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Ride the Ride
Ride the Ride is a Southeast Michigan hip-hop collective featuring MC Davy (Davy Rothbart), Bam Bam (Rommell Wallace), and brothers Nigel and Terrence Dang.
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Ride the Ride’s collaboration with The Sweatpants, a song called “Ain’t Banned on Transom” received some airplay after its release on the public radio website transom.org in 2002. (link)
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| By The Sweatpants featuring Ride the Ride’s MC Davy | ||||||||
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| “Ain’t Banned on Transom” is a musical gift from people we’ve never met. It’s a little raunchy, but you have to understand: we couldn’t refuse it. This is Transom’s first birthday and MC Davy Rothbart and The Sweatpants found themselves compelled to send us this CD. We are pretty sure we’re grateful. No, we are. We’re grateful. Thanks, Davy, and thanks, Sweatpants, whoever you are. You ain’t banned on Transom.” –Jay Allison, transom.org | ||||||||
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The Sweatpants are:
DJ Monkey Button-Pusher….Hunter Blair Diamond D. …………….Aaron Dennis Popcorn Pete …………..Peter Rothbart
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Anvil
“Bound to release a virus on retrophiles of all sorts…” –XLR8R
“Dreamy, nostalgiac, giddy… Anvil’s New Music feels snatched from both the past and the future…” –San Francisco Bay Guardian
New Music for Virtuosos sounds like a meeting between Duran Duran and DJ Krush. To put it simply, a one-man ’80’s band.
Andrew Cohn (A.K.A. Anvil) was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Cohn’s grandfather was a traveling jazz musician, and his mother exposed him to a wide range of music.
“I don’t remember childhood birthday parties,” says Cohn, “but I remember going to Prince and Michael Jackson concerts before I’d even started grade school.”
With little formal training, Cohn began collecting music equipment and recording at a young age. By his sophomore year at Eastern Michigan University, he had been spinning for several years under the name DJ PotatoHead, making mixtapes, playing house parties and hosting local radio shows. In 1998, he dropped out of school, bought an MPC, and concentrated solely on music production. In the years that followed, he mastered his craft, sometimes working ten to fifteen hours a day on the MPC. His sound was developing into a world of dark, abstract hip-hop influenced by beat-makers like the RZA, Dan the Automator, and DJ Krush. Cohn’s first album, a collaboration with fellow producer Iggy Ignotius entitled the Cold War EP was released by the internet-label Demux Digital (www.demuxdigital.com) in 2002.
After graduating from E.M.U. in 2003, Cohn continued to DJ, working on beats and playing local shows. For his solo debut album, Cohn says, “I didn’t want to release just a collection of material, but rather a concept album with a specific sound.”
Cohn began constructing beats using synthesized melodies and hard drums to create a new sound. Fueled by frenzied trips to the Alley Bar and repeat viewings of The Karate Kid, Cohn, under the alias Anvil, created perhaps the world’s first ’80’s instrumental/ hip-hop album. “The album was a dedication to every musician who thinks he’s the greatest musician of all time,” says Cohn.
Media inquiries: info@21balloons.com
Contact Anvil: moodgadget@gmail.com
Anvil’s MySpace page: www.myspace.com/beatsbyanvil
21 Balloons is thrilled to announce the release of Anvil’s striking solo debut New Music for Virtuosos on November 7, 2006.
Buy the album here.TK
Listen to sample tracks here.TK
**** (Four stars/highest rating)
“Instrumental downtempo and hip-hop composed of trance-like laptop beats and ’80s pop synthesizers? Don’t try to imagine it, just go out and buy it.” –Real Detroit Weekly
“Reagan, the Challenger explosion, your first kiss… it’s the ’80s as viewed from 2029.” –The Miami Herald
