fancy a meatshake?

So it turns out that one of my favorite goofy hiphop 'stars' of all time, the saintly Ugly Duckling, have a new album, 'Taste The Secret', out next week on Emperor Norton Records. It's a, get this, concept album about a store that sells meat milkshakes, and their showdown with the evil vegetarians, and it's actually very reminiscent of Parappa The Rapper 2 and the noodle shenanigans there-in (!). The corporate entity behind this milkshake revolution, Meat Shake, even has its own site - neeto. The Emperor Norton info page on the band has a bunch of audio clips, and I highly recommend checking out the album when it comes out, plus the other two _brilliant_ albums from them, Fresh Mode and Journey To Anywhere. Unfortunately, the band seems to have got bounced around labels a lot, in the UK, they've been on Wall Of Sound offshoot Bad Magic, and then on home of The Prodigy + Badly Drawn Boy, XL Recordings, and in the US, they were on 1500 Recordings, also home of Roni Size, who got shut down after being bought by a dot.com (Riffage.com) who went bust, of all things. Oh, and the new Village Voice has a very positive review of the new album, yay.