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Not as They Do by Manikineter As many of you may well know by now, MANIKINETER is the Noise-Rap side-project of Philly 's very own emcee, producer, graphic/web designer, Noise-maker, and frantic one-man band Carl Kavorkian . We here at The Witzard quite honestly, can't get enough of MANIKINETER's beautifully aggressive Punk/Hardcore/Hip-Hop -melding output and luckily for us, Not As They Do EP is Kavorkian's third MANIKINETER release in just two short years. While we're ecstatic to be premiering the music video for "Rockatansky Memoirs (The Big Nothing)" here at The Witzard ; however, a few especially tech-savvy fans might have already been able to piece together the clip's URL from a series of cryptic Instagram posts shared by MANIK|NETER (@manikineter) just this past weekend: "new 4ideo soon.... -," "n3w video soon... hidden," "new v1deo soon. cultmembermusic.com," "new video 5oon..... corridor," ...

"Recorded over two years between Van Nuys and Minneapolis, LUCAS ACID is 45 minutes of pounding, unsettled intensity with intermissions of fractured melodic beauty. As the namesake implies, Moodie Black are masters at establishing mood, via richly textured backdrops that coil around K's delivery. There is a vocal clarity on LUCAS ACID that was somewhat lost in dense pockets of Noise on previous releases that allows for K's prose and story-telling to shine, with wraith-like wails and jarring screams filling in the negative space. Ceschi Ramos and French singer Pierre Mottron, also, provide guest vocals. On LUCAS ACID, K is coming to terms with life as a trans person of color in a country increasingly predisposed to pushing such individuals further towards the margins of its narrative; backed by their own meticulous production, a cacophonous collage of Shoegaze, molded distortion, sinister guitars, and Industrial Hip-Hop, Moodie Black speaks on identity, paranoia, love, ...

Not as They Do by Manikineter Carl Kavorkian has returned with his third release as MANIKINETER in just two years; Not As They Do EP follows 2017's Missing & Mannequin Eater EP 's, as well as a stand-alone single entitled "Shoot The Chalice." Kavorkian self-describes his MANIKINETER output on Bandcamp as " experimental , hip-hop, industrial , electronic, noise , and punk," but I've generally, just described it simply as Noise-Rap since first hearing Mannequin Eater . I've always enjoyed Punk/Hardcore and Hip-Hop concurrently without finding many releases successfully able to blend the two (very similar) genres in a natural, organic way, aside from Mos Def & Black Jack Johnson 's 2004 magnum opus The New Danger , of course. It appears as though Carl Kavorkian had been toying with the idea of merging Hip-Hop , Punk/Hardcore, Industrial , and a multitude of genres on his releases prior to MANIKINETER 's Mannequin Eater EP ;...