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Run.Live.Love circa 2006ish?

3 Hours & Covington Kings

I'm heading up to Covington next week to chill with Hype. We're gonna celebrate the release of the 'Sex & Co.' demo with some smoke & freestyle. I'm looking forward to it. I'm even looking forward to the 3 hour drive it takes to get there. I get to roll down 80 West for a long while, then Amishville (represented in top photo), pass thru Williamsport, climb up a curvy hill & finally hit Blossburg (where I once lived for a short time).

On the way up I'm gonna be bumpin' Madlib's 'Beat Konducta, Vol. 5-6: Dil Cosby & Dil Withers Suite' to keep the trip rolling. I'm in love with this record. I'm a huge fan of Madlib & the Beat Konducta series, but this one is my personal favorite. It pays tribute to the late J Dilla & I feel Madlib captures the essence of Dilla beautifully. The time will fly by. So will a lot of cigarettes.

I hope to make a lot of bud salads once I arrive @ Hype's. We gotta reach new levels. It'll be a chill state of mind to be in while we discuss a set list, which we'll post sometime next week. I'm very excited to have some shows set up. I think that's gonna be the core of the Wine Thieves. Whenever Hype & I have performed in our past projects we seem to bring out a new element to the music on stage, which is extremely fun. In fact, I think I'm gonna bring my MPC & my ghetto Casio with me so we can practice over some instrumentals; Hype's got killer speakers.

Anyway, more about that later. Like I said before, I'll be posting some shows up @ the end of the next week after the trip. I'll put up some photos, too. Blogs are such a great excuse to take pictures, especially on a road trip to Hype's town.

Til next time,

Party

'Ghetto' Demo Vol. 1

We've changed a few things. 'Sex & Co.' will be delayed for a short while. Things are gonna take a little longer due to some set backs. However, we will be releasing the album in three separate parts until all the tracks are out. It will be at this point that we will release the album as a whole. The album will be known as 'Sex & Co.', obviously.

All other demos before the 'Sex & Co.' release will be known as different Volumes of the Sex & Company series. The first in this series is 'Ghetto Whispers: The Sex and Company Demo'. You will be able to download the demo @ The Commune in the next 2 days. Go to www.fuzzhugger.com/thecommune to do so or pick a copy up @ one of our shows.

The rest of the demos will be released over the summer, which will lead to the August/September area when the whole album is released as 'Sex & Co."

Speaking of summer, we are booking a summer tour like said before. Some of the line-up will be posted shortly, both on this blog & our myspace pages. You won't have to wait for this for long.

Also, for more of the Wine Thieves, check out 'the Wine Thieves present: Paid For By The People To Elect Hype'. It's not from the 'Sex & Co.' series, but its a tasty dish.

Peace, Party

Summer Tour '09

It's a long, tedious process. The album isn't finished yet. It's the price you pay for free studio time. It's a blessing & a curse. However, we can not let it stop us from moving forward. Trek on, we do.

Hype & I have decided to begin booking for the 'Sex & Co.' tour before the release of the actual album. It'll be kind of weird playing without the CD to sell, which is why we've come up with the idea to release a demo of 3 rough mixes from 'Sex & Co.', plus a 4th unreleased track.

The tentative title for this limited edition demo is 'Ghetto Whispers: The Sex & Company Demo'. We don't plan on selling this for long (hence the 'limited edition' thang), since we want to get the album out as soon as possible & shortly following the release of the demo. Our deadline is June 21, so we have a little time ... but very, very little time ... so, the pressure is definitely on.

Hopefully, this will hold us over for the time being. It'll be nice just setting up shows & performing. The demo will be something to sell afterwards for now & with a price of only $1! Cheap shit. It should be ready within the next week & shows will be posted on our Myspace page shortly after booking. Stay tuned.

Peace, Party

Samples from the South

I was listening to the rough mixes of our album tonight/this morning & I was remembering when I collected the samples for the beats. Its fun listening back & forgetting some stuff but then suddenly recalling it crystal clearly. Some samples were from Middle Eastern records Andrex gave me, jazz records, reggae records, classic rock, soul, etc etc etc ... I threw in a few guitar parts & some keys @ the Studio with Gumshu to give it some color.

I especially enjoyed hearing the samples that I gathered on my trip to Costa Rica @ the end of 2007. I was very excited when I found out I was going (for many reasons), but I really think the biggest reason was I knew I was going to be coming back with music from a country other than this one. I made sure I got plenty of stuff too. A lot got put on The Wine Thieves record ... one major one was cut however (a small clip of it is on an old JBTC promo on YouTube).

By the way, the pictures above are what got me to thinking about all this. The first one is of this very old looking house. It was really a garage with a room on top ... but it looked in place. The one below was in San José, Costa Rica. I went through this long enclosed market that was still outside ... if that makes sense. But, these guys were dancing around in the middle of the street wearing these gigantic heads of famous pop culture characters. I know one of them was Freddy Krueger, knife fingers & all. The rest are a blur ... but it was an interesting sight. Everyone gathered around to watch these guys. This homeless guy (in the photo) seemed to be doing a ritualistic dance with these human bobble-heads. I should of asked where to get what he had.

- party

P.S. The 3rd photo is a giant fish (obviously) that this dude from the long market held up for me after he saw me taking pictures of everything. It was bigger in person.

Instrumentals & A'ccapellas

Hip hop is an interesting genre of music. Besides the fact that you can explore & get lost in so many forms of it, you can go about as a free, true musician. Jazz cats got it. It was all about trying new things & exploring trails with a variety of people. But, at the same time, you always come back to that group, the tribe. The ones you clicked with from the get-go.

Hip hop applies these same principals. Emcees work with many producers & vice versa ... and that's just part of it. But, you'll always come back to the originals.

After reading back just now, I've come to realize how ripped I am. Rolled me a champion, baby. But, none of this is relevant. Here's what is:

The covers above are: The Wine Thieves ('Sex & Co.'), Party.picasso ('Sex & Co.': The Instrumentals, and Emcee Hype ('Sex & Co.': The A'cappellas).

All 3 albums will be sold @ The Commune
(www.fuzzhugger.com/thewinethieves)

(www.myspace.com/thewinethieves)

Albums can be purchased @ future performances as well. The release date is coming very, very soon. I'd say, 87.8% chance it'll be July 21. Talk later.

Peace

Party

The Old Days

I love reminiscing. It's fun. Sometimes it can be a little depressing since you know you can never get those times back. But sometimes it's refreshing to remember.

The top photo was taken back in 2005 by my girl, Fabiana. This was when Hype & I lived in Florida (read blog below for our awesome history lesson). That was The Brix era.

The photo below that is Hype's fly kicks. It's him recording vocals under the stairs of my dad's basement in Pennsylvania. We kicked it ghetto style back then cause we didn't have the luxury of recording in the glorious Bennett Studios like we do now. It was still good times, though.

Just thought I'd post some oldie but goodies for you people. "Sex & Co." is still coming folks, so fear not. More to come later. Be easy.

Peace,

Party