HOLY SHITAKE MONKEY
For Immediate Release September 18, 2006
RELEASING ‘STREET BEEF’ ON JANUARY 9, 2007
THROUGH OUTLOOK RECORDS
(UNIVERSAL / FONTANA)“Three words: Shitake Monkey sandwich” - David Manning, The Ridgefield Press
New York, NY – If you ain’t ‘lectro-rock, you ain’t Shitake Monkey. The New York City production team will release their long-awaited masterpiece, Street Beef on January 9, 2007 through Outlook Records (Universal / Fontana).
Street Beef is the experimental demon child of highly regarded musical polymaths - Baby Peanits (aka Electric Pete), Johnny Rodeo, and Chuck Brody - who met at Sony Music Studios way-back-when and have since produced, engineered, and written for a huge range of artists from Northern State, Wu Tang Clan and Elkland to Jennifer Lopez, Lindsay Lohan and Yoko Ono.
The first single off the album, “I’m Gonna Take You Home,“ will hit radio September 26th. It was recently sent to stations with fake plastic shit, as a kind of “social commentary” on the state of commercial radio. Yes, we did mention whom Shitake Monkey has worked with. We don’t get it, either.
Using their high level of production and engineering skills, Shitake Monkey proceeded to blow up amps and overdub 15,000 vocals per song. The result is Street Beef, an album that remixes the last 40 years of popular music into one sonic experience, combining influences to create the illusion that perhaps Beck is being backed up by the Beach Boys, breaking over Beastie Boys beats while using the studio as an instrument much like the Beatles did.
“We often put a fake mustache on the television set and watch the news,” says Johnny Rodeo, when asked the inspiration for Street Beef. “Then we wait for the mustache to line-up over on the announcer’s face.”
The impact of the album is already starting to affect both coasts. It is common knowledge that longtime fan and secret collaborator Mel Gibson went on a rampage during his August arrest, but apparently it was not in response to his detainment. Between anti-Semitic remarks, swearing and breast compliments, it was also noted Gibson was “jumping around like a monkey,” likely due to the advance copy of Street Beef blasting in his stereo- who’s intense beats instigated the high-speed pursuit. Reports that Shitake Monkey was also seen with Paris Hilton at NYC’s Marquee club are as yet unconfirmed.
Touted as “the next big thing” by such disparate sources as Yoko Ono and Tha Heatmakerz, it’s unanimous that what really sets Shitake Monkey apart- aside from their beards- is their sound. “It could be worse,” says Yoko.
Street Beef will be available nationwide on January 9, 2007 through Outlook Music.
Outlook is an independent label based in Denver, Colorado and established in 1998 by Trevor Pryce of the Denver Broncos and now Baltimore Ravens. Outlook is distributed by Fontana distribution, a division of Universal Records.
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