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Blue Sky Black Death are an accomplished West Coast production duo. Their sound transforms the raw into the refined through technically building layers that exceed the boundaries of any one particular musical genre.
Young God and Kingston make up the duo, and acquire additional people to help construct the synthesis of instrumental variety. Often a single track will involve a violin, cello, keyboard, and guitar mixed with live vocals and abstract samplings. Each song compiles and manipulates to make the music engage on several levels.
Most of their reputation comes from their accomplishments with various hip hop collaborators (Jean Grae, Crooked-I, Hell Razah, the late Guru, Ill Bill, to name but a few). Each album surpasses the next in expectation thus creating surprise. BSBD has been recieved praise from such publications as Spin, URB, Rock Sound, XLR8R (naming “Late Night Cinema” as: “The Best Instrumental Hip Hop album of 2008. Unlike any other artist around right now”), Itunes featured artist, Imeem featured artist, ReUp magazine, Filter Magazine, Vapors Magazine, Remix Magazine, Pop Matters, amongst others, and their music has led them to receive world wide recognition. Their most recent highly acclaimed album “Slow Burning Lights” matches BSBD with phenomenon Yes Alexander. Her spine numbing vocals and somber lyrics meld flawlessly amongst BSBDs quixotic rhythms.
Young God and Kingston make up the duo, and acquire additional people to help construct the synthesis of instrumental variety. Often a single track will involve a violin, cello, keyboard, and guitar mixed with live vocals and abstract samplings. Each song compiles and manipulates to make the music engage on several levels.
Most of their reputation comes from their accomplishments with various hip hop collaborators (Jean Grae, Crooked-I, Hell Razah, the late Guru, Ill Bill, to name but a few). Each album surpasses the next in expectation thus creating surprise. BSBD has been recieved praise from such publications as Spin, URB, Rock Sound, XLR8R (naming “Late Night Cinema” as: “The Best Instrumental Hip Hop album of 2008. Unlike any other artist around right now”), Itunes featured artist, Imeem featured artist, ReUp magazine, Filter Magazine, Vapors Magazine, Remix Magazine, Pop Matters, amongst others, and their music has led them to receive world wide recognition. Their most recent highly acclaimed album “Slow Burning Lights” matches BSBD with phenomenon Yes Alexander. Her spine numbing vocals and somber lyrics meld flawlessly amongst BSBDs quixotic rhythms.
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NOIR
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Late Night Cinema
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Slow Burning Lights
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Third Party
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huiva wrote:
please listen http://www.lastfm.ru/music/Joywcs
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Yo_Champ wrote:
Fantastic producers. NOIR is one of the best albums for 2011. Their first mixtape with Nacho Picasso was really good too.
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Katolz wrote:
NOIR, such an awesome record
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16N0R4N7 wrote:
Didn't knew, I assume that because of the 5 USD on their bandcamp.
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ebisu wrote:
16N0R4N7: You do know that they gave away NOIR + Violet for free, right? I don't think making extra bucks was part of the intention on that one.
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Miss-Kei wrote:
These guys are more than instrumenalist. They're artists!!
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FishandFrites wrote:
doesn't need to be Hip-Hop to be dope, right ?
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16N0R4N7 wrote:
"Why don't we turn down the tempo of our fav songs in NOIR, then add a purple layer on the front cover and make some extra bucks?" 120BPM > 85BPM
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--soma-- wrote:
These fellows are quite layered
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Turenne01 wrote:
lol at people refusing to describe 'Blue Sky, Black Death' as Hip-Hop. So clueless of both the genre and the artist.
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Vaniglia-PD wrote:
Not really into hip-hop but this is really good
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BarackFlowbama wrote:
Opinions on Lean Night Cinema and NOIR + Violet? Just found them, I personally think they sound like all new songs just being slowed down.
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XxRoflcopterxX wrote:
Blue Sky Black Death & Nacho Picasso...-_-
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gendervariant wrote:
Do I tag Lord of the Fly under Blue Sky Black Death or Nacho Picasso?
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apopagasm wrote:
ahaha i'm loving the new album
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DIMA_DRUM wrote:
Отличная музыка.
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roms712 wrote:
if you think you can't tag them as "hip hop", you should hear that Nacho Picasso album "For the glory" which was released a few months ago...
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codizzo wrote:
<3
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Zosoman123 wrote:
knusperquark, some of their albums are more heavily weighted to the hip-hop side of things. I'm guessing you're listening to Noir which isn't very hip-hop at all. Give their other stuff a listen.
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kubA89 wrote:
never gets old.
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Feb
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Blue Sky Black Death & Nacho Picasso
Neumos, Seattle WA, United States
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Blue Sky Black Death
Canal Club, Richmond VA, United States
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Mar
13
SXSW Music 2012
Austin Convention Center, Austin TX, United States
351 going
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11 Oct 2011 | from www.myspace.com/blueskyblackdeath
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