In addition to dropping some vinyl, Babe Rainbow has a ’shaved’ mixtape poppin’ on the internet next week with Rico Uno. The babe himself just shot us over a track to preview, shit is legiiiit.
It has been a few months since we checked in, but Babe Rainbow has done anything but fade away. In fact, he’s dropping the anticipated Shaved EP 12″ via Warp on Feb 8. Pre-order it here and peep more BR news here. Yeah, we’re stoked.
Fresh mashup from the Canada kid, Babe Rainbow. Trippin’ on that Zomby and Crime Mob, plug it into your night if the energy flows from the AC not the DC, you see what I eenie meenie? You breathe underwater? I breathe under beer. It’s Friday night, get the fuck outta here (let this pwn your portable music playing device first).
ps. if you like the rap music, babe made a sweet lil’ mixtape for ya right hurrr.
Imagine hitting up a silent film with Babe Rainbow breaking beats for the big screen. Well, luckily we’ve become a culture so advanced that we have ‘full screen’ options on all video players so get a larger moniter and bump this babe of a video. Alright, well maybe ‘babe’ isn’t the right description for a video about spawning Satan’s child and watching witches literally kiss the Devil’s ass, but it’s a keeper. Anything for our Babe Rainbow…
When you play this in the club girls be like “damn, another winner from Babe Rainbow.” Can you babe the rainbow? Not like the dudes in this video can, that’s for sure – if you could then you’d prob be keeping up with the Re-Up Gang blog instead.
Our summer heartthrob Babe Rainbow and our new pals Basketball have far more than their Canadian heritage to talk about. Found this collab via Pinglewood and the further my jaw drops the more I think that my eyes will never roll into place from the back of my head. Yeah, it’s one of those.
“This song frustrated the hell out of me,” he told me. “I wrote the melody and layered sounds pretty quickly but couldn’t find a percussive pattern I liked. I’ve tried so many different drum loops and was never been happy with it.
“I couldn’t scrap it though, I thought the music was beautiful. It’s not as dark as my other stuff, more heartbreaking, melancholic. I honestly make music for myself so if it affects me I’m doing something right. So my friends in Basketball did the percussion for me on this song. It’s called Proper.” [via Pinglewood]
Just listening to our favorite sub-whamp sound characteristic in dubstep and applying it to a fairly minimal arrangement gets me pretty excited. There’s a new language brewing up in America’s crown and no doubt we’re gonna hear much more from it. I’m going to toss in a Noah23 track into this post, another Canadian that we love. And more on Basketball when I get back to NY this week.
Babe Rainbow has got curves in all the right places. That’s right, Cameron Reed aka Babe Rainbow is an instance of dubstep finding home in North America and sounding fantastic! Creating anxious cries of Chia pets wanting so badly to grow, Reed captures the stages of evolution in his pieces – from concept to result we hear the complexity of growth, whamp of yearning, and thud of arrival. What Reed has also successfully accomplished is not only bringing dubstep to North America, but North America to dubstep. Taking Wavves‘ “Weed Demon” and dressing it up in the most magical costume of beats and drops, the all too familiar tune has gained new meaning…I guess you can even go as far as saying that Babe Rainbow has changed weed. Yeah, I’ll stick with that one. Evidence below and download a bunch more tunes at the Babe Rainblog.
Thank You Come Again
Lady Bird Lake Trail
March 20, 3PM
w/ dead gaze, easyboy, mistlefinger, big whup + pizza!, white fang, jonesin', tempo no tempo, dream panther
FMLY Group Hug
Dominican Joe, 515 South Congress
March 20, 8pm
w/ MillionYoung, Truman Peyote, Michael Parallax, Wampire, Idiot Glee, I Am The Dot, Magic Man, Philip Seymour Hoffman fbook event
Los Angeles
Kria Brekkan & Drawlings
McWorld
March 24th fbook event
Evan Voytas, WAMPIRE, Battlehooch, Pizza! + Afterparty for Tobacco (of Black Moth Super Rainbow) and The Hood Internet
McWorld
March 25th Fbook event
FMLY RIDE
April 3rd 2010
Dinowalrus, Tempo No Tempo
May 1
Santa Cruz
FMLY RIDE
April 3rd 2010
Pacific and Water
Boston
FMLY / Breakfast of Champs Fest
PPALMM's Chinatown Loft
April 16
New York
FMLY / Breakfast of Champs Fest
April 18
Tobacco (of Black Moth Super Rainbow) & Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Knitting Factory
April 24 fbook event
IcyDemons, Truman Peyote, Trouble Books
Glasslands
May 2
San Francisco
Thank you Come Again
The Neighbors, Wes Leslie, Shaw, Maus Haus, Mistlefinger, Goliath the Giver
March 21st
Dolores Park f book event
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