It is not an exaggeration to say that Star Wars was a significant piece of my youth. As a child of the seventies, it was nothing less than unprecedented in its scale and carefree flow and colorful iconic characters… and the awesome weaponry, dude, radical. It cuts and scabs the wound at the same time!! You know what I’m talking about!!

LAZER SWORD are LL and LANDO KAL and their epicenter is San Francisco California, where they plot subvertive chaos with fellow evil genius GHOSTS ON TAPE, from their lair in the Mission District.

Be sure to peep their various My Space profiles as these guys all have some skills in spades on their own, and when they come together, its major devastation, with a rich blend of self-cited influences from high concentrations of Bay Area hip hop, electro, Jamaican herbage, 80s synth music, psych rock and J Dilla and these influences reverberate throughout their music. Their live show sounds nothing short of devastating, an improvised full-on remix of this, that and everything, that differs every time and kills, throughout. I’m fiending to get these guys to Tokyo.

Lazer Sword’s first EP on BEAR Records is coming soon. In the meantime, some of you may remember the downbeat glitchy burner “Gucci Sweatshirt” which made blog rounds a little bit ago. I’m also really digging their new stuff, particularly the distorted “Dirty Industrial” and the hard-edged cut-up funk madness of “Sympathy For Miss Veronica”:

Lazer Sword – Gucci Sweatshirt

Lazer Sword & Buddy Leezle – Dirty Industrial

Sympathy for Miss Veronica (Lazer Sword Remix)