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Architecture 1 | Babel

by A.M. Breakups

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Ital 01:47
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The Sound 04:18
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Excuse Me 03:20
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Six Flags 02:31
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Forms 04:16

about

I met A.M. Breakups for the first time a little over a decade ago. He was still a young cat in college and I was still navigating my way through my twenties. I was starting a record label and seeking an intern and somehow chance brought us together as we sat in a McDonald's across the street from the legendary NYC Fat Beats store conducting an "interview". As young as we both were, I think that day worked out because both of us knew exactly how the record business was supposed to work. What we didn't know yet was that we would both in some way be effected by the way it stopped working. For me, running a label in the mid-2000's was like having a rug pulled out from under you. The growth path from an idea to an office filled with a small staff and dozens of boxes full of vinyl and cds had been cut off. In that moment at the McDonald's, I thought I was at the beginning of that journey, all starting with A.M. Breakups, but alas. The Uncommon Records label still runs to this day and did lots of things, but not quite the way either of us pictured.

A.M. Breakups was one of the first artists, along with MC Eleven, to sign with Uncommon Records as the group 11:00AM. They were one of the only local artists I had signed. It all stemmed from the CD of A.M. Breakups' music that he handed me at that McDonald's on our way out. I was looking for an intern that day, not an artist. I needed someone to call record stores and pitch my latest CD. What I got was a lot more then that, I got an artist, collaborator and friend. Frankly, when I started listening to the CD I assumed it would be pretty wack, in that era you just assumed everything would be wack. But I was shocked at how good it was, considering how random my association with the newly met A.M. Breakups was. There is a bit of kismet that brings talented people together though, and I think it was at work that day.

In time, A.M. Breakups would get to the portion of the marathon course that is the music business that I was in when we met. He'd eventually start his own record label, Reservoir Sound Womb, probably in the same time of his life that I started Uncommon Records. I'm sure he went through similar ups and downs, but what he did that was different was maintain production, in one form or another, over almost everything he released. This ended up inspiring me, at a certain point I wondered "how much music have I really produced even though I'm somewhat known as a producer with a record label?". Here was A.M. Breakups pumping out compilations full of tunes, all with a cohesive sound, approach and branding.

RSW and A.M. Breakups releases typically involved three things; synths, un-recognisably pitched samples and Polaroid photographs. That combination was a calling card of the music you are now hearing in a newly collected form, one that includes curated visual artists' work as diverse as the sounds within. What you're hearing are the ups from that time period, with a few detours to the hidden. I think the timing of these releases are well placed, as this is a good time to look back and look forward at a body of impressive work without the pressures of "making it" involved.

Artists are always pushing, always wanting more and that doesn't have to be money. We all feel it and live with desire and ambition as drivers of will power. I've said often that "Days are long but Years are short" and AM Breakups is a great example of that. All the time spent pushing for the "next," it can break you down, but in this case resulted in a huge catalog of impressive work. In the moment it can feel like certain things are taking an eternity to happen, but in retrospect it's easy to see that a legacy was built.

-Uncommon Nasa


This is a compilation of songs produced by A.M. Breakups, now for the first time in their instrumental form,

Artwork by Ben Schepis.

01. 11:00A.M. - Ship Named Babel
02. Super Chron Flight Brothers - African Robotics (Remix)
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04. PremRock - The Sound (Remix)
05. Invizzibl Men (MarQ Spekt & Karniege) - Stories of a Ghost (Remix)
06. Teddy Faley & MC Eleven - Excuse Me
07. billy woods - Six Flags
08. Teddy Faley - My Crippling Fear of Perspective (Remix)
09. 11:00A.M. - *The Last Thing You Want
10. A.M. Breakups & billy woods - Forms

Reservoir Sound 2018.

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released May 25, 2018

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