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KID ACNE is a UK-based artist, illustrator, print-maker, and emcee. Many of you may recognize KID ACNE's name from Part II our recent Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique 30th Anniversary All-around Breakdown , AKA #PB30 . KID ACNE submitted a blurb on Track 12. "What Comes Around" and supplied original artwork from Beck's Music Inspired Art series. "CREST OF A WAVE" is KID ACNE 's first release, under his own name, since 2007's Romance Ain't Dead (LP) & Romance Ain't Beats (EP.) He has, of course, issued a number of releases since Romance Ain't Dead/Beats as MONGRELS with beat-maker Benjamin "Benjamin" Hatton , including 2016's critically-acclaimed Attack The Monolith . "CREST OF A WAVE" features New Kingdom emcee NOSAJ , as well as Westside Gunn, Vic Spencer & Conway producer Spectacular Diagnostics "behind the boards." It's the first official offering from KID ACNE 's upcoming...

Jason Furlow is a Brooklyn -based emcee, producer, and musician also known as Nature Boy Jim Kelly and Nosaj The Great . Although, Furlow is likely, best known as Nosaj , 1/3 of Psychedelic Hip-Hop/Rap-Rock group, New Kingdom . I, actually, only very recently learned about Nosaj & New Kingdom after publishing UK beat-maker/producer LongDistanceDan 's Beat-maker Bedrock column, which highlighted their 1993 debut, Heavy Load . Since New Kingdom 's 1996 disbandment, Jason Furlow has worked with everyone from Tricky to The Freak Brothers , David Byrne (Talking Heads) to Morcheeba , Lyricist Lounge to Bill Laswell/Material , Buckethead to CX KiDTRONiK , and more. Furlow released a limited edition 2-track cassingle last year under his government name called "Last Man Standing" B/W "Modern Man" on Canadian cassette/CD imprint Dub Ditch Picnic , which is still currently available to stream or download on the label's Bandcamp . In recent years, ...

"Hello, my name is LongDistanceDan originally from London, now living on The South Coast of England in Portsmouth. I make sample-based music heavily influenced by Psychedelic Rock, Raw Funk, Library Music, and Hip-Hop. I've been making music for about eight years and have released 3 EP's and an album, The Dust Man Stirs (2017) all on my own Dusted Industries label. I have selected 4 albums that have had a big influence on my own musical taste and the kind of music I try to make..." Dusted Sounds Volume 1 by LongDistanceDan I. Beastie Boys - Check Your Head (1992) "I'd been aware of the Beastie Boys as a 9/10-year-old kid, due to the good and bad press they received from their debut album, License to Ill (1986.) But other than hearing "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)" and "No Sleep 'till Brooklyn" on the radio, I'd never listened to their music. Paul's Boutique (1989) passed me by, I was a 3rd Bass fan and the...