We are so excited to bring you, at long last, the 3:AM Studios-created video for “Heatwave,” from Heatwave, by Backburner!
The beat is by Timbuktu, and he raps on it along with Wordburglar, Jesse Dangerously, Chokeules, Jay Bizzy, and Thesis Sahib singing the sweet, sweet hook. I can almost guarantee that the hook will be wedged uncomfortably in your head for weeks to come, so you had better get used to liking it. Start now, it’s amazing.
In celebration of this momentous release, Hand’Solo Records will also be bringing an EP of only the very best songs from the Heatwave album to vinyl. We thought it might spruce up the selection a bit if we included an exclusive remix of the title track on the wax, but one obstacle we encountered is that we’re VERY LAZY. So we’ve decided to let you handle this one for us.
We’re having a contest, open to everyone! Grab the track elements and peruse the rules over here: Heatwave Remix Contest. The fifith-, fourth-, third-, and second-best remixes will be featured and gushed over on the Hand’Solo and Backburner websites, and the number one greatest remix will be included on the Heatwave vinyl EP this spring.
You have until February 29th! Thank goodness for leap years, eh? Go and get cracking, or at least tell that cool friend of yours who makes beats to get a move on. The vinyl is going to be a load of garbage without this hot injection of new blood. Oh my god that was a disgusting thing to say.
*I was just kidding about how we’re too lazy; there will also be another bonus cut on the vinyl that will make every other rapper on earth cry from not feeling good enough anymore. It’s mean but unavoidable, plus fun.
**I don’t know probably go read about SOPA/PIPA or Bill C-11 because it’s Black Wednesday and while we love copyright infringement and wouldn’t be able to live without the thrill of illegally appropriating protected works, not everyone should have to encounter that thrill just went they want to do some normal thing in their day that’s fine.
Lithium Studios in Toronto, who brought you More or Les‘s “Pop N Chips” and Timbuktu & Jorun‘s “The New Science” in ages past, has cranked up the special feelings for another Burner banger; this time the Bix-produced “Stolen Kicks,” featuring the Brooklyn underground legend once known as Pumpkinhead (now just PH).
The riff on David Blaine’s Street Magic (and maybe more specifically, those YouTube parodies?) makes Socks’s eerie deadpan into a mask of determination… he will entertain you, or you will face the consequences.
This song is from Treat Of The Day, but if it gets you all riled up and excited to hear more collaborative Sockwork, you may be among the thousands of screaming fans clamouring for a bite of the Teenburger, where Socks and Timbuktu engage in lockerroom swordfight raps over endless summertime beats by Witchdoc Jorun.
On the first of September, two thousand and eleven, Backburner converged on the small village of Toronto, Ontario, and changed the way people think about such concepts as “enjoying a rap show” forever.
Here are eleven performances, captured as in prehistoric amber (sorry, Jurassic Park marathon last night… don’t you think the dinosaurs should have time traveled to the old west in #3?) by the intrepid lens of Hand’Solo Recordings label head (and feet) Thomas Quinlan. You’ll be thrilled as MisterE fills in blank spaces left by several missing members! Shocked when Ghettosocks is yanked off stage by what may have been a great white shark (or just some not-so-great white dudes) and relieved when he emerges unscathed… on the surface. Dumbfounded as Thesis Sahib, Chokeules, SJ the Wordburglar, rap legend Jesse Dangerously, More or Les and Timbuktu use their faces to punch the face of the soul of hip-hop… forever.
Or at least I hope you like it a little bit?
Tomorrow is the grand release of Ghettosocks’s new video for “Stolen Kicks,” co-starring PH (f/k/a Pumpkinhead) and a few very special pairs of athletic shoes!
Coming soon, but I’m not sure how soon, is the internet premiere of More or Les’s new video for “I Ain’t Goin’ Out.” It has about a bazillion cameos from Backburner and friends of Backburner, and the long-awaited return of Hal Johnson. In spirit, anyway.
This little bandcamp player is ready for you to bump every track for free, and then go buy the download for five tiny dollars, or the physical CD for $8.99.
We’re all on it, you guys!
A great many of us are going to be in Toronto and London to launch the album this week, too.
On Thursday, September 1st, we’ll be playing in Toronto at Rancho Relaxo, 300 College Street.
On Saturday, September 3rd, we’ll be playing in London at The Black Shire, 511 Talbot Street.
At both shows, the cost of admission includes a copy of the CD!!
So what are you going to do, now that your life is perfect? Oh yeah… BUMP DOPE RAPS FOREVER.
You have been chilled to your bones, and we have heard your moans for warmth.
This may be on some “be careful what you wish for” ish, though.
Backburner’s HEATWAVE is coming to a face near your face for September 1st, especially if your face is a face near Toronto, Ontario – a release show that night at Rancho Relaxo (300 College Street) will feature captains among a team of captains: Jesse Dangerously, Thesis Sahib, Timbuktu, Chokeules, SJ the Wordburglar, More or Les and more TBA!??
Believe the hype. Unless the hype is negative, in which case believe ME when I say HOLY SHIT RAP ITSELF JUST GOT SLIGHTLY BETTER FOREVER.
(Oh yeah hey also listen friends – thank you SO MUCH to everyone who chipped in on the “HEATWAVE” video shoot fund. Shooting has been postponed to the first week of August due to logistical boondoggles (YEAH I SAID IT) endemic to a crew of this breadth and girth, but it is happening and it is amazing. And YOU MADE IT HAPPEN. And YOU WILL GET PRESENTS!!)
