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DJ Muggs (Cypress Hill) And Ill Bill Team Up For ‘Kill Devil Hills’

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14 years ago

June 11, 2010

Acclaimed DJ/producer, DJ Muggs, and Brooklyn’s heavy metal influenced hip-hop artist, Ill Bill, have teamed up for a collaborative full-length record, Kill Devil Hills, to be released on August 24th on Fat Beats Records. Produced entirely by DJ Muggs, Kill Devil Hills features guest appearances from B-Real, Raekwon, Sean Price, Everlast, Slaine, Chace Infinite, O.C., Q-Unique, Vinnie Paz, Sick Jacken, and more.

Throughout his distinguished career, Muggs has established a precedent for working hand in hand with artists and creating cohesive bodies of work, rather than spreading around beats from project to project. This rings true once again on Kill Devil Hills.

“I prefer getting in the lab and actually creating projects with people instead of just sending out beat CDs,” explains Muggs. “I’m a producer in the fullest extent, where I like to not only produce an album, but craft an album. Being able to start a record from the beginning and following through with it, making sure that all the songs complement each other. I’ve always come from making albums and producing my records; I’m still into that”

“Production and conceptually, this record plays out like a movie. All the songs connect,” states Ill Bill. “It moves like a concept record the way the beats blend with the words even though we didn’t plan it like that. It’s basically it’s own sound, the Muggs vs. Bill sound.”

Muggs adds, “The chemistry between us was very natural. Any decisions we had to make, it was easy, like we’d worked together for years. When we sat back & heard the final product, man, we were both blown away.”

The track list for Kill Devil Hills is…

1.) Cult Assassin

2.) Trouble Shooters f/Sean Price, O.C. & Sick Jacken

3.) Paul Stanley

4.) Illuminati 666

5.) Amputated Saint f/B-Real

6.) Skull & Guns f/Everlast & Slaine of La Coka Nostra

7.) Giants Stadium f/Q-Unique

8.) The Owl

9.) Millenniums Of Murder

10.) Chase Manhattan f/Raekwon

11.) Luciferian Imperium

12.) ILL BILL TV

13.) Secrets Worth Dying For f/Chace Infinite

14.) 2013

15.) Kill Devil Hills f/B-Real & Vinnie Paz

16.) Narco Corridos f/Sick Jacken & Uncle Howie

(****All Tracks Produced By DJ Muggs)

DJ Muggs is one of the industry’s most talented and well-known producers. Since Cypress Hill’s formation in 1991, the pioneering rap-rock quartet has come a long way from the streets of South Central LA. Over the course of its 19-year history, Cypress Hill has sold more than 17 million albums worldwide, including more than 11 million records in the US alone. The group has garnered 15 multi-platinum, platinum, and gold certifications from the RIAA, headlined Lollapalooza, Woodstock, and the group’s own Smokin’ Grooves tour, appeared on Saturday Night Live, and made the late-night talk show circuit, all the while breaking down the musical and cultural barriers between hip-hop, alternative, metal, rock, reggae, ska and Latin music. In 2008, DJ Muggs, and Cypress Hill received a VH1 Hip Hop Honors, to celebrate the vision and innovation that the group continues to bring to hip-hop, strengthening its force around the world.

Yet that only touches on what Muggs has done as a member of Cypress Hill, as he has released highly-influential solo-projects (Soul Assassin Series, Grandmasters with Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA), and produced hits such hits as House of Pain’s “Jump Around”and Ice Cube’s “Check Yo Self” among many others.

“I’ve always been a huge Muggs fan, and his Vs. series is one of the last places to hear the vibe that made albums by Cypress Hill and Gang Starr so dope,” commends Ill Bill. “Not too many producers can craft an entire album on their own, let alone an album that’s a classic. Muggs has done it many times over the past 20 years. It’s an honor to be part of that legacy.”

Ill Bill was a founding member of Non Phixion, who released their seminal debut, The Future Is Now, in 2002. He has also released two influential solo LPs. Bill has also released an LP as a member of the bi-coastal conglomerate La Coka Nostra (which also includes Everlast, Danny Boy and DJ Lethal of House Of Pain and newcomer Slaine). Ill Bill’s, The Hour Of Reprisal (2008), showed flashes of what the future would hold, as Bill & Muggs collaborated on two tracks (“This Is Who I Am” & “Only Time Will Tell”) for Bill’s most recent solo-LP.

Ill Bill & DJ Muggs will be performing together as one of the headlining acts on this year’s “Rock The Bells” tour.

2010 Rock The Bells Tour Dates (confirmed as of 6-8-2010):

8-21-2010, Los Angeles, CA-NOS Events Center

8-22-2010, San Francisco, CA-Shoreline Amphitheatre

8-28-2010, New York, NY- Governor’s Island

8-29-2010, Washington, DC- Merriweather Post Pavilion

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“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

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1 week ago

April 9, 2024

John Squires

It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.

Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.

Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.

“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.

“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…