FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ Series #6: BLK JKS & Esau Mwamwaya

The 6th edition of the highly-coveted, always banging FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ Series is now in the office, and maybe it’s the smog, but we are tripping heavily on both the cover and songs within. For this one we got our dudes BLK JKS to tear up “Umbzabalazo”, given the Super Freq mix by Greg Mann, and Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit sent us a snazzy version of the epic “Chilombo.” Not to be outdone, quiltmaker extraordinaire Ian Hundley sent us a gigantic pattern which we then shrunk to fit.

All of this can be yours for the mere price of nothing by emailing contests@thefader.com with “quilts” in the subject line.

FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ Series #5: Rubik’s Cube

We’ve been staring at Matt Furie’s cover art for hours trying to pick our favorite crazy looking monster thing. Right now we are stuck on the melted marshmallow ghost but ask us again in a minute and it might be the Rubix Cube robot in the bottom left. We don’t have to wonder about which song on this FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ we like the most, because both are ill. Side A is a Dirty Projectors edit of their own cover of Black Flag’s “Police Story,” going down compelling and uneasy, while Side B holds “Blue Steel,” a warm and relatively low key White Williams piano jam full of hidden layers and an 8-bit undercurrent that will keep us listening breathlessly until the next record.

We have a handful of copies to give away, so email your mailing address to contests@thefader.com with the subject heading “Seven.”

FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ Series #4: Full Metal Ninja

Artwork by Tomoe Hayama

For the fourth edition of the FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ series, we asked ourselves, “What would it sound like to get your butt sliced off by a ninja robot in the year 3076?” The answer (clearly) was Parisian party animal

Busy P on one side and B’more blockslayer DJ Blaqstarr on the other. And then we got Tomoe Hayama to design that ninja’s adverthrowingstar for the cover. Watch out!

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FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ Series #2: Second Seventh Sign

The second volume of our FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ series has arrived. For this limited-edition vinyl, we asked London’s Jack Duplock to handle cover art duty, and got Mavado and Busy Signal to give us fresh heatrocks, produced by Daseca and Black Chiney Soundsystem, respectively. This slab of goodness is not available in stores, but we do have copies for our loyal blog readers (that’s you). Email us at contests@thefader.com and tell us your favorite Busy Signal and/or Mavado chune, and we’ll send five of you a copy. For free! Get at us.

FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ Series #1: They’re Here!

The first run of our FADER/Southern Comfort7″ series has arrived. For this limited-edition vinyl, we asked Lou Laurita to handle cover art duty, and got some of our pals to contribute unreleased jamz: M Ward and Jim James are featured on the A-side with “Magic Trick (Kansas City Remix),” then flip it over for Ladyhawk’s “Soap”. It’s not available in stores, but we do have copies for our loyal blog readers (that’s you). Email us at contests@thefader.com and tell us the theme of M Ward’s 2005 album release and we’ll send five of you a copy. For free! Get to Googling and get at us with your answers.

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