American & Delicious Vinyl versions) as well as
their rare 1997 LP How High The Moon: Live At The Viper Room. Get yours now!
Masters Of Reality: Chris Goss - vocals / guitar Dave Catching - guitar John Leamy - drums Mathias Schneeburger - keyboards Paul Powell - bass
Several months after opening shows at Los Angeles’ Roxy (video) and San Francisco’s Low End Theory (video), Fatlip, Slimkid3, J-Swift, L.A. Jay and Delicious Vinyl have taken Bizarre Ride Live - the performance that recreates The Pharcyde’s classic 1992 debut Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde onstage – from Canada to Japan to Singapore and back (video).
Bowing to popular demand, they now announce their return to Europe for a
series of summer dates across England, Ireland, Scotland, Austria,
Italy, France, Holland and Germany.
Original Pharcyde emcees Fatlip and
Slimkid3 combine with Bizarre Ride producers J-Swift and L.A.
Jay as well as former Wascals emcee K-Natural, blurring the lines
between a straight up hip-hop show and a theatrical performance. Expect
animated hip-hop, energetic raps, bright colors, b-boy throw-downs,
magnetic visuals, a heavy dose of humour, and absolutely everything in
between.
Bizarre Ride Live commemorates the 20th anniversary of
Delicious Vinyl’s release of the LP Kanye West calls his “favorite
album”, re-released as a 3-CD deluxe edition (view here),
and revisited by UK deejay Chris Read for his Wax Poetics-sponsored
20th-anniversary mix, which blends many of the alternate versions found
in the deluxe edition (listen here). Since embarking on Bizarre Ride Live, the crew have been featured on District MTV (watch interview here), Peter Rosenberg and Cipha Sounds’ Juan Epstein podcast (listen here) and the Tim Westwood show (watch here).
Bizarre Ride Live - Europe Summer 2013
June 20Lille - France
June 21Vienna - Austria
June 22Hannover - Germany
June 23Den Haag - The Netherlands
June 24Frankfurt - Germany
June 25Erlangen - Germany
June 26Heidelberg - Germany
June 27Glastonbury - England
June 28London - England
June 29Manchester - England
June 30Glasgow - Scotland
July 1Liverpool - UK
July 2Paris - France
July 3Venice - Italy
July 4Munich - Germany
July 5Münster - Germany
July 6Rotterdam - The Netherlands
July 7Dublin - Ireland
July 8Brighton - England
New from Delicious Vinyl and Yancey Media Group, previously unreleased music from J Dilla - The Lost Scrolls Vol. 1 and the long-awaited official release of Frank-N-Dank 48 Hours (Produced by J Dilla). Also available, Yancey Boys "The Throwaway (feat. Frank NItt)" digital single, which includes instrumental, acapella and clean versions of the cut found on The Lost Scrolls. Each of these releases are available digitally in mp3 or lossless wav format. The Lost Scrolls Vol. 1 is also available as a limited edition 10" vinyl EP, while 48 Hours can also be purchased on compact disc as well as on 12" vinyl.
In February 2013 Bizarre Ride Live will be hitting European shores,
touching down in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the UK, to continue
celebrations for the twentieth anniversary of Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde.
To offer fans of the classic hip hop album a unique opportunity to warm
up for Bizarre Ride Live on one of their european tour dates, Delicious
Vinyl have teamed up with Mixcloud to launch the 'Bizarre Ride II Europe
DJ Competition'.
Yancey Boys "The Throwaway" featuring Frank Nitt - produced by J Dilla Available now on iTunes
Delicious Vinyl's partnership with Yancey Media Group, the family-operated company administering the catalog of late, great producer James Yancey aka Jay Dee, aka J Dilla, brings you "The Throwaway", the first release from what J Dilla Music Catalogue Curator Frank Nitt has dubbed 'The Lost Scrolls' — previously unreleased productions from the considerable body of work Dilla left behind.
"The Throwaway" is available now at iTunes, and will be released on 10" vinyl in early 2013.
Bizarre Ride Fest
Saturday Dec. 29th
The Roxy Theater - 9009 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA
GET YOUR TICKETS HERE!
General Admission ALL AGES: $20
21 & over Freak City VIP (includes On The Rox admission): $35
Bizarre Ride Live - Fatlip, SlimKid3, J-Sw!ft, L.A. Jay
Overdoz
Polyester the Saint
Kid Named Breezy
Quelle Chris
Cazal Organism & The Zzyzzx
plus
Mandy Mayhem's Hip Hop Karaoke
visual by Michael Allen
also
upstairs at On The Rox: Freak City VIP
A portion of all ticket sales will go to the Fernando Pullum Community Arts Center, a non-profit organization that provides arts instruction to under-served students in South Los Angeles
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Delicious Vinyl delivers new Yancey Boys single "The Throwaway"
First offering from Jay Dee aka J Dilla's 'Lost Scrolls'
(Los Angeles, CA / Detroit, MI):
Delicious Vinyl is proud to announce the release of "The Throwaway" — the new single by Yancey
Boys featuring Frank Nitt, produced by the late great J Dilla.
A digital-only release, "The Throwaway" is the initial offering from from what J Dilla Music
Catalogue Curator Frank Nitt has dubbed 'The Lost Scrolls' — previously unreleased productions
from the considerable body of work Dilla left behind. This particular premium production has been
laced with new verses and hooks from Illa J (Dilla's younger brother) and Frank Nitt (Frank & Dank).
