The Red Ants - Omega Point CD £6.99 incl P&P

Red Ants 2005 debut Phobos Deimos burnt up Canadian college radio charts, received critical acclaim internationally and led to successful tours of the U.S. and Europe. URB magazine described it as “ten tracks of angry, fist-pumping anthems of urban rebellion set in a dark, desolate present with promise for an even bleaker future" and gave it four out of five stars. Now with Red Ant’s second album on the horizon, Omega Point, Modulok and Vincent Price continue to seize and conquer the decadent resort towns of a dying music industry choking on its own vomit. Red Ants remains the banging antithesis to the glitter rappers and pop-thugs, like a soviet coal plant run by the ghosts of dead Bolsheviks continuing to churn out grimy rap realness that blackens the sky and frightens the peasants. While fabricated major label emcees and their clones sell played-out fantasies and rap like they got down syndrome, Red Ants and their growing legion of comrades come with some real shit more likely to inspire you to throw a brick than buy a car.

It’s the perfect hip-hop soundtrack as the world comes crumbling down around you. (urbnet)

"Vincent Price's pounding tracks set the tone for what the Red Ants are all about, with their relentless drums and creepy sound effects weaved throughout" (herohill.com)

"Omega Point" is meaner, scarier, and creepier than your typical hip hop album. While other rappers are trying to be gangsta, Modulok and Vincent Price are satisfied with being evil." (rapreviews.com)

Bare Smoke Presents : Bare Records 'What the Fuk' (Free Album Download)

‘Bare Smoke’ are back, with a little present for you all. Since their collaboration on Smokey’s highly acclaimed debut album, ‘Words from the Missing’, the duo have been working hard to put together a selection of dark tracks, highly influenced by bass heavy Jazz, dark side Drum ‘n’ Bass and various atmospheric film scores. Flipping it up a bit yet staying true to their unique rough & rugged hip hop sound with a bitter twist, the pair have put together a compilation of head jamming tracks with more than a nod to their customary deep bass lines, hectic sythns and choice samples download here 320kbs MP3 57.56mb .

01. Intro (The Hill) - General Knowledge, Smokey & Perry Scaramanga
>> Produced By Bare Beats
02. World Is Mine - Smokey
>> Produced By Smokey
03. What The Fuk - Smokey & Perry Scaramanga
>> Produced By Bare Smoke
04. What The Skit 1 - Bobby Drake
>> Produced By Smokey
05. People - Modulok & Bare Beats Ft, Jabba Tha Kut
>> Produced By Bare Beats
06. Banger - The Phobia
>> Produced By Smokey
07. Perpetual Spacewalk - Smokey
>> Produced By Bare Smoke
08. What The Skit 2
>> Produced By Bare Beats
09. Choke Nâ?? Rob - Modulok
>> Produced By Bare Smoke
10. Outro (Slinging Bars)- Perry Scaramanga
>> Produced By Bare Smoke

Various - What The Fuk " Review taken from Urbnet


British label Bare Records releases this compilation of tracks produced by in-house production team Bare Smoke to showcase the artists they are currently working with and promote the albums they have coming up. Bare and Smoke combine to create a dark, minimal production sound suitable as a soundtrack to any old horror flick. They work great for the British emcees that appear, especially for Smokey and Perry Scaramanga, but the mellow beats backing Canadian rapper Modulok knock some of the wind out of his usually aggressive verbal assault. Still, new Modulok is better than no Modulok, and lyrically both “People” and “Rob & Choke” are definitely proper, but he's just not snapping necks like he's supposed to. While the album could have been better sequenced, like positioning “What the Fuck Skit 2” as the intro instead of the song (however it good it is) that actually starts the album, What the Fuk is a good selection of tight tracks. Bare Records will be a label to watch for as 2008 unfolds. [Thomas Quinlan]

Smokey 'Words from the Missing' (buy here)

Medicine Man : Listen
My Blood Boils : Listen
Life Hidden :
Just Add Water : Listen
Grittysides : Listen
Eastend Bastard : Listen
Price of Ice :
Logs & Grimes :
Kick Back : Listen
Outro (live fast) : Listen

"'Words...' flicks smoldering underclass storytelling ash across those canvasses, and trumps plenty established emcee's in the process"
by Adam Anonymous (HHC)

Last year east Londoner Smokey aka Benny Grim released the 'Road Zombies' single and marked the start of a very promising career. Now he's back with 'Words...' Lyrics range from narrative to straight up battled rhyme's as this troubled soul gets it off his chest"
by Mike Lewis (HHC)

"A consistent album with dark guitars and strings over hard dusty drums blessed with sinister story telling and battle rhymes from Smokey."
By pfoundmusic

" Words From the Missing is a quality debut that will hopefully acquire a bit of exposure on this side of the ocean."
By Exclaim