Name: New Future City Radio
Brand: Damon Locks, Rob Mazurek

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Bonus disc: No

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IARC68LP

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Black

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Extended format

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Format detail

Housed in Heavyweight Reverse-Board Sleeve with Obi Strip, Fold-Out Poster and Dome-Pattern Inner Sleeve.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-07-28

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Signed copies: No

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Standard:20

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0789993993314

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Black LP

IARC68LPI

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New Future City Shimmer Colour Vinyl.&nbsp;

Extended format: Yes

0789993993321

Grey LP

IARC68CD

0789993993338

Artist

Damon Locks

Rob Mazurek

Genre GB

Jazz

Label GB

 International Anthem Recording Co

Damon Locks is a Chicago visual artist, musician and sound artist.

A Chicago-born recording company, International Anthem Recording Co., was founded in 2014 by Scott McNiece and David Allen. This label is dedicated to producing and promoting progressive media.

International Anthem Recording Co. distributes its music through RedEye for the United States, Canada, North & South America. For Europe, UK, Australia, and the rest of the world (ROW), distribution is handled by !K7.

With a focus on innovation and pushing boundaries, International Anthem Recording Co. showcases talented artists who are redefining genres and creating unique musical experiences. Their commitment to quality and artistic expression has made them a respected name in the industry.

Newest Listed Items

New Future City Radio, the first duo collaboration of longtime creative partners Damon Locks and Rob Mazurek.

In a hyperactive 40-minute, 18-track suite that runs like a boombox mixtape, the two prolific multi-media artists contemplate community, transformation, and the future through the programmatic format of a pirate radio station for the people.

These two artists have worked together from the peak days of the late 90s / early 00s Chicago music scene up through the present day, which has seen Locks featured as lead vocalist of the multiple critically-acclaimed Exploding Star Orchestra albums composed/produced by Mazurek. In recent years, Locks has also earned great renown from his revolutionary, expansive latter-day gospel/jazz project Black Monument Ensemble.

New Future City Radio finds the duo creating a natural but innovatively-assembled blend of the sounds of those two projects, with Locks’s BME-style sample-based sound collage creating compositional beds underneath the signature Orson Wells-like vocal delivery he’s developed through his work with ESO, alongside Roland SP flourishes and arresting brass improvisations by Mazurek. The album is also filled with vignettes as fractured radio transmissions, featuring contributions by guests including Roberto Lange (Helado Negro) and Mauricio Takara (Sao Paulo Underground). It’s a deep avant-garde echo of the legendary Bomb Squad (Locks even sounding a bit like a tape-delayed Check D on the vox), with beat artifacts spanning the whole gamut from pre to post golden era hip-hop - mixing OG Brooklyn boombox sound with the sci-fi boom-bap of late 90s Def Jux and/or Dan The Automator’s 75 Ark.

New Future City Radio

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