Dilla heads, fear no retreads. "The Throwaway" is a keeper. A heady grid of battle drums and
keyboards cascade as Illa J steps up: "I'm so sick with the flow the doctor said I had the flu/ they saw
my eye of the tiger and sent me to the zoo...."
"When Illa J played me what he'd done with Dilla's track, I thought it was incredible," says Frank
Nitt. "I was suggesting other MC's who could jump on the track, but Illa told me he wanted me to
rhyme on it, so who was I to disagree?" Indeed, Frank's verse is well worth it: "I am the beacon for
which you came forth/ I light up the path / I am the damn torch/ so you can do it right or get
burned..."
"Fact is, a lot of beats Dilla made were on tapes or discs that weren't always labeled with the date,"
explains Frank Nitt. "But I believe the beat for 'The Throwaway' dates from the mid-'90s, just from
the tempo and where Dilla was at creatively. To me it feels like the heat he was giving the Pharcyde at
that time."
As Dilla's disciples are well aware, Delicious Vinyl has significant history with the producer. In the
mid-'90s, Dilla (then known as Jay Dee) placed his first beats on an official release on The Pharcyde
album Labcabincalifornia (including the hit single "Runnin'") and remixes for Brand New Heavies. In
2009, Dilla's younger brother John "Illa J" Yancey laced a cache of previously unreleased Jay Dee
beats to create the critically and popularly acclaimed Delicious Vinyl album Yancey Boys.
Now here comes "The Throwaway" — throwback fast rap, right on time
On Saturday, December 15th, 2012, Masters of Reality frontman Chris Goss and album cover artist/drummer John Leamy will perform live and sign copies of the limited edition re-release of Master Of Reality's classic debut and live albums. The event will be held at the new Delicious Vinyl Record Shop on Sunset Boulevard. And at 10pm that night, Goss and co. will perform an intimate live set at The 3 Clubs in Hollywood.
These performances celebrate Delicious Vinyl's release of a Master Of Reality double-disc pack combining their 1988 debut album Masters Of Reality with 1997’s How High The Moon: Live At The Viper Room. The reissue combo comes with a fold-out poster and new liner notes, and is also available on premium-grade double-LP vinyl.
Originally signed by Rick Rubin to Def Jam, Masters Of Reality are a totemic heavy rock band whose blues-wise weight positioned them as heirs to Cream and Led Zeppelin. MOR's 1988 debut album, deemed "an all-out attack on diminished senses" by UK publication NME, has long been regarded as a high point in the mystical rock continuum.
Masters Of Reality's formidable frontman Chris Goss is the godfather of the California desert rock scene, having produced multiple albums by Kyuss and Queens Of The Stone Age. Album cover artist John Leamy (whose classic painting inspired the album's colloquial title, 'The Blue Garden') currently mans the drum throne of Masters Of Reality. Come out to meet these livin', lovin' legends.
Announce Forthcoming Releases from Jay Dee aka J Dilla's 'Lost Scrolls'
(Los Angeles, CA / Detroit, MI) Storied hip-hop label Delicious Vinyl (Tone-Loc, Young MC, The Pharcyde) proudly announces a new partnership with Yancey Media Group, the family-operated company administering the catalog of late, great producer James Yancey aka Jay Dee, aka J Dilla. The fruits of the partnership will include new releases from what J Dilla Music Catalogue Curator Frank Nitt has dubbed 'The Lost Scrolls' — previously unreleased productions from the considerable body of work Dilla left behind.
Delicious Vinyl has significant history with J Dilla. In the mid-'90s, Dilla (then known as Jay Dee) placed his first beats on an official release on The Pharcyde album Labcabincalifornia (including the hit single "Runnin'") and remixes for Brand New Heavies. Then in 2009, Dilla's younger brother John "Illa J" Yancey laced a cache of previously unreleased Jay Dee beats to create the critically and popularly acclaimed Delicious Vinyl album Yancey Boys.
“Dilla was my closest childhood friend," says Frank Nitt. "I went with him out to L.A. that first time in 1996. I met [Delicious Vinyl founder] Mike Ross then and saw he was giving Dilla the opportunity to get his beats out. Fast forward thirteen years, after Dilla passed, Illa J makes Yancey Boys, and again I go out to L.A. to help with promotion. Mike Ross asked to hear what I was doing, and Delicious Vinyl wound up releasing my Jewels In My Backpack EP. So Delicious Vinyl goes back with Dilla to the beginning, and has always been part of furthering his legacy properly. We're doing doing this with Delicious Vinyl with the total approval of [Dilla's mother] Ma Dukes, who's known and trusted Mike from way back.”
The first release from the 'Lost Scrolls' cache will be digital-only single "The Throwaway" this December. The song, credited to Yancey Boys feat. Frank Nitt, features new verses from Illa J and a tight hook from Frank over a vintage Jay Dee beat.
Subsequent releases in 2013 will include a 10-inch vinyl release of unheard Jay Dee cuts featuring the producer himself rapping. The new year will also see the first official release the oft-bootleged Frank & Dank album 48 Hours, the only LP ever produced by Jay Dee without any samples. Frank Nitt is set to host the Second Annual Dilla Day in Detroit on February 9th, 2013. The flame of the Yancey legacy keeps on burning.
