Umor Rex Brings The Razzle Dazzle
9.19.14 by Mike Haley

If you ever played NBA Jam (without cheats, don’t bring that shit) then you know that two consecutive scores means you’re warming up and three means that you are ON FIRE. Well, I hope Umor Rex got their latest batch dubbed with flame retardant shells, because they are the Shawn Kemp / Gary Payton / Detlef Schrempf of recently released tapes and can’t be stopped. (editor’s note: fuck you if you think any team dominated harder than the Sonics).

Before you even get to the brilliantly addictive sounds that Derek Rogers, Maar, and G.S. Sultan deliver you’ll be dumbfounded by the lavish packaging. Each cassette, in hand numbered editions of 80 copies, come housed in silk screened black Brad Paks with sleek linear patterns. The colors of ink on the covers coincide with that tape’s shell color and mini-booklet insert. Without a doubt Umor Rex has delivered the finest all-around batch I have seen in a minute. Or, in other words, BOOM SHAKALAKA!!

You can pick up these, and a bunch of other Umor titles, from Thrill Jockey Records. If you don’t you are stupid, and dumb, and I hate you. Listen to each below.