Name: Quazarz vs The Jealous Machines
Brand: Shabazz Palaces

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SPCD1185

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-07-14

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

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Standard:20

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0098787118520

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

SP1185

Black Vinyl with Download.

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

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)

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Quazarz vs. the Jealous Machines is one of two new albums by interstellar hip-hop enigma Shabazz Palaces, aka Ishmael Butler (who, in another galaxy, performs in Digable Planets) and Tendai Maraire. Quazarz vs. the Jealous Machines, and its companion, Quazarz: Born On a Gangster Star, were both produced by Knife Knights (i.b e.b.) and mixed by Blood. Quazarz came to the Earth from somewhere else, a musical ambassador from his place to ours. Somehow, through fire or through fury, the Palaceer of Shabazz Palaces caught wind of the tale, and it is through his prism that we hear the story. The beach was there, and Atlaantiis, and chemical alterations and cell memories and Andre Norton, Richard K. Morgan, and always Octavia Butler. There were killings and there were votes, and brutality in both. There was sound and there were other worlds, and there was a vastness so participation sometimes came only at the edges. And the Palaceer coasted down with the alien notion, like Quazarz, and so became. On Quazarz when they look at this place they see the inhabitants, the humans, but they don’t assess as we do. And so Quazarz was sent to meet a cat with vibration, a creative and courageous, caring, compassionate dude that stood out. The dude was a drug dealer, but that was neither here nor there, until his dealings squashed the rendezvous, leaving our alien alone to figure out what this place is really all about. Coming from a simpler, more essential, innocent place, the hero could not make heads nor tails of most advancements. From an aerial view, he saw that a good percentage of earthly vibrations were on very small squares and it became his belief that this world was very disposable and the spans short. His opinion was not of anything good nor bad but simply the truth. The machines—he noted—though at the behest of their master’s voice, are scorned, and jealous as all hell. And so the tale is told while surfing on the board of Shabazz Palaces, with its sturdy base angled for takeoff on a new trajectory. There is new blood and space and room to be different and have different assets and different art and different ways to talk and also open up some space inside to do something new. There are pages and there are drawings, and color and faces and inked dialogues written in ancient futuristic hieroglyph. There are scales and there is melody and there are Sunny days and there is Darkness, but that—it should be noted—to the Palaceer is not a lack of illumination or brightness. Maybe it is dark, but in it is always optimism and joy, a bright darkness and a full, hopeful one as well. It comes in gold, and it comes for the night. And so Quazarz sang the Jealous Machines. And so too did the Jealous Machines sing the Gangster Star.

LP+ - Limited Loser White Coloured Vinyl with Download.

Quazarz vs The Jealous Machines

Music GB