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 1. Crunc Tesla and irez will be rocking the ever loving hell out of Cranes Tavern in Hollywood on April 27. This will be an Ableton Presents: Breaker's Circuit event.

 2. in celebration of kail coming out on alpha pup/big dada we're making his first album available for free. Get it HERE!!!!

 3. débruit ep will be released march 27th, 2008. go to his myspace

 4. nosaj thing will be playing the OBEY showcase at SXSW with Free The Robots, Flying Lotus and a grip more! Good luck on getting into that show, by the way...

 5. crunc tesla is set to play a dj in an upcoming disney movie, we forget which one.

 6. eliot lipp has been added the roster along with debmaster, ICON the mic king, blingmod, dDamage, small is beautiful, ortho acusto and a slew of others. or not, but that's still a lot of folks!!!

 7. there's a new labwaste mini ep available titled "can I get it how you live?" available on picture disc 7" in (as usual) a limited edition of 500! cop dat!!!

 8. nocando is about to go on tour with lil wayne! WTF?!! we think that him and nosajthing's project will now be called "fractured hip" or something of that ilk. those crazy kids.....

 9. lab waste starts touring europe in early april with sebastien casino, agent202 and maybe even dDamage and debruit, but we'll see....

10. lazersword are featured on jason forrest/donna summer's blog BIRTHDAY PARTY BERLIN, which is sick as heck!!!

11. speaking of the lazer and the sword, their EP is nearing completion, you know it's nothing but heaters to last you thru a cold or hot season. it may turn out to be a new energy source!!!

12. the b.e.a.r. comp is basically finished and the labwaste album is nearing completion, thank Thoth....

13. since we're too big for our britches, b.e.a.r. is now in 2 spots!
  -n.america (LA)
  -europe (paris!) which will be ran by gino still.

14. we're 3 divisions now, but still the same gang
    A. briefcase rockers-full service mysterious imprint, complete with NEW and EXCITING talent!!!
    B. BSL-Briefcase Strategic Labs was made in the spirit of GSL and is responsible for the limited edition releases, the vinyl, the one-offs and etcetra. basically, all the special materials...
  C. b.e.a.r._digitalic-all digital, all the time...

15. nosajthing and labwaste are both archived on xlr8r.com's downloads page

16. b.e.a.r. is working  with HHV/hip-hop vinyl to press records since the terrain to roam record looked so sick! tanks again to them and look for more colaborations from them and other labels in the future!
page for more info...

- we've BEEN getting ready to digitally re-release debruit's first release. when we recalibrate our digital infrastructure to fit the rest of our artists in it, that will be one of the first to go....

briefcase rockers/b.e.a.r.