Ceremony LP

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Mexicans With Guns –
‘Ceremony’
Label: Innovative Leisure
Release Dat e: 5/10
Track Listing:
1. Opening Incantation
2. Jaguar
3. Restart ft. Sasha Perera
4. Fields
5. Deities
6. Highway to Hell ft. Freddie Gibbs
7. Mirage
8. Me Gusto ft. Chico Mann
9. Corazon ft. Zackey Force Funk
10. El Sol y La Luna
11. Got Me Fucked Up ft. Nocando
12. Dame Lo
13. Death and Rebirth
14. El Moreno ft. Helado Negro
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Mexicans With Guns is back in the club, and he's not here to sell you roses.
The bass luchadore sometimes known as Ernest Gonzales conjures mystic
bass-bin beats for his debut Ceremony LP due May 10th on Innovative
Leisure.It'ps his second proper release on the Highland Park set following
2010's out-ofprint Me Gusto EP for which notably The FADER & LA Times
spilled ink. Those familiar with the masked man's previous efforts won't be
surprised by his gritty, sleep-with-one-eye-open basslines and atmospheric
swelter, but they may find themselves entranced as they diffuse over the space of
14 original tracks. Gonzales crafted the distinct sound of Mexicans With Guns
as an outlet for exploring traditional Hispanic folk music as an electronic artist
in the present; on Ceremony he effortlessly transposes the spiritual tradition of
the past onto the rattling dance halls of today.
The San Antonio, TX native cut his teeth producing remixes for Freddie Gibbs,
Rainbow Arabia, CYNE, Faunts & Yppah and honing his live show
headlining Low End Theory as well as on bills with Peanut Butter Wolf,
Daedelus, Eliot Lipp, Mux Mool & Jogger. In addition to Me Gusto, he's
released a split EP with Robot Koch, last year's Friends of Friends Vol 3.
With Ceremony, MwG shows the chops he's primed producing for others and
also those he's sharpened playing for a room. He's invited a bevy of MCs &
vocals for his coming-out LP including Freddie Gibbs, Helado Negro, Chico
Mann, Nocando, Zacky Force Funk & Sasha Perera of Jahcoozi.
The "Opening Incantation" of no hay espacio, no hay tiempo cedes to "Jaguar"
an early standout, its shoulder-slinking, mid-tempo grind stalking along a
fierce low end. Freddie Gibbs picks up the mic on "Highway To Hell" and the
brash Gary, IN rapper proves he wouldn't lose an ounce of his hustle south of
the border. Staying decidedly dark is "Dame Lo,” with The FADER calling its
video "the sickest we've seen in a minute." "Me Gusto" lightens the mood a
stitch, with Antibalas' Chico Mann's swaying melody improbably fusing a
track filled with 8-bit, lazer & nods to 80's funk. Finally, MwG dips into
drones and loops, helping Savath y Savalas cohort Helado Negro, feel right at
home on the disembodied "El Moreno."
There is a sense that while Ceremony has finished, something larger has
commenced... keep attuned to Mexicans With Guns in 2011 as he preps a 7"
featuring Texas rap legend Bun B (joining Freddie Gibbs on an alternate to
"Highway to Hell"), collaborates with Mexican raverton originator Toy
Selectah as Gun Selectah, and tours behind a mask & altar.
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