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Elucid has been hard at work putting the finishing touches to his Super Chocolate Black Simian release which is out 11th January. Here's the first taste and think these are probably our favourite yet, even more menacing, intense, passionate and poetical than usual riding huge productions from Chasing Shadows and DVA. Not sure what type of war we'd ever want to get into, but whatever it is we've found our marching music.

Dream On by E L U C I D

Nigga by E L U C I D

Download: Elucid - Dream On / Nigga

Elucid - FACEMELT! from Primus Luta on Vimeo.

Been a while since we heard anything from Elucid but it's more likely cos we've had our head up our arse then any lack of actual output from one of our favourite New York Hip-hop / Dubstep rhyme exponents. Some of you may remember the project we mentioned from him and El Carnicero called Capricorn One, well they're definitely one of the most smoking duos since Cheech & Chong and they've just dropped their first official single called Pandemonium.

Capricorn.One - Pandemonium by iQ Entertainment

Elucid also makes an appearance on the new Von Pea (Tanya Morgan) album with Lessondary crew compadre Che Grand.

Download: Von Pea feat Elucid & Che Grand - Thanks For Your Children

We've been absolutely loving the latest Numan release Skull Crusher, especially the remix from Capricorn One aka Elucid and El Carnicero. They've taken the original Dubstep track and flipped it into the kind of pimped out space age sounds for your lowriding hover car that almost feels like hearing Kool Keith's Dr Octagon album for the first time. You can pick up a copy of the EP over at Juno but those nice fellas at Seclusiasis have dropped us an exclusive remix for you all from SDUK (whose Clunge EP also dropped on the label last week).

Download: Numan - Skull Crusher (SDUK Remix)

We are most excited about Fluorescent Black, the return album from digitally mutated Hip-hop innovators Anti-Pop Consortium, whose importance in the current climate of music has been scandalously overlooked. Although Beans has dropped a couple of dope projects on Warp, and both High Priest and M. Sayyid managed to sneak a few solo bits and pieces alongside their relatively un-noticed but heavily packed Airborn Audio project on Ninja Tune, this will be the first proper Anti Pop Consortium album since 2002's Arrhythmia (not including their 2003 collaboration with free-jazz pianist Matthew Shipp).

Pitchfork have just previewed this sneak preview from the album, Capricorn One is classic APC but then they were so ahead of their time in the first place that this is just as relevant now as it would have been then, if not more so.

(YSI) Anti-Pop Consortium / alt link

Fluorescent Black will be released through Big Dada on October 13.