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Mysterious and highly conceptual, New York City performer
Aleister X first materialized with a series of EP releases in the late 2000s. After being involved with the recording of dub superstar
Lee Perry's 2008 album Repentance,
X's debut four-song EP,
Bangers and Beans, arrived in late 2009, showcasing his strange hybrid of fried psychedelia and grimy U.K.-influenced street rap. Another EP, The Git, arrived in 2010, and Thong Beach followed in 2012.
X had been honing his live show in the meantime, performing in black metal face paint makeup and incongruent stage clothes like boxing robes or basketball jerseys. A series of warped videos preceded
Half-Speed Mastered, a proper full-length debut that arrived in early 2013, mixed by
Andrew W.K. and released on his fledgling label,
Steev Mike. He returned later that year with the holiday-themed single NSFW XMAS and then with sophomore album
Keepin' It Real, which arrived in the spring of 2014. ~ Fred Thomas