Feelin’ Messinian! While archaeologists (and Google users) may know Messinian to be the last age of the Miocene epoch, everyday junglists know rapper J Messinian as MC from the mighty mighty Planet of the Drums crew alongside Dieselboy, AK 1200 and Dara. House heads know him for his Beatport-friendly tunes with Hatiras & DJ Dan. And more still, blog-house electro heads will surely recognize his tune ‘Throw It Away’ as remixed by Designer Drugs. I’d like to introduce you to another side of the known “rave rapper”. Meet Our Lady Fatima (a reference a religious story some may recognize), the newest facet of Messinian that takes a decidedly post-punk approach, reminiscent of the music of his childhood and adolescence (born in ‘79, y’all). And here’s the cool part—more than just sentimental explorations—he’s making things that sound contemporary and just plain good—enough so to have 10 cuts in heavy rotation at my house. Here’s a few:
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MP3: Our Lady Fatima – Twilight (Touchtones) (2009)
[ 2mb | 114kbps vbr | 3:03 | Genre: Post-Punk | BPM: 128 ]
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MP3: Our Lady Fatima – The Hardest Way (2009)
[ 3mb | 118kbps vbr | 4:00 | Genre: Post-Punk | BPM: 98 ]
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MP3: Our Lady Fatima – Let Her Riot (21 Guns) (2009)
[ 3mb | 125kbps vbr | 3:29 | Genre: Post-Punk | BPM: 128 ]
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MP3: Our Lady Fatima – All That You Do (2009)
[ 3mb | 115kbps vbr | 3:24 | Genre: Post-Punk | BPM: 128 ]
Damn, remember how we was kinda post-punk blog at one point? Remember ‘New Wave Tuesdays’? Thanks Messinian for helping us get back to our roots! Lo-fi moody dark music 4 evar! The Our Lady Fatima project is all Messinian singing and producing, with one Jason Craveiro joining to produce and play keys at future shows.
Of course, Messinian is known for being a damn fine rapper and ain’t nathin’ changed. For his upcoming ‘Vampire Hustle’ album and projects on his fledgling label, Flash Art Records, distributed through INgrooves/Universal, he’s enlisted some of his buddies like The Enemy (a.k.a. Treasure Fingers), Toxic Avenger, Jayvon, Cardiff Giants, Life After 1984, our MTSC residential DJs True Pseudo and even the late-great Disco D—big fat pimp, dick stay hard, never get limp! Messinian was recoding an album with D at the time of his death, this is one of the tunes that was made:
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MP3: Messinian – Magic (prod. Disco D) (2009)
[ 4mb | 128kbps cbr | 3:59 | Genre: Hip-Hop | BPM: 101 ]
Here’s a few more from ‘Vampire Hustle’ plus the heavy Designer Drugs remix that you’re likely already familiar with:
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MP3: Messinian – Throw it Away (prod. True Pseudo) (2009)
[ 9mb | 320kbps cbr | 3:59 | Genre: Electro ]
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MP3: Messinian – Can’t Hide Her (prod. True Pseudo) (2009)
[ 7mb | 280kbps vbr | 3:26 | Genre: Electro ]
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MP3: Messinian – Noise In Here (prod. True Pseudo) (2009)
[ 8mb | 261kbps vbr | 4:27 | Genre: Electro ]
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MP3: Messinian – Gettin’ Litted (prod. Cardiff Giants) (2009)
[ 6mb | 248kbps vbr | 3:16 | Genre: Electro ]
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MP3: Messinian – Out of Control (prod. LifeAfter1984) (2009)
[ 7mb | 284kbps vbr | 3:23 | Genre: Electro ]
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MP3: Messinian – Throw It Away (Designer Drugs Remix) (2008)
[ 9mb | 320kbps cbr | 3:44 | Genre: Electro ]
Whew! You’ve got the sampler pack that doesn’t even include his work as We Don’t Sleep, which is a live thing where he goes through a dozen genres of music in about 45 minutes! Dood is wild. He’s the gulliest MFer with an art degree I know.
Have some quality time with Messinian over at Rockthedub.com which has a nice lengthy interview with our boy.
Tonight: Portland, you can catch Messinian playing with Klever. Tomorrow: the world! Check Messinian’s MySpace tour page for info.
Visit Messinian on MySpace.
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Visit We Don’t Sleep! on MySpace.
Visit Our Lady Fatima on MySpace.
Visit Our Lady Fatima on Last.fm.
