FURIOUS STYLZ
FURIOUS STYLZ is a highly dub influenced electro combo of Telephone Jim Jesus plus Skyrider (from the Sole & The Skyrider Band); it's a very furious sound as shown by the four tracks now playing on their MySpace page untitled: "opening sequence", "we are furious", "furious fuzz", "furious revenge".
"TVLYB" review [A.V. Club]
TV Loves You Back
A-
Chris Martins January 13, 2009
2008 was a disappointment for rap fans. What wasn't hipster-ready sneaker-hop or dance-craze incitement was more fodder from a mainstream that flirts with artsiness, but still can't deliver us from singles. Well, beneath all that blinding marquee glare, someone was shining a light. After a seven-year hiatus, deconstructionist rap trio Restiform Bodies returned with TV Loves You Back, an album benefiting from aural ADHD, with the thematic content to match. Over a score that whips ghettotech, crunk, and Gary Numan into an erratic frenzy, rapper Passage abstractly expounds upon shopping-mall shootings, restless-leg syndrome, market crashes, and—in the album's recurring theme—impotence caused by overdosing on television. The latter is a fairly direct half-metaphor for the effects the boob tube has on ambition, but the delivery makes this record more than a summation of Western postmillennial anxieties. Passage's verses are hailstorms of cyberized imagery and sarcastic poetry, while producers Bomarr and Telephone Jim Jesus skip art-hop subtlety for beats that bang. TV Loves You Back looks forward, and the view is empowering and a little disturbing. By the record's end, on an epic called "Opulent Soul," the narrator reclaims his masculinity: "I'm in the house of fractions before twinkling Oakland / hand-fucking myself into the great wide open." Finally, a dance craze everyone already know the moves to.
Source: A.V. Club
RE$TIFORM BOD1ES REM1X CONTE$T Honorable Mentions
Download MP3's below of some of our favorite contest submissions that were great, but didn't make the cut -Bomarr
- Ameriscan - dilly dilly remix » Listen/Download HERE
- Ameriscan - Otem Rellik remix » Listen/Download HERE
- Black Friday - Cars & Trains remix » Listen/Download HERE
- Bobby Trendy Addendum - Malicious Pig remix » Listen/Download HERE
- Bobby Trendy Addendum - Copper White remix » Listen/Download HERE
- Bobby Trendy Addendum - Renga remix » Listen/Download HERE
- Foul - Tom Inhaler remix » Listen/Download HERE
- Panic Shopper - Seth Schwartz remix » Listen/Download HERE
- Pick It Up, Drop it - Awkward remix » Listen/Download HERE
For the other remixes they can be listened to @ 8tracks or below:
» Restiform Bodies remix contest @ anticon.
» Contest @ MySpace
RE$TIFORM BOD1ES REM1X CONTE$T Winners
The winners of the RE$TIFORM BOD1ES REM1X CONTE$T have been announced and they are: Brian E with his remix of "Foul" and Rx who remixed "Consumer Culture Wave".We'll be posting up MP3's of all our favorite runners-up within the next day.
Thanks again to all the contributors. -Bomarr
"TVLYB" in the top 10 of best 2008 albums [Indie Rock Mag]
1 Flying Lotus : Los Angeles
2 cirKus : Laylower
3 Leila : Blood, Looms & Blooms
4 Autechre : Quaristice
5 Beck : Modern Guilt
6 Deschannel : They Know Nothing, They Recite !
7 Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words : Lost In Reflections
8 Baltic Fleet : Baltic Fleet
9 Parkside : Cables
10 Restiform Bodies : TV Loves You Back
Source: Indie Rock Mag
Brothers Backword live in Nyc [video]
The Brothers Backword playing live in Nyc at the Blender Theatre (11/26/08).
Video by sayyyanythingx.
