Death Grips - Exmilitary Mixtape by deathgrips

“We we’re pretty excited when the first Death Grips track dropped, and this is pretty much more of the same raw-ass shit from the likes of Zach Hill & Company: Angry and aggro, anarchic and dead pan, pushing the instrumentals to new levels of grit and industrial damage.

There’s also the non-sequitor Major Lazer-biter “Lord of the Game”, which has Mexican Girl dropping in as some kind of Santigold proxy. But there’s nothing here that really fits cleanly into the east coast commercial rubrick that turds out tracks that slip onto A-Trak mixtapes and might was well do support tours for Tiesto. Even when they try for some kind of dub-steppy lo-end theorem with the “Cut Throat” instrumental or “Culture Shock”, it’s like they threw out Pro Tools and cut the record with a buzz saw.” - IMPOSE

Read MORE at Vice Magazine: PRE-DISCHI BELLI DELUXE: DEATH GRIPS - EXMILITARY MIXTAPE - Vice ITALY 

TRACKLIST

01 - Beware
02 - Guillotine
03 - Spread Eagle Cross the Block
04 - Lord of the Game (ft. Mexican Girl)
05 - Takyon (Death Yon)
06 - Cut Throat (Instrumental)
07 - Klink
08 - Culture Shock
09 - 5D
10 - Thru the Walls
11 - Known for it
12 - I want it I need it (Death Heated)
13 - Blood Creepin

(Source: thirdworlds.net)

Inside the drums of Zach Hill recording Death Grips.  Brought to you by Thirdworlds.net  directed by Flatlander.

After dropping their first single, “Full Moon (Death Classic),” Sacramento hip hop-noise hybrid Death Grips (featuring Zach Hill) just posted a new video for “Lord of the Game.” VHS-driven visuals continue to dominate DG’s aesthetic; a grainy, tornado-like spiral scrambles night shots of city streets and night clubs. Like “Full Moon,” a multi-faceted rage is felt throughout the track, but this time the noise element is overshadowed by an emphasis on neo-old school hip hop. The song wraps up with “Fuck where you’re from, fuck where you’re going, it’s all about where you’re at.” We couldn’t agree more: we totally wanna be where DG’s at. —Coco Zoabi, International Tapes

Five months ago, Zach Hill started jamming with some friends and neighbors around his hometown of Sacramento, CA. Overtime, their hangouts slowly mutated into a full-fledged hip hop project called Death Grips, which features two other collaborators, judging from the image at the bottom of their website, thirdworlds.net. The site launched earlier this month and has a staggering amount of output (two videos, six downloadable songs, and a gif!), all of which was created collaboratively by the Death Grips crew. While getting lost in the sea of multimedia waiting for you, be sure to treat your eyes and ears to the intense, visceral video for “Full Moon (Death Classic)”. —Ric Leichtung, Altered Zones (via Coco Zoabi)

MP3: Death Grips: “Full Moon (Death Classic)”

Download MP3s and a video on thirdworlds.net, keep your eyes peeled for Death Grips’ mixtape, out later this year

Zach Hill produced and played drums on a never released album with Wavves here are 3 of those songs. 

     
     Lil Scuzzy            Scuzzball

Zach Hill

Name an accomplished drummer whose playing, without any other clues or context, you can recognize within a few measures of any given song. John Bonham? Keith Moon? Dave Lombardo? Elvin Jones? Point taken, but anyone familiar with Zach Hill’s rabbit-footed self-taught expressionistic approach to the kit would have to add the Sacramento, California-based drummer, songwriter and artist to that rarefied list. “I’ve always been more interested by people like Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane to name a few, than by other drummers,” he explains. “Those non-drummers’ ideas and free-form expression are what I’m trying to apply to the drum kit.” But, it was the music Zach was introduced to while watching skateboard videos as a youth that formed his earliest influences.

Hill earned his stripes as a co-founder of the Sacramento-born duo turned quintet, Hella, with whom he’s recorded four albums and a number of EPs, split releases and compilation tracks. But, Hill’s resume as a drummer boasts a mind-melting number of collaborations. From his work in the Deftones offshoot, Team Sleep, to his jazz-oriented gigs with Wilco guitarist Nels Cline and members of Sun Ra’s orchestra or Prefuse 73, to his roles backing Mike Patton, harpist Joanna Newsom and the Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, to name but a few. His creatve compulsion unbridled, Zach’s visual art is featured in the packaging of many of his musical releases, as well as on the premiuim quality 30 singles Lil’ Scuzzy and Scuzzball t-shirts that we’re honored to present to you.

here’s a free download link to a track Zach did with Nathan from Wavves called Horse Shoes.

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”i started a tumblr , my first post is an entire notebook of (new)drawings done while waiting and wandering around all over the place….37 drawings”

Zach Hill - Primitives Talk - CHLLNGR Remix 
Shot and Directed by Ryan Todd
Animated GIF art by David Ope
Remixed by CHLLNGR

Thanks to themusicsessions.com

HELLA is in the studio recording a new album. Now, it’s been a while since the duo of Zach Hill & Spencer Seim got together. We are pretty excited about all this and will have loads more Hella news, in the mean time make sure to join up with the FB page if you want to stay on top of the latest developments. 

