The hip-hop crew known as Counterfeit
Money Machine have released their new LP “Desperate Measures.”
The album contains 12 original tracks for an approximate total
listening time of 40 minutes. It has been published on the
Grasshopper Juice Records independent music label without the
influence or financial support of the corporate music industry.
Funky, full of lyrical gymnastics and even socially conscientious,
“Desperate Measures” by Counterfeit Money Machine is a hip-hop
album that belongs in every rap lover's play list.
Counterfeit Money Machine are typically
billed as an alternative hip-hop group. They have cited as artistic
influences Run The Jewels, the Mars Volta, and Anticon. Similarities
to artists like Atmosphere, P.O.S., Toki Wright, Aesop Rock, and
Busdriver can also be drawn. Fans of these progressive hip-hop
favorites are likely to be enthusiastic about “Desperate Measures”
for its wide stylistic variation and colorful sonic creativity.
Solid, bass-driven back beats, inventive use of samples and catchy
melody lines work together to make Counterfeit Money Machine's latest
LP their greatest album to date.
Fans of lyric geniuses such as Tupac
Shakur, Eminem, and Kendrick Lamar also have much to look forward to
in this most recent CMM release. The album is chock-full of social
commentary, all of it well-informed, well-intended and amusingly
satirical. Hip-hop listeners looking for another bling-polishing gang
endorsement disguised as art will need to look elsewhere.
Counterfeit Money Machine are based in
the Cincinnati area's thriving hip-hop underground. They are brothers
Andrew (AP) and Bill Doench (Kill Bill), and beat composer DJ Juan
Cosby (AKA Cincinnati Entertainment Award-winning artist Nick “Chick
Pimp” Mitchell). In addition to the considerable talents of CMM,
“Desperate Measures” also features appearances by popular rappers
MC Longshot and Rick Chyme.
Counterfeit Money Machine have
performed with renowned progressive-rap artists like Sage Francis,
Sole, Busdriver, Milo, Clipping, F. Virtue, MegaRan, and others. 2015
alone saw them performing at such festivals as Three-Points in
Louisville, KY, and Adjust Your Eyes and Midpoint Music Festival in
their hometown of Cincinnati, OH. In addition to frequent shows in
Cincinnati, they regularly appear in Brooklyn, NY, Nashville, TN,
South Bend, IN, Newport, KY, and have played their vivid,
Beastie-esque live act in Grand Rapids, MI, Lexington, KY,
Clarksville, TN, and Philadelphia, PA, with many more locations to
come.
“Desperate Measures” by Counterfeit
Money Machine is available online worldwide beginning 6 November
2015. Get in early, hip hop fans. Very early.
-S. McCauley
Lead Press Release Writer
www.MondoTunes.com
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