Cartoon Network’s home for late-night animation, [adult swim], has teamed with independent hip-hop music label Chocolate Industries to produce Chocolate Swim, a six-song collection of mp3s that will be available for free on June 26 at adultswim.com. Presented by Mountain Dew, the mini-album will feature tracks from Mos Def and Diverse, Lady Sovereign and DOOM.
Following on the heels of [adult swim]’s free DANGERDOOM Occult Hymn EP, Chocolate Swim is the first collaboration between the network and Chicago-based Chocolate Industries. All six songs will be originals or new remixes, including the Kut Masta Kurt remix of Mos Def and Diverse’s ‘Wylin Out.’
‘We’ve been huge fans of Chocolate Industries and their artists for quite a while,’ states Jason DeMarco, exec producer of the album DANGERDOOM: The Mouse and the Mask and head of music for Adult Swim. ‘We thought they would be a great label to work with on a radical idea like this: free music for the people, [adult swim]-style and no strings attached.’
The [adult swim] lineup includes such syndicated animated favorites as Fox’s Family Guy, American Dad and Futurama, as well as original comedy series including The Boondocks, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. The block also offers anime hits such Fullmetal Alchemist, Samurai Champloo and InuYasha. The 2006-2007 season will offer up a new slate of edgy toons, including Death Clock Metalocalypse, Frisky Dingo, Assy McGee, Saul of the Mole Men and Lucy, The Daughter of the Devil, as well as two animated pilots’Korgoth of Barbaria and That Crook’d ‘Sip.
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