Meanest Man Contest is a hip hop and electronic music duo based in San Francisco, California. The members are Quarterbar (Noah Blumberg) and Eriksolo (Eric Steuer).
As college roommates, Noah Blumberg and Eric Steuer started making lo-fi rap songs on a 4-track, then recruited friends to create the Santa Barbara hip-hop crew mic.edu. The duo formed Meanest Man Contest after a move upstate to Oakland, where they searched through stacks of flea market records looking for samples. From this effort came a series of short tracks that would form MMC's collage-like first single, Contaminated Dance Step. MMC's first LP, Merit, included jazz samples and live guitar.The Milk Factory - Reviews - Merit East Bay Express - CD Reviews More recently, the duo has expanded its musical approach with releases like the off-kilter pop EP Some People, the electro-tinged single Throwing Away Broken Electronics, and the hip-hop releases Split and Partially Smart. In 2013 the group released Everything Worth Mentioning.
Discography
Albums Year Title Label 2003 Merit Plug Research 2013 Everything Worth Mentioning Gold Robot Records
EPs Year Title Label 2007 Split (split CD with Languis) Sneakmove 2007 Some People (digital only) Plug Research 2008 Partially Smart (digital only) RCRD LBL 2008 We Blame You (digital only) Gold Robot Records
Singles Year Title Label 2002 "Contaminated Dance Step" Weapon-Shaped 2004 "I Was Only Kidding" (split 7-inch with The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up) Weapon-Shaped 2007 "Throwing Away Broken Electronics" Gold Robot Records
Compilations Year Title Label 2002 45 seconds of: simballrec 2007 Incite 50 XLR8R 2007 Sneakmove Minicomp 2 Sneakmove 2009 Designed Entropy 1 Gold Robot Records 2009 Leaders Briefcase Rockers
References
External links Meanest Man Contest