ILLECT Recordings is tearing up the eMusic Hip-Hop/R&B charts!
#33 Dert “The Short List”
#46 Beat Rabbi & Deepspace5 “Deepspacesoul”
#57 Scribbling Idiots “The Have Nots”
#64 Ajax Starglider “Middle Class Broadcast”
#84 Falling Tsar “Falling Tsar” (JustMe, Sev Statik, Theory Hazit and Wonder Brown)
#91 Freddie Bruno “Hold Music”
On the overall charts, several albums rank in the top 500 albums (out of over 150,000)
#284 Dert “The Short List”
#379 Beat Rabbi & Deepspace5 “Deepspacesoul”
#473 Scribbling Idiots “The Have Nots”
#528 Ajax Starglider “Middle Class Broadcast”
#722 Falling Tsar “Falling Tsar” (JustMe, Sev Statik, Theory Hazit and Wonder Brown)
#798 Freddie Bruno “Hold Music”
ILLECT Recordings is also the #156 ranked label out of 3,550 labels.
It’s so top secret that we don’t even know what it will be called… you will love it though. He’s so fresh on the 1s and 2s that his young daughter has caught the itch to scratch. She’s dope too and could probably beat Josh in a DJ battle already! Don’t step.
This one has been in the works for a short while now and is sure to please the rap fans. More details soon.
The Kings of Tragedy are back at it again. After a couple of conventions, inventions, and San Francisco, the tour continues from the west coast back east. Earlier in the year, Wonder Brown of the Scribbling Idiots and MC Till of…Evansville visited Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Golden/Denver, Albuquerque, Flagstaff, Fresno, and Portland, to name a few. Able to touch lives from hookah bars to elementary schools, the Kings of Tragedy touch on subjects of the post-modern church while jumping around like Idiots. Pun. Acting. Skits. The Have Nots and Beautiful Raw. That good rap feeling. All in one!
They are currently booking shows from California to Ohio. For more details or if you want to view a sample of the Kings of Tragedy, visit Myspace.com/wonderbrown. If you are interested, concerned, confused, or all of the above, they can be contacted through Adam Hayden @ (812) 430-4464 or via email at wonderbrown13@yahoo.com. Cheers!
Starting June 24th you can get your hands on that new Ajax Starglider record we’ve all been waiting for. It’s a good one and well worth what’s in your piggy bank. Listen here and order there. Order soon (rather than later) so you can get that free bonus CD.
Look for this one to hit your favorite record spots soon as well. It’ll be on iTunes before you know it.
Apparently their server encountered some troubles and our Illect Muxtape disappeared! Doh! Well… looks like they learned their lesson and will be backing up their data more frequently. That also means Illect tunes are one click away.
We’ve got some tracks in our Muxtape for you to check out. It’s a mix if a bit of everything and a bunch of it is from albums soon to hit stores worldwide.
The album came out really fresh! We just received our copies full color digipak style. We’re excited to share the album with you and your headphones. Look for release date information very soon.
Wanna hear a track? Hit up the Illect Myspace to enjoy “Evil Control Freaks” which is produced by Theory Hazit. Check it out and drop a comment.
Smokey Craun (MC) and Omar Sullivan (DJ) are teaming up with Illect Recordings to drop tasty rap skills on heads worldwide. Look for more details on the crew coming soon to Illect.com and also their Myspace profile.
Don’t forget that Sunday night April 20th @ 7pm, you can come see Page One & Because, JustMe and Sintax the Terrific. Staff from Illect (Jon, Janny and Josh) will be there with free goodies for you! Stop by to see the guys and to hang out with Illect!
Illect Recordings will be hitting up Nashville, TN for GMA 2008. We’ll be around starting April 19th and will be attending lots of showcases, doing interviews and other press opps. You might even see us about town as we handle several photo shoots for upcoming releases.
Sunday Night April 20th @ 7pm, you must be at the biggest/best/freshest hip-hop showcase around… The Peanut Butter and Jelly party! It’s Hip-Hop on the Rooftop and features a grip of hip-hop performances including several Illect Recordings artists:
Page One and Because
Sintax the Terrific
JustMe
It’s located right across the street from the Convention Center/Renaissance Hotel. Get there early as the show get started promptly at 7pm! The Illect crew will be handing out free music and other promo stuff. Be there!
“The Short List is subtitled “A Beat Tape,” but that’s a little misleading. Not so much a collection of loops for you to practice your rhymes over, this stands up on its own as an artistic instrumental hip-hop album. The concept, according to the liner notes, is hung upon the “small group of women who have impacted [Dert’s] life…,” and indeed the music melts well with this idea; romantic-sounding guitars, funky harps, and reverberated snatches of female laughter all contribute to the feeling of memory, and once this conceptual seed is planted the varying moods presented in each track are easily connected to images of the various women and situations one encounters in life. By tapping into the listener’s own memories and imagination, the concept succeeds in drawing attention to the music, which does not disappoint.”
That’s right! Soup the Chemist and Illect Recordings have joined forces to share his most recent solo release with the masses. ‘Eargasmic Arrangements’ features a plethora of guest talent including: Aloe Blacc, Cookbook, DJ Gabe Real, DJ Kid Dragon, Don Donna, Dr. Oop, Express, J-luv, Joey the Jerk, Manchild of Mars ILL, Murs, Pigeon John, Shake, Sharlok Poems, Sojourn… just to name a few.
Look for this release to grace your eardrums real soon. We’ve got some special recipes simmering for this release that you’re definitely going to love.
The Scribbling Idiots just hit a small milestone in getting their 25,000th visitor to their Myspace profile. If you haven’t dropped by their spot in a minute, hit it up for some updates on the crew. While you’re here at Illect.com, click on the Releases area to preview the new album ‘The Have Nots’. If you like what you hear, pick up the project and give them a shout.
Thanks for stopping by the new and improved Illect.com. We’ll be posting all the freshest news on the regular here, so be sure to bookmark us and subscribe to our RSS feeds. Yes y’all, we’re makin’ some moves here at Illect, so be sure to keep up!
Also, over the next few weeks we’ll be expanding the ARTISTS area quite a bit, but in the meantime, be sure to visit all the myspace links there and peep the hip-hop excellence that Illect artists keep dishing up for our listening pleasure!
The Kings of Tragedy are back at it again. After a couple of conventions, inventions, and San Francisco, the tour continues from the west coast back east. Earlier in the year, Wonder Brown of the Scribbling Idiots and MC Till of…Evansville visited Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Golden/Denver, Albuquerque, Flagstaff, Fresno, and Portland, to name a few. Able to touch lives from hookah bars to elementary schools, the Kings of Tragedy touch on subjects of the post-modern church while jumping around like Idiots. Pun. Acting. Skits. The Have Nots and Beautiful Raw. That good rap feeling. All in one!
