Style: Experimental | Hip Hop
Owl Dudes – “For The Feelers” (La Familia Netlabel)
Way Wild: Something Like Hip Hop | The Netaudio scene is a laboratory for musicians, a place to publish sounds the mainstream isn't ready for yet. Exactly the right knothole for Portland-based Owl Dudes. Their approach to experimental lo-fi Hip Hop incorporates shoegazing textures, hardcore rap and a good amount of knob tweaking. Fresh and challenging.
The Owl Dudes are Jesse Johnson and Paul Wig, two white breads from boomtown Portland, Oregon. They published their debut "For The Feelers" by the hands of UK La Familia label, one of the most miraculous and enigmatic Notlabels I know. We get to know nothing about the Dudes despite free access to their songs in MP3 format. That's fairly enough, no?
"For The Feelers" consists of nine rather short tracks and drafts, blending into each other like a mixtape. Part vocal part instrumental, the Owl Dudes take the best from Hip Hop, Punk and electronic music to create something exciting and new. Their snotty raps sound tight and draw influences from both Hip Hop and US Hardcore.
Beats are scattered loosly about their tracks, changing seats with noisy textures and unexpected samples which is excellently matched by the trashy sound of the EP. Where some of the vocal tracks make you think of Anticon-head Sole and in face of the Ambient textures Odd Nosdam has to be mentioned, the Owl Dudes do something very unique and refreshing.
Night time, owls at work.
MP3 Hip Hop Music Download
Release Site: Owl Dudes - "For The Feelers"
Direct Download: "For The Feelers" ZIP
Netlabel: www.8302.net/familia
Artist Website: www.myspace.com/owldudes
About the Author
This article was written on 2.August 2008 by Bettina Rhymes.
Bettina Rhymes is the journalist alter ego of Sven Swift. Swift runs the established CDr- and Netlabel 12rec.net and acts as a Netaudio DJ every now and then. Next to his job at Phlow Mag, he writes reviews about free music at RUBored.org. Read more articles written by Bettina Rhymes.
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ailimaf.com (that's familia), is ran by arturo castillo and carlos saladén, both from southamerica (can't remember the country at this point). arturo lives in bcn and carlos in london. ailimaf is one of those catalogues not suitable for everyone but totally sincere and astonishing. i invited arturo to join op3n.net but carlos took the challenge under the nickname phono.ve.
applejux said on Aug 2, 2008 at 4:12 pm | Commentlink #1
excellent stuff :)
Density of Sound said on Aug 5, 2008 at 3:28 pm | Commentlink #2
Awesome stuff. I did some research and found that they have a release called 6 mths, and it is also excellent. I am so glad you posted these guys, if it weren't for flow I wouldn't find half the things I love!
Goghst said on Aug 9, 2008 at 9:56 am | Commentlink #3
YEs. if you like FOR THE FEELERS .. check out owl dudes first release 6mth... you can download it for free at http://www.piecemeal.net
Jesse od. said on Aug 12, 2008 at 6:17 pm | Commentlink #4
thanks for the additional infos chris! glad you guys FEEL the owls music like i do... best, bettina
bettina rhymes said on Aug 18, 2008 at 11:52 am | Commentlink #5
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