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When you get an email that says INTENSE AVANT HIP HOP in the header you don’t think, you click on it and cross your fingers in hopes that it lives up to the claim. Sacramento crew Death Grips definitely does just that, for better or worse. “Guillotine It Goes Yah” and the accompanying Ex-Military mixtape proves that things really do go in cycles. The way that Bobby Brown was once amping like Michael, these dudes are amping like… um… maybe Dalek? Techno Animal? Anti-Pop Consortium? Atari Teenage Riot? (Google ‘em, kids… or don’t.) They’re definitely amping though, and with a very mid-to-late ’90s disposition. It harkens back to those golden days when we still thought the future of music would bring nothing but gltichy apocalyptic war cries, back before weed strains got better, everyone artsy signed up for Tumblr and subsequently fell into a collective nostalgic haze. The world may not exactly need a rap record at this pitch right now, but it’s refreshing to know that someone made it anyway. Angry and tormented rapping always wins.

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

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