Name: Lese Majesty
Brand: Shabazz Palaces

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SPCD1044

Colour

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

2014-07-28

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0098787104424

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

spcs1044

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Cassette reissue packaged with a 4-panel J-card in a clear box.

Tape

2017-07-14

0098787104448

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1 / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / Tape

Artist

Shabazz Palaces

Genre GB

Hip Hop

Label GB

Sub Pop

Shabazz Palaces is a hip-hop collective hailing from Seattle, Washington. Led by Ishmael Butler, formerly of Digable Planets, the group has made a name for themselves with their unique sound and thought-provoking lyrics.
Influenced by a diverse range of artists such as Gonjasufi, Das Racist, and Cities Aviv, Shabazz Palaces has carved out their own niche in the music industry. Their experimental style blends elements of rap, electronic music, and avant-garde sounds to create something truly original.
With albums like "Black Up" and "Lese Majesty," Shabazz Palaces has garnered critical acclaim and a dedicated fan base. Their music pushes boundaries and challenges traditional notions of what hip-hop can be. If you're looking for an artist that defies expectations and delivers captivating performances, look no further than *Shabazz Palaces*.

Short for "Subterranean Pop" 

The label was an outgrowth of [a=Bruce Pavitt]'s Olympia, WA based (print) fanzine, which became the well respected cassettezine of the same name. 

After his move to Seattle he ran a music column in the Seattle Rocket also called Sub Pop.

After initial forays into the record label world with a [a=Green River] 7" (not officially on Sub Pop) and the Sub Pop 100 LP, the label exploded onto the indie scene with four influential colored vinyl 7"s which included [a=Mudhoney]'s "Touch Me I'm Sick" which made the year-end top 10 playlist of nearly every music journalist in the world.

Subsequent hyping of the label in the English music press put them on the map, and grunge was born.

Label-Code is 03159; rarely found printed on releases (basically only on releases manufactured/licensed by Warner/WEA Germany)

Herein bumps and soars Lese Majesty, the new sonic action of Shabazz Palaces. Honed and primal, chromed and primo. A unique and glorified offering into our ever-uniforming musical soundscape. Lese Majesty is a beatific war cry, born of a spell, acknowledging that sophistication and the instinctual are not at odds; Indeed an undoing of the lie of their disparate natures. Lese Majesty is not a launching pad for the group's fan base increasing propaganda. It is a series of astral suites, recorded happenings, shared. A dare to dive deep into Shabazz Palaces sounds, vibrations unfettered. A dope-hex thrown from the compartments that have artificially contained us all and hindered our sublime collusion. These reveries were sent to Palaceer Lazaro and Fly Guy 'Dai in the year of gun beat battles in excess; In a succession of days, whilst walking in dreams and in varied transcendental states....(every minute of every day is filled with observation and composition. In action). Songs are committed and gathered by robots at Protect and Exalt Labs, a Black Space in Seattle, Washington. The visual features of 'Lese Majesty' are resultant of the gleanings of fellow Constellationaire, Nep Sidhu. The Black Constellation squads up, protects and exalts the messages within, and colludes accordingly.

Tape - Cassette reissue packaged with a 4-panel J-card in a clear box. 

Lese Majesty

Music GB