The official Buck 65 site has a mixtape made by Buck called ‘Strong Arm’ for free download. In Buck’s own words:

Strong Arm is a “mixtape” in the New York-style underground hip hop sense of the word… with a twist. None of the instrumentals are from hip hop records. The music comes from the worlds of
punk, classical, folk, library music, everywhere else.

It was recorded in a day on a budget of $0 and it shows. This is a scrappy piece of work. There are loud vinyl pops, mistakes, vocal glitches… In other words, it’s very lo-fi.
Considering the patch-work, collage-style assembly and that everything was done by me, by hand, in my bedroom, I’m calling this Language Arts Part 7.

Tracklisting

Side One:

1. Intro (music: This Heat – Horizontal Hold)
2. Dang! (music: Incredible Bongo Band – Let There Be Drums)
3. Hole In The Road (music: Dub Specialist (Coxone Dodd) – Rastaman Version)
4. What Grace Means (music: John Fahey – Sunflower River Blues)
5. Don’t Belong (music: Trans Am – Firepoker)
6. Suspect feat. Claire Berest (music: Sebastien Tellier – Trilogie Femme)

Side Two:

1. Brace Yourself (words: Rev. Sister Mary Nelson – Judgement)
2. F.O.S. (music: The Homosexuals – Snapshots of Nairobi)
3. Old-Time Stuff (music: Gorecki – Olden Style Pieces II from the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)
4. B&W and Read All-Over (music: David Wescott – Passage Of The Red Sea)
5. Full Blown (music: Six Finger Satellite – Pulling A Train)
6. Cutthroat (music: Broadcast – Microtronics 02)
7. The Old One-Two (music: Flowers/Morgan – Activity Three)

Strong Arm Side 1

Strong Arm Side 2

Artwork and notes on the mixtape can be found on the official site in the Show and Tell section.

* Photo courtesy of – David F Miller

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