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:::: March 31st 2008 Its been a long winter and we've got a lot brewing behind the scenes here at Audio 8. Here are a few interviews with some of our guys: Ben Lamar at Exclaim! Serengeti at Centerstage Tony Trimm at Centerstage Polyphonic at Centerstage :::: October 21st 2008 Hey our 25th release is out! Yoome's debut album The Boredom of Me. It just got a nice new review from Playback STL, "a very unique, low-tempo world that effortlessly invites introspection without becoming preachy." Read the whole review here. Juba Dance has also received some excellent new reviews for their latest album Orange Juiced. Check out the reviews here and here. :::: Sept 23rd 2008 Hi everyone. Juba Dance's new album Orange Juiced is here. It's a collection of remixes from friends all over the world and some brand new, never before released Juba songs. Hope you like it. Jus' Like Music already gave the album a great review, they say "It’s creative, it’s beautiful and it’s just there ready to be fully appreciated in all its glory." Read the whole review here. Also, Ben Lamar from Juba Dance is currently attending the Schmiede 08 workshop in Hallein, Austria. Looks cool... :::: August 21st 2008 Hello. Please check out the Yoome video Amsterdamn. Yoome is the new band featuring Serengeti, Renee-Louise Carafice and Tony Trimm. Their album will be out October 21st here on Audio 8. We're also releasing a brand new Juba Dance album Orange Juiced, a collection of remixes and b-sides. More about this soon - it'll be available September 23rd. :::: June 10th 2008 Flesh O.N.E.'s new album Thirdy now available for free download. That's 30 deep instrumentals... download it here. :::: May 13th 2008 Lots of people saying good things about Serengeti's Dennehy (Lights, Camera, Action!)... UGS Mag: "amazing ... one of my favourite emcees" read interview Impose Magazine: "unflinching in its frank depiction of adolescence, strained relationships, and class differences. ...should earn Serengeti folk hero status within hip-hop’s underground a la M.F. Doom." read more WhatUpThough: "His storytelling on this album is amazing albeit ridiculous, with an attention to detail and pop culture (most notably Chicago sports figures) that is equally incredible and comical..." read more Dollar Bin Jams: "But he’s [Serengeti] the best. He’s funny and skilled, a rare rapper whose words have made me think differently about my life." read more :::: March 18th 2008 Serengeti's Dennehy (Lights, Camera, Action!) now available. :::: February 25th 2008 Serengeti's Dennehy (Lights, Camera, Action!) will be available March 18th. We've already had some good reviews: Playback:stl says "A much-improved version of an already powerful album." Read the full review. Also, our friends at Okayplayer write "the new songs .. make the story that much more compelling." Read more. :::: January 8th 2008 Okayplayer named Serengeti & Polyphonic's Dont Give Up rap album of the year. Check it out here. Also, the Toronto Star's Eye Weekly listed Juba Dance's Orange in their top 10 albums of 2007. They said some nice things: here. :::: December 27th 2007 Hi. Buy an Audio 8 t-shirt and look sharp. Designed by Fro Hawk Two Feathers. :::: November 6th 2007 Serengeti & Polyphonic's Dont Give Up has been getting some great radio play up in Canada - the album hit #5 on Canada's Hip-Hop Chart Attack and #10 on Canada's !Earshot Hip-Hop Chart. Meanwhile it was the #4 most added Hip Hop record on the CMJ charts and spent 2 weeks in the top 40. Also, some nice new reviews have come in: Underground Sound Magazine says "Serengeti grew a beard and is on some sad rap shit and it’s awesome... it’s pretty impossible not to love." XLR8R wrote "brilliantly textured production ... Polyphonic's beats have an entirely unique, otherworldly feel to them." Read more new reviews here . :::: October 4th 2007 Ben Lamar will be in Toronto starting October 14th for a week of Juba Dance performances as part of the Red Bull Music Academy. Check out the Academy site for more details... :::: September 22th 2007 Check out what some critics are saying about Serengeti & Polyphonic's Dont Give Up Popmatters "It’s a good weird, noisy and then quiet, organic while also artificial, melodramatic and moody, but it’s also painstakingly detailed and marvelous and all kinds of pretty.... Don’t Give Up is a work of art, actually, that stacks up best as an album—a real album and not simply a collection of songs."" read more Tangible Sounds "Has Thom Yorke started fucking with Wu Tang? ... Probably the most anti-commercial rap album since Fear Of A Black Planet. It’s about time." read more Impose Magazine "Musically ahead of its time while lyrically speaking in real time, Serengeti & Polyphonic have created an album that will likely get better with age." read more Treble Magazine "Serengeti & Polyphonic try to find all of the usuals of rap music on Don't Give Up, and purposefully go against them in varying degrees, from many different angles, turning more rap into music, and more music into rap." read more Okayplayer "the music is beautiful ... [Serengeti's] off-kilter singing adds to that exponentially. And Polyphonic's array of sonic textures ... is rapturous. ...already one of my favorite discs of the year." read more :::: August 24th 2007 2 beautiful new videos from Serengeti & Polyphonic's Dont Give Up directed by our very own AM Overtone... "Lately I Havent Been Feeling That Well" "Sunrise" :::: July 17th 2007 Long overdue, Serengeti and Polyphonic's Dont Give Up is here... Emotional vulnerability, irony and depression packaged as a glitchy, electro futuristic rap album. :::: June 26 2007 Okayplayer is digging Juba Dance's Orange album! Here's what they said in two seperate reviews: "Juba Dance is that rare sort of act that demonstrates what the so-called "Hip-Hop generation" has taken from other forms of music, as well as what we've given back, and how modern music in general can be something new and exciting while paying respect to what's come before." read more "Orange is beautiful, like plugging headphones into a blender full of back issues of Wax Poetics." read more Also watch out for reviews in the upcoming issues of Verbicide Magazine and Global Rhythm Magazine. :::: May 22 2007 Synthesis Magazine has inaugurated Serengeti Appreciation Week with a new article each day all week chronicling the Geti King's musical trials and tribulations. Check it out over at Synthesis. It should get you excited about the forthcoming Serengeti & Polyphonic album Dont Give Up, out July 17th... :::: April 11 2007 It's spring. Here's a few of the recent Juba Dance Orange reviews: Tiny Mix Tapes "a compelling and painstakingly crafted release ... a breath of fresh air." read the review Foxy Digitalis "an extremely groovy record ... the heavy mix of instruments, styles, and rhythms is downright exciting." read the review Japanese mag Metropolis "an otherworldly amalgamation of jazz, blues and hip-hop with Brazilian rhythms and abstract downtempo electronica ... mesmerizing." read more Other A8 music getting attention: PLAYBACK:stl on Serengeti's Noticeably Negro - "brilliant ... [Serengeti's] great everyman personality shines through ... makes [him] something of cult figure" read more okayplayer did a feature on Serengeti, MF Doom and Count Bass D - read it here okayplayer also reviewed Polyphonic's Abstract Data Ark, calling it "computerized anarchy-turned-beautiful ... Epileptics beware A.D.A. is definitely a strong outing." read the review :::: Past News |