About “Mr. Proteus”
With an abundance of lo-fi singles and videos under his belt, Proteus should need no introduction, but that’s what you’re getting anyway for the first single from his upcoming album, Hey Motherfucker, with frequent collaborator Black Art Ninja on production. “Mr. Proteus” reveals an MC with a dense delivery of braggadocio raps that reference everything from anime through comics and sci-fi to the supernatural in a mix of written and freestyle flows. BAN’s uptempo beat is a catchy Motorik Volca 303-style bassline with an 808 and Volca drum pattern. A squealing improvised Electrolobotomy custom synth line drops in throughout. The single also contains a shorter radio edit that flips around the order of the lyrics to create a song that is significantly different from the original album version. Welcome to the weird world of Proteus!
Written and performed by Proteus
Produced by Black Art Ninja
About Proteus
Aaron Campbell could have been a doctor and having sex with lots of beautiful women, but instead he found drugs, drink, and hip hop. Between the ages of 15 to 18, he did acid on a nearly daily basis and listened to hip hop. It made him a little crazy in a lot of ways. After the drugs, it was drinking beer and freestyling. And collecting sounds he wanted to one day pair with his raps. No computer, no gear, and no mic yet, he would drink all night by himself with his head in the speaker, dreaming of becoming some kind of weirdo-alien IDM neo-Junglist hyper-rave meta-rapper. It was the birth of Proteus, who has since released a solid collection of singles, EPs and albums with a variety of producers that include ISEEDEATH, FFF, Skerror, LFO Demon, Black Art Ninja, and a long list of others. Over a backdrop of heavy electronic production, Proteus delivers a dense barrage of b-boy braggadocio with references to nerd-culture, black magic, and hip hop. Recommended for fans of Kool Keith, Necro, and Czarface.
About Black Art Ninja
Little is known about The Black Art Ninja (BAN). Their individual identities are shrouded in mystery, although Enghis von Sharklor serves as their mouthpiece. And BAN serves as the Underground Hip Hop Division of the larger Colematics Federation working mainly with Dr. Igor Amokian, Black Saturn, Phillip
Tombs, and Proteus, as well as Colematics video maker Henri Touret, Broken Off Monkey Arm, Eagleclaw Ghost of Fulci, Gemini Lounge Orchestra, and other fringe groups at Colematics. Black Art Ninja are influenced by and interested in anything and everything within the visual or aural arts. They have had many netlabel and video releases with the previously listed artists, but their debut was providing beats to the first Colematics release by Gemini Lounge Orchestra, the gangster epic Two Years on the Rock, in 2017.
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