MJ 3000

Hola familia,

Take a detour from the media is shoving down your throat to experience imagineIAM. Based in Lafayette, LA this group is the other project running parallel with Bad Chad & The Good Girls.



Just read these reviews:

guarantee you will be blown away by the fresh, completely unclassifiable sounds of this young artist." -Anji Bee, California |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
...The hyper-syncopated rhythms of opener 'Merry Go Round' could be geographically located somewhere between NY freak indie from Gang Gang Dance/Animal Collective, charged West African tribalism and Brazilian favela funk, (which would dump it somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic)...somehow combines quasi Derek Bailey-ish guitars with a menagerie of vocal exclamations and clattering percussion to once again leave your head spinning but your face grinning at the lunacy of it all. Expect the unexpected -Boomkat, UK
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Freaking weirdo avant indie pop tunes -hardwax, Germany
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Imagine Animal Collective were obsessed with Liquid Liquid instead of Beach Boys: psyche freak funk lunacy. -Joe Muggs (The Wire), UK
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...this music is coming from somewhere totally different; somewhere where dance music and avant experimentalism collide in a way that leaves you totally bewildered and wanting to hear more. The tracks on "Merry Go Round" are totally crazy - yet utterly catchy and just so much damn fun that it's almost infuriating! Frantic percussion, garbled vocals, off-beat rhythms and crazy hooks. It's hard to gauge what the hell this music has come from - early Boredoms material shoved through a disco-not-disco filter? MIA after she's been force fed mind-bending drugs? Stephen Malkmus during the geeky-jibberish "Slanted & Enchanted"-era Pavement, conducting Konono No.1 in some obscene, acappella violation? Who knows! -picadilly records, England
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"the clearly, -brilliantly- insane imagineIAM dropped a contender for maddest single of 09...Tribal-psych-bitches brew madness from the Louisiana based production nutter ImagineIAM...coming off like a mutant M.I.A cut...charged with a kind of baile-punk abstraction; Fela meets down n dirty bluegrass in Rio, whilst pounding down the street with Animal Collective. -warp record's bleep, UK
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...super unique.Everything raw sound, furthermore daily necessaries and percussion instrument and voice etcetc…So the dance music which is born!　The american southern Louisiana idea young priest... jet set records, Japan |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
a single style in its kind. Something which transcends even the concept of the originality...an unclassifiable artist...prove to us that to make different music and really planing is always possible today. still music, France |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Little could prepare you for this sonic assault of percussive madness, vocal mayhem, guitar grinding, and what's even more surprising is that we're talking dance music here! Well, our take on dance music anyways. Imagine Robbie Basho and John Fahey jamming with Konk with an Arthur Russell production and you might get an idea... heltah skeltah radio, Paris |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
i listen to the music as i listen to a heartbeat, a sustaining force of life; i listen to the music, primitive and authentic as the original man was in his creation; sophisticated and wise as he is in his evolution; earthly, carnal, quivering and exhausting as as orgasm and then reassuring as the third step one takes after getting off a roller-coaster; nourishing as holy communion, satisfying as sleep to as insomniac. what magnificent creature, what magnificent creator conjures these sounds and syllables? what potent force, what share of the divine allows him, bids him, beckons him, to inseminate the air around him with fluid sounds, with liquid words? and what will be born after his seed germinates in the moist air or the arid ground? this i must ponder. -professor P., Texas
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So make your own determination of this energy.

Gracias

Papa Chop

SOBE Updates

Hola amigos,

We are currently working on our new logo. I will be posting the new logo for feedback on the final direction of the branding of my company.

We are putting the finishing touches on the 1st Bad Chad & The Good Girls LP due out Spring 2009. The album will be released under Soul of the Boot Entertainment, LLC. This will be a groundbreaking release for SOBE and the 1st of its kind. We could use some much needed "BUZZ" so if your diggin the sounds of this project, please go crazy with spreading the word.

