Happy 4/20

Electric Garden Of Delights

Acid Reign - Ready Yet?

Ready Yet?

Slowrider

 

Slowrider

Neila - Vertical Trees With Eternal Leaves

This is Neila's first album that was pressed on CD. Before that she released tapes and CD-R's. There are only two guest spots on it, one from Gajah of the group Acid Reign and one from Myk Mansun who is close to Acid Reign. As you probably know Gajah you might not heard from Myk Mansun before but he is also a dope MC and Producer. Surprisingly he appears on Myka 9's album 'Souvereign Soul' that was released last month! On 'Vertical With Eternal Leaves' Myk Mansun also produced the track that he appears on. Besides him Daddy Kev, Liferexall, Matth and Omid also produced one track. Deeskee was the one, who took care of the remaining 11 beats. 1+4+11 makes 16 relaxing tracks that fit very well for the winter time.

Vertical Trees

Bleu Collar

Following up to the Slant Special there is also this album I have to post. Slant produced 2 tracks on it and there are also tracks on it that are produced by Eligh, Mum's The Word, Grouch and Champ of whom I haven't heard of before but DiscoG's says that he also produced one track for Rasco and one for the Cali Agents.
Bleu Collar are Basik who you might already know and Reese 1 of whom I heard that he was in Jail back in the day what could be the reason that he is relatively unknown. DiscoG's says that Reese also has a different group called King Fantastic who had two releases recently.

Bleu Collar

Record Players - Direct Drive

When I woke up today I had the song "Don't forget about the music" in my ears and at that moment I didn't know where it was on. I looked on utube but I couldn't find it there. So I had a look at DiscoG's and I found it there and was happy that I got the CD. So here it is...and don't forget: Making money but don't forget about the music!

Direct Drive

Myka 9 - A Work In Progress

To speak honestly, it was hard for meeee to like that album for a very long time. It has solid beats but on some tracks I would have expected Myka to be more serious and more skilled like he used to be on It's All Love. Some tracks stand out from the average but then there is for example a track that is called "This ain't the shit". I think that it must have been the reason why I always underestimated this album but I'm happy that I haven't sold it! Besides some tracks its really a hidden treasure and a nice treat for fans of Myka. Be sure to peep The THIRDMAN's Blog where you can find the vinyl version with selected tracks from this album that was released by 247 records from Sweden.

A Work In Progress

Glue - Seconds Away

This time I will present to you a group that is not from the Bay. The name is Glue and it consists of one emcee called Adeem who won the Scribble Jam twice and who is an Anticon affiliate, DJ DQ who is taking care of some Cuts and the beat-smith Maker who also produced 3 albums (be sure to peep em!) for Qwel of Typical Cats. In general the productions of Maker apply dirty drum sounds and can be compared with productions from Blockhead, Joe Beats, ANT, Alias and Void Pedal. Some of them beats also contain a note that is typical for the Bay like on the track "Mixing Excuses" were Neila could have hook up with Adeem! If you aren't familiar with Glue you should definitely check their music...

Glue - Seconds Away

Left & Style Misia - The Grind / Die Another Day

Recently Ghetto Tyylit and This Is For The Hustlers have posted up some really rare stuff from the Daysmen Empire. So there is also another release that I can provide with Style Misia and Left aka Amorphous who is not a Daysmen Empire member but who is from the Constylations who are the Daysmen Empire members plus New Moon aka Bash Bros. who are Piseas and Left.

Left & Style Misia - The Grind / Die Another Day

Request: Fat Jack - Natural Hallucinogenics

Besides the two instrumental releases, one he released with DJ D (The Message) and the other one with Mascaria (Timespan), this one was a digital only release and also features some fine MCs. St. Mark 9:23, Mikah 9 and Abstract Rude bring you the background vocals on some tracks while on some other tracks Medusa & Feline Science and also Abstract Rude lay down some verses. As the name of the album implies, the tracks are of a laid-back style and I didn't try it but I can imagine that the album is a good one when being high.

