Jizzm - Illasophic 1.5

Illasophic 1.5

Beneath The Surface...

This is one of the few albums that still amazes me after rotating it since 1998.

It casts LA's most prolific rappers paired with Omid's deep going beats leading you to a 82 minutes lasting journey. You just have to enter the bus and to enjoy the ride...

Additional note:
The compilation was first self released by Omid himself in a limited run in form of a 3xLP and a CD in 1998. In 1999 came a 12" EP, a 3xLP and CD on Celestial Recordings. The full length Celestial Recordings releases have a different track listing than Omid's self released ones. On the first release there are the tracks "Surveillance", "What Up" and "Outsider" which aren't on the second release while on the 2nd there are "Subterranean Service" and "To The Turn Of The Earth" which aren't on the first release. Furthermore the second press vinyl consists of 3 records where only 2 records contain the vocal versions while the third has some instrumentals! Some people say that there was also a repress of the 2nd 3xLP. Later on, there also came a CDr and a 2xLP with the instrumentals and a re-release of the first CD.
Taking the instrumentals from the 2nd 3xLP version and the Instrumental CDr there are only 3 instrumentals missing: "You are in my clutches", "What Up?" and "Outsider" which is the same beat as on "Line Postin' in Pedro". For "You are in my clutches" I can remember that I once read that Omid doesn't know where his original ADAT recording is, so we probably will never see this one :(

Beneath The Surface ( all tracks )
Beneath The Surface (OG release)
Beneath The Surface (Celestial Release) 
Instrumentals

Slant Special

Dear music-lover, I have planned this long ago and collected these tracks since then because in my opinion Slant is a dope artist. He produced dope beats in the past, was a hell of a MC and he also made some short films.
Slant, was a member of the former group Onomatopoeia together with Puzoozoo Watt and Vixxen or they are probably homies still but there hasn't been some new stuff from them for a long time.
Rumor has it that Slant quit his own music career to work as an A&R for a big player in the HipHop biz.
He was also a member of the group called Kali-9 together with Basik, Vixxen, Jizzm, Khynky Rhead and also DJ Drez I think. I'm not a 100% sure if they all belonged to the group or if they are all group members but I think that it must have been a hell of a group!
To give you some examples of how dope Slant was a producer and also as an MC I compiled 30 plus tracks into two parts letting the music speak for meeee.

Part I:

1. Onomatopoeia Anthem
2. Take Hold - Puzoozoo Watt, Vixxen
3. Coming - Vixxen
4. Twice As Hard - Vixxen
5. Excuses - Puzoozoo Watt
6. Disconnected - Puzoozoo Watt
7. Muff Diving Beat #2
8. Father Antiradio - Radioinactive
9. Remaining Underground - Radioinactive, Subtitle
10. Can I Get A Witness - Rifleman
11. Evolve Or Desolve - Jizzm, Slant, Akil, Chali2na, J-Smoov
12. (in)sense - Puzoozoo Watt, Slant, Vixxen prod. by Omid

Part II:

1. Fuck You - Slant
2. Oompa - Puzoozoo Watt, Slant
3. Knowledge Of Self - Jizzm
4. Suck It Easy Remix - Jizzm
5. Lyrics At Your Door - Jizzm, Rican Sun
6. Pirates - Jizzm, Puzoozoo Watt
7. Muff Diving Beat #3
8. Frigid Air - Basik, Perfecto
9. Act Like You Know - Isaiah, Murs
10. Paint The Town Red - Bleu Collar
11. Paint A Picture - Global Phlowtations, Sunspot Jonz, Slant prod. by Mystik Journeymen
12. Full Metal Jacket - Bleu Collar
13. Apex Predator - Basik
14. Fresh Breath - Basik, Slant
15. Warriors Remix - Jizzm, Otherwize
16. Arythmikhulesightandsound - Rifleman
17. B-Boy Class - Basik
18. Muff Diving Beat #4
19. Press On - Onomatopoeia prod. by Jizzm
20. Lost Angels - Jizzm, Vixxen