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About:
Originally released in 2012, 1999 is the definitive debut mixtape from Brooklyn MC Joey Bada$$ that helped reshape the modern underground rap landscape. Leaning heavily into the golden era sound, a 17-year-old Joey earned instant critical acclaim by paying flawless homage to the 90s. Beyond timeless standout tracks like "Waves," "Survival Tactics," and "Snakes," the 15-track mixtape boasts production from icons like Chuck Strangers, Lord Finesse, MF DOOM, and J Dilla. It remains a crucial time capsule for the Pro Era collective, featuring memorable verses from Kirk Knight, CJ Fly, Nyck Caution, Rokamouth, Dessy Hinds, Dyemond Lewis, T'nah Apex, and the late Capital STEEZ. A classic that still sounds as fresh today as it did a decade ago. Pro Era Forever.

Key Selling:
- The debut mixtape from acclaimed New York rapper, Joey Bada$$
- 1999 has over 222.5M+ total streams on Spotify, and an average of 15M streams per song
- Official music videos released for "Hardknock" (5.1M views), "Survival Tactics" (24M views), "FromdaTomb$" (3.5M views), and "Waves" (15M views)
- 2026 marks the 14 year anniversary of the album's release (original release date: June 2012)
- The album helped Joey Bada$$ earn a spot on the 2013 XXL Freshman Class, alongside the likes of Action Bronson, Ab-Soul, Travis Scott and more
- The album was given an 8.0 by Pitchfork upon release
- First time black has been available at wide retail
- First time back in print since 2023

Tracklist:
A1/1. Summer Knights
A2/2. Waves
A3/3. FromdaTomb$ (Feat. Chuck Strangers)
A4/4. Survival Tactics (Feat. Capital STEEZ
A5/5. Killuminati (Feat. Capital STEEZ)
B1/6. Hardknock (Feat CJ Fly)
B2/7. World Domination
B3/8. Pennyroyal
B4/9. Funky Ho'$
C1/10. Daily Routine
C2/11. Snakes (Feat. T'nah Apex)
C3/12. Don't Front (Feat. CJ Fly)
C4/13. Righteous Minds
D1/14. Where It'$ At? (Feat. Kirk Knight)
D2/15. Third Eye Sh*t (Feat Pro Era, Capital STEEZ, CJ Fly, Chuck Strangers, Dyemond Lewis, Nyck Caution, Kirk Knight, Rokamouth & Dessy Hinds)

Socials:
YT: 256K subs / 68.8M views
Twitter: 1M followers
FB: 1.1M followers
IG: 2.2M followers


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LP, LTD Transparent Clear Vinyl

- First pressing (500 copies worldwide)

- Limited Edition Transparent Clear Vinyl
- Printed on heavyweight board outer sleeve
- Vinyl comes in black poly-lined protective bag
- Hype front sticker
- Vinyl pressed at Optimal media GmbH


2. GENRE/S: Ambient/Balearic/Kraut/Electro

3. FOR MUSIC FANS OF: Tara Clerkin Trio, Arthur Russell, Mabe Fratti, Visible Cloaks

4. TRACKLISTS:

A

1. Chords
2. Clouds
3. Hymn
4. Mornings with Rita
5. Routine I


B

1. Silence
2. Home I
3. Home II
4. Reunion
5. Sweden Organ


5. SHORT INFO:

Jason Dungan (aka Blue Lake) and Johan Carøe find beauty in the rhythms
and repetitions of domestic life for collaborative album, 'Routine' - out September 25

Copenhagen-based multi-instrumentalists Jason Dungan and Johan Carøe didn't set out to make an album. Instead, as the title 'Routine' suggests, they found their way there through a process of habitual making and listening, developing an intuitive musical language to reflect the dreamlike meanderings and creative play of life's quiet moments. 'Routine' blends pop orientated sounds, Avant-garde minimalism, folk and new age with the emotive depth of film-score.

Their meeting was not entirely coincidental. Previously in bands such as Squares and Triangles, Jason Dungan has since recorded multiple albums under the moniker Blue Lake, including the lauded 'Sun Arcs', pursuing his passion for self-built percussion and multi-string instruments. Johan Carøe meanwhile is a composer whose film soundtrack work has seen him collaborate with Angelo Badalamenti, Arp, and Sofie Birch, at whose Andersabo residency (curated by Dungan) the pair first met, resulting in the highly praised album 'Repair Techniques' written by Birch and Carøe.

'Routine' emerged organically over many years against the backdrop of great personal change. As Carøe said goodbye to his father and welcomed his first child, the pair sent each other fragments of melodies and patterns, working up responses when time allowed to assemble a sonic palette that combined acoustic instrumentation of zither, clarinet, cello, saxophone (among others) with the textures of tape, drum machine and Yamaha DX7 synth. Inspired by the vulnerability and DIY ethos of Arthur Russell's home recordings, the vision of labels like Disques de Crepescule, and the art pop, experimentation inherent to late '70s and early '80s recordings from NYC and Japan alike, Dungan and Carøe conjured new forms for their folk, leftfield pop and avant garde influences from the low-lit living rooms of Copenhagen and rural Sweden. "I'm very interested in the ways in which music and art emerge from our wider experiences as people, workers, parents and in the daydreaming activity of making music," Dungan explains of a process which allowed the duo's individual styles to drift apart and merge together seamlessly. "I think the process was definitely capturing moments in time, but over a long time," Carøe adds. "It was a bit like improvisation, but with time stretched."

The music floats with grace and humility, remaining sophisticated yet acutely introverted.
Whether on 'Clouds', where soft layers of zither and clarinet are moved along by a featherlight bass riff and the hypnotic clip-clop of the primitive groovebox, or the gentle grandeur of cello rising and falling through 'Routine 1', the album reveals itself over 10 instrumental tracks, evoking the ineffable calm that descends when the light changes and the world turns inwards. The act of time passing became a key creative ingredient to the evolution of the album, enriched with the exciting challenge to transform their passing rounds of home recordings via a slow release musical dialogue. Jason found creative moments in the twilight hours to lay down zither, melodica, acoustic guitar to name but few, while Johan utilising "line-in and headphones" would manipulate, stretch and pitch Jason's melodic pathways during newly born naptimes.

Carøe rhythmically plucks and slides the stringed cello instrument, leaving palpable foundations on 'Hymn' and 'Chords', in a treated, stylistic approach akin to Mabe Fratti, while 'Silence' draws to a close with a gospel touch. Dungan's harp-motion zither flourishes reveal more classical connotations on 'Reunion' with inspiration of Bedroom Community's Nico Muhly as organs rise with Moogs, culminating with a climatic choral outro from friend, mezzo-soprano Anna Caroline Olesen.

'Routine' then is their first collaboration, an album of deep and sincere reflection with inviting overtones that gesture with unrushed authenticity. A document of a new-found friendship that opens a window into the most personal of spaces, where the daily practices of music and life exist side-by-side to wondrous effect.



6. VITAL SALES POINTS:

- PR + Radio campaign by 9PR (UK/USA) / Dense PR + Radio campaign (EU)


Selected Press

"Magical in its simplicity and all the more compelling for what's just out of frame." - Pitchfork (Blue Lake)


"Uniquley traverses the intersection between Ambient and Folk with a distinct nordic aesthetic" - NPR, Best New Music Friday (Blue Lake)


"Shimmering like dappled sun on water" - The Quietus (Blue Lake)

"One of those rare albums that impresses with minimal gestures" - HHV (Sofie Birch & Johan Carøe)


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WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More