#faith in the future vinyl leak

[alwaysxlarrie]

with the faith in the future vinyl ✨potentially✨ being available on amazon for preorder/presale right now, i’ve seen a few posts about it & wanted to take a quick second to make my own post to talk about some things to maybe keep in mind. i have a friend who works in pr in the music industry, so i’m considering asking her what she thinks it could be, but either way: i definitely don’t know anything that’s going on (especially behind the scenes lol) by any means. here are just some things that i think it might be good to consider, generally speaking:

1) i wouldn’t trust anything amazon says, personally speaking, especially without proof. i’d only trust statements directly coming from louis or his team. amazon is an incredibly unethical company and i feel bad for any potential backlash the customer service employees will receive for just doing what they’re told to do, if it ends up being not an approved leak.

2) just because louis has has leaked his own music before / is okay with leaking his own music, doesn’t mean he’s okay with other people leaking it. he could have absolutely no problem with it being leaked! but he also might. and i don’t think we should completely dismiss the idea that he wouldn’t necessarily care, just because he’s leaked his own music before.

3) this is a bit besides the point, but: if it’s an actual leak of the album tracks, there’s a track called chicago. as a chicagoan, i can’t wait to blast that shit.

& 4) i’ve seen posts saying that leaked albums can be good for promo and help give an indicator of how many people will actually order a presale / the album. i completely agree with both things! i don’t think either of those things should be used to justify an unapproved leak, but i do think that if there are any benefits to one, those would definitely be it.

ok that’s it. this wasn’t meant to be a malicious or “call out” post at all, so i hope no one takes it that way. everyone is entitled to their opinions and how they feel about leaks and whether or not they think it’s legit and all that. anyway, happy thursday! i hope everyone has or is having a wonderful day ☺️

[1dhq]

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#the way he’s convinced of his own bs feels like nobody around him is ever giving him some hard truths

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

"Faith In The Future also tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, proving the most-purchased record on wax this week, and is the week’s biggest album in independent record shops."

BOY

428 notes - Posted November 18, 2022

#4

for science, reblog this if you‘re a louie and post your age or age bracket in the tags

455 notes - Posted November 23, 2022

#3

fans (knowing all the lyrics) and harry (pretending there wasn’t a leak) on the 20th

514 notes - Posted May 2, 2022

#2

imagine telling him he releases the #1 album in the UK

569 notes - Posted November 18, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

this is the first time i’m seeing such an aggressive anti-leak approach in this fandom. the point that it harms the official release and - in this particular case - harry’s artistic integrity is just moot because a lot of us have been through this again and again. never has it harmed release day. quite the opposite, oftentimes it has been encouraged or joked about by harry/1d. and every release has been a huge success in its own right. it’s almost expected at this point. so i would absolutely encourage new fans to learn about fandom history (which is me putting it in the nicest way possible) instead of attacking people who have been here for 7+ years

732 notes - Posted April 20, 2022

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[builtyouahousefromabrokenhome]

Did anybody else even see the insta story from Louis yesterday? I don't see it on any update accounts 😳

Was it online for just a minute, right when I happened to check instagram???

And why did I not screenshot it 😭

It was just "Faith in the future" in red, bold text on a black background

And then amaz*n leaks the vinyl preorder info 👀

[airadam]

Episode 117 : Rockin' Steady

"...and though the flag been tattered and beaten..."

- General Steele

The short month of the year puts a little pressure on the recording schedule, but the show is here on time for you as always. Once again, we feature the sounds of J Dilla, Big Pun, and Big L, alongside plenty of other great stuff - and we keep the same speed going all the way through the mix!

Shows coming up;

Sadat X & El Da Sensei @ Joshua Brooks, March 20th

GZA @ Gorilla, Manchester, April 9th

Twitter : @airadam13

Playlist/Notes

EPMD ft. KRS-ONE : Run It

We start the episode with an all-NYC, all-uppercase collaboration from the "We Mean Business" LP, the seventh in EPMD's industrially-titled discography. A nod to LL on the hook, stick-up business over an Erick Sermon beat (of course), with KRS playing clean-up man flawlessly. Favourite part of the verse - real 'G's do indeed want to stay at home and read the paper.

Jay Dee : Another Batch - 11

One of a bunch of late-90s Dilla beats that got leaked onto the internet back in the day, this one smacks along with a bassline that comes through like a funky duck! I don't know if anyone ever rhymed on this, but I can imagine someone like De La doing great things with it.

