What began with an offhand remark over leftover stuffing and Motion Bronson impersonations throughout a Friendsgiving Feast in 2023, has advanced into a lot extra. Massive Scrimps has formally introduced the discharge of their highly-anticipated debut EP Dealing with East: The Holy Processions—a genre-blurring mix of uncooked creativity, offbeat humor, and collaborative vitality. The gathering drops Friday, August 1 on Bandcamp and Soundcloud.
The idea for the venture originated from one of many trio’s two emcees, The Honorable Brother Muscle mass, who pitched the outlandishly entertaining concept: let’s file some songs comprising DJ drama-style ad-libs, Motion Bronson-style absurdist parlance, and a heavy dose of comedy. Minutes later, the opposite of the trio’s two emcees, Massive Man Z, occurred to say a couple of deep cuts he’d performed whereas cleansing for the night’s festivities. Inside days, concepts have been flying. Texts have been flying even quicker. And Dealing with East: The Holy Processions was starting to take form.
Impressed by these two concepts, Producer and Scrimps Co-Founder/Facilitator goodie goodman, who additionally releases music as “Creature Benny” and “goodie” swiftly stitched collectively early variations of three beats from the songs Massive Man Z despatched over and he informed the crew “These beats are the stage and you’re the gamers. So, we doing this or what?” It seems that they have been, and, actually, they did.
Over the course of eight chaotic, laughter-filled periods throughout a 12 months’s time, the trio turned random freestyles into unusual anthems. Each monitor was Frankensteined collectively from hours of audio—freestyled, chopped, reworked, and typically scrapped utterly. The method was late-night texts, in-depth discussions, and fixed revisions. And the end result? A superbly unhinged physique of labor that may’t fairly be described, however by some means feels proper. And bumps fairly laborious too.
Whereas the unique blueprint was DJ Drama meets Motion Bronson, the ultimate product is much less a derivation and extra a meditation—by way of humor, chaos, and bars—on the enjoyment of constructing one thing purely as a result of it feels good to make it. It’s artwork by the use of alchemy. Comedy by way of cadence. A holy procession of nonsense and brilliance.
The official tracklisting for Dealing with East: The Holy Processions is as follows:
- “Shootin’ Verbal Missiles / Gimme the Distant”
- “Diuretic Move”
- “One other Tuesday”
- “Pernicious Goo Drown Sluggish Horseplay”
- “Candy Whispers (Chemtrails of Tears)”
- “Massive Scrimps at a State Truthful Close to You”
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