Slick, primal and captivating, critically-acclaimed hip-hop duo Shabazz Palaces stepped into Big Orange Studios to further take 2011 by storm with a session on Daytrotter. While in Austin, Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler and crew slightly reworked the tracks "Toooonmiiiight," "An Echo From Hosts That Profess Infinitum," "Emblazoned on Ice" and "Blastit..." to incorporate some of the live feel with the crafted and mastered. Stream and download "Tooonmiiiight" here and head over to Daytrotter for the rest, plus words from Sean Moeller. He once more brought the magic as he spins a huge analogy between Butler and spiders:
Shabazz mastermind Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler makes music that forms an entirely new context all its own, reaching out for us like the darkest arms protruding out of a house of mirrors, or a carnival of spooks. It sounds as if it's walking with the help of a hundred different legs, splitting or pulling itself in the same number of directions, but always holding to a center point, or a pelvis. These are the thoughts of a genius or an amateur madman (or a madman who will never be successful, as there will always be too much intrigue and sanity in his madness) that fly out of Butler's mouth like little spiderlings, throwing a thread of silk into the breeze that catches a wave and takes the insect to a new fate.
(via Daytrotter)