Well it finally happened. The planets aligned, and we managed to get enough members of The Menagerie together in the same room for long enough to film a video for a track from our forthcoming album Hopeful Monsters. It was a bizarre and emotional experience, one, because I’d never filmed a video for a track before, and two, for the evening we were shooting my part, I was burning up with some hideous fever. Still, its gonna be mad interesting to see what the end result is. Needless to say, as soon as I get anything, it’ll be up on here. • Koaste
Apologies for the brief hiatus and lack of new posts – I’ve been recharging the batteries away from civilised society.
The brand new Menagerie LP Hopeful Monsters is almost ready to be released, and what better way to get ready for that release than to enjoy the video for the first release from the project featuring the rhyme skills of Teej and Dizraeli. Keep Your Head Down, like the entire album, is produced by Tom Caruana, whose last couple of mash up LPs, Wu-Tang vs The Beatles, and Wu-Tang vs Jimi Hendrix have been getting some serious critical acclaim. • Koaste
The all new Menagerie LP drops very soon, and here’s the first leak from the project. This track features Jon Clark, Dizraeli and Elemental, and is an ode to hallucinogenics. The album will feature the three emcees featured here, along with Longusto, Dr Syntax, Mole, Teej, Vecks, Baba Brinkman and yours truly. I don’t have a definite release date just yet, but I will let you know as soon as I do… • Koaste
I’ve been going through the crates and dug out all the Menagerie tracks we put down after Wild Kingdom was released. There’s a fair few bits that never really saw the light of day, and even a track that I’d not even realised had been completed. Featuring Dr Syntax, Elemental, Teej, Nick Maxwell and myself, it would have been a shame if these had never been heard, so I’ve uploaded them all to Soundcloud for you to grab for your collections. Fingers crossed we should see a new Menagerie LP before the year is out. Of course, I’ll drop some more info about that when I’ve got something a little more concrete to give you. • Koaste
Here’s a new free album featuring some of the artists out of the 273. There’s a track featuring Longusto and me. There’s some great tracks featuring guys such as Influx, Dr Syntax, Gi3mo and Tom Caruana. There is also, I’m afraid to say, a good chunk of tracks that I wouldn’t endorse if they paid me, so its a little hit and miss to say the least. Still, the dude who put together the project had good intentions, even if this is the local equivalent of those Classic Hip Hop CD’s that you used to find in petrol stations, where one track would be Walk This Way, another would be some Whodini track you’d never heard of, and the rest would consist of Ini Kamoze and 2 Unlimited.
I recommend however, that you download this, and keep or delete the tracks depending on how much they appeal to you. Kind of like a fat kid digging his sweaty sausage fingers in the Churchill Square pick’n'mix. • Koaste
Here’s a little recording of the set when me, the long one and DJ Ideal hit Slipjam, Brighton’s longest running Hip Hop night last month. Some of my tracks, some of Gusto’s, both new and old. Enjoy. We did. • Koaste
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