We love 'em. But we also know that most live show videos are... well, lacking. However, we think the two right here are different... better! Much better in fact, thanks to the Chicago Music Project's hard work. But don't just take our word for it, check 'em out yourself and let us know what you think!
Chicago Music Project TV (CMPtv) Presents: Animate Objects Live @ The Double Door Pt. 1
Chicago Music Project TV (CMPtv) Presents:Animate Objects Live @ The Double Door Pt.2
Animate Objects Record Release Show: Behind the Scenes
Animate Objects - "El Dorado" Music Video feat. MCs Wondur Wie, Wes Restless & SoulStice
ILLINOIS HEADS, GET THE DEBUT ALBUM HERE:
(Tell your local record store they can order it from Super D if it's not in stock):
City of Chicago:
Gramaphone Records
Dr. Wax
Hyde Park Records
Evil Clown Chicago
Reckless Records of London Inc
Out Of The Past
Bel-Jam Records
Pepmo's Record World
Record Emporium
Metal Haven
Borderline Music Chicago
Suburbs of Chicago:
Rainbow Records (Barrington)
Full Cyrkle (Crystal Lake)
Paradise Records (Highland Park)
Cd City (Highland Park)
Gardner's (Waukegan)
Stuck in the 70s (Melrose Park)
Record Breakers (Hoffman Estates)
Compact Disc Source (Evanston)
Crows Nest (Cresthill)
Disc Replay of Crest Hill (Crest Hill)
Threshold Music (Tinley Park)
Rolling Stones (Norridge)
Southern Illinois:
Ross' Chicago Records (Kankakee)
Co-Op Records (Moline)
Rock N Records (Maycomb)
Co-Op Records (Brimfield)
Co-Op Records (Pekin)
Co-Op Records (Peoria)
Co-Op Records (East Peoria)
Dead Pan Alley Music (Normal)
Chart Records & Tapes (Danville)
Slacker's (Alton)
Slacker's (Glen Carbon)
Vintage Vinyl (Granite City)
Unique Audio/Video & More (Greenville)
Slacker's (O'Fallon)
G-B Records (Decatur)
Revolution Records (Jacksonville)
Recycled Records (Springfield)
JD's Music Emporium (Centralia)
PMAC Music (Carbondale)
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"a live band whose music oozes an almost Philadelphia soul sound with layered grooves punctuated by rhymed lyrics about a world where hope exists alongside darkness, and women are seen as complete human beings."
-- David Jakubiak for The Chicago Sun Times --
For Management Inquiries, Please Contact:
Jim Moeller at Soulever Music
(jim@soulevermusic.com)For College Booking Inquiries, Please Contact:
Doug Hall at Talent Plus/Spotlight Entertainment
(dhall@talent-plus.com)
tel: 314.421.9400
To contact the band directly (outside MySpace):animate-objects@gmail.com
Our brand new *FREE* EP, "Dubs, Grunts and Things," is now available thanks to our friends at MusicGlue.
Click here to download it now.
All of the tracks from our debut album, "Riding in Fast Card With Your Momma" are available for you to quickly purchase (or just listen to) in several places:
You can download the files from Apple's iTunes Store. Download the whole album (all 12 tracks) for $9.99, or individual tracks for $0.99:
Or, if you're old-fashioned like us, head over to CDBaby.com and pick up your very own physical album for just $9! Yeah, they also allow you to download the album for a mere $7.99 (you decide!). Order easily (and securely) at CDBaby.com/CD/AnimateObjects
Urban Mainstream, Oct '07
UBO Magazine, Oct '07
Innocent Words, Aug '07
Pound Magazine, Aug '07
Rock 'N Vote, 2007
Sun Times, Feb '07
2005 IMC Award Winner: Best Hip Hop Band
2007 Metromix Rock 'N Vote Champion
2007 iGo Car Sharing Urban CD Compilation - Rap/Hip Hop Champion
2007 Going.com Battle of the Chicago Bands Champion
2007 September Urban/Hip Hop AirGod at AirSpun.com
2008 Independent Music Award Winner (Best Hip-Hop Song)
Our featured single, "El Dorado", won Best Hip Hop Song in the 7th Annual (2008) Independent Music Awards song contest. "El Dorado" also won the popular vote for the Rap/Hip Hop Category (conducted among fans such as yourself!) - Thanks for your vote!
