Brzowski - Microplastics

Brzowski - Microplastics

It’s hard to say if Brzowski has been carving his own lane in this weird indie rap thing or just digging his own grave in the larger scale of the hip hop venn diagram by making the hardest to digest rap I’ve ever heard. Either way he has this “new england gothic” thing down to a science on his newest release Enmityville. Brzo is a friendly guy who will buy you a beer and make you laugh all night if you tour through his town, but he also has a much darker side that comes out in his art (as it should). He raps bigger words than I can use in conversation, for example; “hypocritical” “axiom” “circadian” “the” etc etc…and I’m not saying it sounds catchy but I don’t think that’s what he’s going for. Brzo words pour out of the mouth on what sounds like a 90 year old cowboy who was a lifetime smoker and is dressed up as Dracula for halloween but is in denial that cigarets are bad or that he’s 90. His art is dark because being an artist is dark. Especially in an age where a lot of art is disposable and meaningless. He doesn’t put anything out that’s not very meaningful and calculated, much like C Money Burns’ production on this track (as well as everything else he’s ever done). Remember when Sole teamed up with The Skyrider Band and did the song Bones Of My Pets? Remember how rad that beat was? Half indie rap then they chopped the piano and added some bass made you wanna shake your wanna shake your ass? Well that’s what C Money did on this beat. Took a piano part that if another producer had it would be a sappy emo rap starting point, but instead he mixed it with some kind of dub step sounding thing. It might be the only beat to make me head bang and throw up the horns while my (made up) girlfriend dances however people who can dance to rap dances to rap while the lyrics give me the head fuck I’ve been searching for. In a world where much of the media is broken down to shitty polluting microplastics all we can do is hope Brzowski and C Money Burns’ music is so dense it won’t break down to nothing as easy as the rest.

https://brzowskimusic.bandcamp.com/track/microplastics-2

Brzowski - Wichita EP

If you don't know what "new england gothic rap" is, it's because you've never listened to Brzowski, simple as that. If you are familiar with Brzowski, or maybe you even know him by 'uncle brzo,' then you won't be surprised to hear he has a new ep out. I'm not reviewing it because I'm lazy as shit and have a pile of cds/tapes/vinyl people have given me with the expectation of me reviewing them for the zine. But Brzo is always releasing music so unique, weather alone, with Vinyl Cape (Brzowski, C Money Burns, & Mo Nikls), through Milled Pavement, or with DJ Halo that I couldn't help but share it. Enjoy.

https://brzowskimusic.bandcamp.com/releases

Virtue & DJ Emoh Betta - Never Made it to O'Briens

These two hunks(Emoh and Virtue) made an album back in November of 2011.

Pay what you want, cheapo's!

Stillborn Identity/MC Homeless split cassette

It's about time I shamelessly promote myself. I(Stillborn Identity) did a hand numbered, limited run, split cassette with MC Homeless at the end of last year. Since the release, MC Homeless has "retired" but I still wanna keep this release in circulation because I think both sides are awesome. As far as I know this is the last release he did as "MC Homeless." I think there is a Brain Busters(MC Homeless and Joey Silva) release out there, and he started doing some non-hip hop project.

MC Homeless' side starts off with a track Imaginary Audience, a track by Brain Busters.

The second track is 66 featuring Me, Stillborn Identity. It's produced by C Money Burns. Homeless and I drive from Youngstown, OH to Austin, TX after he moved there and needed his car. I was super pumped to hang out in Austin, TX, but Homeless started a new job during the day and was gun-ho about hanging out with his at the time lady friend at night. So most of my time was spent trying to figure out how the bus line there worked only to instead walk 5 miles to a skate park, drinking Mad Dog20/20 by myself, and writing this track. Homeless had a half finished verse and polished it up in like 3 takes after I took over a half over to record my verse I had been working on all weekend. We're both kinda Vincent Gallo geeks and titling the track was never even a question after we put the quote from Buffalo 66 in there.

Breathe was originally released free online on his Wild At Heart ep produced by Johnny La Rock.

This fourth track on his side is almost to good to believe. MC Homeless toured with Illogic and Baker a year or two ago, and they had a day off in CT during their tour. During their day off they wrote and recorded this song with Ceschi.

My side starts off with Artist Wishlist produced by Pat Urn of 7718. I think I also wrote most of this song at Homeless' place in Texas. I didn't finish it until weeks later when I was in New Jersey "working" as a videographer on a freestyle motocross tour. That night one of the best FMX photographers (at least in my opinion), Chris Tedesco talked to me about what he had to do to "make it" in the industry. The only direct quote from that drunken hotel foyer conversation was, "just don't sell out, whatever that means to you." Ironically enough, I think that was my last weekend working on that tour.

Jack Wilson played me CREAM sometime in the beginning of the year when I was couch surfing in Baltimore and I was so pumped on his verse, and the beat by Visionary Brotherhood, that I demanded that he let me collab with him on it... and luckily he did.

I'm leading Me Down produced by Tybo Beats was the last track I wrote for the release. I thought it sounded like something HW would fit in with, so before I was finished with my second verse I sent him a text seeing if he was down, then emailed him a rough copy. Within hours(before I was finished with my second verse) he sent me his final version of the track.

Photo from left to right: Cathy Cathodic, HW, Stillborn Identity, Eric, Baker


Pitseleh's a Goner produced by JE Double F is my favorite track. I never knew that Pitseleh was Yiddish for "little one" but after I figured that out when I opened for Height with Friends at the 31st Street Pub it made the title even more fitting. Originally the titled was inspired by an Elliott Smith song. http://www.pghcitypaper.com/FFW/archives/2012/10/22/mp3-monday-stillborn-identity-pitselehs-a-goner

I wrote 1,000 Miles(produced by Zoen) away when I was living in Nevada and still in love with a girl in Pittsburgh. After I wrote this song and sent her the demo, I thought she would ask me to come back to her. But she didn't. She just said it was another really sad song I wrote, and asked what it was about.

Physical copies of the tape are available through this blog, Milled Pavement, Harford and Rekords, and whatever hard copies the artists have left.

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