amazing record amazing artist

$20 for the zine

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Def Jux Dijon?!

fantastic damage is incredible that inspiration makes so much sense.

that pitchfork cover story is excellent, and i'm shocked no one posted about this bit. this sounds insane

At some point, he, his close friend Mk.gee, Andrew Sarlo, and the Detroit producer Black Noi$e convened to make a record. This was before he and Sarlo had formalized the thesis behind Baby’s songs, but the quartet was inching toward it. There would be “drum stems from a jam a year before that Andrew pulls up on Pro Tools, and Black Noi$e puts in a 404 that he just had—it’s pitched up to s***, it’s got artifacts of somebody else playing the keys in it, and it’s just this new rhythm that’s completely maligned and b******ized. But it’s all source material from our own archives.” It sounded, Dijon says repeatedly, like the future.

There was one problem: He couldn’t write lyrics for it. At first, he thought that he just needed to figure out a new way to write for this new kind of music. A year went by. Nothing. From the outside, this appeared at first like a normal bump in the road. Black Noi$e, zen-like, said it was simply “like watching a piece of the human experience.” Eventually, though, Dijon encouraged Mk.gee to take the instrumentals and use them for an album of his own. What am I gonna do with it? his friend said. You were supposed to write these songs. So it was out of sheer necessity that the palette for Baby became discarded songs. The writer’s block didn’t end, it just gave Dijon constraints within which he could work.

Dijon gets crowned Artist of the Year by Pitchfork and the same day a bunch of tweets come out the woodwork calling the album mid

Niggas are miserable

Best album of the century

I love the chaos of Baby, but being able to transfer that to a stage and do it BETTER live is just unreal

the album has a lot of fillers but the songs that stand out are sonically impressive

same thing with mkgee

people rave about it because there's basically no one doing anything remotely interesting right now in the music industry

dijon and mkgee have a lot of potential. i'd like to hear them drop a project with no skips (e.g. channel orange/blonde)

There is 0 filler on this album lol. Even that idea is outrageous

He just did, it’s called Baby

Genuinely cannot fathom any one of those songs being considered a skip

Dijon & Eminem collab would be insane

Between the p4k article and the Zane Lowe interview, you get quite the sense of his personality. I’ve been a fan since 2013 and it’s always kinda been there but he seems like a very prickly, intelligent and hard headed guy. I like it a lot and think we need more people like him

he's extremely opinionated and that's a good thing. I like an artist that's a critic too. I can tell he doesn't like a lot of things lol

whats the skip on two star and the dream police?

Some new speeds lol

He’s just like me fr

people rave about it because there's basically no one doing anything remotely interesting right now in the music industry

this take is so pretentious and birdbrained

everything except candy, are you looking up, little bit more, dream police, how many miles, you got it

not more birdbrained than ad hominem attacks

idc it's stupid and pretentious

Speaking of that

Not totally confirmed that it’s him though

ah yeah you got it

@kiddash3r glad to see you also a dijon fan