Scottish bred bass music prodigy Rustie may or may not sleep. After all, when I was 21, I could subsist on a Lamar Odom diet of skittles and sour patch kids, three hours of sleep, and a half pack of Parliaments. But Rustie may or may not be 21. According to his bio, “Rustie is older than he looks. Rustie makes beats and is a muthafukin bowss. Rustie wrote that himself.” He also described the picture above as “getting bufffff…beefcake BEEFCAKE!!!!” Off humor alone, the guy might be my favorite within Glasgow’s ballyhooed beatmaker scene that includes Hudson Mohawke and Mike Slott.
While Rustie has a forthcoming Warp debut slated to drop at the top of the year, he took time to tweak a Keisha Cole track into an interstellar post-Timbaland odyssey, a la Hudson Mohawke’s flip of Tweet. The sort of thing that sends writers into hack descriptions of space suits with intergalactic orchestras, soulstresses, and the occasionally slutty robot. I’ll spare y’all, lest I reveal too much about the world of lascivious androids–after all, this isn’t Tank Girl. Because I am feeling charitable this afternoon, I’m also throwing in the mix that Rustie did earlier this year for Mary Anne Hobbs and his heavily hip-hop skewing Fact blend that is excellent save for the presence of Ace Hood, who is neither very ace nor very hood. Talk amongst yourselves.
Download:
MP3: Rustie-“Keesha Resmak” (Left-Click)
MP3: Rustie-“Lucky Me Mixtape (Mary Anne Hobbs Session)” (Left-Click)
MP3: Rustie-“Fact Mix 79”
