Former Dan The Automator collaborators team with Master of Illusion #2 to form The Foreign Globester, a new collaborative album on DMaft Records, dropping June 1st. Press release reads as follows:

The Rondo Brothers have joined creative forces with Motion Man to launch The Foreign Globester on June 1st, 2010, their new album from DMAFT/Oglio Records, a Fontana (Universal) distributed label. The San Francisco based Rondo Brothers are Jim Greer and Brandon Arnovick, genre-bending producers, composers, remixers and multi-instrumentalists musicians known for their quirky independent releases as well as their collaborations and performances with artists such as Galactic, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Crudo (Mike Patton and Dan The Automator), Daryl Palumbo, Prince Paul, and many more.

The Rondo Brothers have toured extensively with project such as Head Automatica, Deltron 3030, Lovage, The Lovemakers, and Handsome Boy Modeling School. They are currently in a DJ residency at San Francisco’s Coda and will kick off the summer with a June 10th appearance at San Francisco’s The Independent. The Rondo Brothers have also enlisted the aid of the Topspin direct to consumer platform as a way to deliver exclusive material to fellow music lovers. Recent winners of the Yoko Ono Remix Contest, they will be launching a remix contest of their own to coincide with The Foreign Globester street date on June 1st, 2010.

Tracklist:
1) Quiet Room
2) Tumbling Down featuring Motion Man
3) Legend Has It featuring Krazy Glue
4) Bohemian Grove featuring K-Flay & MC Lars
5) You Got It. I Want It. featuring Madison & Motion Man
6) Foreign Globester featuring Motion Man
7) Roketship Flossin featuring Poach Stevens
8) Last Night Ruled featuring Motion Man
9) TipToe featuring Madison & Motion Man
10) Cult Leader featuring Beefy & MC Lars
11) Bigfoot featuring Poach Stevens
12) Bikini Body featuring Latrice Barnett & Motion Man

Motion’s solo effort is fun and entertaining, and with Kurt’s always lovely beats who has made a name for himself over the last few years producing for Dilated Peoples, Rasco, and of course Kool Keith. With the team-up of Kurt and Motion, this album pretty much picks up where Masters Of Illusion left off, but instead focuses solely on Motion, dissecting his strange persona. Motion makes the most of his beats with Kurt, with his trademarked wacky hooks that are somewhat a different species than Keith’s, though a part of the same genus. Listeners can’t help but sing-a-long to Motion’s awkward, kooky style on joints like “Clearing The Field”, “Straight Flowin’ On Em”, “Having A Moment”, and “Loose Cannons”, especially when Kurt’s choppy beats fuels it so well. Although at 23 tracks, from time to time the album does dip in to monotony, so Motion and Kurt pullout a few conceptual tracks to break it up a bit. Especially notable are throwback joints that salute both Tuff Crew (“C’Mon Ya’ll”) and the Bay’s own Too Short, (“Beotches”) where Kurt lays down a nice “dope fiend beat”.

While for the most part a solid album, one can’t help miss a tag-team partner for Motion to share mic-chores with, as we’ve been spoiled by his long-time affiliation with Kool Keith on both Masters Of Illusion and Dr. Doom projects. (Read: Motion is clearly Keith’s most talented emcee protege). Again, with the length of the album, it’s nice to hear Motion passing the mic between his guests, on collaborations with Planet Asia (” Face 2 Face”), Biz Markie (” Hold Up”) and Keith (“We Work Styles”) that come off incredibly naturally.

Motion Man may not pull as many of his sensei’s fanbase over to his side, but those that do will probably enjoy this album more than any of the recent releases from the spankmaster, thanks to the upgrade in quality beats. Sure, it’s not likely to become as legendary of a release as Sex Style or Dr. Octagon, but Motion Man’s debut is a nice solo entry for the emcee, at least one to hold us over until we are blessed with another Masters Of Illusion project.