Atmosphere’s old-school record party: More than a thousand kids lined up to be the first to buy (yes, buy!) the Minneapolis hip-hop group’s new album at midnight.
This is pretty damn cool, and must also have been a decent payday for Slug and Ant. Somehow they were able to keep the record off the internet for long enough, and were smart enough to delay the public release, to have a release party of their own and at their own record store.
I’ll never forget buying Atmosphere’s first album Overcast at the Electric Fetus back in the day. I grabbed my CD from the shelf, walked up to the counter, and who was working? Slug. He looks at me and says, “damn, I heard this record really sucks”, to which I replied, “yeah, and I heard the lead guy is a total dick”. He laughed, we completed the transaction, and I walked away. Never in a million years did I ever think he would get as big as he did, but from everything I’ve read, he did it right.
I’m funna have to purchase.
I remember running into Slug outside the Millenium Broadway in NYC on my first trip out there for CMJ. He gave me the Headshots 7 cassette and seemed happy to be recognized, even by a fellow Minnesnowtan.
that’s awesome.