It's Bananas to release Shakeyface "Bicycle Day Boogaloo" 2/21/06

Hailed as “abstract hip-hop's next big thing" (Epitonic) and “off center but on target" (XLR8R), Brooklyn-based producer Shakeyface is a talented creative force bubbling just below the surface. All Music Guide describes his songs as “adventurous soundscapes" with “thick, dirty beats". An EP, Puddle Jumping During A Monsoon on Belgium's Quatermass and several appearances on different label compilations can be found in his growing discography.

Upcoming Events:
1/19: Shakeyface DJs with resident Sema4 at the Bastard Jazz Digging Deeper monthly party. Leopard Lounge, 5th St. and 2nd Ave, NYC. 10-?
2/24: Shakeyface @ Enormous Room (Boston, MA) Album Release Party
2/25: Shakeyface @ NuBlu (New York, NY) Album Release Party
3/1: Shakeyface TBC (San Francisco, CA) Album Release Party

About Shakeyface: When my peoples in Snap! said “rhythm is a dancer", my boy Shakeyface was clearly listening from deep inside Shakey Manor, below the mean streets of Brooklyn, New York, USA. How do I know he was listening? I'm assuming, based on the fact that the kid's rhythms are bad (meaning good).

Beat-makers are a-dime-a-dozen, so when one taps into that universal marrow flow of rhythm and melody, it's cause for celebration. Bicycle Day Boogaloo has the distinct sound of a celebration, but as is the case with most celebrations, someone's girlfriend is usually crying in the bathroom and some guy is usually trying to work up the nerve to ask the pretty girl in the middle of the room out. You can hear all of this.

“The Art Of Moving" is the sound of people getting drunk to the tune of a freaky electro vamp. “Mmm Hmm" is all tweaked flamenco and contemplative stomp. “Establishing The Precedent" is a rainy-day Cadillac crawl. “Don't Stop Now" is restrained New Orleans bounce balladry. That's not even half the album, so what do you call it?

The man behind the program is a hunk of young hustle who not only tweaks the knobs, plays the instruments and remixes other peoples jewels (like UNKLE), or being remixed (by Frosty + Daedelus as Adventure Time), but has also worked with political action group Downtown For Democracy to work against the re-election of your favorite shrubbery-surnamed commander-in-chief. See the two anti-war tracks included on this album “A Certain Way With Things" and “What's Come Over Me" for a better idea of where Shakeyface's heart is at.

When he's not pounding the American landscape fighting the good fight, he's pounding it playing the good records. A seasoned DJ with the right seasonings to spice up the party, you can find Shakey in the booth on the ones and twos, and perhaps you have found him, DJing alongside the likes of Dangermouse, Prefuse 73, Hollertronix, Funkstorung and others.

What does Bicycle Day Boogaloo mean anyway? Have a listen and find out.