The United Sons Of Toil - Forces Of Production CD

It's time for some United Sons Of Toil again...we heard from them a while back with their When The Revolution Comes, Everything Will Be Beautiful.  Russel the guitarist/vocalist is cool as all get out and sent me this a while back (I'm way behind on my reviews, I gotta do what's in my head every once in a while and all of a sudden I got a shit ton of vinyl/cassette/cd's).  Unfortunately shortly before I received this the band called it quits...check it out at their WEBSITE.  As for this record, to put it simply, this is a way out there (in a good kinda way) remix of some of the stuff they've done over the years.  Here's the band's take on it, "This record, Forces Of Production, has been a long time coming. We’ve talked about doing something like this since our first record came out in 2007. As fans of experimental, dub, and electronic music, we appreciate the recontextualization of art in our current cut-and-paste culture. Who’s to say that the only versions of our songs are the ones we’ve released? So we imagined the individual tracks as raw material — merely starting points for new compositions. We enlisted friends and fans and assembled radically different versions of songs drawn from all of our records. Some of these songs are unmistakably United Sons of Toil songs; others bear little resemblance.  Like all our records, Forces Of Production is available for free download. In addition a super-deluxe limited-edition CD package is available with bonus disc (I got the even more uber rare basic promo copy). The admittedly over-the-top packaging involves riveted metal asset tags and a custom wax seal."  Yeah, you read that right...FREE.  The only thing free anymore is venereal disease.  This ain't no bullshit big label drivel.  Being in a FTW space time continuum, it brings me intense pleasure when a record takes that and induces a state of WTF.  This record is a fuckin' trip.  Every song (composition works better) is so different from the next, and they suck you in like a vacuum (not one of those plastic $20 ones you get at Walmart, but a good old built to last Kirby).  It has an almost industrial feel at times and then this hip hop vibe and finally kind of a dub step (a new to me genre) thing going on.  Forces of Production is groovy, heavy, spacey, funky, dreamy, mechanical, driving, hypnotic and probably a person could come up with a whole lot more.  Now that the contributors have taken the tunes and done their thing, it makes perfect sense.  The harmony that the band endorses in lyric is right there in the mix.  Too fucking cool.  As promised you can get this in the form of a DOWNLOAD, or if you're not willing to commit the bits and bytes, you can give it an audible gander (man I'm a wordy mofo) as a STREAM.  Or you can get yourself a hard copy at their website.  Every song on here is worth a listen, you can do it intently or passively like I'm doing as I type, hell, surf and listen.  Picked out a few of my ever changing faves, to get ya started... Cast Lead Rumford Shining Path