Fat Jack - Natural Hallucinogenics

Request: Myka 9 - A Work In Progress Bonus CD

This is a limited Bonus CD for Mikah 9's "A Work In Progress" album. The first track features Pigeon John and track 5 features some guys who aren't credited but I think that they aren't Project Blowed affiliates. Two other tracks are only performed by Myka 9 while there are also 3 instrumentals. There are various clicks on every track, sorry for that.

Myka 9 - A Work In Progress Bonus CD

Basik MC - Apex Predator

Being originally released as a tape in 1998 you'll herewith find the CD version of Basik MCs "Apex Predator". In contrary to the tape version the CD version has of course a better sound quality and also some more tracks. It carries all tracks that are on the tape plus two new tracks. By providing 6 beatz for the album ranging from hard-hitting to experimental-abstract to laid-back type of ish Slant of Onomatopoeia did an excellent job. Other producers who took care of them beatz are Eligh, Mr. Len, Grouch and 2 Fat and Eye-3 of Copacetic Concepts. Perfecto, another Copacetic Concepts member appears on 2 tracks. Other features come from Eligh, Grouch, Aesop, Scarub, Murs and also from Slant. All of them including Basik who of course delivera some dope stuff that is worth a check.
You can find more stuff from the Copacetic Concepts on the Ghetto Tyylit Blog.

Basik MC - Apex Predator

DJ Zeph / Variable Unit - Remixed 12"

This is a small but fine release with a remix from DJ Design on the A-Side and its instrumental. The Seven Grain Remix on the B-Side is also a very dope track but there is no instrumental of it, what a pity! Both tracks, "Mirrors On Sand" and "Seven Grain" have a hard-hitting beat, so don't miss em.

DJ Zeph / Variable Unit - Remixed 12"

Style Misia - The Alibiez

And it's going on. Style Misia released this one in 2003 and it only features Scarub on one track. 22 tracks over 64 minutes he produced everything by himself. It's a good release but it can't be bad to have some more features. Nevertheless there is a hint on the album that the tracks were recored between 1997 and 1999.

Style Misia - The Alibiez

Request: Naptron

To save time and space, you will receive the Released and Unleashed album from Naptron. Most of these tracks were also recorded during the Celestial Recordings time somewhere between 1998 and 2001 I think and I'm sure that Al 'T' from Jamonproductions put out the Unleashed album around 2003 or 2004. Sadly, there are no production credits given.
Last thing I want to tell you is about the track Herrerah which is an ode to the Good Life fellas...

Naptron - Unleashed

Naptron - Released

Omid - Monolith

This is Omid's third album which is half instrumental and the other half with features from Aceyalone, Slug, Murs, PSC, DJ Drez, Spoon of Iodine, Buck 65, Abstract Rude, 2Mex, Busdriver and Hymnal. I offer you the probably best rip on the net you can find of this one so don't miss the chance to check it out...

Omid - Monolith

Maleko - Omnidirectional

You probably wonder why I'm upping so much Maleko stuff today. Today I found some older links that are still working and I thought about sharing the music with you. As you can see on the picture of the cover there are a lot of artists on this album, so much that I am not able to tag them all! Here is a citation from P-Minus:
The mighty Maleko cranks out another winner with 18 lovely tracks featuring ALL of your favorite underground emcees and producers: Tommy V., Raj, Randy & Psuedo (Lip Service), Neila, Da Golden Ray, Jundax,  Ian, Space Ranger, Ceschi & David Ramos (Anonymous Inc.), Enzyme (Organics), Rage, Agile, Triangulum, Matre, Radioinactive, Autoflo, Optimus Rhymes, Deeskee, Nocturnal Ron, Mr. Slugsworth, Gunther B., Jericho J., Kiko, WD4D, Anti-MC and PBoFA.

That's almost 73 minutes of wonderful stuff that proves that the northern California underground hip hop scene is one of the most vibrant and collaborative around.

Maleko - Omnidirectional