Russian Roulette, the new album from veteran rap producer Alchemist, is a long and freaked collage of raps and found-sound splurges and bits of old Soviet propaganda. So it only makes sense that the video for the single “Flight Confirmation,” which features on-fire verses from Danny Brown and Schoolboy Q, is a sensory assault...

Do you ever get the feeling that someone is niche marketing directly to you? So: Four rappers I like, all going in hard over a chorus-free spaced-out Alchemist beat, and then naming the result after one of my favorite annual WWE events: How am I not going to like this? It’s over. I’m helpless. So, [...]

Helsinki vampire rockers THE 69 EYES have revealed the cover art for their upcoming tenth studio album, X. Commented lead alchemist Jyrki69: "The cover is pure goth 'n' roll: a psychedelic mirror image of old wild animal bones with our x-tagram projected over all. It's good, evil, magic and voodoo all together! ...

The Alchemist has been producing rap records for something like two decades now, going back to the days when he was in a major-label white-rap duo with a teenaged Scott Caan. Lately, he’s been making increasingly psychedelic and mindbending tracks. And on the brand-new “Flight Confirmation,” he brings in Danny Brown...

Battles are in the midst of releasing their Dross Glop 12″ series, which feature remixes of tracks from their 2011 album Gloss Drop. Dross Glop 1, out now, had remixes from the Field and Gui Boratto, and we’ve already posted those. On the next installment, great rap producer the Alchemist will take on “Futura,&#...