Ink Jet – Cold Shoulder
7.11.16 by Mike Haley

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Forget everything you know about hanging in fancy hotel lobbies, watching montages of very specific teams preparing for a heist, and Blaxploitation fonts. Wait, that’s not right. Remember those things. Remember all of those things at once. Force them into your thoughts until they crash together like matter and antimatter and create pure energy in your skull. Dapper energy with an unhesitating swagger.

The throbs immediately take over. And not just your everyday throbs that you take to the grocery store. You wear these throbs to a wedding when you’re trying to show up the bride. You’re laced with breakbeats and samples and moxie. I’m talking about cassette “Cold Shoulder” by Ink Jet. Like it’s cover, “Cold Shoulder” is a razor cut collage. A stomping ground for slick samples and beats to roll around the rink, house lights down, gel lights in full rage mode. If Jared Arnold wanted to create a time that was a very good time to have then he did it this time. Good times. That is something I support.

I also support the heeeeeella dope (hand?) die cutting of “INK JET” on the cover. A very funky touch to a very funky tape from Gohan Tapes. They only made 20 copies of them, which is something I don’t support. Buy a copy now and maybe they will make more?