Tag: August Fanon
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My Favorite Album of 2023-From Whence It Came
by Dan O and August Fanon thirteen years from my first mental health crisis the feeling of still holding on, or holding tighter resonates with me greatly. Damage inflicted on the planet has ensured no nice animals will be left. Any animal depending on a positive habitat is cooked. The animals we have left in abundance…
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FME Attention Undivided
by Dan-O The coolest things are unplanned. This year I’ve been able to link up with super talented artists and just talk for much longer than I ever thought they’d want to. I am now calling it FME Attention Undivided. Subscribe to Freemusicempire on YouTube to get the updates. Here are the last two conversations:…
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State of The Game Vol. 39-AOTY p.1 50-26
by Dan-O ATTENDEESDaniel Olney, Keith Rollins AGENDA● Give our AOTY lists from 50-26, isolating and discussing majordifferences.● Go in depth on decision making and any albums that surprised you byclimbing your list or being on the other person’s list. NOTES● Have you seen any of the aoty lists? They seem especially generic thisyear and it…
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Song Review-Scapulimancy (or Bonecaster) by Iceberg Theory & August Fanon
by Dan-O If you watch comedy documentaries(and listen to comedy podcasts) like I do you know this special species of performer. Some nights they connect with the audience other times they don’t but it doesn’t matter. It’s Gilbert Gottfried doing a Seinfeld impression in the 70’s when no one in the audience knows why that…
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small professor’s best produced albums(not his) of 2020
by small professor introduction by Dan-O Before he agreed to write this, I declared to anyone who would hear that my favorite producer of 2020 is small professor. The Jawn Supreme series was the music I always put on whenever I didn’t have a planned listen. I just fell back into how soulful and propulsive…
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#BandcampGold-Routes by Sleep Sinatra produced by August Fanon
by Dan-O In my 2020 love of Sleep Sinatra I started calling his cadence Dragić flow. Goran Dragić has played in the NBA for fourteen years as a guard and every time he takes the ball down the court I trust him. As a fan of the other team he terrifies me because his consistency…
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Song Review-Influencer by Sleep Sinatra ft. Teller Bank$ prod by August Fanon
https://sleepsinatra1.bandcamp.com/track/influencer-feat-teller-bank-prod-by-august-fanon The proposition: The group of people who made this song should form a collective that makes albums together. The reasoning: The craft is so strong with these two. Sleep Sinatra-Sleeper Effect is the kind of impressive that grows with each listen. The wordplay and flow come so easy that he seems like one of…
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The Cabal(a) Interview w/ Iceberg Theory(5 Questions)
It’s really exciting to be able to talk to someone who is making a name in underground rap RIGHT NOW. In 2020, Iceberg Theory has been flooding the Bandcamp streets with release after release. His newest collaboration with underground production king August Fanon is called The Cabal(a) and gives the listener a lot to chew…
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#BandcampGold-Never Hated I Just Waited by Chris Crack
#BandcampGold-Never Hated I Just Waited by Chris Crack by Dan-O Best way to think of Chicago Rap is like one of those old Shaw Brothers martial arts films. Surreal things happen, good and evil magic. Different clans represent divergent schools of thought with powers and weaknesses as specific as they are out of this world.…