Keepin it movin

After a brief reunion with the cultural community of Chicago, celebrating the First Fruits ceremony called Kwanzaa, of course we went back to NYC. But not for long. On the 22nd of that same month we were back in the CHI giving the Depaul University crowd some Hypnotic love. We don't get to do Chicago that often. But all that's changing.

SAME AS IT EVER WAS



















Overworked, overseas: HYPNOTIC and Mos in London, December 2007.

To all our fans worldwide, thanks for the love over the past year.

Check it out, even in 2008 some of America's finest have to go abroad to get critical acclaim and escape ignorance back home.

Chicago music expert/Tribune hack Greg Kot just published his list of "top local indie releases of '07"—10 artists who got it crackin while HYPNOTIC was sitting around being lazy and boring in the Chi, NYC, LA, London, Barcelona...at the North Sea Jazz Festival...and collaborating with everyone from Mos Def to Damon Albarn and Tony Allen. All that, done independently.

Can you think of any band more *indie* that HYPNOTIC?

Thankfully we had a number one record in Japan, Boomkat in the UK put yall up on the view that "Sanfoka" is one of the best songs of the year and now Tim Perlich at Now magazine in Toronto has selected the "Jupiter" CD as one of the albums of the year. Thanks Tim!

Maybe HYPNOTIC's not local enough!!!

Greg Kot's email address is greg@gregkot.com. Drop him a line and ask him if that's the case!









Or maybe just write a letter to the editor about Kot's shoddy-ass attempt at opinionmaking.

In the meantime yall let's hope Obama doesn't have to go over to Kenya to get elected Prez-o.

EUROPE UPDATE

EUROPE TRIP IS BACKDATED, SCROLL BACK AND CHECK OUT WHAT HAPPENED!




















It was a good trip, we'll fill you in over the next week or so...stay tuned!

...AND WE'RE BACK NYC!!!
























So come down and check us tonight!

THAT NETHERLANDS FRESHNESS


















If you get out there, Amsterdam has some raw barbers yall.

Just ask Smoov!

ROTTERDAM: AFTER THE SHOW IT'S THE AFTERPARTY


















Rotown? Down with brown. Who knew? WE LOVE HOLLAND MORE THAN EVER!

Scroll down, check out Hudah's champagne game and 360 doubled up with Ben and Len Stefani.

LOL.

THIS IS EUROPE: ROTTERDAM: BLACK SOIL FILM FESTIVAL


















Wow. Rotterdam. Rock star status we partied all night on Friday in London, blazed to the airport, flew to Holland and rolled in for the amazing, world class Black Soil Film Festival (get on their MySpace!). ! Remembering the love we got at North Sea Jazz over the summer (have yall forgotten?), we gave the good folks of Rotterdam a little taste of the "fresh air" HYPNOTIC, playing outside an art gallery to ratchet up hype for the show. Just a taste though! Then it was time to get it crackin at the Rotown venue.




















To be brief, gotta say that the Rotown show was one of the best HYPNOTIC shows ever. Backstage the band got reckless and decided to debut a new 3 x 3 x 3 format— three hits of three songs with no breaks, not chatter, no backstory. The crowd loved it—really gave people a chance to get into the full detonation of the HYPNOTIC sound.

Anyways...the results were INSANE!!! Not the kinda show you take pics of, just one you remember forever.



































Respect to Philip @ Black Soil (in the pic below). He set the band up lovely with a great introduction (at least it sounded great in Dutch). Plus dude's front row game is immaculate.