Tracklist:

1.Let It Rattle
2.Drumroll (We’re All Thirsty)
3.Savion Glover
4.Purexed
5.Graves (We Wrote the Book)
6.Goodbye
7.Get Smokes
8.Been Afraid
9.Low Light Low Life
10.The Basics (Alright)
11.Out of Category
12.Optimist (We Are Not For Them)
13.Terrorish
14.Never Better
15.The Brave and the Snake

Press Release:

P.O.S. returns with Never Better, February 3rd on Rhymesayers. It’s the follow-up to 2006’s critically acclaimed Audition. Most of P.O.S’ new album was written in a moving car. On it, he raps at full-clip to ride rolling drums and revving distortion. There’s an urgency that he keeps in careful check, and then unleashes for spring-loaded verses that represent his best work. P.O.S built his reputation as an innovator, with an unlikely punk rock past and expressive, honest content. He re-earns the accolades with every release. His records capture his charisma-they’re driving and sincere, the dark moments counterbalanced by some giggling banter with the engineer. On Never Better, the new disc, he conjures get-away cars, racing chariots, the pursuit of sirens, and the occasional rueful nighttime drive.

P.O.S. himself made more than half of the beats on Never Better, and the production bears his unmistakable signature.  The album enters a room like bombshell with a black eye-badass, noisy, impossible to ignore.  Feedback and relentless drum rolls are only occasionally tempered by sung choruses and clean, chiming guitar lines.  Some critics will be eager to categorize the album as a hybrid-some kind of crossover project. But it’s probably not. P.O.S is a rapper with range, he’s a real musician and an unstoppable performer. For him, genres are as they ever were: permeable.

The packaging for P.O.S’s new album Never Better is a one of a kind four panel transparent plastic Digipak that holds 16 solid and 6 Transparent inserts. The solid inserts have artwork on the front and lyrics/credits on the back. The Transparent inserts have artwork that when placed over the various solid cards, enhance and change the look of the art underneath, hundreds of combinations are possible. Look for P.O.S. to embark on a headlining tour for the month of February and he will stay on the road through the summer, where he’s confirmed for the entire Vans Warped Tour.

P.O.S.’s two plus years on the road in support of Audition proved that no genre can contain him. He’s just as comfortable performing in front of punk and rock crowds as he is with his ever growing loyal hip hop fan base. On different tours, he went out with Atmosphere, Minus the Bear, Gym Class Heroes and Underoath plus did 50+ dates on the Vans Warped Tour. Audition made it up to #13 on the CMJ Radio Top 200 and was #1 on the Hip Hop chart for three weeks. The video for his single “Bleeding Hearts Club (MPLS Chapter)” received heavy rotation on MTVu and also on MTV2’s Subterranean.

The Roots were involved in a crash yesterday in France when their double-decker tour bus flipped and collided with a van. Despite the severity of the accident, everyone on the bus is alive and okay (outside of a few “cuts and neck braces”). Almost immediately following the incident, ?uestlove took to his blog to let fans know of the situation. “Well…since we are sitting on the side of the road, what better way to pass the time while the ambulance comes then to…blog,” he wrote. “In reality the crash was all of about 7 seconds…but to do a 360 on the highway and end up ramped up (the van that crashed into ours was UNDER our double decker bus) in the air…is…well…a frigging miracle.” You can check out ?uestlove’s entire account of the accident here. It “will be a miracle” if the band makes it to Paris in time for their spot aboard Kanye West’s Glow in the Dark tour. “Til then just wanna let everyone know that we are happy to be alive. and not in that tv cliche way…but man…that was divine intervention. We are so grateful for this outcome,” ?uest concludes.

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1. Cortosis [Original]
2. Cortosis [Chris Liebing Remix]

Having discovered a music program on a friends Amiga 500, Brian Sanhaji’s desire to produce his own sound started to grow… He started off experimenting with Hip Hop beats, but after attending a Prodigy gig became hooked on techno.

You may already know the man’s work under the pseudonym Relic and under his own name on Punkt Music & Definition Records, and he has also remixed The Horrorist. He also runs his own label Enable Recordings which has released tracks by The Advent and Andre Walter, along with his own productions.

So with a background like that you know Cortosis will have all the right ingredients to make this a stormer!
Here are two tracks of peak time techno that will definitely get the dancefloor moving - but be warned it’s not for the faint hearted! Label boss Chris Leibing steps up on remix duties to give it that special edge… This is a welcome return for this style of techno!

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