ASTHMATIC ASTRONAUT & TEXTURE: FIGURES IN THE MIST

ASTHMATIC ASTRONAUT & TEXTURE - BLACK INK KINGS

Music: Asthmatic Astronaut 

Lyrics, camera ops & edit: Texture

USER ILLUSIONS : Texture

 

"Human consciousness is unlike all other varieties of animal consciousness in that it is a product in large part of cultural evolution... creating thereby a cognitive architecture unlike the 'bottom-up' minds of animals.... This architecture furnishes each of us with... a user-illusion." - Daniel C. Dennett, 'From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds'

USER ILLUSIONS : Texture [Audio]

https://texture.bandcamp.com/album/user-illusions

TEXTURE X ASHTRONOMIK X HYPNOKID - BURNT TRAIL

IN THE FOREST WITH THE GODS. Film: Andrew Mackenzie // Edit: Ashtronomik // Colour & FX: Oscar Jam // Beats: Hypnokid // Audio mix: Ashtronomik & Tom S. Ray

Loki - 23rd Dec 2019 - King Tut's Glasgow

LOKI THE SCOTTISH RAPPER
GENRES: HIP HOP, SPOKEN WORD

Loki, real name Darren McGarvey, is a Glasgow-based author, performer, community activist and journalist. Loki's central role in the development and evolution of Scottish hip-hop cannot be understated, and his influence as a writer and performer can be felt wherever Scottish rap is found.

 MON 23 DEC 2019 Doors 8:30pm 18+
*** CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS ***

Texture & Asthmatic Astronaut - INVOKATION

"Bram E. Gieben aka Texture is a writer, emcee and beatmaker based in Glasgow, Scotland. An original member of the Chemical Poets, he is the vocalist in the band düst and the co-founder of the Black Lantern Music collective."


#Invokation (produced by Asthmatic Astronaut) is the first single from #ELEVATE, the new album of dystopian neo-nihilist science fiction hip-hop by Texture

Click here for Bandcamp / Pre-Order page.

December 13, 2017

BBC Social - Frontseat Freestyle w/ Texture

Asthmatic Astronaut - This Is Not Pop

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.

This Is Not Pop was produced in 6 months from start to finish creating 30 beats with a turntable and sampler within the space of a week before sending the original tape out to 30 invited M.C’s. The end result is an 18 track album with 19 M.C’s with AA finishing the tracks as the vocals came in adding and rebuilding around the individual vocal takes of each artist.

The result is a classic Boom Bap style of production twisted with AA’s electronic leanings that bursts with some of the finest and most creative lyricists to have emerged from the underground Hip Hop scene.

So join Asthmatic Astronaut and Lifeshows, Solareye, Texture, MacKenzie, Replicator,
Mikel Krumins, Johnny Cypher, Ciran Mac, Conscious Route, Mic Calibre, Laughing
Gear, T!INK, Harlequinade, Sleeping Ingenuity, Warrior Bone, Loki, Tickle and ONESP

on this uk hip hop classic in the making.

 Direct link CLICK HERE.

BBC The Social Presents Rappers V Poets

The Social presents a battle of words between razor-sharp rappers and ninja poets - you decide who bosses the 5 rounds of lyrical mayhem.

This event is FREE but TICKETED!
Tickets available from 6th of August at the BBC box office, and at the venue on the night.

HOSTED BY: Texture AKA Bram E. Gieben & Jay McLeary

THE RAPPERS: Madhat McGore, Ransom FA, Werd, Mic Calibre, Ross Houston AKA Jailz

THE POETS: Kevin P. Gilday - Writer & Spoken Word Artist, Victoria McNulty - Poetry, Leyla Josephine, Michelle Fisher, Sam Small Poetry

 
Facebook even page: https://www.facebook.com/events/2079823198909614