Beat by Mackenzie
Mixed by Ashtronomik
Mastered by Tom S. Ray & Ashtronomik
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Beat by Mackenzie
Mixed by Ashtronomik
Mastered by Tom S. Ray & Ashtronomik
The Who: The beat maker, producer (and occasional rapper) with
consciously positive live rap phenomenon’s Underling,
and one of the directors of Edinburgh ultra-underground label Black Lantern Music, AA has been making
music since 2005, and was first released on Japanese label dejine:rec . With Underling he played alongside the cream of UK and
US hip-hop including shows with ElP,
Roots Manuva, Mike Ladd, Aesop Rock, DJ Vadim and many others. Early solo
productions surfaced on Tru Thoughts, and
Wah Wah 45s’ acclaimed Stac Remixes compilations, alongside Blue Daisy and Bonobo. Since then, his solo projects and collaborations have
attracted a strong online following. He has regularly played UK festivals as a
solo performer, as half of tentacle-electro duo Church Of When The Shit Hits The Fan, and as one third of grunge-rap
collective DUST. He works
professionally as an audio engineer, producer and DJ in Glasgow, Scotland.
The What: The wheezy space traveler returns with his sophomore album This Is Not Pop. It’s been six years since the release of Super Intelligent Common Sense, the well received debut album but AA has kept himself busy in-between with side projects and experiments while releasing a slew of works with Church Of When The Shit Hits The Fan and Dust amid plenty of solo EP’s and further collaborations on Black Lantern Music. But here on his new album we see him return to his Hip Hop origin. He may have first come to peoples attention as the DJ with live Hip Hop band Underling where he clocked up over 400 live shows in a short few years and shared the stage with Hip-Hop’s hero’s of old and new, but his solo works have always shown a unique take andunderstanding of the art form.
Produced by Mackenzie