Presssheet

ARTIST BIO 1773
1773 (pronounced Seventeen Seventy-Three) started as a side
project to Chicago-based HipHop live band Berto Ramon, which
had a pretty successful run in the mid-00s. After that group disbanded, 1773 became the main focus for MCs Just Jay and Wisdm
O.N.E. and their DJ, Itch13. While playing lots of shows in their
hometown and abroad alongside artists such as Blu & Exile, Little
Brother, Ohmega Watts, Wiz Khalifa & Blackalicious, 1773 released three albums and two mixtapes over the course of the last
few years. Releases and tours in Japan as well as collaborations
with producers from Australia, South Africa and Europe are testament to the fact that the group is truly focused on making their
songs travel to many different places around the world...
RELEASE INFOS
Label: Duzz Down San Records
Artist: 1773 x Trishes
Title: The Luv Bug
Format: Digi/LP
Cat. no.: DDS016
Release: 23.01.2012
Artwork by: Anita Brunnauer
TRACKLIST
01 Luv Bug Warning (Intro)
02 Familiar Stranger
03 Keep on Loving
04 Intrulude
05 Adesina
06 Summer’s Gone
07 Winter’s Here ft. Isis Rose
08 What is…
09 Kinda Fresh
10 Future Love
11 Out of Orbit ft. Natalie Oliveri
ARTIST BIO TRISHES
Next stop: Vienna/Austria - the hometown of producer, DJ and radio
personality Trishes. With four instrumental HipHop LPs on Beattown, a highly sought-after TLM Records 45 of Soul edits and a
12“ on German label Melting Pot Music to his name, Trishes met
1773‘s manager DJ Trew while looking for old records in Chicago. After contributing numerous beats to the group‘s two „Mixed
Signals“ mixtapes, the transatlantic project intensified when 1773
picked nine of Trishes‘ beats as the musical foundation of a concept
album called „The Luv Bug“. This new record is being released by
Austrian label Duzz Down San, which has handled projects by Just
Jay‘s other band, Vertual Vertigo, in the past and features samples
from the exact stash of records that Trishes had dug out of Trew‘s
basement in Chicago a couple of years earlier. So in the end, everything is coming full circle!
RELEASE TEXT
Although it is by far the dominant topic in most other forms of popular music (and beyond that), love is not something that HipHop
artists talk about very frequently. There are many more rap songs
about recreational drug use, material wealth, not-quite-legal activities
or casual sex than there are about that other four letter word, L.O.V.E.
In comes „The Luv Bug“, a concept album entirely devoted to the big
topic: From the sparks of initially meeting an attractive woman (Familiar Stranger) to planning the rest of your life together (Future Love),
from make-ups (Keep On Loving) to break-ups (Summer‘s Gone) and
from fantasizing about an ethereal beauty (Out Of Orbit) to deception
(Adesina), Chicago MCs Just Jay & Wisdm O.N.E. a.k.a. 1773 touch
on a wide variety of subjects.
The musical foundation is provided by the other end of this transatlantic musical endeavour, producer Trishes from Vienna/Austria. He
manages to create quite different vibes - from spacey futuristic Beats
to almost classic Boom Bap sound and even farther back to 80s
drum computer patterns – while maintaining enough of a common
thread and feeling to keep the music cohesive. All together, this is a
pretty infectious record. Or, to quote from the intro: „The Luv Bug will
bite you if you don‘t watch out… Watch Out!“
PROMOTIONAL REQUESTS
[email protected]