Name: 2121
Brand: The Lasso

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MMG001611

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Colour

Black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-04-30

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

The Orchard

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

843563134276

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

The Lasso

Genre GB

Funk / Soul

Label GB

Mello Music

Mello Music Group (MMG) is a US hip-hop label that was established in 2007 by Michael Tolle, who serves as the CEO and owner. Since releasing its first album in 2008, MMG has become a prominent force in the music industry. The label is home to an impressive roster of talented artists including Oddisee, Apollo Brown, Quelle Chris, 7evenThirty, Gensu Dean, The Black Opera, Diamond District, yU, Has-Lo, Trek Life, Stik Figa, Georgia Anne Muldrow and Dudley Perkins.

With a commitment to quality and innovation in hip-hop music production and performance, MMG has garnered a loyal fan base worldwide. The label's artists consistently deliver thought-provoking lyrics and captivating beats that push the boundaries of the genre.

Whether you're a long-time fan or new to the world of hip-hop music, Mello Music Group offers an extensive catalog of albums that showcase the diverse talents within their roster. From introspective storytelling to hard-hitting anthems, there's something for everyone on MMG's releases.

On his latest opus, 2121, Michigan composer and multi-instrumentalist, The Lasso, creates a thermonuclear rocket ship glide of astral funk: a floating house party that exists at that eternal crossroads, suspended in timeless animation, the axis mundi where past, present, and future all get down. Its genesis traces back to the dozens of instrumental demos that The Lasso created throughout 2019 and early 2020, vulcanizing his singular twists on psychedelic rap with delirious mutations of vintage Ohio and Minneapolis funk. A long-brewing collaboration with New Mexico-based vocalist A. Billi Free, coupled with his introduction to the vocalist Rachele Eve, allowed for their voices to buoy his interstellar thump. Over the course of the summer of 2020, Lasso gathered various features from old and new collaborators to fill out the core vocalists, including Fat Tony, Hemlock Ernst (Sam Herring of Future Islands), Ill Camille, Namir Blade, and Nelson Bandela. In the fall of that year, The Lasso met up with The Saxsquatch and cellist Jordan Hamilton for the fait accompli: layering lush orchestrations to capture the haunted reverberations of a renowned 100-year old Michigan theatre. 

2121 exists in its own galaxy, its own planetary tilt, its own sense of time. A record that asks whether the future is merely the place where the loop starts again, but this time a little more aged. As the centuries progress -- from 1921 to 2021 to 2121, with each repetition, we can hear the tape warble deepen and the hi-end lose its definition. What is it about this moment now that will shape our future ten decades hence? Life revolves in cycles, so you might as well maximize the upswing. If music is our collective vessel to track where and who we are and what we hope to lean towards in this next passage through history, the only sane answer is to turn 2121 up as loud as possible, until we all disappear into the shadows.

2121

Music GB