Vanity Projects released their second compilation this Friday the thirteenth. I have a new single from “Infected by Devils” premiered on this mix. Continue reading “Single: The Birth Of An Ocean Is Rare”
New Album: MELT (FREE Download)
The 6th Full-length album “Melt”
Produced by Michael Nhat
This is my last Vintage Rap album. I just released three in a row including Swimming to Cambodia. These beats were made in Clinton, Iowa 2006-2007 while visiting my adopted family. They are my top shelf selections. I have been wasting time sitting on them for years waiting to release them because I’m told it’s all about timing. Well, I realized I have a lot of beats. I need to stop wasting my time recording to beats that I think are okay, but someone else out there will love the beats and I should just record what I love. “Melt” to me is the best of the Vintage Rap albums, I have given it some of my most personal lyrics. Unfortunately, no label picked it up and I can not give it the financial push it deserves; but I don’t want to wait around because I have too many recordings waiting to go public and I’m not getting younger. So, I self-released it. I promise with every order I will send more than what you order, so if you have time, give it a listen below on my Bandcamp.
Release Date: September 7th, 2013 on Cassette Tape/CD/Digital Download
Pre-order your own copy at http://michaelnhat.bandcamp.com/album/melt-2
$0.00 (Name Your Price) Digital Release
$4.99 Cassette Tape 100 limited copies
$6.99 CD
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I made the instrumentals/beats in 2006 in Clinton, Iowa
I wrote the vocals between 2008-2013 and recorded them April 10, 2013 – April 17, 2013
I wrote the vocals between 2008-2013 and recorded them April 10, 2013 – April 17, 2013
releases 07 September 2013
Written, Produced and Engineered by Michael Nhat (nawt)
in Los Angeles, CA 90057
Written, Produced and Engineered by Michael Nhat (nawt)
in Los Angeles, CA 90057
Download entire album Free here
Download entire album Free here
Download entire album Free here
Download entire album Free here
“I’ve Made 25 Recordings in 5 Years”
Who cares about trying to stop Miley Cyrus from partying? I should be the one you try to stop. From 2008-2013 I have recorded 25 full-length albums, to me that’s a lot. 15 of them have never been released and never heard by anyone before. I have compiled the list in the order of the year they were made. The photo is all my lyrics next to a cassette tape for reference. And yesterday I uploaded 68 unused/unreleased demos onto the computer. If I stick to making the 8 disc box set “Massacre’s Make History”, they’ll be on it.
PS: The year after the title is when I recorded the project, not it’s release date.
1000 Apes in a Room – Attack of The Apes 2008
1000 Apes in a Room – (unreleased untitled 2nd album) 2008
Self titled 2008
Apekillape 2009 (unreleased)
Better savage 2010 (unreleased)
Polite Society or Murder – self-titled 2010 (unreleased)
Swimming to Cambodia 2010
Collected Songs Volume 1. 2010
Just plain dying 2010
We Dress Good EP 2010
Living room 2010
Those Born of a Ghost 2011
Gentlemen Prefer Brunettes – self-titled 2011 (unreleased)
Picnic 2011 (unreleased)
Just Plain Dying Pt2 2011 (unreleased)
Michael Nhat & Barrie Rose Demos 2011 (unreleased)
Fair Amounts of Debauchery and Blood 2011 (unreleased)
Bats on Promenade 2011 (unreleased)
Collected Songs Pt2 2011
Michael Nhat & Dylan Doren – self-titled EP 2012 (unreleased)
Untitled (Recorded on old 2005 Normal Tape Speed beats) (Unreleased) 2012
Kitchen EP 2012
Untitled No Rap/Singing Only Album 2013 (unreleased)
Melt 2013
Infected by Devils 2013 (unreleased)
Collected Songs Pt3 (unreleased)
5th Album Released Today “Those Born of a Ghost”
“An underground genre-blending artist who is really pushing the envelop. Rap, spoken word that sounds like Old Dirty Bastard aboard the Double Duch Bus. “Clocks and Monsters” touches upon many life issues, and also breaks into a slightly “singy” hook for the chorus. This track tastes like a combination of several obscure 90’s tracks like “Mr. Wendel” and “88 Lines About 44 Women” but that is in the harmonic content and beats.
“Isn’t a Hero Just Someone Who Kills Foreigners” has some kind of political message with overdubbed demented harmonies, acid references and quirky interesting rhythmic choices for the vocal delivery. It mostly seems like free-association word play amongst the samples and frantic beat changes. There is a strange “too-experimental” outro to the track which made me triple take to make sure I didn’t click somewhere else though.
