Pro-Teens x MFDOOM album coming

Melbourne's The Pro Teens have dropped a handful of singles off this album, and its out mid January. Preorder vinyl/digital on Bandcamp.

"Helmed by Hudson Whitlock, prolific drummer and percussionist of Karate Boogaloo and Surprise Chef, Melbourne’s The Pro-Teens is a collective of instrumentalists making weirdo instrumental soul records. Drawing from the community of musicians from bands in the College Of Knowledge orbit, The Pro-Teens’ incorporate the comic book stylings of DOOM and Kool Keith, the dark flavors of Gravediggaz and Wu-Tang Clan, and the cinematic composition of Galt MacDermot, culminating in an unorthodox patchwork of cinematic soul, boom-bap funk breaks and left-field instrumental textures.

‘MF TEEN: Your Concurrence In The Above Is Assumed’ recognises the legacy of rap’s Illest Villain, traversing MF DOOM’s discography and personas, flipping selections from Madvillain, MM.. FOOD, Viktor Vaughan, Danger Doom and more, taking care to ensure recognisable tunes such as Doomsday and Curls are represented alongside more obscure cuts such as The Gas Face, the Third Bass song that featured the first recorded verse from MF DOOM in his original moniker of Zev Love X of the ill-fated 90s NYC rap group KMD.

“The diversity of tones, moods, feels and arrangements was an intentional act to mirror the diversity within DOOM's own diverse musical vocabulary. We wanted to fluctuate between putting our own spin on DOOM's classic tunes as well as staying true to the original source.” - Bandleader Hudson Whitlock aka Libby Clique-Baité.

MF TEEN: Your Concurrence In The Above Is Assumed comes after 2021’s Snooch Dodd & The Pro-Teens - I Flip My Life Every Time I Fly, which gained BBC6 Music’s Album Of The Day honors after its co-release by College Of Knowledge and UK tastemaker label Mr Bongo.

‘Charsnuka’ was originally produced under the Metal Fingers moniker and used as the beat for the song ‘?’ from DOOM’s now classic debut album Operation: Doomsday. The Pro-Teens embrace the boom bap hip hop feel from the original tune, replacing the organ melody with distorted glockenspiel and beefing up the backbeat with old-school handclaps, overall maintaining the energy from MF DOOM’s beat and imbuing it with the soul of a live band. The track ends with triumphant applause from the band.