The Pro-Teens

𝙀𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙥 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙤-𝙏𝙚𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙥𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙪𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙧 𝙈𝙁 𝘿𝙤𝙤𝙢, 𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝟭𝟰 𝙞𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙘 𝙘𝙪𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙖 𝙬𝙤𝙣𝙠𝙮 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙢 𝙗𝙖𝙥 𝙛𝙪𝙣𝙠 𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙨.
Helmed by Hudson Whitlock, prolific drummer and percussionist of Karate Boogaloo and Surprise Chef, Melbourne’s The Pro-Teens is a collective of instrumentalists making weirdo instrumental soul records. Drawing from the community of musicians from such bands in the College Of Knowledge orbit, The Pro-Teens’ incorporate the comic book stylings of Doom and Kool Keith, the dark and exotic flavors of Gravediggaz and Wu-Tang Clan, the cinematic compositional mastery of Galt MacDermot, Richard Evans and Marc Moulin, culminating in an unorthodox patchwork of cinematic soul, boom-bap funk breaks and left-field instrumental textures. MF Teen: Your Concurrence In The Above Is Assumed recognises the legacy of rap’s Illest Villain, traversing MF Doom’s discography and personas, flipping selections from Madvillain, MM.. Food, Viktor Vaughan, Danger Doom and more, taking care to ensure recognisable tunes such as Doomsday and Curls are represented alongside more obscure cuts such as The Gas Face, the Third Bass song that featured the first recorded verse from MF Doom in his original moniker of Zev Love X of KMD.