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MC Lars is set to release his US debut, The Laptop EP, on SideCho Records this summer. His music is best described as new school punk-rap that blends styles of Atom and His Package, Beastie Boys and old-school Run DMC with samples from bands such as Brand New and Piebald. MC Lars made his east coast debut at this year's Skate And Surf and will go out on the first ever AbsolutePunk.net Tour in the US in June with Audio Karate, Say Anything, and Lance's Hero. Following the Absolutepunk.net tour, Lars heads to the UK for T in The Park, other festivals and a string of shows with Piebald.
The Laptop EP is a selection of songs that appropriately showcase Lars' mental muscles for the first time. Subject selection ranges from the outright autobiographical "Straight Outta Stockholm" to a smirky interpretation of England from the American Student perspective "UK Visa Versa". "Mr Raven," one early standout track that samples a Brand New song, came about completely by accident. "I had been reading Poe and listening to Brand New and had this revelation that the four bars of that song fit this meter of Poe's. It was a song I had to write because the pieces fit well together - I couldn't help myself." Then there's "iGeneration," which is both a nod and stab at fast-tracked technology. However, it was the early writing and recording of "Hurricane Fresh" that proved to be Lars' first breakthrough. "It was the first time I saw what a bridge could do. It hit me how to take hip hop elements and really fuse them with rock and pop elements, because a lot of rap songs don't have a bridge or pop-oriented song structures. That's when I realized, OK, here's my style. Rap music with rock elements and pop conventions, glued together."
The Laptop EP is the follow up to Radio Pet Fencing, a CD released in September 2003 in the UK only on Truck Records under the name MC Lars Horris. This first CD merely hinted at what Lars was ultimately capable of. It was a culmination of his ideas and experimental recordings that began in the 5th grade. Lars eventually went on to Stanford University and moved to Oxford for a semester abroad when he was 18, a move that ultimately put him in touch with Truck Records and on the path to making music his full time ambition. He returned to the US the following semester and decided to drop the Horris because "people often thought it was Lars Whores, which is terrible."
Musically, his songs come from computer driven beats, samples and a small pile of instruments that sit next to his dorm room bed. How could he fuse a sound that combines his awkwardly assembled influences, ranging from Weird Al Yankovic to KRS One to The Sex Pistols? Check out The Laptop EP when it comes out this summer and find out! Also check out www.mclars.com for a complete list of his upcoming US tour dates on the Absolutepunk.net tour.
The Laptop EP is a selection of songs that appropriately showcase Lars' mental muscles for the first time. Subject selection ranges from the outright autobiographical "Straight Outta Stockholm" to a smirky interpretation of England from the American Student perspective "UK Visa Versa". "Mr Raven," one early standout track that samples a Brand New song, came about completely by accident. "I had been reading Poe and listening to Brand New and had this revelation that the four bars of that song fit this meter of Poe's. It was a song I had to write because the pieces fit well together - I couldn't help myself." Then there's "iGeneration," which is both a nod and stab at fast-tracked technology. However, it was the early writing and recording of "Hurricane Fresh" that proved to be Lars' first breakthrough. "It was the first time I saw what a bridge could do. It hit me how to take hip hop elements and really fuse them with rock and pop elements, because a lot of rap songs don't have a bridge or pop-oriented song structures. That's when I realized, OK, here's my style. Rap music with rock elements and pop conventions, glued together."
The Laptop EP is the follow up to Radio Pet Fencing, a CD released in September 2003 in the UK only on Truck Records under the name MC Lars Horris. This first CD merely hinted at what Lars was ultimately capable of. It was a culmination of his ideas and experimental recordings that began in the 5th grade. Lars eventually went on to Stanford University and moved to Oxford for a semester abroad when he was 18, a move that ultimately put him in touch with Truck Records and on the path to making music his full time ambition. He returned to the US the following semester and decided to drop the Horris because "people often thought it was Lars Whores, which is terrible."
Musically, his songs come from computer driven beats, samples and a small pile of instruments that sit next to his dorm room bed. How could he fuse a sound that combines his awkwardly assembled influences, ranging from Weird Al Yankovic to KRS One to The Sex Pistols? Check out The Laptop EP when it comes out this summer and find out! Also check out www.mclars.com for a complete list of his upcoming US tour dates on the Absolutepunk.net tour.
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