We are formulating album of explosive cajun fused remixes done by Bad Chad himself. The samples are courtesy of Louie Michot from Lost Bayou Ramblers. "Down By the Bayou" set the standard for Chad's cajun remixes by using a Lost Bayou Ramblers track and creating an offbeat classic that will soon revolutionize the modern Cajun Movement.

Listen for "Down By The Bayou" on KRVS 88.7FM in SW Louisiana. Our podnah, Cecil Doyle has had the track in rotation for a few months now. The program airs 11-12 AM CST. Go to:

www.krvs.org

Medicine Ball Caravan

Chad's other amazing musical project, imagineiam, has the 1st release on Hand On THe Plow, an indie UK label. Check it out and support his energy.

www.handontheplow.com/hotp008

Check:

Bad Chad & The Good Girls

www.myspace.com/badbadchad

Soul of the Boot Entertainment, LLC.

www.myspace.com/soulofthebootentertainment

Gracias,

Papa Chop

imagineiam UK release Dec 5th

imagineiam is one of the many groups fronted by Bad Chad of Bad Chad & The Good Girls.

Label: Hand on the Plow
Artist: imagineIAM
Title: Merry Go Round
Cat. No.: HOTP008
Format: 12” Vinyl + Digital, 4 track
Genre: Post Punk / No Wave / Electronic
Release Date: 5th December 2008
Contact: email: info@handontheplow.org
web: http://www.handontheplow.org
Dist: John +44 (0)161 236 3351
HAND ON THE PLOW ARE PROUD TO PRESENT... THE NEW WORLD
CELEBRATION OF WIRED LOUISIANA HYPNO-FUNK SENSATION imagineIAM
The Hand On The Plow crew – Laszlo Beckett, Steve Taylor and Matt Spandex – have
always been free and easy with the sounds and styles they adopt into their tracks, but this has
never meant that they are self-conscious “fusion” merchants. Where blues and Afro-funk
motifs, Dada lyrics, Liquid Liquid percussive work-outs or Herbert-style domestic objectsampling
appear, they are never clever references or nods to currently-hip styles: they are
there because they work in the track and only because of that. Theirs is "experimental" music
only in that they experiment constantly in search of the perfect groove, the sort of groove that
can only come from years of immersion in the truest of true-school house and techno and a
fearsome dedication to originality.
For them to sign an artist from outside their circle to the HOTP label, then, it'd have to be
someone quite amazingly secure in their own distinctive musical identity - and artists like that
don't come around all that often. But when, after what felt like millennia of MySpaz trawling,
they happened upon imagineIAM from Lafayette, Louisiana, there was an instant spark, a
recognition of someone else who could bend diverse sounds into new shapes by sheer force
of will and an entirely singular vision, and just as importantly, a recognition of someone else
with the groove in their bloodstream.
It would be easy to start bracketing imagineIAM together with contemporary acts that he
enjoys like Dirty Projectors, Daedelus and Animal Collective in some kind of nouveaubohemian
movement - and without a doubt, he does share with those bands a kind of secondgeneration
psychedelic appreciation of the possibilities of music to bypass the niceties of dayto-
day communication, creep into the brain and start rewriting the mind's operating system.
But his work is really a different proposition, without a hint of hippie excess: imagineIAM is all
about the leanest, barest, most stripped-down approach, about taking the simplest
components of beat, bass and voice and constructing from them precision-tooled devices for
exploring extreme possibilities of the human spirit. But for all his drive and intensity,
imagineIAM has a grin on his face as he does this. He has fun, and you will too if you let his
beats into your head. Though it comes from a very different approach, his music has evolved
into something that works in the same way as the best electronic dance, irresistibly urging the
body move and making you feel better about everything as it does so.
In his own words: "My music enters this dimension pretty much smack-dab in the the middle
of all music 'styles', since it is so exact in its presence, and it simply comes to me just as
definite as the sun simply shines... I throw in some extras to make it more sassy, crunk,
ridiculous, holy'n'profane, sacred and shut up... with ninja blood sparkling deep electric it
dares and blooms forth beyond the known edge creating a new world celebration...
unconquerablly creative and classy..." And you know what? He's right.