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Last year, UK -based Hip-Hop label Village Live Records released a string of critically-acclaimed and incredibly well-received albums and projects from the likes of Gas-Lab , Kuartz, Remulak AKA co-owner Doug Barclay , AVER's phenomenal DIE BERLIN DATEIEN, Benaddict, Slim & Ella Mae , Ded Tebiase, Funkonami , and Chrome & Donnie Propa's DIRTY ROTTEN MIXTAPE in tribute to Jeru The Damja . Now, Village Live has unveiled their first release of 2018: Ukrainian beat-maker KLIM Beats' Natural ; a full-length Instrumental Hip-Hop LP, pressed on "Cherry Red" vinyl, standard Black vinyl, cassette tape, and before long, digital download. Village Live quickly sold out of 125 "Cherry Red" Natural 12-inches with Japanese -reminiscent Red OBI strips, mere hours after KLIM Beats' record first went on sale this past Monday night at 7:00pm sharp ( UK time.) Now, 225 Black Natural LP's with Black OBI strips and clear cassette tapes are cu...

"' Die Berlin Dateien ' is the first fully Instrumental Hip-Hop album by AVER , the chief producer of THE NATURAL CURRICULUM (TNC) . Created whilst living in Berlin , AVER developed the 16 tracks as part of an attempt to evolve traditional sample use with more complex rhythms and off-beat drum breaks. The album features scratching and [beat-boxing] by fellow members of TNC and is overlaid with German -language vocals that provide an abstract narrative to further embellish the dream-like, somewhat dystopian nature of the album," Village Live Records' Die Berlin Dateien Vinyl + Cassette Tape product description reads. AVER AKA Joey Average AKA Joe Mills is one of the producer-emcees behind Manchester -based THE NATURAL CURRICULUM , along with emcee Bill Sykes , rapper-producer Chalk , DJ-producer Omas , beat-boxer Jam , DJ El Statiko , and (sometimes member) DJ Ink . It's currently unclear which of Joey Average 's fellow THE NATURAL CURRICULUM ...