John "Jumbled" Bachman was one of the many talented artists, writers, and Beastie Boys super-fans who contributed to our recent 3-part PB30 All-around Breakdown feature and now, he's returned with his second self-released full-length of 2019, AUGUST HEAT. Jumbled's first long-form project since January 2019's Padre, AUGUST HEAT is just as it sounds: 17 tracks-worth of sweltering instrumental beats and emcee-assisted vocal tracks. "In early June, Jumbled compiled a list of his heat: heavy Boom-Bap beats that meshed together to create an album," explains a press release. John Bachman goes on to define "heat (noun)" as "1. hot beats / raps, 2. oppressively hot or humid weather, 3. pressure" and then, somehow, manages to reference a JAY-Z rhyme from "Light Up" alongside Drake: "Triple entendre, don't even ask me how." Although, originally conceived as a single-emcee affair, AUGUST HEAT soon morphed into a multi-emcee album littered with Jumbled's trademark vocal sample-assisted, perfectly dusty instrumental beats. Despite the brutally hot climate this August in Baltimore and up and down The East Coast, Bachman has spent the majority of his time this Summer moving into a new home with his family; but he attests, "this hasn't dampened his desire to remain musically productive."


Jumbled has recruited a sharp-tongued squad of collaborators both new and old for AUGUST HEAT including Torito, 83 Cutlass, Berko Lover, Moemaw Naedon, Luke Sick, Dot-Com Intelligence, ialive, ALASKA, Bully Preston partner-in-rhyme Dwell, REASUN, and new-comer, Blumajk. Darian Jones AKA Blumajk (@blumajkmedia) appears to be a "Media Instructor, Videographer, and Content Creator" hailing from either Baltimore of Philly with an affiliation to Wide Angle Youth Media. Although, blumajkmedia's YouTube channel only boasts three video uploads, as of publication date, it appears as though Darian Jones filmed UllNevaNo & Jumbled's monumental #4hourtour through Baltimore in support of their 2018 collaborative effort, The Ghost of Len Bias. Blumajk appears here, amidst AUGUST HEAT, on one of the album's closing tracks, "Sixteens," which appears to be his first time gracing the mic. AUGUST HEAT is now available from Jumbled's Bandcamp page on a Name-Your-Price basis and will become available on additional digital streaming platforms later this week. I would strongly recommend AUGUST HEAT for anyone's who's a fan of either Jumbled's work or that of his latest collaborators, especially, anyone who dug his 2016 effort, [I wish it was longer] AKA WIWL. clint. AKA salk. of Dwell & salk./Napalm Def, who previously designed album covers for MAGRUDERGRIND, created the equally sweltering cover for Jumbled's AUGUST HEAT.