Formed when the forces of good and evil procreated to create a delightfully deviant band, Animate Objects embodies the spirit and soul of the new hip-hop generation.
EMCEE CZAR Absolute leads this band of merry men on a trek to El Dorado while stopping by in your towns sampling as much local culture that can be had without inviting litigation.
This isn't your usual hip-hop act. To make the lyrics difficult to hear, a gang of miscreant delinquents bang on their instruments, creating music sure to strip you of your insecurities while you dance, jump, grab and prod all those around you.
Birthed in Champaign, IL so their upbringing could be supervised by a tight-knight and extremely talented group of elders, Animate Objects spent equal parts in time-out and at the front of the class. Winning awards and being featured on international records gave them the desire to head to the bright lights of Chicago—where they continue their fiendish plot today.
However, the powers that be have caught up to our little heroes, as the band has now been profiled in: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Billboard Magazine, and many other publications. In attempting to further stay the progress of the AO revolution, the band has been given awards the world over, making it increasingly difficult to avoid scrutiny from the watchful eyes of Congress.
Winners of the 2008 Independent Music Award for Best Hip-Hop Song "El Dorado", the Metromix/Chicago Tribune 2007 Rock N' Vote, the 2007 iGo Audio Emissions debut CD contest, and the 2005 WPGU/Buzz Local Music Award for Best Hip Hop Band, the Objects are conjuring up a plan to fuse their sound with your soul.
So enjoy the ride and please, bring us food!
Lemme know which college then I can work around that! Try university of charleston and check into the spoleto (sp) festival. If I can help I sure will!!!!
Hey Animate Objects! <br />I hope that all is well with you! I wanted to stop by and let you know about a few new things at Ourstage. We have just introduced a new French channel! It is for songs performed in French! Also, we are now accepting entries for performance in the One Planet Music Festival as well as the John Lennon Song Contest. For more information, go here: www.ourstage.com/go/tim<br />Best,<br />Tim Cushing<br />Ourstage Field Rep and SSv Writer<br />www.ourstage.com/go/tim<br />
Hey there! Dropping by to show some love from Sin City LV (Las Vegas, Nevada). We are glad that you are our friend and want you to know that if you ever need anything that we offer, please contact us and I will be sure to do all I can to help you.
I wish i coulda caught yall opening for dilated peoples. My man Phatsax Danny who played with yall said it was sick a funk tho. Stop by and bless the page sometime.
Passin through to see watz good? Ya'll got any new joints you need spun? if so hit us up you knoe we got ya here at Basement Tapes Live Radio. ONE .....
People who make music should be so dysfunctional they can't string a tour together without being molly coddled the entire time, let alone play every money spinning festival on the circuit to an inane and rapturous response...
Currently, there's a plague of bad professionalism in music. The whole game is being high jacked into becoming a badly over organised circus, run by sensible, well balanced people with degrees in Music Management - people who love to balance books and run marketing campaigns as used by their new media friends for selling boxes of washing powder...
Maybe this is a good thing??
Maybe the world is alright now because we have disposable everything and no ideology other than SPEND SPEND SPEND!
Maybe people don't need to vent any more??
Maybe the world's got better and we should be simply happy with that and accept that music will decline...??
But that's clearly not the case, it's just that people are far better trained and controlled nowadays to be happy with what they're given...
Thank you for making the connection fam!! Please do not be a stranger and know that you are ALWAYS welcome at my space:-)<br /><br />much love<br /><br />-voice<br /><br />P.S. Oh yeah, just dropped my free MYSPACE ONLY digital mixtape on my page... cop it if it tickles your fancy;-)
