Video: Black Milk Broadcast – Episode 1 / European Tour Dates Black Milk Let’s Loose First Video in New Series Giving Fans A Look Into His Life
Critical Praise for TRONIC:
“TRONIC could very well be the best end-to-end production job you’ve heard all year… He practically lives inside the beats.” – PitchforkMedia.com
“TRONIC takes Black Milk’s sound and rhyming ability to levels that now appear limitless. This is an early entry for any of the multitudes of album of the year lists soon to appear.” – Okayplayer.com
“No longer human, he’s a creature of sovereign instinct with synthesizers, samplers, and conductor’s wands for limbs. This is what RZA wishes new RZA sounded like.” – CokeMachineGlow.com
“With the near year on the horizon, it could be safe to say that TRONIC will be on the best-of-list when looking back at the albums released in 2008. You want my advice? Get this album and turn the volume up loud, but before that make sure you have a neck brace” – Vapors Magazine
The Video:
Busy as ever both recording and touring the globe, Black Milk decided to give his fans a window into the life of one of hip-hop’s rising stars with a new series called The Black Milk Broadcast.
In the first episode, watch Black work at Studio 1 alongside Alchemist, Guilty Simpson, and others, followed by a trip to Amsterdam where he kicked off his European tour for TRONIC last spring. In a final dramatic twist at the end, Black Milk is surrounded by reckless bikers, flying n-bombs, and drunken Dutchmen. Where’s eLZhi?
Catch Black Milk on tour in Europe this July:
Jul 3 2009 Ninkasi Kao: Lyon, France
Jul 4 2009 Montreux Jazz Festival: Montreux, Switzerland
Jul 10 2009 Paradiso: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jul 11 2009 Splash Music Festival : Pouch, Germany
Jul 12 2009 Hague Hip Hop Festival: Den Haag, Netherlands
Jul 15 2009 Nouveau Casino: Paris, France Jul 16 2009 Bla: Oslo, Norway
Jul 17 2009 Fabric: London, UK Jul 18 2009 Dour Festival: Dour, Belgium
The Background:
In only a few short years, Black Milk has quickly become one of underground hip-hop’s foremost ambassadors. Realizing his vast reservoir of talent, both independent and mainstream artists looked to Black to give their albums a raw underground sound. Black has since produced and appeared on tracks for an impressive roster of hip hop artists including Genius/GZA, Busta Rhymes, Pharoahe Monch, Kidz in the Hall, Kardinal Offishall, Guilty Simpson, and Strange Fruit Project, among others. Most recently, Black released two albums, The Set Up with Fat Ray and Black Milk Presents Caltroit with Bishop Lamont. Black also handed nearly all the production on elZhi’s The Preface, an album that is making many critics’ Top 10 lists for 2008 and bringing serious attention to Detroit’s music scene. Black also produces and rhymes as a member of the ground Random Axe with Sean Price and Guilty Simpson and will release a full-length album in early 2009. TRONIC is available on CD, vinyl, and digitally via Fat Beats Records now.
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