And you thought Foreign Legion’s third LP Night Moves was just one of last year’s most underrated underground hip-hop releases. Think again sucker. Rappers Marc Stretch and Prozack Turner also made a feature film to accompany the album that has hitherto only had limited screenings. Shot in black and white, in a…er…string of comedic dialogue-based ‘cinema verite’ set pieces, the
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FOREIGN LEGION: Night Moves (The movie) (2012)
FOREIGN LEGION: ‘Night Moves’ + tracklist – 2011
Even more delayed than the Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 fellow true-schoolers Foreign Legion finally release ‘difficult third’ album, Night Moves on 12 April this year.
Full-Time B-Boy was the big underground banger that broke them (in the UK at least) at the turn of the millenium
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FOREIGN LEGION: ‘The Ultimate’ free download single + video + ‘Night Moves’ LP update – 2011
Still keeping it hotter than block parties in hell, it’s the imminent return of the FL! It says here that new FL single The Ultimate is a slow lane banger. If that seems a bit oxymoronic check Grandpa J’s woozy Asheru & Blue Black style horns-infused beat and you’ll get the picture. Marc Stretch and Prozack are back and – while I hesitate to announce much–delayed full-length LP Night Moves yet again, it is, allegedly, finally, due
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FOREIGN LEGION: ‘Travel Lite’ single out now, ‘Night Moves’ LP due 17th August 2010
Foreign Legion’s Night Moves LP (cover art below links) has been coming out and then failed to more times than an indecisive closet gay man. The evidence on the band’s own Hungerstrike Records website, would suggest that the latest due date for Prozack Turner and Marc Stretch’s much-delayed album is 17th August this year. The underrated Bay Area hip-hop duo’s long-awaited third LP is preceded by the seemingly troublesome digital release of promo single Travel Lite. And when I say troublesome, it looks like it’s been kicking around the web for a few weeks now even though publicity for it has been practically zero, the release date varies according from site to site, the artwork has changed (see below LP cover), the video has been pulled from YouTube (at the time of writing) and (depending on the site you visit) it sometimes comes with another track, Ultimate, as well as instrumentals of both. What is going on in the FL camp? Enquiring Minds want to know! Nevertheless – the understated Travel Lite rocks an ATCQ style beat courtesy of Intro Beats (i.e. the man behind the FL’s Secret Knock EP banger, Piano Banger) and lyrically explores the joys of the tour while the altogether trippier Ultimate offers woozy summer horns, Asheru & Blue Black style – …LISTEN to both HERE. Apparently, “the full length album is dropping in late summer and has appearances by Rhymesayers alumni Night Clubber Lang of the Boom Bap Project, Oh No, and Raashan Ahmad of Crown City Rockers!” according to the Hungerstrike Records site, which also notes that the album, “is already being hailed a classic by both Prozack Turner’s and Marc Stretch’s mothers.”
Foreign Legion – Myspace
hungerstrikerecords.com
FOREIGN LEGION: ‘Night Moves’ to be released April 2010
The long awaited third LP from Bay Area hip-hoppers Foreign Legion seems to have had its release delayed more times than Sting’s sperm but is (allegedly) now due in April 2010. And Crown City Rockers Rashaan Ahmad will be making appearance…In the meantime check below links for the latest ‘memo’ from Turner…
Read Night Moves album review here.
Foreign Legion – Myspace
Hungerstrike Records
FOREIGN LEGION: ‘Night Moves’ LP – 21 April ’09 release
Read Night Moves album review here
(PRESS RELEASE) The cliched phrase “hip hop is dead” has been dismantled by Oakland California hip hop crew Foreign Legion with their new album, Night Moves which is dropping April 21st some time in 2009 (having been delayed again for unspecified reasons) on Hungerstrike records! The 13 song, full-length masterpiece figuratively kicks it’s hip hop rivals in the nuts with soulful horns blasting in your face, and thick-as-honey basslines drenching your thirsty soul! Produced by Prozack Turner, DJ Flip (Ireland),DJ Buzz (Austria), G. Koop, Oh No, Grandpa J and Introbeats (Iceland), the album is exactly what underground hip hop is hungry for! Recorded, written, and produced completely at night in three countries over ten months, Night Moves is sure to make noise in the nocturnal circles of the worldwide hip hop underground! “We wanted to make an album that represents some of our darker thoughts, both literally and metaphorically, so we decided to experiment and do all the creating, recording and mixing at night” said Marc Stretch, lead emcee of Foreign Legion. Producer and fellow emcee, Prozack Turner had this to say, “Both Stretch and I were very busy in the daytime hours, with me working at the check-cashing place and Stretch doing his day gig (Stretch is the daytime DJ at a local San Francisco strip club) that the only time we had to work, was at night. Even when we recorded on tour, it was in the late hours. This album was 100% made at night.” The group is releasing a single in late March, don’t sleep!
Foreign Legion also just returned from this year’s South By Southwest music festival in Austin,Texas! The boys would like to thank all the fans who came through and helped burn the venues to the ground! Special thanks to Ravi, the manager of Ramada Limited for his patience regarding the noise and the naked cannonballs off the roof into the pool, (who knew pizza could float?) and also to Sgt. Stephani for being cool about the “smoke” and open containers!
FOREIGN LEGION – Night Moves LP update + free EP download + Prozack Turner video interview
According to the latest on FL’s label Hungerstrike Records website, the band’s new album Night Moves has been delayed again and is now slated for an early 2009 release – probably February. But don’t let that hold you back from scoring a bit of recent action from Prozack Turner and Marc Stretch in the form of The Secret Knock EP – download here. Don’t forget to leave a review y’all – it’d be rude not to. And finally…check this vid of the man who is ‘sicker than Caligula mixed with Dirk Diggler’ – the inimitable Prozack Turner.
