▄ ■ ▄ ▄▓▄ ▄ ■ ▄
▄▀ ▀ ▀▄
▐▌ █ ▐▌
▓ ░▐█▌ ▓
▀▓▄ ███ ▄▓▀
▀▓▄▄▄▄ ▐███▌ ▄▄▄▄▓▀
▀ ▀▀████▄▄▄ ▄█████▄ ▄▄▄█████▀░
▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▀▀███████▀ ▀██████▓▀▀░
▄▄▄▄████████████▓▓▄ ▀████▌[RTB] ▐███▓█▄▄▄██████▓▄▄
▀███████▀ ░▀▀▓██████▓▓▓ ░ ▀███▄ ▄█▓▀ ████▀ ░▀████▓▓▄
░▀▀░██▓▌ ░▀▓█████▓▓▓ ▒ ███████▓▓ ███▌ ░▓███▓▓▓
░▐█▓▌ ░▐██████▓▓▌ ▓▐█████▓▓▌░ ▐██▌ ▐████▓▓▌
▐██▓ ░▓█████▓▓ ▐█████▓▓▌▒ ▐███ ░███▓▓▓
░██▓ ▄█████▓▀ ▐█████▓▓▌▓▌ ███ ▄▓█▓▓▀
██▓▌ ▄▄████▀▀ ▐█████▓▓▌██ ███▌ ▄▓██▀▀
████▄████▀▀ ▄▄ █████▓▀ ▄ ████▄██▀▀██████▓▓▓▓▄▄
▄████▀▀████▓▄▄ ▀▀▀▀█▄▄▄▄ ██▀▀ ▄▄▓▀░ ████▀ ░▀██████▓▓▓▓▄
▀▐██▓▌ ░▀████████▓▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄██▓▓▌░ ▐███▌ ░▐███████▓▓▓▌
░████▓ ░▀████████████████████▓▓▄▄▓███▌ ░████████▓▓▓
████▓▓▄ ░▀▀█████████████████▓▓▓▓███ ▐███████▓▓▓▌
▄ ▀▀▀▀ ▄▄▄▄█▀▀▀█▄▄ ░▀▀▀████████████▓▓▓███ ▄▄██████▓▓▓▓▀
▀▓▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀▀█▄▄▄ ░▀▀▀▀▀███████▓▓██▄▄████████████▓▓▀▀ ▄
▄ ▀▀▀▀▀▀█▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█▀▀ ▀▓▀
█ PRESENTS: ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▄
█ █
█ ARTiST : MC Lars █
█ ALBUM : The Laptop EP █
█ LABEL : SideCho █
▄ ▄
▀▓▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▓▀
▄ ENCODER : Lame 3.90.3 / APS ▄
█ STREET : Jul-27-2004 █
█ RELEASE : Jul-02-2004 █
█ GENRE : Hip-Hop █
█ QUALiTY : VBRkbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo █
█ SOURCE : Vinyl █
█ TYPE : Album █
▄ ▄
▀▓▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▓▀
▄ + TRACK LiSTiNG + ▄
█ [#] [Track Name] [time] █
█ █
█ 01. iGeneration 02:54 █
█ 02. UK Visa Versa 02:40 █
█ 03. Hurricane Fresh 03:00 █
█ 04. Signing Emo 03:38 █
█ 05. Stat 60 02:57 █
█ 06. Straight Outta Stockholm 03:10 █
█ 07. Mr Raven 03:56 █
▄ ▄
▀▓▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▓▀
▄ + RELEASE iNFORMATiON + ▄
█ █
█ MC Lars is set to release his US debut, The Laptop EP, on █
█ SideCho Records this summer. His music is best described as █
█ new school punk-rap that blends styles of Atom and His █
█ Package, Beastie Boys and old-school Run DMC with samples █
█ from bands such as Brand New and Piebald. MC Lars made his █
█ east coast debut at this yearÆs Skate And Surf and will go █
█ out on the first ever AbsolutePunk.net Tour in the US in █
█ June with Audio Karate, Say Anything, and LanceÆs Hero. █
█ Following the Absolutepunk.net tour, Lars heads to the UK █
█ for T in The Park, other festivals and a string of shows █
█ with Piebald. █
█ █
█ The Laptop EP is a selection of songs that appropriately █
█ showcase LarsÆ mental muscles for the first time. Subject █
█ selection ranges from the outright autobiographical █
█ ôStraight Outta Stockholmö to a smirky interpretation of █
█ England from the American Student perspective ôUK Visa █
█ Versaö. ôMr Raven,ö one early standout track that samples a █
█ Brand New song, came about completely by accident. ôI had █
█ been reading Poe and listening to Brand New and had this █
█ revelation that the four bars of that song fit this meter of █
█ PoeÆs. It was a song I had to write because the pieces fit █
█ well together û I couldnÆt help myself.ö Then thereÆs █
█ ôiGeneration,ö which is both a nod and stab at fast-tracked █
█ technology. However, it was the early writing and recording █
█ of ôHurricane Freshö that proved to be LarsÆ first █
█ breakthrough. ôIt was the first time I saw what a bridge █
█ could do. It hit me how to take hip hop elements and really █
█ fuse them with rock and pop elements, because a lot of rap █
█ songs donÆt have a bridge or pop-oriented song structures. █
█ ThatÆs when I realized, OK, hereÆs my style. Rap music with █
█ rock elements and pop conventions, glued together.ö █
█ █
█ The Laptop EP is the follow up to Radio Pet Fencing, a CD █
█ released in September 2003 in the UK only on Truck Records █
█ under the name MC Lars Horris. This first CD merely hinted █
█ at what Lars was ultimately capable of. It was a culmination █
█ of his ideas and experimental recordings that began in the █
█ 5th grade. Lars eventually went on to Stanford University █
█ and moved to Oxford for a semester abroad when he was 18, a █
█ move that ultimately put him in touch with Truck Records and █
█ on the path to making music his full time ambition. He █
█ returned to the US the following semester and decided to █
█ drop the Horris because ôpeople often thought it was Lars █
█ Whores, which is terrible.ö █
█ █
█ Musically, his songs come from computer driven beats, █
█ samples and a small pile of instruments that sit next to his █
█ dorm room bed. How could he fuse a sound that combines his █
█ awkwardly assembled influences, ranging from Weird Al █
█ Yankovic to KRS One to The Sex Pistols? Check out The Laptop █
█ EP when it comes out this summer and find out! Also check █
█ out www.mclars.com for a complete list of his upcoming US █
█ tour dates on the Absolutepunk.net tour. █
█ █
▄ ▄
▀▓▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▓▀
+[ There's nothing more fun than ignoring the rest of the world ]+