ECID

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Ecid, mc/producer & fill in the breaks poster child is one of those rare artists that can rap, write, & produce in an arguably equal fashion. As a writer/mc Ecid crafts thoughtful, visual, honest, Heart over mind songs. As a producer he is the definition of a record digger. His sample based/drum heavy beat-scapes can be colorful, abrasive, grungy, simple, beyond bizzy, soulful, sparse & or dark. As a fearless leader Ecid is aimed at building "Fill In The Breaks" into one of the premiere indie-hiphop labels in North America, all while leaving America as paranoid & afraid of themselves as ever.

“Biograffiti” was Ecid’s coming of age record, a personal glimpse at a twenty something just trying to figure it all out. “Economy Size goDD Costume” was his f--- you record, an awe-inspiring, jaw dropping, honest to goodness middle finger in the face of society’s time tested cliché’s. And “Red Beretta” his third official solo album is the career-defining album that people five years from now will associate him with.

Known for his intense, personable, & insanely energetic live shows. Ecid has shared stages with the likes of KRS-ONE, Eyedea (E&A), Awol One (Shapeshifters), Sole of Anticon, OMD, 2MEX, QWEL of Typical Cats, Prince Po (Organized Konfusion), Blueprint, Glue, Hanger 18, Heiruspecs, POS, Sims, Cecil Otter, RA The Rugged Man, Killah Priest, Grayskul, Blowfly, & Count Bass D to name a few.

His new album Red Beretta, which is a “concept” album based on the bizarre events that turn a modern day hero into a monster is in heavy rotation on college radio stations across the US and has received praise from fans, peers & press alike. So check it out. Or else!

"Ecid is playing some really cool audio games with the samples he uses, and some of the production techniques help pull the listener in and keep them there. It's not only a rapper's album, but it's for the production heads too, who will be smiling at the known sounds and scratching their heads at the unknown ones for days, if not months or years."- OKAYPLAYER.COM

"ESGC is some of the thickest, grittiest, most surreal-ass hip hop you are likely to ever have dropped on you like the proverbial cartoon piano." -INSOMNIAC MAGAZINE.com

"Ecid makes one think, he is David Koresh without the cult or religion. Or maybe Nike without the cyanide. Ecid makes people listen with wit -RIFT MAGAZINE.

"Yup, I did say poetic extremist, because Ecid absolutely goes off. Lyrics take the forefront on this album, and he has a powerful voice and imagination to bring it there. -UGS MAG (ugsmag.com)

"With a penchant for crafting sinister imagery and flipping American clichés into semiotic finger traps, Ecid shows a complex understanding of contemporary American identity" -SLUG Magazine (slugmag.com)

"The lyrics are so next level you wish everyone in the room would shut up so you don't miss a line." -MIDWESTUNDERGROUND.org

"Ecid's one of the few Twin Cities MCs to go as far as the almost confrontationally abrasive coastal underground rap mainstays on Anticon and Definitive Jux." -City Pages

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December 16, 2004

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ECID accompanied by ARSENIC

100 SMILES AND RUNNIN'

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"AWOL ONE and ECID are..."

ECID "RED BERETTA"

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ECID "Economy Size goDD Costume"

ECID "Biograffiti"

ECID, KRISTOFF KRANE, IMPULSE, & CAPACITI

"SATURDAY MORNING SOUNDTRACK"

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All of my releases can be found in these select stores: CHEAPO DISCS (Minneapolis, Saint Paul & Blaine, MN), The Electric Fetus (Minneapolis & Duluth, MN), Fifth Element (Minneapolis, MN), Mind State (Minneapolis, MN), Shuga Records (NE Minneapolis, MN) Access Hiphop (San Diego, CA), Ernie Novembers (Sioux Falls, SD), Uprok Records (Salt Lake City, UT)

You can get MP3's @ Apple iTunes, Wax Poetics Digital, eMusic, Napster, & Amazon

Record Label:

FILL IN THE BREAKS

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Indie