I’ve always been a fan of chopping up creative music, explains DJ Candlestick. The collective have also famously chopped up Little Dragons Nabuma Rubberband (2015) and teamed up with Hollywood director Barry Jenkins to release a Chopnotslop version of the film soundtrack Moonlight. Paying homage to the legacy of DJ Screw, OG Ron C founded The Chopstars, recruited DJs Hollygrove, Slim K, Mike G (Odd Future) and Candlestick, and released remixed versions of hip-hop and R&B records by Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Lil Yachty and 2 Chainz, coining the terms chopnotslop and chopped not slopped – a reference to other DJs sloppily executed mixtapes. These albums would often be accompanied by mixes that were slowed down, scratched and juggled by DJs or chopped and screwed – a musical style originated and popularised by Houstons DJ Screw (1971-2000). The Chopstars were established by OG Ron C, a veteran of southern rap who co-founded the illustrious Texas-based independent record label Swishahouse Records alongside Michael ∵000 Watts in 1997, releasing records by Mike Jones, Paul Wall, Slim Thug and Chamillionaire. I feel like they go together inciting Brainfeeder to make a vinyl format appropriately doused in purple. It appeared online last year as an unofficial homage to the virtuoso bassist, songwriter and producers third and universally acclaimed album and received hearty approval from Thundercat, who proclaimed: If you got ∝runk its only right that you get ∝rank. Slowed down and chopped up, the mix has been fittingly re-titled Drank.
Brainfeeder has released a special chopped not slopped mix of Thundercats 2017 album Drunk, by DJ Candlestick and OG Ron C of legendary Houston DJ collective The Chopstars.
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