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Back in the summer of 2010, Los Angeles producer Cassettes Won't Listen and Brooklyn emcee Bisco Smith hit the studio together in what developed into a week-long collaboration, quickly developing into a new group, The Freeze Tag, and eventually birthing the duo's concept EP, a project that deals with battling through restrictions and limitations, in art and life. Now, nearly a year later, that EP Hamster Kid is being released, aided by the artistic efforts of world renowned street artist Bishop 203 and director Mike Vidoli, along with a handful of remixes from the EP.
And to celebrate today's EP release, The Freeze Tag are giving fans one of those remixes, this one from EchoesAlike, a frequent and long-time collaborator with Bisco, who builds his electro-inspired remix around an infectious, repeating staccato synth line. "Echoes helped produce one of my first songs I ever put out, "The Basics;" I've know him for a while, 5 or 6 years," Bisc explains on the connection. "CWL and I passed out acapellas and stems to the people we have around us – our friends – and let them go where they wanted with it. I love Echoes' remix; it's upbeat and feels like it has epic movement to it, which is what "The Visions", and Hamster Kid, is about – movement."
Download the "The Visions (EchoesAlike Remix)" here:
http://media.audibletreats.com/The_Freeze_Tag-The_Visions_EchoesAlike_RMX.mp3
Purchase Hamster Kid from The Freeze Tag here:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hamster-kid/id435985314
Purchase Hamster Kid merch, and keep up with all things The Freeze Tag here:
http://www.thefreezetag.com
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Background:
The Freeze Tag's Hamster Kid is an animated musical collaboration between Brooklyn MC Bisco Smith Los Angeles producer Cassettes Won't Listen, brought to life visually with the help of world-renowned street artist Bishop 203, and director Mike Vidoli. The group formed in summer 2010 while Bisco was visiting CWL's studio in Los Angeles, and a week long collaboration ensued. The studio doors opened and out came a true five-track concept EP revolving around the story's central character, Hamster Kid, the everyman's underdog, who fights to stay true to himself while overcoming pressures from peers, naysayers, and society at large. Each song from the EP is accompanied by a video, and producers Echoes Alike, Turnbull Green, J.Vegas, and Devang Shah, also contributed a series of remixes to the EP. Hamster Kid is available nowthrough The Freeze Tag's collective label, Daylight Curfew.
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