did I use this pic already? I have no idea…

valance is working his way up the BBC scale and is currently in NYC with big Dave Delmonaco and friends. hopefully they have a fine time. waves is doing stuff as usual, he just rapped with islands and is most likely grinding like his name was pepper. let’s hope that equates to some music one day, for us or wherever. deb did a cockrockdisco free d/l and that will probably make him rich. the new unison EP is droppng next week and the hipsters are sweating like your main bi**h is. I just did a bunch of beats and remixes and am currently working on some cutty bangers as per usual. we have some dudes in the wings but who knows, stone’s throw may sign them in the middle of the night so let me be quiet. we have a twitter page and if you read this, join it. we also have our free downloads up on bandcamp, in order to save server space. I gave up on the famous grandiose site because that is for overachievers and you know us, we don’t do that over here. crunc tesla’s record is out and about, go cop it. our store is mobbing, fucc with us so we can all get money with you like good gangsters do. I’m drunk, forgive me.

we have a bunch of shit dropping this year as per usual, this is me acting all coy and shit. I do the fuck out of that. we went from 100 blog writers to 3. here is some new shit from me and stay tuned.

Bomb a deer by subtitle31

we need it to function because we just hit a glass ceiling called “overhead” and it hurts pretty bad. while we want to break on thru to the other side of industry brokedom, at least we can blame our not having money on cop-out buzz phrases and twitter topics such as the recession, the onset of web 2.0 and it’s backlash on digital media, Kim Kardashian and her net worth, all kinds of shit. in fact, the only thing we cannot blame it on is lack of record sales because we release records as a sport and a hobby.

that being said, our “cover your mouth while talking into the phone” imprint named RAID just reissued the soncially picturesque EP by Deneir entitled “Nowhen” and it has a remix by Autechre on it for all of you Warp Records heads out there . Both he and the group Ellul came over to our evil sect from the sunny skies at Sounds Are Active and we welcome them aboard. The Ellul record will drop on B.E.A.R. later this year, we haven’t dropped a record thru THAT arm since Marks In Angles! Crunc Tesla’s album with the long foreign name comes out on the 22nd of this month and hopefully he hasn’t been buried in a shallow grave by an errant lover or famous person by the time it drops! Just kidding. Not about the album, but the other stuff.

in other news related to the b.e.a.r. group, the LONG AWAITED EP by our most beloved couple Unison finally drops digitally July 13th and if there is justice in the world and drugs, physically at a date to be determined as well. we just love the hell out of these folks and are honored that they are the ones to carry the Matte Black flag forward. expect insanely big things from them in the near future and if you see our name next to theirs, its because that’s where it belongs….

I’m finishing up part one of my new record, the shit is normal but abnormal. like a weird teacher or your friend’s odd uncle or that one dude who was too old to kick it with you and your friends, but did it anyway and still fit in even though he was 21 and you were 16? like that….

I live between these four places and do damage there as well. HERE is proof of such a thing and the other underlying evidence known as s.h.a.r.k. bait is 33% complete. oh yeah, this isn’t the “new” website that I have been babbling about for over a year, BTW. Robby AKA Robin Steel has given us a more sleek and streamlined ninja look for the 1 and the 0, complete with a store that will hold SOME of our releases…. A lot of stuff should stay hard to find, as hard to find as the people that make it! The triple stage darkness site is still on the way and it’s a good thing like everything else that comes to those who wait. I just saw Disruption and Debruit in Manchester and Lando Kal is lurking around somewheres with his lady in hopes of landing a pad in Berlin. Dizzy Deb said the same, so I guess we will be bombing the bear city this fall after all! I have the worst toothache you know about and turn that link up. We have some new bangers dropping this month and we pumped breaks on a couple in anticipation for bigger and better things. I’ll use this space to say that while I am discontinuing my “seasonal” exploits after one season, it is to concentrate on making a SICK new album as well as other equally morbid and putrid guest features and other…. secret projects. Stay tuned……

Startsladd @ Mapping Festival 2010 from Startsladd on Vimeo.

helllllo. i have a new musical CREVelopment to tell you about. meanest man contest has a song on a new compilation from royal rhino flying records. the comp is called the queen’s jew and the mmc song is called “you need to grow up.” the song is a collabo with the dude mad squirrel, who is always down to take it to another CREVel on the mic. the whole 23-song compilation is free to download and there are also limited edition cd’s available for $6 + shippin’.

my personal blog is the shit. so much so, that I got a bunch of blog writing jobs from “famous blogs” and I even got a couple of offers to write for magazines. I even got asked to do a little collector’s book! see what happens when you do something right, exact and sucker free? thanks E. Solo for the advice on that one…. this was ran on my blog first, but the shit is so crev that I figured that everyone should be up on the game of such madness. their name translates to bass supply and turn it up. I said before that the singer could be a dude that conspires with Crunc Tesla or it could be his worst enemy. I have no idea…..
oh yeah, I’m getting married. not today or next month, but I’m doing it. my fiancee is hot.

we broke the backboard on these lames. I shook a couple trees and all the active members of the sect are in their respective nooks and crannies, working on new cold heat and refining it on the road. the ones who aren’t doing anything are just off somewhere growing barnacles. if this was a real gang or tagging crew, they would have gotten “the boot” for not putting enough work and if it was a real record label, they would have probably been dropped by now if they didn’t owe any recoupable fees. good thing I like people and don’t take stuff like that TOO seriously, hint hint….
in the non shell-like world, we are slowly chipping away on advancements that would flip our whole bitch around, bitch meaning business format. I won’t go into the snazzy office talk here, but we are definitely on a road to riches, rocking or ruin. welcome to the new converted folk, you may see them on here or if they are like the last round of “artists” then maybe not!
new stuff soon come from everyone and it is good, trust me on that one.