Chuck D ft. Jahi : BOT

I don't know if it was intentional, but this track seems to call back to two tracks from the legendary "...Nation of Millions..." album; "She Watch Channel Zero?" ("she looking at the screen more than talking to me") and also "Night of the Living Baseheads" ("battery on low, look like fiends with a Jones"). Chuck D might have been one of the very first in Hip-Hop to catch onto the Internet, but the elder statesman sees the BS it's brought us as well! He combines here with the lead MC in the group known as "PE 2.0" to get it all off his chest, and he's got plenty more to say on the new "Celebration Of Ignorance" album.

Black Thought : 9th vs. Thought

No-one can accuse Black Thought of not being a team player, with it taking until 2018 before we saw a solo release from him, the "Streams of Thought Vol.1" EP. 9th Wonder was the producer for the project, and on this track he gets headline billing. Fans of top-flight lyricism are in for a treat here, as the MC of choice for many MCs shows his skill level in a major way.

Boot Camp Clik : World Wide

Serious track from the Brooklyn stalwarts, uniting on 2006's "The Last Stand". I absolutely love General Steele's opening verse, from which this month's epigram is taken, and then it's followed with the late, great Sean P just thugging it all the way out on the second verse! They go out of the immediate crew for production, tapping up Large Professor for a head-nodding beat that easily could have made for a fire single. Not the best-known tune maybe, but a tune that is big by nature!

Big L : Don't Front (Freestyle)

Short and powerful like a shot of rum, this is a concise taste of Big L's legendary freestyle aggression over a smooth 90s beat from Diamond's "You Can't Front". 

Slum Village : Go Ladies (Instrumental)

One of my favourite Dilla beats easily, as heard on the "Fantastic, Vol.2" album, flipping a well-known 80s soul sample and somehow making it even better than you could have imagined. It's only when you listen back to what else was coming out around that time you can hear how much of a shock to the system a laid-back groove like this was.

Donnie : Cloud 9 (Spinna Mix)

If you enjoy soulful music, Donnie's 2002 debut "The Colored Section" should definitely be in your collection. "Cloud 9" was one of the standouts, and DJ Spinna puts some extra bump into it on this remix, which is on a nice 12" release. His bass style is so distinctive, and with so much of the beat being in the lower frequency range, it leaves plenty of room for Donnie's masterful vocals!

Foreign Exchange : Hustle, Hustle

There are plenty of great tracks on "Connected", the debut Foreign Exchange album, and I was sure I'd already played this - glad to find out I hadn't, as it was the perfect fit for this slot! Nicolay's beat is smooth on that kind of early-2000s, neo-soulish vibe, and then you have lyrical treats coming from every angle. Quartermaine and C.A.L.I.B.E.R spit bars about trying to get ahead in the world, and Phonte comes in beautifully on the hook, in a fairly early demonstration of his singing talent. I don't blame you if you find yourself humming this one on the way to work.

Kev Brown : Hold Fast

One of the great bassline masters in Hip-Hop, Kev Brown certainly put Landover (MD) on the map with his top-quality "I Do What I Do" album. He's just as solid on the mic, and takes the reins alone on this track from the second half of the LP. Scratches are credited to DJ PMD, who is not Parrish Smith, but in fact Peter Rosenberg (who hails from the same area) under his original DJ name!

Jermaine Dupri ft. Snoop Dogg, Warren G, and R.O.C : Protectors of 1472

Unless there's some other, non-publicised significance to the number 1472, the "Life In 1472" album has one of the most contrived titles of all time! I don't actually have the album, but this DJ Premier-produced cut is on a compilation of his rarer/lesser-known cuts. I cut this one fairly short, as I think you get the best of it in a compact dose - the last verse is by far the longest, but Snoop towards the front is the clear headliner.

J Dilla : Won't Do (Instrumental)

Classic Dilla from towards the end, based around the "Footsteps In The Dark" drums, with fragments of the vocal yelling out for help along the way. The vocal version is on "The Shining" LP, but for this instrumental, you may need to pick up the 7" boxset of the album (or the MP3 version), which contains instrumentals for every track!

