Pitchfork

Unusual Animals, the Asthmatic Kitty label's new spot for all things conceptual and electronic, will hit the world with a rap album on August 7, in the form of Land of a Thousand Rappers - Vol 1: Fall of the Pillars.

The album-- indeed, a concept disc from Asthmatic Kitty's own A&R/Development dude Michael Kaufmann, his longtime artistic companion Wayne S Feldman (who played with Kaufmann in Therefore), and guests Liz Janes and dub-maker Ero Gray-- recounts a tale of Future Rapper and the Holy Fool. An accompanying press release for the disc-- the first of a planned series of ten-- cites influences like L'Trimm, Choose Your Own Adventure books, and geolinguistics. Which, on paper, sounds kind of like a Kool Keith record.

Land of a Thousand Rappers - Vol 1:

01 Past Ice and Ice and More
02 Future Past Perfect
03 High Water Tension
04 Belly of the Bea(ts/st)
05 14 Karrot Butcher Knife
06 Grizzly and the Tentacle Sucker-Punched
07 The Late Retirement of Elvis 2
08 Silk Siren Sports Bar & Grill
09 Corporate Thuggery
10 Exile of Dr. Kipp Normand
11 Factor IX for the Headwound
12 Water Displacement
13 Ghostbase and the Threat of Zero Kelvin
14 Just Intonation
15 You, Me and the Battleblade
16 St. Francis Groove
17 The Strata of Broadcast
18 Stopwatch Burial
19 Forget the Capes, Teeth are Snapping!
20 Holy Fool En Garde!