Friends of the Burner, we don’t like to think of this a problem, but an opportunity.
To begin with, let’s take a listen to a quick preview of the lead single “HEATWAVE,” from the Backburner group album HEATWAVE coming to a face near you this summer.
So did you peep the little scrolly at the bottom of that otherwise very placid video clip? We’re about to make a video for “HEATWAVE,” and we’ll do it with or without your help! YOU’RE NOT OUR DAD.
Look, forget what I was about to say about money. Here’s a better idea. Don’t you love RAP?
Don’t you love BACKBURNER?
We have some special treats for you. Think of it as a blow-out sale, with some guy called CRAZY EDDY in the commercial and no-one believe how CRAZY he is for these prices.
For One Dollar, you get the MP3 download of this ridiculous song “HEATWAVE” featuring Thesis Sahib, Timbuktu, Wordburglar, Chokeules, Jay Bizzy and Jesse Dangerously cranking out a summer jam for the ages. Every second the thermostat is above 24 and you aren’t banging out this jammy, your heart cries piteously… and you may not even know it.
For Ten Dollars, you preorder the whole HEATWAVE album to be downloaded the MOMENT it is released to the public officially, some time in August.
For Fifteen Dollars, you preorder both the download AND a physical CD copy to keep in your glove compartment forever, next to license, registration, and condoms (yeah Will.I.Am we keep domes in the whip… sorry u gotta hoof it).
For Thirty Dollars, you can have the Toolshed Starter Kit! It consists of Toolshed’s most recent group album, The Lost, and Timbuktu and Chokeules’s solo albums, Stranger Danger and Hypergraphia, respectively! Also the Backburner album preorder.
For Forty Dollars, you get Before The End, Thesis Sahib’s gorgeous full-colour art book and 16-track album with 7″ vinyl insert. Ordinarily the book/album/download/vinyl/party is $45 plus shipping, so this is like STEALING. In the fun way! Also you get the Backburner album preorder.
For Fifty Dollars, you may make the gut-churningly difficult decision between receiving the Wordburglar Starter Kit or the Jesse Dangerously starter kit. WB’s includes his vinyl-only EP from 2005 featuring exclusive remixes and b-sides, one copy each of Burglaritis and Burgie’s Basement, and oh Jesus a t-shirt and a Snakor’s Pizza comic book authored by young Burg (not to be confused with rapper Young Berg) himself.
But the Jesse D kit is enticing to a similar extent!! You get his new album/chapbook, Humble & Brilliant, his last two albums on CD, a 7″ vinyl featuring two songs by Jesse with Thesis Sahib and MC Frank Deluxe, a Jesse Dangerously t-shirt designed by Thesis Sahib, and an actual cassette tape of unreleased b-sides, demos, and collaborations. OH HOLY SHIT.
If you are a super duper wild Jesse Dangerously fan, then fifty dollars could get you the very last last ever final last physical CD copy for sale ever of either Eastern Canadian World Tour 2002, or How To Express Your Dissenting Political Viewpoint Through Origami. It is very steep, but you know it is a WISE INVESTMENT like a BEANIE BABY with a HEART-SHAPED PLASTIC TY TAG PROTECTOR.
For Two Hundred Dollars, we have a prize tailored to the rapper or producer out there in the world who has everything…. everything, that is, except one of Canada’s dopest MCs spitting a hot verse on his or her track. You can pick between Chokeules, Jay Bizzy, Jesse Dangerously, More Or Les (who isn’t even on this song, but generously threw in anyway!), Thesis Sahib, or SJ the Wordburglar!! It’s a bargain at half the price.
For Two Hundred and Twenty-Five Dollars, you get the motherlode: The Backburner Starter Kit. It consists of one of everything in each of the other starter kits listed above, PLUS The Ghost of Jacob Marley by Jay Bizzy, Wartime Theme Songs For The Modern Ego by Thesis Sahib, Fuck by Les Swashbuckling Napoleons (Thesis & Bleubird), Brunch With A Vengeance by More or Les, the Hand’solo Records mixtape Hokey Religions & Ancient Weapons, and a DVD with the old Wordburglar video on it THAT WE DAMN SURE ARE NOT LETTING ANYONE SEE FOR ANY OTHER REASON THAN THIS.
For Three Hundred Dollars, you insanely can have an original 12″x12″ painting by art star Thesis Sahib. This is real art for joke art prices. I almost could kind of cry just letting it go for a price that minuscule. You are robbing us blind here. I kind of thought you would be cooler than that.
You can almost smell the record shop must (musk?) on this digital 12″ from Hand’solo Records! A stand-out track from Toolshed’s recent album, The Lost, “Irish Car Bomb pt.2″ is now packaged with a clean edit, an a capella (REMIXERS!! MASHERS-UP!!), a remix by Savilion and another remix of album track “Flavour Saviours.” Most Canadian spellings possible in two words.
Grab it for free below, or even just bump it off the embedded player. Why the shit not? Tell your friends!!
Ghettosocks made this collage for the Uncle Fester Show!
Uncle Fester of the Extremities is well known by now for the scratch sentences and cut collages he drops on tracks by Backburner artists, and others. He is renowned in Halifax for his hardy style on the ones and twos, and do you remember in 2009 when he dropped a few fly podcasts on this very site?
The Uncle Fester Show is back! This episode features a few fly Extremities remixes, some overlooked bangers from the last few years, and exciting rap from RIGHT NOW.
Use this embedded player to stream the whole thing, or click the title to download the mix for your portable players or candlelit dinners at extremities.bandcamp.com – and peep the full track listing below!
