Photo from The Simpsons

The recent DtttC single, “Swag Treated Treated Swag,” gets (ahem) treated with a remix courtesy of Viper Creek Club. DttC drops their new record, Let’s Quit, February 14 on Out For Stardom. Viper Creek Club has a new guitarist and a new EP called Hot Lights coming February 16. And Moe’s not telling the authorities about either.

From SOTA’s Altered State, available here.

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February 21 will mark the arrival of Respect, Fatal Lucciauno’s long-awaited follow-up to The Only Forgotten Son. Catch him live at Chop Suey on February 17 for the release party.

To tide you over, his label Sportn’ Life just dropped off this freebie: an 11-track EP called The Message, featuring production entirely by JakeOne. How often is it you get something totally free from the most in-demand Seattle producer in hip-hop? The answer is rarely. Get it above and below.

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Check out this easy groove from SuperFire (Elan Wright and Phil Harmonic) featuring Lizzie Huffman. Sunroof music.

Eric Lau
The Mission EP
Kilawatt Music; 2012

Score (Potholes In My Blog scale): 3/5

Click here to read my review of London-based DJ/producer Eric Lau’s The Mission EP, featuring Guilty Simpson. Thanks to the good folks at Potholes In My Blog for letting me contribute to their great publication.

Parker (of State Of The Artist) and Lace Cadence (of, well, some things that I wasn’t a huge fan of) have collaborated on an EP called Imagination (due on February 14 from Members Only). It’s a collection of club-ready beats and rhymes (or sing-rhymes in LC’s case) that I imagine will sound something like “Blue Paper,” the album’s first single. Jon Augustavo kept it simple with the video. The helpful and friendly folks at MO provided the download — shout-out to them, as always.

This just in from Th3rdz:

Th3rdz back with a bangin homage to mashin.  Mashin is perseverance and diligence. Th3rdz sound and style over this stompin Kuddie Fresh beat is outlined with flow, lyrics, hook and soul. Candidt, Xperience and JFK spit it and pulled off a unique heater over a double break groove.

Photo via artist's Myspace.

This week’s edition of THE SIX features Thaddeus David who last week dropped his solo project, Maven, via Members Only. You can get that for the price of four clicks, here. 206UP.COM will be back with more thoughts on the record, but for now we’ll let the MC tell it.

1. What’s the significance of the album title, Maven?

A “maven” by definition is someone who is an expert or connoisseur. A trusted person in a particular field. To me it’s something that I wear like a badge of honor. Something that I feel I am and will always be aspiring to be more of. It felt like the perfect name for the body of work and stage that I feel I’m at with my music.Plus I wanted people to do the research for themselves and figure out what I meant by the title or take [it for] their own interpretation.

2. What does the term “blowing up” mean to you?

Blowing up to me is taking what you’ve been doing and getting the right business or people invested in you and your future. Taking your passion and turning it into a financial situation that will hold you and your’s over forever. Whether it be getting signed, hitting a hundred thousand music video views, getting a verified Twitter or whatever that’s gonna make your gift into something you can eat off of. It’s that time period from what was to that.

3. If you were “cursed” to have to work with just one producer for the rest of your career, who would you want it to be?

If I had to work with one producer for the rest of my life it would be Kanye West probably. I’d need someone that’s timeless and can take what’s popular and turn it into a classic forever.

4. What’s your favorite Seattle music venue to perform in?

Whichever one has the promoter that’s willing to sock it to my pocket the most and pack that bitch out. Haha I dunno man. I feel like Neumos has the best sound. I’ve had my funnest times off of stage at Nectar. I’ve had my most fun on stage at Chop Suey.

5. What’s the next project we can expect to see from you?

The next project hmm…Probably my next solo project which will hopefully be an album for sale. But either way [it] will have all original production, no more beat tape beats. No one ever knows the beats typically or has heard them. I’ve done it throughout my career with the SOTA stuff up to Hank Moody & the Helluvastate shit too. But I don’t want to fuck with anything anyone can hold against me later. I had two really strong joints that I couldn’t put out on Maven because of Trox being on some super funny style shit. Shout out to him…I wanted to put ‘em out anyways but MO’s not trying too. If it was up to me I’d leak ‘em anyway.

6. Did you and your friends clean up after yourselves after the “Crown Royal” video shoot in your mom’s house? And if not, was she angry?

Haha me and momma t town have a great relationship. She’s not trippin’ over any of that shit. She was outta town when we shot that. But I cleaned up after. Can’t treat my mom like that. She’s all I got.

Photo via Sub Pop artist page.

There is all sorts of AWEsome (sorry, had to) surrounding “QueenS,” the recent drop from Sub Pop artists THEESatisfaction. First of all, there’s the free download of the mp3 which I just caught at this location. Second, there’s the upcoming “short film” which will be directed by Dream Hampton (!!!). And thirdly, there’s the related open casting call for “Black women, aged 21-30″ in the New York City area, details of which lie here. awE naturalE is due March 27.

Mark Driscoll wouldn’t like this one. Face Tattoo coming later this year on Unimpressive Records.