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AJ Suede & steel tipped dove
Reoccurring Characters
side A
Automatic Amnesty
Kluxbusting
Tell Me When to van Gogh
One Way Ticket ft. Premrock & Fatboi Sharif
Sour Disposition
Side B
Hovercraft Jeep
Excessive Celebration ft. Duncecap
Dreads at The Monastery
Cold Hue ft. Curly Castro
Continental Drifting
All songs written and performed by AJ Suede
*except where noted
All songs produced, recorded & mixed by steel tipped dove
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You know that feeling when an incredible actor pops up in a surprise cameo in a movie and your jaw hits the floor? Or when you are listening to a brand new song without looking at the credits and you hear your favorite rapper check the mic - about to start their verse? Multiply that excitement by 10 and you’ve got the new album by AJ Suede and steel tipped dove.
Reoccurring Characters transports the listener into the sonic universe of two of the most undeniable forces in current rap music. Fresh from a world tour AJ Suede is penning rich, clever and poignant lyrics, performing them with his truly engrossing flow and pure rap skill flexing. Linking up with steel tipped dove to map out a chaotic smooth instrumental framework to inhabit, these two transport you to a whole new dimension.
A few other prodigious characters hopped in the hovercraft, including Premrock, Fatboi Sharif, Duncecap & Curly Castro - each delivering their own stunning display of word flow mastery. Playing Reoccurring Characters will place you in Suede and dove’s nomadic phonic world, always looking for new and rare places to go.
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THIS IS A PRE-ORDER (WILL START SHIPPING APPROX. JANUARY 2024)
limited to 300 copies
**YOU WILL RECEIVE A DOWNLOAD LINK FOR THE ALBUM WHEN THE ALBUM RELEASES ON 10/13/23*
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Tracklist:
Side A
Legal Tender (Sanction What Is Soft)
Ate the Tuning Fork While I Taxied in the Crepuscular ft. Open Mike Eagle
When I'm Squared with Happiness
Pale Black Negative
Psychic Rhyming Like Kings Shining ft. Andrew Mbaruk
Early Hominid in the Crag of Heartbreak
Side B
When the Orchestra Is Dreaming ft. Mike Ladd
It Jes Grew (Right Outta Me)
Chancla Gander (A Spiritual for Moziah)
To Write it Out Is
Life Between Revelation (Power My Peace) ft. Hymnal
Credits:
written, performed, composed, and produced by Rhys Langston
featuring vocals by Andrew Mbaruk, Hymnal, Mike Ladd, and Open Mike Eagle
additional instrumentation by Jon GK, Jonah Levine, and LF Goldsmith (see liner notes for breakdown)
mastered by Dave Cooley of Elysian Masters
Pale Black Negative is the 20th project from rapper and multi-instrumentalist Rhys Langston. It crystallizes his 10 year discography of genre abolition, while showcasing his strength as rap’s premier poet-etymologist. Though rapping remains his main instrument, this record fully unveils Langston’s singing talent in equal splendor. Presenting what he calls a “rapper’s singer-songwriter record,” he commandeers guitar, bass, clarinet, synths, banjo, and percussion to couch his poetry in alternative R&B, art rock, trip hop, and even roots blues music. In the 11 songs Rhys Langston’s linguistic eccentricity shows itself as scion of his West Coast forefathers, Freestyle Fellowship, as much as the eclectic production owes its range to his coming of age in the late aughts, listening to indie pioneers TV on the Radio. And read on the page his lyrics might resemble pages from a lost Amiri Baraka manuscript, until they are sung aloud more like Beck (maybe with a little more melanin).
Even with contemporary music’s post-genre conventions, rarely do songs so successfully balance technical, poetic rapping with soulful, genre-fluid melodies. Pale Black Negative compromises in neither form nor fashion. Its impressionist abstractions sit beside emotional candor, its bespoke language stands next to genuine pathos, and its layered harmonies bolster unflinching bars. Some songs were started in 2017 and others took shape in 2022, resulting in a slow cooked opus for our age of endless convenience and instant gratification. Magnum may it be, this product of a shoestring budget, an outdated DAW, and just enough nerve. A sui generis lexicon in poetry and timbre, this is Rhys Langston’s abstract autobiography across an expanse of word and sound.
