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After waiting patiently behind two singles, a dope video, and a
neon-blue triangle shaped vinyl, Union is ready to unleash the most
musically challenging, painstakingly crafted, MC-packed album in
the dawn of 2012 - Analogtronics. Featuring Talib Kweli, Elzhi, MF
DOOM, Roc Marciano, Guilty Simpson, and more, Union produces
space-aged bangers that mold perfectly around each guest, in
addition to sprinkling in a few lush, eye-widening instrumentals.
This is the full length we have all been waiting for, as bonus tracks
provide over twenty songs hypnotic interstellar boop-bap.
Union consists of two Parisian producers whose otherworldly
approach to analog-driven, melodically abstract, sample free
hip-hop inspired Fat Beats Records to extend a label invitation
immediately. When a mysterious, monolithic, glossy black package
arrived at FBHQ with nothing more than a cryptic note and an
unlabeled CD inside, the staff wasn?t sure if Stanley Kubrick had
risen from the dead to make mixtapes or if their lives were about
to be transformed forever. Luckily it was the latter, and today
the legendary label is poised to unleash Union?s debut album
Analogtronics on an unsuspecting Earth in the Fall of 2011.
Union was born when OJ, a Dilla-obsessed beat junkie with an
unhealthy obsession for science fiction, met Gold, a jazzhead whose
vast collection of vintage keyboards and synths left little room in
his flat for trifling vanities like clothing and kitchen appliances.
Though both shared a parallel vision for the music of tomorrow,
they each occupied opposite corners of Paris? electro underground
when their worlds collided in 2009. OJ, upon catching a flash of
Gold?s keyboard prowess at a Belleville loft party, approached the
funky technician immediately in hopes of applying his melodic
touch to a nearly finished beat tape. Gold loved what he heard,
and thus two unique creative energies become one distinct Union. |
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