Out now via LABOUR TAPES:
tinyurl.com/kvumix01
KVU archives radio broadcast, live from a bunker, captured onto cassette. January 10, 2018.
Archival representation of an unfinished (/ongoing?) project called 'Bringing Hell With Me,' "a sound piece series of found dialogue and rap music which linked memory and internalization - specifically of trauma/trauma-born narratives - to the normalization of violence in America.
What is my own relationship to/with violence? Is it shocking to me anymore?
Simultaneously, it is a celebration of revolutionary capacities held within rap's vernacular. The radical core and allowance of fiction and how the craft shines as a transcendence technology.
This mixtape is also a giving of thanks. Paying it forward by paying it back."
Proceeds to the NYC COVID-19 Response Fund for Black New Yorkers (co-organized by Black Alliance for Just Immigration, BYP100, and Decrim NY):
paypal.me/pools/c/8nnys8G2Qc
For more info on BAJI's various initiatives:
baji.org
Tracklist:
King Vision Ultra - Bringing Hell With Me
Prodigy - 2000 / KVU Demolition File
King Vision Ultra - Scorpioch
Big L & Fat Joe - The Enemy / 1997 / Evil Dee
Conway - 2017 / KVU Demolition File
Black Moon - I Got Cha Opin / 1993, 2007 / Flex
Benny The Butcher - 2017 / KVU Demolition File
Smoothe Da Hustler & Trigger Tha Gambler - Broken Language / 1995 / Doo Wop
King Vision Ultra - POM 21:34-22:44
Bricks - 2008 / KVU Demolition File
King Vision Ultra - G.O.D. Enzi
Prodigy - Usual Suspect b/w Stick U / 1996 / DJ EV
CNN + Tragedy Khadafi - 1996 / Stretch & Bobbito, WKCR
King Vision Ultra - POM 29:57-32:41
Meek Mill - 2007 / KVU Demolition File
Onyx - Walk In NY / 1995 / S&S
King Vision Ultra - Bringing Hell With Me