Black Market Poetry (digital) / Fused Arrow Records (vinyl)
***THIS IS A PRE-ORDER — Set to Ship Approx. end of June 2025***
Tracklist:
Backbone ft. I Self Devine
East Side
Darkness/Light
Animal Eyes
Trains
Want It
New Moon ft. Davu Seru
Words by Crescent Moon
Music and Mix by Andrew Broder
Written and Recorded in Minneapolis, 2025
Mastering by steel tipped dove
Keys on "Darkness, Light" & "Trains" by de Von Russell Gray
Drums on "Darkness, Light" & "New Moon" by Davu Seru
Design by Kai Benson
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Eulogy, the latest collaboration between Alexei Moon Casselle (Crescent Moon) and Andrew Broder, is a meditation on mortality, friendship, ancestry, and the cost of living in the modern world.
Both Casselle and Broder emerged from the fertile ground of the Minneapolis underground, each developing a distinct voice that helped define its sound. With Kill the Vultures, Casselle brought a stark, poetic sensibility to hip-hop that stood apart for its rawness and restraint. Broder, through his project Fog and a long list of collaborations, expanded the possibilities of production, composition, and atmosphere across genres. Though their paths have long run parallel, Eulogy finds them converging here in sharp focus.
The record opens with “Backbone,” featuring legendary Minneapolis MC I Self Devine (Micranots), a central figure in the city’s underground lineage and an early influence on both artists. Like their 2018 self-titled release for Baro Records, Eulogy draws from that shared heritage of textured production, evocative storytelling, and lyrics steeped in the lives of working people, balancing grit and grace in equal measure.
The album’s emotional summit arrives with “Trains,” inspired by Casselle’s ancestor who worked the railroads in the early twentieth century. The song connects to the album’s cover image of a Pullman porter, forming a layered reflection on inheritance and hierarchy in America, history rendered personal. With contributions from Davu Seru (percussion, AACM) and deVon Russell Gray (keys, McKnight Fellow), the track deepens the album’s contemplative tone, stretching toward something spiritual without ever leaving the ground.
By the closing track, “New Moon,” Eulogy has traveled through memory, loss, and renewal. Its sound world stands comfortably beside Broder’s acclaimed work with Armand Hammer, ELUCID, Circuit des Yeux, and Joe Rainey, yet remains distinctly its own, a concise and haunting statement from two enduring voices of the Minneapolis underground.
** BEGINS SHIPPING AROUND DECEMBER 12 2025 **
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THIS HEAH MASTAPIECE WAS CREATED DURING A TIME OF UNTOLD DISASTROPHES & LOVE EXPLOSIONS. T*H*A*N*K**Y*O*U!!!!
credits
released August 20, 2021
Produced by Celestaphone
Lead vocals, rhymes: Y*O*U*N*G*M*A*N
Turntable, keyboards: Celestaphone
Recording facilities: Steel Tipped Dove's studio, Brooklyn; Frogs With Dirty Little Lips, San Mateo; various remote locations
Recording engineers: Paul Barman, Celestaphone, Steel Tipped Dove, Suzanne Goldish & Eli Gesner
Mix engineer, mastering: Celestaphone
Layoutist: Alex Haught
Dog photo: Wayne Middleton
Cover illustrator: Hunt Emerson
Add. design, cover colorist: Josh Grotto
Art direction: Paul Barman & Celestaphone
Livicated to MF DOOM & Solomon
Special thanks to Stinko Salami, nephs & niece
All selections published by Horn Implant Music (ASCAP), Drumhex Music (BMI).
©℗ 2021 Drumhex. DHX-008.
Side A
The Blueprint of a Self Made Thousandaire
King of the Zoo Pt. 2 (feat Nosaj from New Kingdom, and Marcus Pinn)
You don’t know me and you don’t know my style
Songs for Insane Times (feat Andrew)
Getting By (feat Bob Bucko Jr.)
