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One Night Only: Portishead, MF Doom, Company Flow

Pizzo — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:30:02 +0000

Portishead announced a series of shows set for July on the weekend of 23rd and 24th at Alexandra Palace in London. Portishead will headline both nights, with a different supporting line-up joining them each day. The Saturday show will also include peformances from MF Doom and a reunited Company Flow. The sunday show will be Portishead, along with Swans, Beach House, Anika, Liars, and The Passion of Joan of Arc. Tickets will cost £59 per day with weekend tickets priced at £100. At this point these are the only UK shows Portishead plan to play in 2011, and you can get early bird tickets at reduced prices here.

Def Jux Offers Free Sampler On AmazonMP3

Pizzo — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:55:48 +0000

You gotta love the balloons. Definitive Jux celebrates the 4th of July (or not) by teaming up with AmazonMP3 for a free sampler album, featuring new and classic tracks from Cage, El-P, Aesop Rock, Mr. Lif, Chin Chin, Company Flow, Del, Rob Sonic, Hangar 18, Dizzee Rascal, and Murs. Cop that shit. – DJ Pizzo

Company Flow / Cannibal Ox – DPA EP

Oliver Wang — Fri, 01 Jan 1999 07:00:00 +0000

After a year-plus break, Company Flow (minus Bigg Jus) return to scene with El-P’s trademark aggro-electro steelo. Ill Bill joins El-P on the obtuse, fun crushin’ “Simian D aka Feeling Ignorant” while “Simple” is anything but as Co Flow gives your noggin a hard knock with the lyrics that lets the beat damage it further. No less provocative, though a tad more accessible is Cannibal Ox, led by Vast Aire and Vordul, who tap El-P for the beats but provide all the ill lyrical themselves.

If Cannibal Ox reminds people of Company Flow – the same, super-scientifical lyrical excursions, the same fuzzed out, electro-altered beats – it’s not a huge surprise. El-P produces the Ox pair of Vast and Vordul and they jump off from the Co Flow aesthetic with pleasing results. “Iron Galaxy” pumps one of the nicer El-P tracks I’ve heard in a while, a contrast between beatific organs and a dirty guitar riff that burns through. Vocally, the CO got some sh*t to say: “everyone knows the city’s ill/cats kill/still black man holds nine/gotta chill.” It’s a twisted, complex lyricism, seeded with metaphors and similes that take a while to grow to fruition but repeated rewinds help immensely. “Straight Off The D.I.C.” kicks a similar vibe – steady dropping drums anchoring a track that’s too weird to describe adequately – and, the Ox stomp in with a futuristic rhyme scheme that pops and locks like machinery. This isn’t exactly for the jiggy, iced out crowd and it might even be a little to the left of your back-to-the-roots underground heads but for those searching for that next level sh*t, this might be it. Oddly, El-P slides the Ox better beats than he does for Co Flow’s own joints on this double 12″, either way, it’s good to hear all these cats back in the mix.