Beautiful Burnout

Beautiful Burnout is a Lovian underground hip-hop collective signed to Warped Records. The group is known for its mixtapes, glitched-out productions and collarobations with Clymenish techno producers.

Beautiful Burnout was founded by Gill Kristus (real name: Marcus Dykstra), Bullet Proof (real name: Lou Morricone) and Dopaminblocker in 2008. Glitzch and Keorge Gingma entered the collective in 2009. Other occasional members of Beautiful Burnout are Tapedeck Destroyer and Dagger.

History
Beautiful Burnout was founded by Sofasi-based rapper Gill Kristus (Marcus Dykstra) in 2008 as a solo project to release the home-recorded mixtape "Git Got Get Shot". Together with his childhood friends Bullet Proof and Dopaminblocker he decided to re-release the mixtape as "Glass Coke Bottles". They contacted Warped Records, and they started working on the new version of the mixtape over the course of 2008. In July 2008, the mixtape was released together with the single "What Will It Hurt?". Both recordings became minor underground hits, and the status of Beautiful Burnout was solidified.

In 2009, they played a gig at Warped Sofasi together with Bredish language Adohan rave-hop duo Die Reevolutie (consisting of Glitzch and Keorge Gingma). The members of Die Reevolutie decided to join Beautiful Burnout, and they convinced Gill Kristus to release a Bredish language mixtape.

Musical style
Beautiful Burnout is characterized by glitched beats, agressive rapping and eclectic sampling on the one hand, and slow spoken-word rapping and melancholic piano songs on the other hands. Beautiful Burnout's Bullet Proof plays a piano on stage, while occasional collaborator and drummer Dagger plays drums. Most songs are slabs of agressive filter house and rave-hop beats. The angry, nasal delivery of Gill Kristus is used to great effect on most mixtapes, while laid-back singer/rapper Bullet Proof does most of the choruses. Bredish rappers Glitzch and Keorge Gingma are known for their cynical, tongue-in-cheek flow and delivery.

Lyrical content
Beautiful Burnout has explored many lyrical themes in their lyrics, ranging from Bredish separatism, Clymenish socio-economical problems, depression, nihilism, hedonism, alcohol abuse and narcotics to growing up, coming of age, literature, popular culture and comic books.

Language
Gill Kristus mainly raps in Lovian English, and sometimes in Bredish. Because Bullet Proof doesn't speak Bredish, he only sings and raps in English. Glitzch and Keorge Gingma have limited themselves to Bredish.