Side B
Troublesome (feat ialive)
The Number 7
The Ooze (feat Nosaj from New Kingdom)
The Best (All others are #2 or lower)
Debra
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Punctiform (12" LP)
Side A
Surprise Lake
A Beautiful Day In Brooklyn ft. Defcee
More Railway
Crocodile Tears ft. AJ Suede
Vampire Vinegar Water Gun
Seance Flare Gun ft. Fatboi Sharif
Kengyilia
Gilgunnia ft. ShrapKnel
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Side B
Cool Ranch
Magnetic Circuit ft. Cavalier
Pseudoroegneria
Cyanide ft. Fielded
Reply Guy
Canoe ft. Duncecap
An Overlap
Talking Heads ft. Cain
Stopping Somewhere
All songs produced by Adi Meyerson & steel tipped dove
Features noted
All bass guitar by Adi Meyerson
Mixmasterd by steel tipped dove
Artwork and Layout by Brian Kwon
AFTER THE END (12" vinyl LP)
Side A
1. THE SEASON
2. I’M SETTING UP IN A NEW CITY
3. REVERSE THE CURSE
4. TRUE NORTH *
5. BATTERY WITH NO RUST +
6. I’VE GOT MY WHOLE LIFE AHEAD OF ME
Side B
7. IT’S HOT AS HELL IN THE BIBLE BELT FT. PT BURNEM
8. ONE MAN CANNES
9. LOWER EAST SIDE
10. BLACK CARD
11. WAVE GENERATOR
All songs written and performed by Nosaj from New Kingdom and Height Keech
All songs produced by Height Keech and Nosaj from new Kingdom
* Synth by ialive + Co-Written by ARDAMUS
Mixed by steel tipped dove
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A lot of people spend their days vaguely anxious about the pandemonium they can feel about to sweep down on all of us. They see the cracks in the societal dam holding back total chaos, and – knowing it could go sideways any minute- they have a hard time going about their day… enjoying their lunch… relaxing on the weekend. It’s like a splinter in the comfort zone in their brains… They can’t focus on anything because they’re way too aware of the cracks spreading in the thin ice we’re all walking on during these waning days of the empire.
But that’s not even the actual issue. The real problem is: they just don’t have the right soundtrack cued up for when that proverbial excrement hits that spinning fan blade of reality. To put it another way, they haven’t heard Wave Generators yet.
This is the album you’re going to want to reach for when you swear allegiance to Lord Humongous, Master of the Wastes, and start cruising around with your crew of marauders looking for fledgling-city-states growing in the husks of abandoned corporate campuses that you can sack and pillage and then hold a little post-raid-party in the ruins.
This is the music that plays from the speakers mounted to the giant drill that the army of mole people drives through 5th avenue as they commence their invasion of the upper crust. Even though the headline news is, “this means the destruction the surface dwellers’ society and the age of Mole-Man dominance,” you can’t help but wonder, “where can I hear more of that subterranean battle anthem though?!”
This is the soundtrack you want in your earphones when your life drops you into a straight up movie scene foot chase scene, tearing through active restaurant kitchens, jumping rooftop to rooftop. It’ll be way too intense to fully enjoy it and you’re gonna be winded as hell because you’re not Tom Cruise and it you’re being honest with yourself; you’ve neglected your cardio. But the way the tracks line up with the near death moments and the inevitable moment when you think you’re home free but then round the corner and smack face first into the biggest of your pursuers, …. It’s all so satisfying it’s almost worth it that you’re about to be jammed into the trunk of a mid-90s Ford Taurus.
Wave Generators is exactly what you‘ve been looking for, without ever knowing you were looking. But don’t expect to take any breaks now that you found it. If anything- now that you have this last crucial tool you’ve been looking for, your busy season begins. Crank the volume, get out there, and get after it.
- Luke H. Simmons
** BEGINS SHIPPING APPROX. June 24th 2024**