Once more this fine website serves to bring people and good music together outside of just the rantings you see posted here.  Dead Goeff from Purple Bird Music hit me off with an email a little while ago after stumbling across this fine site and consequently seeing the connection between his label and this blog.  Always crazy cool when shit like that happens.  This isn’t the first time, but this sort of thing doesn’t happen as often as we’d like to see - artists/labels/etc, send some mail!

Anyways, the matter at hand…

I downloaded all the material included on the Purple Bird Music website, I’m going to holler at you all about the two releases from the camp that really do it for me.

Dead Geoff & Mister Thumbs - “The Opposables” (mirror1) (mirror2)

An obvious collaboration of near brilliance, Dead Geoff and Mister Thumbs come together from seeming opposite ends of their collective spectrum, not unlike the polarity oft mentioned of Big Boi and Andre3000 from Outkast.  It’s hard to say how true that is, knowing next to nothing of either Dead Geoff or Mister Thumbs, but that type of vibe definitely comes across via the lyrics and their delivery, as well as the type of beats brought to the table.  Even further extending the mention of Outkast is simply the variety of beats and melodies inside.  At one minute borderline crazy experimental hip hop, the next minute radio friendly hook ready melodic brilliance bordering on corny nonsense, each tune works on its own and as part of the whole equally well.  I don’t want to give the impression, by the way, that this release or these two artists sound anything like Outkast, because they really don’t.  I am simply trying to highlight the seeming polarity of the two artists and the ground they stand alone on combined with the ground they share together.  In fact, actual sonic resemblences are kind of hard to pin point like “Oh, so-and-so sounds like such-and-such” style.  And that’s a good thing.  That said, I definitely catch flavors from the midwest hip hop power house crew of Rhymesayers, smell hints of the more leftfield output from crews like Def Jux, and the air of being both underground of the utmost and crossover cats (think Tech N9ne) is definitely there, too.  Personally, the stand out track is “Renoise”, but all are top notch for the angle they hit you at and come from.  Good for the party and the armchair, fans of good hip hop - and fans just of good beats & melodies - should definitely not sleep.

Chi’ Akai - “Epoch EP” (mirror1) (mirror2)

The shit is sexy, alright?  Fuzzy headed tripped out steppy downtempo deliciousness in its purest form.  Obvious comparisons to people like Flying Lotus, Blockhead, and the like will surely be drawn - but, fear not, Chi’ Akai is still off on his own planet programming crazy b-boy sex robots to infect your daydreams and gazing eyes.  The futureretro language of gettin’ down and gettin’ it on, as well as the soundtrack for racking paint and painting burners or whole cars.

The crew gets extra bonus points for professionalism across the board, as well as having an obvious passion for what they do.  Each release contains great music, mastered and professionally assembled, top shelf art and all.  Follow them on Twitter to keep up to date and have a taste of their hype, excitement, and passion for what they are doing.

- Purple Bird Music website
- Purple Bird Music on Twitter