QN5 Music is proud to announce the release of Tonedeff’s second installment of 4 stylistically unique EP’s that will be combined to form his forthcoming album, Polymer.

EP #2, entitled Demon, deals with the pressures and side-effects of anxiety, mortality and time-management over self-produced mid-tempo bounce tracks. Demon tackles an overwhelmed life a dazzling variety of tempos, flows genre-nods, such as the endurance-challenging title-track “Demon” in which Tonedeff attacks every 16th note for nearly 2 minutes straight in 6/8-time, tipping his hat at the trappings of modern Trap on “Use Me” and most notably, fans of Tonedeff’s infamous triple-time flow will be delighted as Demon contains the long-awaited recorded version of “Crispy” where he essentially puts Fast Rap in a body-bag for everyone’s benefit.

“I knew I was eventually going to have to give the fans an entire collection of fast raps, but I wanted to apply that stylistic approach to my aesthetic and life-experience to make it have a point,” Tonedeff says of the new release. “Time is my worst enemy, and I’m constantly locked in an epic battle with it to achieve all the things I want to do in this life, before it gets to me first. This record is a testament to that.”

Once again, the symbol-rich artwork for Demon was created by Eisner Award Winning illustrator Becky Cloonan, who will be illustrating the covers for entire Polymer series of EPs. All songs were written and produced by the multi-talented artist with additional vocals on “Demon” handled by Danish singer-songwriter, FJER. Demon is available digitally right now at Tonedeff.com in conjunction with pre-order packages for the final physically collected version of Polymer.

For those of you who’ve been out of the loop, Tonedeff has announced several new projects, including an all-sung album under the name Peter Anthony Red.

With that, he brings you the release of The Projectionist – a sweeping conceptual FREE DOWNLOADABLE EP which follows a short, yet powerful narrative of a forgotten man working through the emotional roller coaster of a breakdown and subsequent search for personal reinvention.

Did we mention this was FREE? Our good friends at QUINTIC have opted to make The Projectionist a 100% FREE download (or pay what you feel to support). They only ask that you share the album with all of your friends and talk it up if you enjoy it.

New video from DJ JS-1′s highly anticipated album, No One Cares. DJ JS-1′s No One Cares will be available for purchase on June 21st via Fat Beats Distribution.

The label with no rich relatives, QN5 Music, released this tantalizing image today, stating QK10, announcing a list of projected releases scheduled for release this year. No dates have been attached, but the list reads like this:

PackFM & Domingo – I F*cking Hate Rappers
Substantial – Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood
Tonedeff & Kno – Chico And The Man
Mr. SOS – Cassette Verite
QN5 Music – Asterisk:Five
Kokayi – Robots & Dinosaurs
Kno – Death Is Silent
Deacon The Villain & Sheisty Khrist – Niggaz with Latitude
CunninLynguists – Oneirology
Tonedeff – Deffinitions Vol. 2

Nice title Deacon and Sheisty. But are you guys trying to start a beef with the Brothers With Longitude?

     The title track lets you know that “change is good” and overdue, as Tone takes on the status quo and even those against the norm, “for every rapper constantly bitching, I made the record it’s honestly different.” The backward forward production sample becomes entrancing and enhances the tale of originality’s importance. The Elite produced “Issawn” is crazy chaotic, overflowing with rowdiness guaranteed to get everyone mean mugging and moshing. Tone masterfully rides the beat and incites a riot with the “tear this bitch down, tear the bitch down right now” chant. On “Pervert”, he makes his “panty smelling” fetish public knowledge and transforms it into a cleverly, comedic rampage. He gives you warning after warning, as the openly honest track bounces along with E-L’s production. “Quotables” is more than just an obligatory posse cut, Tone gathers up some of his illest friends: Substantial, Wordsworth, PackFM, Session, Supastition and Rise, in a battle royal of punchlines that will leave your head spinning

    There are some downsides to the album though. “Let’s Go” is a high energy track where Tone gets you moving, but the production’s drums are too reminiscent of Destiny’s Child “Lose My Breath.” It becomes distracting trying to listen to the lyrics when you’re expecting “can you keep up” to come in at any second. Production once again plays the part in taking away from the words, on “Porcelain.” The piano becomes overpowering and prevents you from focusing on the melancholy romance tale he’s delivering. There are other times on the album, where synthesizers should have been left out (“Masochist”) and where his harmonies becomes sounding too similar to his singing on previous tracks.

    There’s no denying that Tonedeff is one of the most creative people in hip-hop, pushing musical boundaries so far that he’s too open-minded to be in either underground or commercial categories. He takes chances, his intelligence shines through his lyricism and is taken to even higher levels with his delivery. Will this become “the new hip-hop?”  Only time will tell, but this is a great step in the direction of making the music mean something again. Hopefully, Archetype will encourage others to pour their time, mind and soul into their releases and not just concentrate on fitting in, getting rich, and making club bangers.