Tech N9ne’s dark and twisted Seepage EP recently found itself on AllHipHop.com’s list of the 40 best albums of 2010. Continue reading

The Kansas City Star published a review of Tech N9ne’s Seepage EP today.  The review, for the most part, is a typical write up of Tech’s music and the basis for the EP. The author, Joel Francis, really helps set the tone of the dark music on the EP, and seems to have a good handle on Tech N9ne’s catalog.  In trying to highlight the darkest points of the CD, the author had the following to say:

Tech N9ne’s latest release the Seepage EP is now available FOR FREE at Guvera.com.  You may remember Guvera.com as the main sponsor of the recent Independent Grind Tour, but in case you don’t, here’s a small recap: you download songs, they don’t cost you any money, the artists still get paid.  Click here to visit Tech N9ne’s page on Guvera.com.

Following the success of past Strange releases, the Seepage EP has made its mark on the sales charts.  The first Soundscan reports have hit the web placing Tech N9ne’s Seepage at No. 57 on the charts.  Only seven days after its release, Seepage has sold 7,600 copies.  Impressive for any artist with a digital release, but much more for an independent artist like Tech N9ne.

The online exclusive EP was released last week and has found success (you may recall how it peaked as the top available release on iTunes) without radio or video support.  Singles like “Seepage” and “Alucard” have already become favorites among fans.  The Seepage EP is an extension of the K.O.D. album, with six brand new songs.  This is sure to be yet another sign of Tech N9ne’s power within a declining industry.

Click here to purchase your copy of the Seepage EP.

With “Trippin’ Comin’” Tech delivers his ode to paranoia.  An ominous song of unrest released during a time of unprecedented success, Tech N9ne still hasn’t forgotten that no matter how many collabo offers and how many appearances in whatever magazines or networks happen, he still has to watch his back.  The bigger you get, the bigger the target on your back, and for Tech, an ultimate survivor in an unforgiving business, this fact necessitates caution.  Before Tech even starts his flow, a backwards soundbite is played.  Translated, Tech says:

“Some might call me uhh, paranoid but I think I would just say that I was very aware of my surroundings.”

Tech launches into his flow over a beat consisting of motion synths that pan back and forth underneath an unsettling chord progression.  In the chorus, aided by Krizz Kaliko (once again proving that he can flip any style he wants), Tech alerts us of his awareness:

“When they all talking loud, feeling proud ’cause no one is gunning
Hey, I can feel the trippin’ comin’…
Yeah, I can feel the trippin’ comin’…
Yo, I can feel it comin’…
When I’m down for the town, in the club, or even with a woman
Hey, I can feel the trippin’ comin’…
Yeah, I can feel the trippin’ comin’…
Yo, I can feel it comin’…”

The song ends with another backwards soundbite.  Played in reverse, Tech says:

“No matter how big I get, or how much money I make
The seepage will always find a way!!”

Is Tech reserved to the fact that he can’t escape the darkness or is this a promise to his fans…or both?  Click here to purchase your copy of the Seepage EP on iTunes.

On his latest release, the Seepage EP, Tech N9ne follows “Alucard” perfectly with the short and disturbing bedroom horror story “Bite Me”.  On this track, Tech relays his carnal knowledge of a young 19-year-old woman who has an insatiable appetite for pain, particularly that of being bitten by the king of independent hip hop.  Over chilling strings that sound like they were sampled from a classic horror flick, Tech paints the picture with grotesque details:

“She all in it then she told a nigga to bite her neck
I’m excited because the gush will give my nut the right effect
But where will I hide a set of double d’s
If I try to get her jugular open
I’m gonna keep with the pokin’
Have to really be strokin’ her all night
I’m wet, sunk my teeth in
Bitches in heat send me over the top they get hot
Then I gotta bring the beast in
She knows not what she ask or what this night be
This might be the day that she die because she told an animal to

[Female] Bite me
Excite me
Just bite me
Not lightly
I hope this scar is forever
Baby I’m getting wetter
The harder the better”

At the end of the song we hear the female in reference scream for more and as Tech succumbs to his and her desire she lets out another scream–presumably her last.  “Bite Me” is a classic dark tale that only the K.O.D. could deliver.

Click here to purchase your copy of the Seepage EP on iTunes.

Given the release of the Seepage EP and the positive response it has garnered from fans, we thought it’d be good to hear from the man himself what he thinks about the EP and the acclaim that it has generated.  In between shows on the Independent Grind Tour and Meet and Greets, we were able to get Tech on the phone to share his thoughts.  Here’s what he had to say.

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The title track ‘Seepage’ is the first song to kick off Tech N9ne’s latest Seepage EP. The track opens up with leftover dialogue from the preceding “Choking From It” skit.  In what sounds like an ancient tape that was recovered amongst wreckage, Tech describes the purpose behind his K.O.D. album: “my angel’s dyin’…”

Then Tech explodes into a verse that possesses more verve and passion than we’ve heard from him since the aforementioned album.  The beat he raps over is as ominous as can be, featuring a single bass note that continuously goes up and down an octave, offering no musical resolution, as if there’s no escape from the darkness that Tech has tried to brush off time and time again.  Most telling is the second verse, where at the end he addresses all his critics that thought he went soft on The Gates Mixed Plate:

“Big Yates, he’s stuck in the sick state
Some speakin that his fate to be wack when he gets cake
Well, he gets cake and the critics they spit hate
But the sinister shit shakes, so long to the mixed plate
I just ate, pretty punany and mustard
cycles in lust, stars eating seepage, these nuts charred
What I got to say to the people who pick at and gut stars
Thinkin Imma lose the ability to bust hard, YOU FUCKTARDS!”

“Seepage” is a declaration: Tech’s still got it, but not only that, he never lost it in the first place.

Click here to purchase your copy of the Seepage EP on iTunes.

As the latest release from Tech N9ne, Seepage EP, continues to rank on top of the leaderboard on iTunes, we want to know what songs you have been bumpin’ the most in the past couple of days?  Label mate Krizz Kaliko ran a poll recently and we found that you like the two songs featuring him on Seepage EP – and from the results gathered at the time of this post, the 644 votes speak for themselves with almost an equal split of people preferring ‘”Trippin’ Comin’” over “Asshole” and vice versa.  We’ve seen lot’s of feedback on the Seepage EP and even with the overwhelming support for the EP,  it seems that fans can’t agree on which is their favorite track.  We want you to set the record straight– once and for all– which are the best tracks on Seepage EP?  Take a minute to vote and post your reasoning below.  If your friends ever want to know what Seepage is all about, you send them here first.
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Tech N9ne is back again with some dark and deep lyrics about what everyone in the music industry is thinking but rarely ever says.  ”Alucard” (dracula spelled backwards) talks about how Tech’s life in music will be ever lasting.  We see artists come and go with one hit wonders on mainstream radio everyday that have no actual message, but Tech N9ne continues to say what the mainstream is afraid to say, letting his voice be heard about how the music industry has treated those who choose to play their own game by their own rules. Tech says in the chorus “Alucard everlasting / Timeless bars when I’m rapping / All these stars never last, and I will still stand while everyone’s passing.” Like a Dracula everlasting in life, Tech will continue to make the music we love through the years and stay true to who he is.  The song talks about how many of the industry shunned him as “dead” when he started, but now they see how he is breathing new life, and now many want a piece of that eternity.

Click here to purchase the Seepage EP on iTunes.