The ShadowPlastic Label

“I would like to thank God, whom without Him none of this would have been possible, my mother, whom without her love and support I could have never made it this far (SOB!) and most importantly you, the fans, for believing in me.”

That’s my canned acceptance speech.

I woke up this morning and went about my normal routine of email checking, blog reading and social networking and I came upon this:

Yay, that’s me! Seems like there is more to old KageGFX than meets the eye.
I highly recommend checking out, if not joining Brooklyn Art Project, even if you don’t live in Brooklyn. It’s a great community of artists in the world’s best borough (don’t hate me Queens) and a superb source of news and resources for creatives and appreciators alike.

Props to Anthony Cospito, BAP Co-Founder.
- KAGE

Mr. Carter, what are you doing to me. First you say you are going to retire, then you come back with a lackluster album. Then you come back with one of the best mixtapes/albums for a mediocre movie (yeah, I said it: American Gangster was just so-so) then you keep dropping singles that just kill one after the other. What the hell are you teasing me for? Do you want me to beg?

Fine, please, make another album. I need you. The world needs you.
P.S. Tell your wife to chill, she’s kinda ODing on this Sasha Fierce thing.

. . . Or Go Home.
- KAGE

Those Detroit gents, Adam’s Castle will be gracing Brooklyn’s premiere venue Southpaw on Tuesday, November 25th with yet another set of audio decadence for your most delicate palette. You will see us joining in reverie with other Silenoi.

MUTE CITY at SOUTHPAW 125 Fifth Ave. in Park Slope, Brooklyn MAP
Stoke Motive/ In The Trees/ Adams Castle
8 pm doors/9 pm show

Black Whiskey.
- KAGE

It’s been a minute (well, a bit more than a week) since the last update and I apologize. We’re getting ready to drop the new season of stuff soon and we’ve been slaving in front of computer monitors and screen printing tables making samples and tweaking stuff. I did find some distraction on Saturday however when a bunch of heads and I went to see GIRLTALK at Terminal 5 this Saturday past (November 15th) and crunked out with my junk out. If you are not familiar with the work of Mr. Greg Gillis fret not, I’ve included a brief sample form his most recent album Feed The Animals below:

Girltalk - Give Me A Beat

His music is best described as a taking a buttload of songs from now and then, compacting them in a garbage truck and then throwing a rave inside said garbage truck with a leprechaun DJ making it rain gold coins. Yes, it’s that good. His show was decent. There were a bit too many meatnecks and “cool kids” there for my taste but all in all it was a good show.

Speaking of cool kids, I was fishing around and stumbled upon this beauty:

Logarhytmik - The Bank Sale (The Cool Kids Mixtape)

Seems like somebody went and took sugar and made it even sweeter. I dare say that this remixtape is BETTER than the original. After the first listen my heart smiled the same way it did when I heard The Grey Album; all warm and fuzzy like. I highly recommend you make this download and crank it up to 11 on the iPod because as alphapack says, “This shit BANGS!”

I love you more than Jesus.
- KAGE

Last night alphapack and I went out to Hugs (my new favorite place) in Williamsburg BK to watch history happen. This post would have been put up earlier but instead of listening to Minister Farrakhan we stayed out and got wasted.
Brooklyn blew the fukk up last night as countless heads, from hipsters to hoodrats, took to the streets in celebration of Obama/Biden taking The White House. It is truly a great day in America.

Peep pics from the celebration HERE.

Now what?
- KAGE

The Knux just might be my favorite new hip hop group out now. They’re young, they’re fun and they have something to say, which is rare considering I can’t understand a gosh darn thing that comes out of Soldier Boy’s mouth. His whole thing is “Tell ‘Em” but what the hell is he tellin’ em? “You to can make it big if you rhyme like you’ve been huffing paint thinner over some beats made on My First Sony.

Anyway, check out The Knux if you haven’t because there is a reckoning coming and change indefinitely will come.

Let me know in 3 days.
- KAGE

Everybody knows I’m not a fan of that “Love Lock Down” track by Kanye. The beat is dope but I’m over the vocoder. You remix (”mash” really) with JUSTICE and I like it a little more. But only because it’s JUSTICE.

I’m not loving you like I wanted to.
- KAGE

If you like that hard, sexy, crunchy, funky electro dance music then boy/girl do I got a doozy for you. Crash Overdrive. . . Ever heard of them? No, well you have now you have. This sounds like they put on a pair of shit-kickers and angel armor and straight stomped out a dumptruck in a mosh pit.

YES, it is that awesome.

Flipping more than just scripts. . .
- KAGE

Now at first thought one would thing that mixing alcohol, heavy machinery, and loud, hard dance music in a gym with a bunch of party seekers on a Monday night would be ill advised or at least a bad idea. On the contrary, it’s the BEST GOSH DARN IDEA EVER!!!
SPL soldiers The Italians (Head&Hand and Alessio) and KAGE rolled up into CRUNCH Under The Gymfluence party and got wasted around some really beautiful and fit people; made me want to do more exercise than just lifting a pint glass to my mouth and clicking a remote. These are just some of the pics from this monster. There was circus s#it, a crazy dance floor, exotic dancers, and I almost made out with a cute ass photographer (Damn you whiskey lips!!!).

Peep the pics HERE.

Props to Shelly at CRUNCH for the pics and SKIMKIM for holding down the bar and the grub.
- KAGE

Another banger from the heads over at Children of Da Curb:

Children of Da Curb Presents….
The Official DJ Elle Album Release Party/Poppa Purp’s Bday Bash
Live Filming by Rockstar Society & Kareem Black

Sutra Lounge
16 First ave
between 1st and 2nd st
Door open @ 10
Drink specials all night.
LOTS of surprises
rsvp@childrenofdacurb.com

Rocknrolla!
- KAGE