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Qbert's new LPs - Extraterrestria & Galaxxxian


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Both albums are out digitally for people who pre-ordered via Kickstarter. You get the choice of 320 Kbps or 24 bit WAVs (or both if you like) and Wave Twisters is thrown in as well (MP3 only though).

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Track listings: -

 

Extraterrestria: -

 

01 - Moth-Rah

02 - Medusa

03 - Ascender (ft. Chad Hugo & Tipsy)

04 - Draconian

05 - Bloom (ft. Craig Abaya & Tipsy)

06 - Spectre

07 - HuverKraft (ft. Dana Leong, DJ Zeke & Coppé)

08 - Astro Frog

09 - Broken ButterFlies

10 - Nautilus

11 - Jiu-Jitsu (ft. DJ IQ)

12 - Labyrinth (ft. Dana Leong)

 

GalaXXXian: -

 

01 - Generals (ft. Roscoe Umali)

02 - Back Suspension (ft. Kool Keith)

03 - Kooty Kat (ft. P.E.A.C.E., Genie Love & Camille Velasco)

04 - OG BBOY (ft. Mr. Lif, El-P & Malicious Lee)

05 - Disco Nap (Rocket Remix) (ft. A-Trak, Quazr & Yogafrog)

06 - Room Service (ft. Tassho Pearce)

07 - Crosshairs (ft. Bambu)

08 - Mud Wrestler (ft. Soul Khan)

09 - Liquifly (ft. Del The Funky Homosapien)

10 - Pie Fighters (ft. DZK, Madchild & Sicknature)

11 - Freaky Thangs (ft. Miss Space Worm)

12 - Impossible Obstacle (ft. Roscoe Umali)

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I like Extraterrestria, but I wouldn't call it a sequel to Wave Twisters as that was a soundtrack with a theme running through it and it was packed full of wacky samples. This isn't really like that. Track 1 sounds like it could have been included on Wave Twisters, but on about 3 of the 12 tracks the main focus is ahhhhhhhh cutting.

 

It's an album for Qbert fans basically - I know that sounds silly, but Q's style has developed into something quite unique with all the "warbly" strange sounding scratching he does, along with drum scratching that is signature Qbert.

 

My description of it sounds pretty "meh", haha, but I think it's a good album!

 

My favourite track on it is probably Spectre: -

 

http://www9.zippyshare.com/v/86190545/file.html

 

I encoded that in pretty low quality deliberately, but it sounds good enough so you can check it out.

 

As for GalaXXXian, I'm less taken with that. A couple of the tracks have already been released on other albums, plus that remix that Qbert did of an A-Trak tune is on there too. I'm a fan of Kool Keith, but the beat on that track is one that Qbert has cut over a bunch of times in live performances. It's just not really my style of hip-hop and outside of Kool Keith I'm not a massive fan of any of the MCs he's worked with.

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I gave them both a couple of listens yesterday on Spotify and I think I like the cuts on Galaxxxian more. Extraterrestria sounds a little like the soundtrack to some acid-laced yoga session. Drum cuts were nuts though.

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I was wondering what was up with the Kickstarter records as they still haven't been sent out, so I tweeted Qbert to ask. He DMed me some pics: -

 

http://i.imgur.com/ArKNmYP.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/f7bmQ4m.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/Mv7keId.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/yQZTYcP.jpg

 

Looking good. They should be shipping out soon.

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I've still received nothing from this Kickstarter. The expected shipping date was June 2014. It's now June 2015. I'm not too bothered about delays if I'm kept up to date, but what's annoying is, I haven't received a single email or message from Thud Rumble about this since the Kickstarter ended.

 

To be fair, I have tweeted Qbert a couple of times about this and he's always responded via direct message and chatted to me about it, but if you're going to run a Kickstarter, communicate effectively with your backers via Kickstarter itself!

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Conversely I've always wanted a job where I could go on a show and endlessly and pointlessly apologise. "I'm so sorry Mr X did not receive the service he wanted, we will try harder in the future and have improved staff training in this area". NEXT!

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