PAPER TIGER

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Paper Tiger

Biography

Paper Tiger
Producer | DJ

It is 1996. You are in a rusted-out Corolla with a crossfader apoxied to the dashboard. Killsadie, De La Soul, and Lifter Puller are maxing out the speakers. The window does not go down, no AC. He is singing, and smiling like a motherfucker. Welcome to Paper Tiger’s car.

Paper Tiger is Doomtree’s live DJ, our resident graphic designer, and one of our esteemed producers. Paper grew up with music at home, as the son of Minneapolis rocker Johnny Rey. As a teenager, Paper was friend to P.O.S, Cecil Otter, Mike Mictlan and MK Larada. After high school, the four lived in the now [in]famous Doomtree House—a den of creativity, beer cans, stencils, trash, and neighborhood concern.

As a producer, Paper Tiger’s style reveals his varied tastes. Listen for the influences of mid-school rap, electronic music, his friends. His snares snap, and his samples are distinguished by unusual textures and treatments. The music he makes ranges from the beautiful lamentations like Canonade (from his False Hopes release) to club-fire bangers like Game Over with Mike Mictlan, or Low light / Low Life off "Never Better" by P.O.S.

As a graphic artist, Paper keeps the Doomtree website, posters, and flyers on point. Sunglasses, skateboards, sneakers, NYC, Helvetica—all true of Mr. Tiger.

His 7-inch, Cloquet, was released at Blowout 5.

His first full length album "Made Like Us" is slotted for a 2010 release.

Solo Projects
False Hopes 11: Paper Tiger


The Word

A nice write up…

September 12, 2009

Here is a nice piece about the Union Pool show CLICK HERE>

The heart and soul of skateboarding…

September 10, 2009

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This is breakdancing…

September 10, 2009

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If I could play records in my sleep…

September 09, 2009

Diesel just did a line of bed sheets with some crazy gear on it. Kinda nerdy yes, but I’m not too mad at it.

New Skateboard Graphics

September 09, 2009

My friend Namdev Hardisty recently put out a new book about the current state of skateboard graphics,

check it out here>

I like this…

September 09, 2009

This is a series of icons made using the same Cap height and baseline restrictions based off Helvetica Neue Bold 75.

Helveticons>

MPLS

September 04, 2009

After 14 slices of Pizza, 96 train rides, and many many good times later, I have returned back to beautiful South Minneapolis.

Feels great to be home.

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Check it.

September 01, 2009

Here is a little write up about the show I did sunday… CLICK HERE

ART IS BAD

August 31, 2009

Here is a video of the homie Isaac Arvold, with an old song i did. In case you never saw it.

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Sunday Night

August 31, 2009

Played a show at SOB’s last night. I did 2 DJ sets, and played with the homie F.Stokes.

Camp Lo performed shortly after, and had a surprise guest , Nice & Smooth – Legendary Hip Hop.

I few cats in the crowd yelled “Doomtree!” Why not, thanks for stepping it up New York.

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