Sadat X ft. Timmy Hunter : Neva

The three-bar loop makes mixing a bit tricky, but I really wanted to play this one! Sadat looks back over his life and career, and celebrates his own effort and self-belief - justifiably so. Diamond D provides the beat, as he does all the way through the "Sum Of A Man" album. It's been a long road since that first LP with Brand Nubian, but Sadat is still travelling it, and for that we should be thankful :)

Dabrye ft. Jay Dee and Phat Kat : Game Over

That beat will definitely do things on a big sound system. Sparse, menacing, insistent. Ann Arbor's Dabrye takes no prisoners on the production, and then pulls in his fellow Michiganders Jay Dee and Phat Kat, who just spit raw Detroit flames in the space the beat leaves! The 2006 "Two/Three" album is one for anyone who likes the more angular, awkward, and aggressive style of production.

Clear Soul Forces : Continue?

I've been saving the combination of this and "Game Over" for ages :) CSF's 2013 "Gold PP7s" is an essential album for anyone who thinks they don't make MCs like they used to - it should give you faith for the future! I can't even keep up with all the gaming, comic, and anime references that they just firehose you with, but the spirit is undeniable. Ilajide's videogame-styled beat bumps hard, and overall this is just one of those tracks I can't see any reason for anyone not to love!

C2C ft. Tigerstyle, Netik, Rafik, Vajra, Kentaro : Le Banquet

Here we have an all-star lineup of scratch DJs, liquefying their crossfaders one after another as the featured instrumentalists on this track from the "Tetra" album. If you listen closely, there are actually some quotes from "Game Over" in the mix - they sound like vocoded re-records, but they could well be heavily-manipulated samples...

J Dilla : Dillatronic 09

One more Dilla instrumental as we come towards the end, this time taken from the "Dillatronic" collection of beats, a posthumous collection of 41 pieces - many very short - from the MPC of the man himself.

Noreaga ft. Nature, Big Pun, Cam'ron, Jadakiss, and Styles P : Banned From TV

Late 90s thug styles, and the kind of triumphant sound that either had to start or finish the episode. Nature was the original guest on here, but while almost everyone else was invited on, Big Pun bullied his way onto the track! While everybody comes off, the true gems on this tune are towards the front - Nature's memorable opening line, and Pun's devastating verse. The Swizz Beatz production is a perfect snapshot of the keyboard-based beats of the era - the "horns" should be corny, but somehow they work in context, and the kick/basstone combo bangs! Classic Berra-ism from Nore on the last verse too - if it's with tomato juice, then it can't be Hennessy straight...

Please remember to support the artists you like! The purpose of putting the podcast out and providing the full tracklist is to try and give some light, so do use the songs on each episode as a starting point to search out more material. If you have Spotify in your country it's a great way to explore, but otherwise there's always Youtube and the like. Seeing your favourite artists live is the best way to put money in their pockets, and buy the vinyl/CDs/downloads of the stuff you like the most!

Check out this episode!

[americanfrolic]

We hitched up from Maggie Valley and caravanned with Mikey and Rita from The Wall of Death.  We decided to get to a Harvest Host spot in Georgia that was halfway.  It hadn't stopped raining for about a week so we just all piled into the Frolic where I made everyone dinner and we drank and played cards games.  I hadn't laughed so hard in a long time playing cards against humanity with the gang while the rain came down.  

The next day we made it Birmingham, Alabama.  We all needed to be here for the Barbers vintage Motorcycle fest and swap meet.  The Wall was set up for a couple days of shows and we were gonna set up shop for a couple months and try and get some work.  

We have always loved Birmingham and would frequently come down from Chicago to visit our friends.  We wanted to see if this was a place we would one day like to call home.  We had talked to our friends and they had all been looking for jobs for us traveling folks. Our friends Daniel and Allison had offered us a primo spot in their backyard for our time in Birmingham.

We got in with a week to get set up before Barbers started.  I got work straight away with Jrag printing where our friends worked.  I would be working in the screen printing department and instantly loved the job.  Everyone was amazing, we listened to great music all day and I was learning more about a job as a printer I had always been interested in.  The day I started work though was a bit tough for me.  I got a message very early that my dad had just had a stroke and he was in the hospital.  I knew just the facts and frantically called around to find out what was going on.  My parents and me a very close so news like this hit me hard.  My first reaction is to go home and be with my family but when you travel full time you have to assess the situation before you make huge plans.  I decided to go to work hoping it would distract me a little.  At this point, I and Jerimiah shared a pay as you go phone so I took the phone in case my mom was to call.  Jerimiah hit the streets liking for work at local bars and restaurants.  

As the week went on I talked to my family daily and was keeping track of my dad's progress.  It had been a couple small strokes and he was recovering well.  My parents told me as much as they would love me home it wasn't really necessary and I needed to stay and work in Birmingham.  I wasn't feeling very festive when the weekend came for Barbers but we were surrounded by friends and friends who are like family so it made the weekend the silver lining on a dark cloud.  

