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Pain Of Mind

by King Vision Ultra

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    Pro-dubbed, transparent/sonic-welded cassette (prison-friendly)
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    Pro-dubbed, transparent/sonic-welded cassette (prison-friendly)
    Housed in full-color J-card and norelco case

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  • Cassette - Pink Award Tour Edition - LAST 5
    Cassette + Digital Album

    4th limited run specially made for hand to hand transactions at shows

    Pro-dubbed, pink cassette
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"King Vision Ultra delivers 'Pain of Mind,' a piece of work that is very reminiscent of Company Flow’s 'Little Johnny From The Hospital' in its dusty feverish intensity and pacing that moves with a cinematic step. It swells, it clatters, it thumps, it haunts you, and it makes you think all within the 46+ minutes of run time. King Vision Ultra succeeds in humanizing the voices and stories of people so often dehumanized, so often forgotten, so often looked at as broken and reminds us that they are none of those things….they are all of us!"
- Damn That Noise: Album You Should Know, Sept. 7, 2018. Web.
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"When I listen to the rugged and dense soundscape of King Vision Ultra’s 'Pain Of Mind' it reminds me of the insanity that was NYC before it became sterilized and gentrified. ... This is some of the heaviest punk that I have heard in a long time because of how it makes me feel. ... (A)llow yourself to travel into the world of King Vision Ultra. This a dimension where Kool Keith is OZ, Large Professor is the Head Master and Prodigy is the Spirit that guides us all!"
- CVLT Nation, Aug. 23, 2018. Web.
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"The composition of this album resounds from the historical remnants, in its comprehensive musicality and sound echoes, to stimulate the reunion of the debris and transform them into something imposing. ... A narrative of the forgotten ... a fragmented discourse in which the tension of the survivors reveals an almost dead aspect in the words and testimonies emitted. I take these passages as crossings that locate the past as a space revisited through pain and anguish. Trouillot's book made me deeply aware of the musician's task, through juxtaposed discourses, to express that "history is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposure of its roots." ... King Vision Ultra guides me through the spaces made possible by the gaps of testimony of those who pass through this world, because if the past is a place, it is always equated in a complex relationship that is part of the present. Voices are vastly important because they surround, in a multiple movement, a place that could not be channeled through simple narrative. ... (T)hey annihilate the dualistic legacy to try to create something new ... in the effort to dynamite a capitalist project that has been going on for centuries, controlling bodies and subjugating cultures."
- 9.0 on Floga-se, July 16, 2018. Web.
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"'Pain Of Mind' cuts across the shattered coordinates of antiblack violence and refuses to plot them ... along the violent calculus ... of mathematized blackness. 'Pain Of Mind' invites us to “sit in the room with history” (Dionne Brand 2002, 28) ... the schizophrenic mind, the cell, the hold, the wake. In this wake, we float past the passé, past-tense, hogtied, handwringing, hamstrung, dispossessed, gentrified idiom of “woke” — always already prefigured by the black death that necessitated its inception — as KVU ... rouses us into the oceanic vastness of care. A/wake."
- 4.5/5 (+ EUREKA!) on Tiny Mix Tapes, June 28, 2018. Web.
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"Crucially, the vocal grabs were recorded onto tape, processed through an SP-404 sampler, and then layered back onto the track. This separation from their original source gives the words with a ghostly effect, turning Pain Of Mind into a stark but meditative call-and-response therapy session that prompts the listener to take stock of their own personal demons, whatever they may be."
- Bandcamp Daily, June 4, 2018. Web.
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"(A) nearly 50-minute assemblage of chittering static, pitch-shifted vocal samples, and lumbering drum work, that moves in a hallucinatory way, fading from beat to melody to noise and back again. It’s not catchy, luxurious, or bombastic, at least not in any traditional way. It’s caked in tape hiss, and street-level grime; this is the handmade masterpiece you fantasize you’re picking up when you rescue a shoebox of cassettes with yellowing J-cards from a street corner on trash day."
- Noisey, May 30, 2018. Web.
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"Pain in the nature of existence. Sway-sided rhythms that argue the vibrated core. Unmovable fragility. ... King Vision Ultra absorbs the reality of collective consciousness in every piece through 'Pain Of Mind.' Listen carefully ..."
- Tiny Mix Tapes, May 29, 2018. Web.
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5/5
- Il Mucchio Selvaggio, April 2018. Print.
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"The album’s unhurried procession through fogged out atmospheres and hissing beatscapes is an impressive reminder that in the right hands instrumental hiphop can be genuinely evocative – moving, even. Fragments of conversations ... deepen the sense of loss and neglect, while leaden rhythms trudge toward an ever distant light."
- The Wire #408, February 2018. Print.
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"'Pain Of Mind''s alloy of hiphop and doom works surprisingly well: it slaps as much as it jars, its hiphop beats bumping around in a dark mulch and occasionally emerging from the sludge only to dive right back in."
- The Wire #409, March 2018. Print.

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Actualized by King Vision Ultra via universal law and energy

An audio book about isolation, memory, the blurred line between rehab and carcerality.

Written/recorded/mastered Oct. 1 - Nov. 9, 2017 in Queens - 1 block away from a "RIP Prodigy" tag
Mastered the same day Wu Tang's 'Enter The 36' dropped, 24 years before it

All dialogue was captured directly onto cassette
All samples collected via SP 202, SP 303, SP 404 and/or MPC1000
All mixing/mastering via cassette

credits

released May 18, 2018

produced & arranged by King Vision Ultra
mixed & mastered by GENG PTP

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