Dry Hustle

Dry Hustle was a one-off alias used by Drew Daniel of the experimental electronic band Matmos shortly before debuting with his dance music-themed side project The Soft Pink Truth. For Dry Hustle's sole release in 2001, Do It Quite Sloppily 12", Daniel combined Missy Elliott's 'Get Ur Freak On' acapella with samples of solid gold dropped onto silver. The artist converted $10,000 of savings into gold coins and silver ingots to record his "reductio ad absurdum of the blinged out aesthetic" — i.e., mocking tasteless "bling-bling" jewelry prevalent in commercial hip-hop. The B-side featured vocals by Bill Callahan of Smog.