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Soldier by A.M. Breakups A.M. Breakups is a New Orleans/Utica/Brooklyn -based multi-media artists, Polaroid photographer, beat-twisting producer, and Chief Production Engineer at Reservoir Sound , who, also, frequently goes by Marris Mielnick , Palmer Eldritch , and sometimes, Rust Martin . A.M. has affiliations with Backwoodz Studioz , we are the karma kids, Uncommon Records , and notoriously reclusive emcee Despot . Since about 2006, A.M. Breakups has released a variety of self-produced projects on Reservoir Sound & Backwoodz Studioz , plus, as part of 11:00A.M. with MC Eleven and CULT FAVORITE with Armand Hammer & Nostrum Grocers emcee E L U C I D . Although, his last proper "studio" album was 2011's The Cant Resurrection on Backwoodz Studioz , Rust Martin has quietly been self-releasing a slew of collections on his personal Bandcamp page. Most recently and most notably, in our world, at least, A.M. Breakups has painstakingly compiled and re-relea...

Just in case you've been living under a rock for the past few months or recently awoke from a coma—we're terribly sorry for 2017!—Beat-maker Bedrock (BMB) is a new, recurring column here at The Witzard; initially, the brainchild of Baltimore-based beatsmith John "Jumbled" Bachman, BMB simply asks beat-makers and aspiring producers to highlight 3-5 of their personal favorite albums, which, early on, helped shape their overall sound and style. I'm proud to present to you our first Beat-maker Bedrock column 2018 and 14th overall features a playlist selected and meticulously arranged by New York-based rapper-producer and We Are The Karma Kids founder Lt Headtrip—or just "Headtrip" for production work. Following his critically-acclaimed 2017 album, Comedy of The Filtbeast , Lt Headtrip teamed up with The GreenHouse Studio/Backwoodz Studioz producer and engineer to curate LNYCHPIN; described on Bandcamp as "a full-length collaborative album featuring 16 ...