What began with an offhand remark over leftover stuffing and Motion Bronson impersonations throughout a Friendsgiving Feast in 2023, has developed into a lot extra. Large 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 power. The gathering drops Friday, August 1 on Bandcamp and Soundcloud.
The idea for the undertaking originated from one of many trio’s two emcees, The Honorable Brother Muscle groups, 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, Large Man Z, occurred to say a number of deep cuts he’d performed whereas cleansing for the night’s festivities. Inside days, concepts have been flying. Texts have been flying even sooner. 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” unexpectedly stitched collectively early variations of three beats from the songs Large Man Z despatched over and he instructed 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, in reality, they did.
Over the course of eight chaotic, laughter-filled periods throughout a yr’s time, the trio turned random freestyles into unusual anthems. Each observe was Frankensteined collectively from hours of audio—freestyled, chopped, reworked, and typically scrapped fully. The method was late-night texts, in-depth discussions, and fixed revisions. And the outcome? A superbly unhinged physique of labor that may’t fairly be described, however in some way feels proper. And bumps fairly arduous too.
Whereas the unique blueprint was DJ Drama meets Motion Bronson, the ultimate product is much less a derivation and extra a meditation—by humor, chaos, and bars—on the enjoyment of creating one thing purely as a result of it feels good to make it. It’s artwork by means of alchemy. Comedy by 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 Stream”
- “One other Tuesday”
- “Pernicious Goo Drown Sluggish Horseplay”
- “Candy Whispers (Chemtrails of Tears)”
- “Large Scrimps at a State Honest Close to You”
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