Jerimiah had offered his help assembling the Wall of Death again in exchange for some Barbers tickets so he was hard at work for that weekend.  

After the weekend passed, we settled into our new normal life.  Working a 40 hour week was a bit of a change.  Any chance to earn money is so exciting for me, I look forward to going in everyday however it did take me a second to get used the 9-5 life again.  

Jerimiah had been Interviewing like crazy and he was getting no frustrated nothing has panned out yet when Corey from jrag offered him a position with the vinyl wrapping department.  He could learn and new skill and work 40 hours like me it was perfect and like clockwork as soon as he accepted every bar and restaurant called and offered him a job.  Funny how things work out.

It's so hard to put into words how amazing our time in Birmingham was.  We felt we had really had found a place we could call home.  We would even look at Craigslist to see what the cost of living would be.  We have an amazing group of friends here in Alabama and everyone made us feel so loved.  Every week there was a dinner party, a show to see or a bone fire to sit and drink by.  Time was flying by.  In November while exploring the city with our friends we met the soon to be love of our lives.  Sitting on the floor of Faith skate shop laid the sweetest, calmest pup we ha ever met.  We found out he was up for adoption and Crys and Peter the skate shop were fostering him.  Crys saw how we looked at him with love in our eyes and she suggested we take him for a trial period and see if we fit together.  Jerimiah looked me as to say 'can we?' I needed to think about it for a minute.  Where would he sleep, how would we afford a dog with no steady work? How would we travel with a puppy? As we laid awake the next night we both obsessed about Hank.  Would he like us? Would he cuddle with us? This is a big decision but when you are living on other peoples property it's even bigger.  We have to think about more than just us and what we want.  We talked to Allison and Daniel knowing full aware they could be uncomfortable with bringing a puppy into the mix.  They already have two lovely dogs and well it's their house.  They were amazingly supportive of us adopting Hank and welcomed him into the mix. Our trial was a joke as soon as we got him home we knew he was never leaving.  

Life was good.  My da was getting better day by day, we had a new puppy, jobs a place to live and great groups of people around us.  

The Holidays were approaching and the southern winters were like a Chicago spring.  We were lucky enough to have some family in the area for Thanksgiving.  A touch of home was really what we needed.  We had been on the road about 6 months and had no plans of going back anytime soon so being able to see family is such a sweet gift.

We were working 40 hours a week but we were not saving as much as we wanted.  The holidays took a chunk.  I flew home to see my family, after my dad's stroke it wasn't even an option to not go home.  Then Hank needed stitches after day of serious playing, the van needed some work.  We had planned to leave after the New Year but that wasn't looking like it may be tough.  Again when people offer you a home, and a job you have to consider them before you make a giant decision.  Would Daniel and Allison be fine if we stayed another month or two? Would we have work?

Everyone welcomed us to stay and asked us to never leave we were overjoyed.  We were able to do some major exploring with our friends around Alabama and actually save what we needed.  

We made a final date of our departure.  At the end of February that was it, we had to leave Birmingham.  We had so much left to see, so many more states to explore before we could pick the place to be our home.  The weeks before we left were bittersweet.  We moved the camper from our friend's yard to the Haints Motorcycle shop.  We have the Frolic and the van a well-deserved makeover.  We were beyond thrilled with the outcome of this makeover too, if you follow us on Instagram you may have seen the changes.  The van got an amazing vinyl wrap courtesy of jrag.  We used the Gorgeous George graphic and our friend Nick added his artist touches making it an all over van graphic.  The Frolic for a full makeover from our friend Brian.  He is an incredible painter and had the whole camper painted in a short amount of time.  We caulked all the holes where water was leaking and even made little vinyl graphic replicating the 1970's Frolic logo.  

The Haints had offered us a going away party at the end of the month at their new shop which would be a great send off for our exploration to the West.  

When we left that morning at the end of April our hearts were heavy.  How can one be so excited for the future but sad to leave the present?

The west was calling our names so we loaded up our road dawg and headed towards Mississippi to see what the frontier had to offer.  

This post would be nothing if I didn't thank everyone who helped us.  Daniel and Allison, we owe you so much for welcoming us to your home, we love you both so much.  your

Nick, Laci, Jazmine, Dick, Seth thank you all for taking a chance on two hill jacks in a trailer.  Brian my friend every rain storm we thank you for the amazing job you did to keep the Frolic dry and pretty.