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By: Trevor Pour Expectations can be dangerous. Mike Ladd's Nostalgialator was released in Germany (on the !K7 label) in 2004, but finally made its way to the States with a 2008 release on Definitive Jux. Before my first listen, I heard Nostalgialator described as a fusion of styles somewhere between Aesop Rock and Pink Floyd. As a near obsessive fan of both those artists, I couldn't wait to dig in....
Definitive Jux Launches brand new website along with new music, gear, and more! Definitive Jux, after launching its revolutionary DRX in 2006 which allowed online shoppers to buy both digital and physical content in the same shopping cart, has again decided to revamp its website and make history. The digital downloading site, or DRX, was the [...]
UK rhymemaster Dizzee Rascal wrapped up his most recent U.S. tour last week and zipped back to Europe, where he’ll be playing a slew of festivals throughout June and early July. But stateside fans shouldn’t fret as they’ll now have a second chance to catch the Definitive Jux MC with seven newly announced tour dates [...]
According to an email from Definitive Jux founder and indie-hop superstar Jaime "El-P" Meline, Tero "Camu Tao" Smith passed away after a year-and-a-half long battle with lung cancer. A member of the Def Jux crew, who performed on a series...
From El-P's Okay Player blog, posted May 25, 2008: "Today, at around 2pm, our dear friend, family member and musical collaborator Tero ‘CAMU TAO' Smith passed away in his home town of Columbus, Ohio. Tero had been quietly fighting for his life for the last year and a half after being diagnosed with lung cancer. To those who knew Tero, he was an almost uncategorizable force of nature. Wild, hilarious,...
Tero Smith, aka Columbus, Ohio MC and producer Camu Tao , died May 25 at the age of 30. His passing put an end to a year-and-a-half-long battle with lung cancer. A member of the Definitive Jux family, Camu Tao worked with RJD2 and Copywrite in MHz, with Cage in Nighthawks, and Metro in S.A. Smash. He collaborated frequently with El-P, both on solo projects and in their groups Central Services and...
Camu Tao - “Hold The Floor“ from Definitive Jux Presents Vol. 2 (Definitive Jux, 2002) Ohio’s Camu Tao passed away yesterday after battling lung cancer. I can't profess to be any sort of expert on his catalog, but I’ve always held “Hold The Floor” as something of a personal classic. Respect to his friends, fans and family. [...]
Dizzee Rascal, ''Maths + English'' (XL/Definitive Jux): It makes perfect sense that British grime rapper Dizzee Rascal would eventually release his stateside discs on Definitive Jux - the New York indie hip-hop label known for artists with nearly impenetrable wordplay and caustic beats such as Company Flow, Cannibal Ox and Aesop Rock.[...] Read more!
Animation powerhouse Adult Swim has teamed up with indie labels before, like funk and soul standout Stone's Throw or indie hip-hop collective Definitive Jux. But this time, it is forming Voltron-style with Michigan's Ghostly International to offer Ghostly Swim, a...
Del tha Funkee Homosapien | Photo via Definitive Jux As told earlier this week, there's some damn good music happening all day at USC: Lupe Fiasco, De La Soul, Saosin, Del tha Funkee Homosapien ( read our interview with him ), The Aquabats and Aceyalone to name a few. One additional positive about this event, it's free. More details on our earlier post . The Short List Meat Beat Manifesto @ El Rey...
Londoner and rap champion, Dizzee Rascal has a Mercury Music Prize collecting dust, garnered after his 2003 debut ‘Boy in da Corner’ got international attention for it’s clever blend of UK garage beats and hip hop grime vocals. But since then it’s been a bit quiet—at least in the US—Dizzee’s 2004′ follow-up ‘Showtime’ and [...]
Del tha Funkee Homosapien | Photo via Definitive Jux LAist loves free shows, spring time festivals, good music and Trojans so we nearly shit a brick when we heard about the USC SpringFest 2008 this Saturday, which will have one bad ass line-up including Lupe Fiasco, De La Soul, Saosin, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, The Aquabats, just to name a few. If you don't go to USC, then you can locate Mcarthy...
Vast Aire, remember him? He’s the titan MC who shocked the world and conquered critics as the leader of Definitive Jux’s landmark upstart crew, Cannibal Ox; their essential 2002 debut, Cold Vein, was a chart-topper in nearly every smart music critic’s year-end poll. After quickly following up his critically-acclaimed 2004 solo-debut, Look Mom…No Hands, with two [...]
Hip-hop singles are top sellers at iTunes, but the genre’s albums sell poorly online — only seven percent of hip-hop full-lengths sold are downloaded, versus ten percent of albums overall. Still, indie-rap fans are a different breed. “They’re buying complete albums — they have favorites, they can name the classics,” says Jay Andreozzi, general manager [...]
