April 23 is the date you should mark up in your calendars. That’s when we’re releasing “Good Things”, our 4th and soon to be classic album if I may say so. And I may cus this is our blog. We’ve worked with Rakaa Iriscience of the Dilated Peoples, Cunninglynguists, Timbuktu, Adam Tensta, Mapei, Lazee, Allyawan, Alibi and Svante Lodén of Damn! for this one. Not all of the songs we did with those artists will be featured on the album, but we hope that they all will come out somehow for you to enjoy. Next week we’re dropping the new single “The Building” – a certified Wax Cabinet banger! The video is crazy. Shot in Los Angeles and Skåne by our good friend Simon Klose who also made the Standard Bearer dvd.

In the meantime just marinate on this… A sneak preview of one of the songs from the album:

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I was cleaning my desktop when I found this document that a friendly soul sent me last year. It’s in Swedish and it says that a person wanted P3 (state owned radio) to be tried for playing “Murder Murdoch”. According to the person P3 violated their duty to be politically impartial by playing it, but the authority ruling in these cases (Granskningsnämnden) took no action against P3 – so it’s ok to play the song. That’s freedom of speech at it’s best!

I just thought about the consequences a conviction would have had. So many songs are political, most of them I would say. I mean, doesn’t most of the bling bling rappers advocate capitalism for example? They’re extremely political in my book. Maybe I should write to Granskningsnämnden about that…

A friend of mine, Ruskig, started a hiphop school a while ago and he asked me be a guest teacher there. So this week and the next me and the students are comparing the differences between recording in a digital and an analog studio. I haven’t personally recorded on tape since 2001 and Government Music so I enjoy just being in the studio watching the tape roll. This is a clip of Jacke doing his thing over a DJ Large beat.

Yesterday I found myself putting up the stickers Supreme and Dainja made in Thailand. Which means I made it official I guess – Looptroop Rockers new album “Good Things” will be released this year. The same year that DVSG is celebrating our 10th anniversary!!

…check this shit out man: http://vbox7.com/play:0a18d1c5

It’s kinda crazy. The guy on the right i did a song with around 4 years ago in Bulgaria (Cmotan – “Nursery Rhymes”, which is on the “Standard Bearer” cd).

Peace!

This is what I did today, back in the cold Swedish reality – even though it feels great to be working again…
I uploaded a couple of new songs to my myspace – 2 tracks that I did with other artists for their projects: “Radio” with RockBottom (US) and “12 Dziesma” with Akis (Latvia). By the way, you didn’t miss “This is what I look like naked” and “Faluja (dub version)” that I added a while ago right?! Other than that I’ve been working on my Swedish album. On a real evil beat from my man Jimmy Ledrac. And after going for a run with P. $chumi I found this clip from a rehearsal we did in the ex Wax Cabinet late last year. Embee made the mash up during the summer I think, but this is recorded before we did a show in Sälen in December.

Yes, me and Supreme are back after two well deserved weeks of vacation in Thailand. All the vocals were already recorded when we left and now that we’re back Embee and Vladi (and Mats Nyman who did a quick guest appearance) are almost done with the mixing. Things are moving! Mastering is booked for next week and it looks like we might keep our life line! If we do, the plan is to release the album 3rd week in April. But we’ll drop a single with a hot ass video before that, and we’ll hit you with different goodies on the page till then. This, that i dug up from the archives, for example. A little something from when we warmed up before a show in Århus, DK late last year…

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