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Open Mike Eagle announces new mixtape
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 10 August 2022
Open Mike Eagle has announced that he will release new mixtape ‘Component System With The Auto Reverse’ this autumn. He’s also released the first track from it, ‘I’ll Fight You’.
The fourteen track release, which features collaborations with Aesop Rock, Madlib and Quelle Chris, among others, is inspired by the rapper’s earliest experiences discovering hip hop.
“When I was in high school I used to stay up late to tape the hip hop shows on college radio station WHPK on the south side of Chicago”, he says. “It was the only way to hear the underground rap songs that changed my world”.
“I still have many of the cassettes, with songs by giants like MF Doom, DITC, Outsidaz, All Natural, Juggaknots, Organized Konfusion and more”, he goes on. “I named each tape. I named one ‘Component System’. This album was made in the spirit of that tape but with new music from me. Some of the people on the original tape appear on this album. I’m so proud of that, that it brings me close to tears”.
Listen to the Diamond D produced ‘I’ll Fight You’ here:
