Sneakmove Minicomp 3

The third installment of Sneakmove's limited-edition Minicomp 7inch series features supershort songs by ten great acts curated by Bomarr will be available very soon.

Features new tracks from Broken Spindles (Joel of the Faint), Tunng (Thrill Jockey), Lord Grunge (Grand Buffet) , Copy (Audio Dregs), Principles of Geometry (Tiger Sushi) and more.

Check out the track listing below

Also available: Sneakmove Minicomp 1 and Sneakmove Minicomp 2.

Side One
1) Shayne Keator - Forgetting Forgotten
2) Back Ted N-Ted - I'm Sorry Amy
3) Principles of Geometry - Napoleon
4) Coppé - Alien Mermaid
5) Broken Spindles - Wake Up

Side Two
1) Tunng - Spoons
2) Otis Fodder - Propaganda B
3) Copy - Let's Don't Be Scared
4) Lord Grunge - Dude, Where's My Car?
5) Superargo - Girl Don't Make A Blind Man Beg

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Super limited

Source: Bomarr

"Panic Shopper" Tobacco remix

Those freak-hoppers in Restiform Bodies are gearing up for the release of their anticon. debut, TV Loves You Back, and instead of waiting until after the album's September 30 street date to start pushing the remixes, the trio enlisted Black Moth Super Rainbow boss Tobacco to get on the mixing board asap. Naturally, the latter added lots of wobbly, warped synth lines to the hip-hop flavored number. Throw in some off-kilter beat programming and rhymes spat in double-time, and a true weirdo-hop track has officially been born. Photo by Mathew Scott.

Rate: 9/10

Source: XLR8R

» Download Tobacco's Panic Shopper remix here.

"Pick It Up, Drop It" live video

Passage and Bomarr performing live "Pick It Up, Drop It" from their upcoming album "TV Loves You Back".

Restiform Bodies - Pick It Up Drop It Rehearsal

Source: Bomarr

"Restiform Bodies Are Back" [Fangbear]

Restiform Bodies Are Back
I can’t think of a more appropriate way to usher in the return of Fangbear, than by celebrating the return of one of our favorite groups. After years of waiting for Oakland, by way of New Hampshire’s Restiform Bodies to put out a new record, I was beginning to lose hope. Not to say that these fellas haven’t been busy. Dave, Matt and George (aka Passage, Bomarr and Telephone Jim Jesus, respectively) have all had proper solo releases since their self-titled LP, back in 2000 2001 (thanks bomarr - ages ago nonetheless). In September, they will release their Anticon debut record, TV Loves You Back. If their first single is any indication of the new, battle-hardened, grown-up RB’s, we are in for some wonky, electro, ghetto-tech, rap greatness. I’m pumped.
Posted on: August 21st, 2008

Source: Fangbear

Telephone Jim Jesus' september shows

Only 2 dates at the moment:

• 08/9/08 - 9:00P @ Terrace w/ Bizzart, Walter Gross, Unconventional Science, K-The-I??? - Pasadena, California
Event @ Last.fm

• 13/9/08 - 11:00P @ Camp N’ Sons (Chillits) - Willits, California
» Chillits festival
Event @ Last.fm

Flyer by Walter Gross.

“Bobby Trendy Addendum” review + Passage interview [Paper Thin Walls]

RESTIFORM BODIES - “Bobby Trendy Addendum”
from TV Loves You Back (Anticon)
Hip-Hop // Out Now

Remember flamboyant, antagonistic fashion designer/interior decorator Bobby Trendy from The Anna Nicole Smith Show? Restiform Bodies—the Anticon second-stringer supergroup of Passage, Now, Bomaar Monk and Telephone Jim Jesus—are reuniting and are resurrecting him, too, on “Bobby Trendy Addendum.” But they could just as easily be raking any number of other bitchy celebs or quasi-celebs over the coals here. In other words, if Bobby Trendy didn’t exist, they might’ve just as easily invented him. The ear-teasing Noah’s Arcade-on-fire electro-noise crunch of “Bobby Trendy Addendum” is pure pop-cult concept, overwhelming Information Age bombast as constructed reality. The song sounds like living today feels: too much, too fast, too loud, too bright, nothing making any definite sense—but like watching Anna Nicole, it’s guilty-pleasure, button-slamming fun, you know? It’s excitement in excess. Bars are jammed together, independent of one another, so that Passage’s narrative comes off like a provocative string of ideas and exclamation points more than anything else. “Apple of my mother’s eye, even if they convict,” he spits—bitterly and blithely and carelessly, all at once—before all logic gets gone and you just grab onto whatever scraps of language you can in the advert-jingle flood of splintered images: “Most oblivious, neurotic,” “smash my maths,” “juicy, delicious,” “appetites lashed to the hood of the Bentley,” “charm a snake, weave a basket,” some buckshot-blasted bullshit about Joan and Melissa Rivers. Overthink at your peril. Just hold tight to your swivel chairs, enjoy the ride, and regard the experience as the musical equivalent of the Internet/nightly news/ celebrity-factoid shuffle we're all pretty much caught up in.

Restiform Bodies’ David “Passage” Bryant on “Bobby Trendy Addendum”

Is the title character a strawman for American pop-culture avarice?
I didn’t intend to paint him personally as an icon of greed, avarice or anything exactly—certainly not anything negative, if that’s what you mean by “strawman.” I wanted to beam a signal off peripheral, absurd characters on the D-list, hoping it might bounce off them and hit us in the retinas. I was saying I feel like Joan Rivers on the red carpet, digesting entertainment and shitting out celebrity caricatures. You’re supposed to want to be them, but you hate them or you don’t give a fuck, but you want to be something you’re not, or can’t have. Bobby Trendy and Joan and Melissa Rivers seemed like perfect personalities to channel that through. I think it plays as funny satire.

Can you envision a future in which expensive automobiles are no longer presented as chart-rap status symbols. Like due to sky-high gas prices, everyone's rhyming about tricked-out Vespas?
Sure, absolutely. Jay-Z has the Euro taking over for the dollar, why not the Vespas? The Cool Kids give bike culture a nod with “Black Mags,” which is almost as huge as “Throw Some D’s,” at this point and cooler all around in my book. That’s where I have to hope it’s all going. Nas is calling out Fox News on Stephen Colbert. I think everybody can look forward to big change for our culture. I am not into causes and such—no pictures of Mao for this dude—but a Hummer in a video is the same as Pyrex measuring cups in your inlay. It’s insult-to-injury. Our record seems a lot like an indictment in some spots—which could be construed as insult-to-injury, too—but I hope it’s not received as rubbing the problem in. All the information on TV Loves You Back is stuff I’m trying to make peace with as a person, and that I think we all have to make peace with as a society. And you know artists have to be feeling a little ridiculous with all the car shit by now. Big old Caddy and shelling out all that dough to fill it? That's starting to hurt; no matter who you are, it’s just dumb. Bikes, Vespas, all that is smaller, more agile and creative, that’s the shit I want to see.

Do you watch much television?
Yes, I watch a lot of TV. I try not to, but when I want to shut my mind off or get inspired by the media, TV is my go-to device. I watch Comedy Central a lot and E! I love The Office and 30 Rock, but don't get to see them much. My guiltiest pleasure might be Intervention, though. I was all about Shooting Sizemore, but I guess that got too fucked up to be on TV or something because it disappeared. Good TV exists, but bad TV is usually better. - RAYMOND CUMMINGS
Friday, August 15th, 2008

Rate: 8.5

Source: Paper Thin Walls

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New Passage's track titled "Down For Whatever Inst preview" (demos 2008).

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