The Mayor of Gurp City wrote a great post about the history and significance of this here tape on www.gurpcity.net. Ill just say it is highly entertaining, classic San Francisco, and a vital link to the origins of one of our true hometown heroes, Z-Man. Download it here.

Luke Sick of Grand Invincible and Sacred Hoop fame laid down a verse on another grimey Conceit Strange beat, Gurp City shit don’t sleep.

Off of Topr’s album “The Marathon of Shame” available on iTunes

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From the Z-Man release party at the Elbo Room. Props to EmDub. The guy has been busy with his video camera in the bay. I missed this show because I was doing a show in Merced, bummed that I missed it but it looks like it was a great time. Z-Mainey!

A lot of fresh ideas are beginning to come to fruition around here this week. Megakut Records set up their webstore at www.megakutrecords.blogspot.com, featuring a lot of great DIY releases including tapes, vinyl, and comic books. Great stuff and much more to come. Check out their first release.

Megakut Tape Series #1 (collect the whole series!)

“The label’s premiere release! Fueled by narcotic energy and what Oakland Beatmaster Fatees himself has dubbed “Bay”-ami Bass, a megamixx of heavy bottom-droppers and furious skratch turntable work by the best in the business, DJ Quest, a longtime resident of San Francisco’s Mission District. Pop to it, lock to it, strut to it, bump it in your mini-truck, or just wild out and get on one with it. It’s Yours!”
- Megakut

Lo-Fi is the word for 2010, rock ethics.

“Z-Man’s recently released Show Up, Shut Up and Rap EP blends earnest urban tales with stories of meddling, disconnected A&R windbags. Between a busy schedule of recording, drawing, art shows and performances; Z-Man was kind enough to call me up and shoot the breeze for a bit…”
Click here to read the entire interview.