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Virtual Reality Overloads in Zach Hill’s ‘Second Life’ Video

You might need an online companion to catch all the swirling allusions to The Lawnmower Man, surrealism, The Red Shoes and too much more in the new video for Zach Hill’s psychedelic tune “Second Life.” You also might need some acid or Advil, depending on your head-trip.

Directed by Christian “Megazord” Oldham, acclaimed drummer and visual artist Hill’s “Second Life” is a sensory overload. Featuring additional vocals from freak folkie Devendra Banhart, the wandering song’s spiraling digitalism is perfectly complemented by Megazord’s disorienting select-all graphics.

It’s a challenging experiment that’s perfectly in line with what listeners have come to expect from the well-traveled Hill in his previous solo work and on his latest full-length effort, Face Tat, which arrived last month with help from collaborators like the stunning No Age.

Hill’s thunderous self-taught drum skills have been put to terrific use by a roll call of respected artists, including Alan Moore, The Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Deftones’ Chino Moreno, guitar wiz Marnie Stern , Tera Melos’ Nick Reinhart and Goblin Cock’s Rob Crow. Screen the reel above and let us know in the comments below if the imagery tickled or tortured your lobes. - By Scott Thill 

Zach Hill may just be the hardest working man in the industry. His spastic and triumphant drumming has been featured in countless projects with everyone in the indie world clamoring to borrow his talents for as long as they can hold onto him. As a founding member of instrumental math rock heroes  Hella, Hill has also contributed stellar work in each of his other bands including The Ladies (with Pinback’s Rob Crow), Team Sleep (withDeftones’ Chino Moreno), Bygones (with Tera Melos’ Nick Reinhart), Marnie Stern, Diamond Watch Wrists (with Prefuse 73), Nervous Cop(with Deerhoof’s Greg Sauntier), El Grupo Nuevo (with Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez Lopez) and still many others. During the mayhem of his musical outpour, 2008 saw the release of his debut solo album Astrological Straits, a collection of warped and bizarre songs light on accessibility but roaring with complex creativity. Steadily growing busier with each passing year, Hill has returned with his next solo offering Face Tat, a twisted array of insanity and mind blowing musicianship as avant-garde as they come. Working with the plethora of bands that he does, Hill has an enormous rolodex of impressive musical friends, and he uses that to his advantage on Face Tat which features many of his oft collaborators as well as some new ones. While calling this album accessible may be a stretch, it certainly heads closer to that direction for Hill with dazzling results. He may have thrown out all the rules of typical song structure and rhythms, but the hooks are present and strangely memorable. 

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One Man, and Unstoppable Force

Zach Hill discusses his new album and his Tao of Drumming
Words by Joe Atkins • Photo by Sean Stout

If Zach Hill is anything, he’s prolific. The definitive characteristic of his drum style is constant movement, an unrelenting source of rhythm. The list of musicians he has performed with extends across the globe. This year alone, his name will accompany a drum credit on five studio releases: Cryptomnesia by El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Ice Capped at Both Ends by Diamond Watch Wrists, by- from the duo Bygones,Aggressively Humble by CHLL PLL, and last but not least Face Tat by Zach Hill himself, scheduled for release Oct. 19, 2010. He plays drums for one out of six groups on Sargent House alone. And there are more recordings pending, the upcoming Hella record being one. Just to catch him for a conversation, Submerge had to squeeze two hours from his week-long break between a tour of South Korea and Japan with Carson McWhirter, and an Australian leg with the Boredoms he left for before we even went to press.

Hill is aware of the all this. “Not to sound pretentious, but I’ve released over 100 records,” he said. Self-taught, he’s become a financially independent musician. He states it simply, “I’m proud of most of what I’ve done.”

But to summarize his catalog is a superficial gloss of what Zach Hill is all about. Behind a quiet demeanor lies a restless mind, stirring constantly like so many endless drum fills. We talked mainly about the process of recording the new album and how his schedule creates a disruptive focus that enables him to participate in so many projects simultaneously. We also discussed the appealing qualities of an expressive live performance and improvisation. And then he left for Australia.

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Total Recall: An Interview With Zach Hill

 
Zach Hill is an innovator. Booming out of Sacramento in the late 90s to make a name for himself playing drums with Hella, Marnie Stern, Wavves, Team Sleep, Boredoms, and countless others, Hill plays the drums like David Lynch writes movies—- frantic, perplexing, troubling—- but ultimately, completely euphoric. Earlier this month, Hill released Face Tat, the follow up to his first official solo album Astrological Straits. 

It’s a bit hard to say what Face Tat sounds like, as its constantly changing forms and songs will take an infinite number of listens to truly grasp, but the feelings one can get from listening to the album make it as addicting as some type of all consuming Entertainment. But this is more than just entertainment, this is Face Tat. And it rocks. And rolls. Really hard. 

I was able to speak with Zach about the album, including where he got the title “Face Tat” from, and some other endeavors 

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