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Forthcoming on Alternative Blueprint records 2012

Music & lyrics by Automated Acoustics. Video by Dan Gobby.. Vocal performance by Amy.

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A wicked night of Dubstep, junglism, & breakbeat is happening at the Black Swan, Bristol. This legendary venue is where you will hear the most future sounds & March 5th 2011 will be no exception.

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The Hip-Hoperation video is up in full:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=alternativeblueprint Check it out!

It's a tongue in cheek senior-citizen breakdancing grimy throwdown baybee! Oh yeah! 

Featuring music & sound effects from OptikaTech, Vagabond Skills & Automated Acoustics. Directed by skate video producer Russell Scully & choreographed by breakdance instructor Tom Willoughby, it's a fun, funky piece of work, which has echos of David Lynch.  Funded with help from the Mean Feet organisation, helping motivate old & disadvantaged people into movement & dance. This current version has the voices of some of the dancers in, but it will be broken up into a full music video for the Automated Acoustics track at the end.

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Playing:

OptikaTech (a.k.a. OptikaTechniqua )
Automated Acoustics
DJ Redleg

Bigger than lifesize superhero models adding to the vibe!

More TBC....

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We have the first installment of the Vagabond Skill "The Evasive Pages" released on the 31/1/2011 at your favourite download stores worldwide!

It's 4 tracks of grimy, intense & strangely beautiful Hip-Hop from the UK, USA & Holland. With the spaced out flows of MC Deface, MC Kris Ransom & produced by OptikaTech (a.k.a. OptikaTechNiqua ) this will be an e.p. for all leftfield rap heads to get deep into.

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Alternative Blueprint Records - music for specialists.
www.alternativeblueprint.com

Fat As Funk Mastering - fair rates, quick turnaround, great sound.
www.fatasfunk.com
www.myspace.com/fatasfunkmusic

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  <span>Automated Acoustics - Angels Come Back by alternativeblueprint</span>

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  <span>Vagabond Skills - Too Much Interference 320 by alternativeblueprint</span>

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  <span>Sinister Dub taster by alternativeblueprint</span>

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It's going to be a tongue-in-cheek, multi-faceted take on hip-hop culture & bridging the generation gap - with senior citizen breakdancing hoodie

gangs, fat beats & tasty visual cuts.

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There will be several end results - an avant-garde art film, a mockumentary on the youth-culture & hip hop scene, a music video for the forthcoming Automated Acoustics album, & some sonic-art audio pieces using some voice cuts recorded from the Senior Citizen breakdancers during the day.

The final projects will be funny, surreal, avant-garde, occasionally dark & most of all FUN!

Tom teaches breakdancing at festival workshops, does structured group classes & private lessons around the UK, & has studied the art of body movement since he could stand up! He has been teaching this group of very keen senior citizens street dance as a project.

Russell is a Skate Video producer, & with this project is moving into music video production & experimental film making.

Automated Acoustics (Loz Gill) did some location sound recording of the Senior citizens talking, using vocal expressions & narrative stories that will be heard in the final edits & the overall sound design for the project. It will be in the top 5 most-mental sound engineering projects he's ever worked on  ;)

It was an awesome, fun day, the group really got into it - & we totally terrorised the locals until they got up close ;)
There will be some interesting results from the project for sure!! Massive thanks to all the breakers who really got into the spirit of it - legends!

We will keep you posted.... stay tuned....

Both Tom & Russell can be contacted via Alternative Blueprint Records. www.alternativeblueprint.com

(& the video below was taken with my phone, not the nice camera Russell was using  ;)

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I especially like the bit which states that speeding tickets have gone down since the police stopped keeping a percentage of the money - Hmmm....funny that....

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You can hear some of Automated Acoustics music at: www.myspace.com/automatedacoustics
Grab the previous releases here: www.alternativeblueprint.com

Definitely check out (& book!!) Ben's fantastic band Flood The Floor, in which he plays funky bass here:  http://www.floodthefloor.co.uk
They can go up to a 16 piece band with full horn section -  they are some funky mo'fo's!

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It was a fine spring day when myself, Victor Ian Values caught up with the elusive MC Deface, head lyrical honcho of the Vagabond Skills hip-hop/dubstep project.

1: What are your favourite lyrical topics?
Kind of depends on my mood but complex and filthy ring my bells

2: How do you generally write your lyrics? Written or freestyle?
I freestyle mostly, with that then moving on into written pieces

3: So how much of that freestyle are we hearing in the album? & which are your favourite bits?
About 99% is freestyled, i don't think any of the songs have been written from start to finish. Distanktion has to be the pinnacle of this as I still have no idea WTF  I'm on about!

4: Who are your major musical influences?
Del the funky homospaian / Eminem / Necro / Anti pop consortium / Jehst / Gunshot / Wu-tang / Sian super / Opgezwolle / Silver bullet

5: There are some pretty spaced out lyrics on the album, literally in the case of Planetary Implications, & there are broad references to science in your writing. What are your interests in these areas?
Uh fantastical, I have a vested interest in the unexplained and the mysteries of this world that stretch way beyond even my garbled imagination. The holographic nature of the universe and the true history of man manage to warp my fragile little mind

6: Have there been any funny moments during the making of the album?
Yes but the insanity of them prevent me from revealing details. (Editor's note: after hearing some off the record, I can see why)

7: What the hell is Bearpear? For Gods sake man?
It is the Pear of Bear , it is the essence of life, it is the strange little world drawn inside the minds of the obscure, it is very fine smoke and the resulting visual output of such a fine input.
(Check out the Bearpear cartoon links below if you're not offended by adult themes. Written by Vagabond Skills)


8: What's the Dutch connection?
Rizlas (well the gluey sticky bit on em)

9: Where did you hone your MC skills?
In the wilds of Alaska

10: Do you have any last words?
Why? are you going to shoot me now I've done this interview, oh right well then uh how about "don't shoot"

Vagabond Skills album "The Evasive Pages" comes out in the summer. Scroll down to the bottom of the blog to hear some tracks.

Vagabond Skills Myspace: www.myspace.com/vagabonds69skills
Alternative Blueprint Myspace: www.myspace.com/alternativeblueprint
This is a small selection of Bearpear (adult themes): http://www.videolife.tk/Bearpear/ 

Alternative Blueprint Records - music for specialists.
www.alternativeblueprint.com
www.myspace.com/alternativeblueprint

Fat As Funk Mastering - fair rates, quick turnaround, great sound.
www.fatasfunk.com
www.myspace.com/fatasfunkmusic

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And this was allegedly seen on a streetlamp outside 10 Downing Street, & Gordon Brown peeking out from the curtains:
http://www.davidshrigley.com/photo_htmpgs/notice.html

And I think this is how most new government policies are really made:
http://www.darksites.com/evilplan.php

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