Lit Fuse Records
Lit Fuse Records is a production and publishing company dedicated to the principle of groundbreaking creativity in music. Founded by Baba Brinkman in 2007 and home to five solo acts or groups so far, Lit Fuse artists are poets, storytellers, philosophers, and tricksters, united in their passion for great music that challenges and inspires.
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This album began during our one-month songwriters-in-residency position at NIMBioS in Knoxville, Tennesee back in April/May of this year, and took shape over the course of the Summer. It features five tracks of auditory goodness produced by Mr. Simmonds, exploring allo-parenting, prosimians, oxytocin homologues, cladistics, population modelling, climate change, pseudo-science accommodationism, the homophobic paradox, and the applicability of Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad references to science rap.
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Premiered off-Broadway at the Soho Playhouse in November 2011, The Canterbury Tales Remixed was a hit with critics and audiences alike. Now available for tour bookings.
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A truly epic and rewarding listen for those with a curious and thoughtful mind.—MooSick Revoos
Takes storytelling to a whole new level with highly impressive and hilarious anecdotal interpretations of classic tales.—The Find Magazine
"He turns dusty old works that torture adolescents in classrooms into remarkably current and vivid stories." —Huffington Post
Warriors clash, badass thieves and thugs receive a brutal comeuppance, husbands fight a losing battle against wily wives and seducing lothiarios, villages are plagued by sinister forces of nature.—Show Business Weekly
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Commissioned by the NYU Stern School of Business.
Hustlers, gangsters, entrepreneurs, hip-hop music and business accumen combine in this 80's-inspired tour of the corporate world. Written as a satirical business plan for Baba Brinkman's whole Rap Guide enterprise, this album explores market economics, the intangibles of human capital, strategies for success, and corporate responsibility.
The views expressed here are not necessarily the views of the Stern School of Business.
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Scientifically peer-reviewed hip-hop album exploring Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by means of natural selection. Revised, remixed, and updated from the 2009 version by Mr. Simmonds.
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Produced, mixed, and mastered by Brighton hip-hop virtuoso Mr. Simmonds, Human Nature is Volume Two of Baba’s “peer-reviewed” Rap Guide series, exploring the science of evolutionary psychology and some of the bizarre behavior patterns of the world's most fascinating primate species.
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Framed by five popular theories of human nature: creationism, spiritualism, social constructivism, biological determinism, and evolutionism, this album tackles some of the big questions in philosophy, psychology and science, with the help of top science writers David Buss, Olivia Judson, and David Sloan Wilson. Provocative and fascinating subjects (She’s Ovulating, The Evolution of Gayness, Twin Studies) are deftly spliced with some incredible beats and turntablism to bring you hip-hop as you’ve never heard it before.
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"Brinkman - with a flow somewhere between Aesop Rock and Buck 65 - injects humour at the point where his loves of science and rap collide" ★★★★—Rave Magazine, Australia
"It's actually a great album… an inspired, groove heavy, high production values record with a wonderful lyrical touch."—MindHacks.com
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Produced, mixed, and mastered by Brighton-based music maven Mr. Simmonds, Rapconteur is a hip-hop retelling of five oral epic poems from the annals of literary history, stretching from 4500 BC until the 19th century, from the ancient Sumerians to the American Romantics.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh, Beowulf, the Finnish Kalevala, Chaucer’s Merchant’s Tale, and Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven all find new life through Baba’s intricate storytelling and wordplay. Slick Rick said it best: hip-hop is the Art of Storytelling, and Rapconteur is the evolution of that art, the perfect soundtrack to an epic journey. Put it on and be transported to other times and places, and emerge a little wiser in the ways of the world.
"You'll be blown away by how funny, compelling and profound Baba is able to make such subject matter." ★★★★
—The Scotsman
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Apocalyptic Utopian Dreams in the Western Wilderness (2009)
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Baba’s fifth full-length hip-hop album, featuring Aaron Nazrul, Smoky Tiger, Erica Dee, Tia Brazda, Noa Bodner, and Chantel Upshaw, with production from Lucid Notion, Infinite Potential, Mr. Simmonds, and Tom Caruana (UK), and DJ NST (Germany). Engineered, co-produced, mixed and mastered in Vancouver by Lin G.
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“Turns of phrase that would make Uncle Climax proud… Brinkman is engaging as both an entertainer and an educator”—Exclaim Magazine
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A hip-hop exploration of modern evolutionary biology, with songs about Sexual Selection, Artificial Selection, Altruism, Morality, and Unity of Common Descent.
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Engineered and mixed by Infinite Potential (Natural Selection engineered and mixed by Lin G), Mastered by Mr. Simmonds, with production by Infinite Potential and Tom Caruana (UK), and Nokz (Turkey), this is the original peer-reviewed rap album by Baba Brinkman.
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Concept album by Mud Sun (Baba Brinkman & MC Dizraeli) based on their award-winning play by the same name, produced by Mr. Simmonds, Infinite Potential, and Tom Caruana. 8-Mile meets 1984.
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The year is 2013, and England is now a police state on lockdown, with all civil liberties suspended and all media produced by the totalitarian government. Dizraeli is the popular leader of the revolution, on trial for terrorism. Baba Brinkman is the war reporter and investigative journalist charged with interviewing the suspect before his trial. A lyrical battle of wits and worldviews. Enter the rebel cell.
"Powerfully intelligent and awe-inspiringly eloquent, these guys are the saviours of hip-hop." ★★★★★
—Three Weeks
"A sensationally accomplished and powerfully thought-provoking piece" ★★★★
—Dubliner Magazine
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Debut EP from hip-hop duo Mud Sun (Baba Brinkman and MC Dizraeli), filled with joyous head-bangers and slicing social commentary, produced by Tom Caruana and Infinite Potential (UK).
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Recorded on tour in 2006, Baba’s seminal expression of the lit-hop genre.
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Featuring Josh Matinez, Aaron Nazrul, Dizraeli, Jena Fair, and Jonny Quality (Fatboy Slim’s band), with production from Infinite Potential, Torez, Sean Moody, and Lucid Notion (UK), and Moka Only, John Tennant, and Lin G (Canada). Engineered and mixed by Lin G in Vancouver.
“The beats on Lit-hop are often hype, fist-pumping productions… a versatile, skilled debut”—Exclaim Magazine
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An unreleased EP recorded as a demo with Lin G in 2005, featuring Eric Solomon (aka Zayne).
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Baba’s original skillful retelling of four of Chaucer’s best-loved tales, produced by Lin G.
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In this ground-breaking mash-up of the modern and the medieval, Baba Brinkman plays a wide-eyed rap fan who unwittingly stows away on the tour bus of a group of rappers, witnessing their behind-the-scenes battle for lyrical supremacy. The path of this pilgrimage and the stories the rappers tell combine to resurrect of one of the great texts of English literature in a style for the 21st century.
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Baba Brinkman’s first hip-hop release, produced by John Tennant, Lin G, and Ricardo Almeida, recorded at Vancouver’s Greenhouse studios in 2004.
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