Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Porn Theatre Ushers
Artist: Porn Theatre Ushers
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Taxachusetts
Year: 2004
Tracks: 25
Influenced by production denizens DJ Premier and Large Professor as well as funky upbeat lyricists such as Ultramagnetic MC's, De La Soul, and Organized Konfusion, the white duet Porn Theatre Ushers exploded out of the vibrant late-1990s Boston underground rap scene passionate about the music merely disappointed in its growing deficiency of humour. With that in creative thinker, they set out to contribute the playfulness back to pat music, marrying wittily irreverent and clever lyrics with idiosyncratic, frequently capricious production.
Nabo Rawk and Mister Jason low met in 1997 when comrade Boston doorknocker Esoteric introduced the two. Both were already involved in the local scene, merely as it so happened, Nabo was looking for for a DJ and Mister Jason for individual to produce for. They immediately smitten up a friendship, and shortly thereafter a partnership. Their break came the following year when Nabo Rawk even for first gear in the Biscuithead Battle, a freestyle consequence, and DJ Bruno offered to put out a 12" single on his Biscuithead Recordings, a fledgeling local label. Over the next couple years, the couple released singles like "Me & Him" and "My Imagination" to underground applaud and created a small buzz in the strike community, spell Mister Jason became an coveted producer for other local MCs as substantially. The couple in the end released their first-class honours degree definitive statement in 2000 with the intimately LP-length EP Sloppy Seconds, which included their earlier singles and collaborations with Cage and K-No Supreme as substantially as new recordings.
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