“Crazy” “Out There” “Weird” – all of these phrases would accurately describe the music created by Michael Nhat, but he at least gets mega points for creativity in a world of copycats.” – Indie Music Reviews
New 18 Song Album “Those Born of a Ghost” available on cassette tape limited 100 copies in April 30, 2013. There is also some vocal collaborations with Dylan Doren, The Little Red Writer, Magick Orchids and Barrie Rose. In spitting distance from albums “Living Room” and “Swimming to Cambodia”, this new one is also sample abundant. It starts off with a simple piano and drum kick sampled from Mel Torme for “Exquisite Corpse”. “Raining Knives” is an all singing and no rapping turn over Tito Puente sample including snibbets in the beginng of Woody Allen’s “Zelig”. A Wayne Newton borrowed “A Love Like This” is a catchy hook and verse break-up song. Overall, it’s a darker album than “Living Room”, but not as horrorcore as “Swimming to Cambodia” and less hipster than the self-titled debut and third installment “Just Plain Dying”.
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Photo: Andrew Felix
Friday at The Mezz Bar/Sunday at The LA Fort
“Good Times” Music Video
Here’s a new hip-hop video filmed & edited by my friend Jason Clark in Los Angeles and produced by Jbts (www.lunaishoney.com) in 2009. He gave me a CDR at work (we’re both ex-American Apparel employees) with a bunch of beats and this loop stuck out to me. I loved it immediately, but it would be years before it seen light of day. I added the stuff at the end and recorded the vocals in 2010.
Cast:
Michael Nhat
ALONE (Sean Pineda & Elizabeth Ann aka Liz Bomb)
Nima Kazerouni (So Many Wizards/Crowne Plaza)
Jewel Music Video
I wrote the lyrics in 2003, recorded them to an entirely different production. I exploited a few classical songs I don’t know the name of and put an old dusty drum to it with a sample of the horror film “Henry” at the end. I released it on a demo in 2005 called “Bad Moon for The Werewolf to Kill You” and called it “I Thought You Said You Stabbed Her?”. It was a lot darker than this version 8 years later.
Winter of 2012 I recorded the beat you hear now, and for some reason singer/songwriter Nite Jewel came into my head. I started thinking about how she’d sound singing on it. Then I wondered if she would like it, if she ever heard it. Fast forward to February 22, 2013 I record the lyrics and name it “Jewel”.
lyrics
Dead toxic like laying in the food
talking to a poltergeist that will do
anything that makes them laugh
so confused and words of
have you know when born again
pee kung koi it scares some friends
clouds of fog the world is filled
darkness in the air you hear
city of the living dead
something on the news had read
I hear that revenge is sweet
this is where they finally meet
Falling down a 1000 steps
as some kind of pre-planned death
everyone is someone’s child
somehow we can not forget
knowing that your god itself
and crying because you hate yourself
looking in the mirror for
anything that’s not yourself
and it sounded something like
and it sounded something like
something like something like
haunted souls and words I sing
My first show in 2013 is at The Smell
You’re probably sick of seeing me perform the same 10 songs the past 5 years, so I will try to learn some new songs since my transition on 12/12/12 away from avant garde hip-hop and into singing/songwriting.
There’s Death in Tomorrow
New Music Video – There’s Death in Tomorrow
Starring Isaac Takeuchi
From “Just Plain Dying” cassette tape on I Had An Accident Records
Hello,
I was hanging out at the Vermont House in 2008 when Isaac told me he had a panty collection of girls he slept with. At that time, I was jotting ideas for an experimental art film I wanted to shoot and I thought this might be a good scene. 2 years later, Isaac and I got together at my place in Silverlake (Where Shaddy from Home Room lives now) and we shot a music video with his collection. I didn’t have a computer newer than 2002, so editing this HD footage was impossible without bugging friends to let me sit on their computers. For the next 3 years, I managed to get a few videos edited and published on a shoestring, while still shooting more footage than I could release, thus I have a lot of unseen, unedited, unused footage just accumulating from 2007 – present (half of it became DISHES).
In 2013, my fiance’ discovered she has Windows Movie Maker on her work computer. I know you’re all like, “Big deal who doesn’t?” … well, me. I don’t and I have been desperate to edit footage before I get killed in a bicycle/car accident or die from a premature stroke thanks to my high salt intake. So, even though I shoot my stuff with an AVCHD camera, lately, I’ve chose to compromise that quality just so I can get these music videos finished by editing with an inferior video editing software program.
So, if I’m putting too many emails with things I made in your inbox these next few months, forgive me, I’m trying to play catch-up with my vids. Now go click on the photo or here for the music video.
Sincerely, Michael
The 1st Wave of Music Videos for 2013
TEN-HEADED SKELETON 