Total Sellout

Record label

Uncanny Valley

Catalog Number

UVLP02

Release Date

January 12th 2015

Genres

Hip Hop

Tracks

play	pos	title	artists	duration
play_circle_outline	A1	Lona
play_circle_outline	A2	The Poncho
play_circle_outline	A3	Painquilizer
play_circle_outline	A4	Scissorhands
play_circle_outline	B1	Jacques Cousteau
play_circle_outline	B2	Rock My Soul
play_circle_outline	B3	Rhythmus '78
play_circle_outline	C1	City Slicker
play_circle_outline	C2	Hidden Track
play_circle_outline	C3	VibraSkit
play_circle_outline	C4	Karma Vision
play_circle_outline	C5	Dallisan
play_circle_outline	C6	Kingston Loudness War Champion 2009
play_circle_outline	D1	Logic
play_circle_outline	D2	All Night Long
play_circle_outline	D3	Iron Lung
play_circle_outline	D4	Skit
play_circle_outline	D5	3 Chinesen Mitm Kontrabass

Cuthead got known to the wider public via his releases on Uncanny Valley but his roots reach way back before the label's start. There was a time when Cuthead and his brothers from another mother threw wild parties at abandoned industrial locations or in the woods around Dresden. The crew, which was known as Kunst:stoff Breakz, also established a label where Cuthead released two albums and one EP as free downloads between 2006 and 2010. Over the years the calls for vinyl versions of those early joints were getting louder and so Uncanny Valley decided to give the best tracks from that era a new life on physical sound carriers and start the "Total Sellout". Through refinement and rearrangement 51 tracks were boiled down to a selection of 18 and ended up as an album full of catchy bass lines, heavy beats and sampling excesses. Among the tracks are party starters like the strings-infiltrated "Scissorhands", "The Poncho" or the ever devastating "Iron Lung" which still kicks like Dubstep has never faded. Since Cuthead has always been heavily influenced by Rap music, there are of course lots of great Hip Hop beats on "Total Sellout". Either in the form of funky sample studies like "Painquilizer" and "VibraSkit" or in true fashion with Raps by crew member Alibi on "Hidden Track". Also included on the album are "Rock My Soul" and "All Night Long", some early examples of Cuthead's knack for well tempered and super catchy House tracks, while the double-bass driven "Rythmus '78" shows another jazzy side of him. Once again, the artwork was conceived and designed by Till Hohmann who already did a brilliant job on last year's "Everlasting Sunday".