Hope In Dirt City, by Cadence Weapon

Hope In Dirt City

by Cadence Weapon

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1.	Get On Down 01:59	info	buy track
2.	Conditioning 02:59		buy track
3.	Jukebox 02:52		buy track
4.	Cheval 02:27	info	buy track
5.	(You Can't Stop) The Machine (ft. Buck 65) 03:19		buy track
6.	No More Names (Aditi) 03:37	info	buy track
7.	Small Deaths 02:54		buy track
8.	Hype Man 03:55	info	buy track
9.	There We Go 05:28	info	buy track
10.	Crash Course For The Ravers 04:21		buy track
11.	Hope In Dirt City 04:24	info	buy track

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Hope In Dirt City was a major experiment for me. I spent years working on a production process where I would make beats, get them performed by a band with live instruments and then resample the results into something else. I wanted it to be ambiguous as to what was real and what was electronic. One half of the album is like that and the other half represents my time in Montreal's underground club scene, rapping over futuristic beats by people I met at 4 am at some afterparty.

This was my first album after becoming poet laureate of Edmonton so I wanted to get deeper with the lyricism. I wanted every song to have enough depth that it could survive scrutiny on the page. This album was shortlisted for the 2012 Polaris Prize.

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released May 29, 2012

Produced by Cadence Weapon and Michael Musmanno
except for track 1 by Doldrums, track 4 by Melee, track 6 by the Breezes, track 8 by Victor Bongiovanni and track 9 by LOL Boys
Written by Roland Pemberton
Engineered and recorded by Dean Marino, Jay Sadlowski and Michael Musmanno at Chemical Sound
Mixed by Ashton Price, Michael Musmanno and Roland Pemberton
Mastered by Phil Demetro at Lacquer Channel
Photography by Richmond Lam
Cover by Jody Zinner

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