Beautiful Killing Machine

Beautiful Killing Machine

Magic Heart Genies - Heartifact

Heartifact

Next Impression

Next Impressions

Abstract Rude & Myka 9 are AyeM Ray-DIO

It's already some weeks old and I still don't know what to think about this album. My own expectations were totally different from the actual release. Since the moment I first heard Mikah 9's 'It's All Love' and already hearing ATU's 'South Central Thynk Taynk' a million times I waited for a collaboration album between Mikah 9 and Abstract Rude with production from Joseph Leimberg and Fat Jack that would blow me away.
So, it is not what I expected it to be but it absolutely grew on me and it is definitely worth a check!

Listen or buy on Bandcamp

Ceschi - Broken Bone Ballads

Listen or Buy on Bandcamp

Aceyalone - Action

Listen and Download on Soundcloud

Freestyle Fellowship - Sick

Listen to on Soundcloud

Ganjah K - I'm In Love (Wit Tha West Coast)

Listen To On Soundcloud

Myka 9 - With My Girlfriend

Listen to on Youtube

Small Literature - Winter Delight

Bandcamp

Sage Francis - Dead Man's Float (Sapient Remix)

Listen and Download on Soundcloud

Eligh x AngorRepublic - Victim

Watch on Youtube

A June & J Beat - By Destiny

Bandcamp

Empire State (DJ Drez-India Remix)

Bandcamp

Christmas Surprise V

Surprise, Surprise!

Tommy V - Travel Size Drawing Board

 

Bandcamp

P.U.T.S. - Where The Piecelock Ends

Soundcloud

Nolan The Ninja - Illphoria.

Bandcamp

Tommy V - Mockingbird

Tommy V's latest album is already 2 years old but still worth a listen. Ceschi and his brother David Ramos joint in on a majority of the tracks supporting Tommy V with various instruments and one feature of both.
Last week Tommy V mentioned that he is working on a new project which he will release within this december. Listening to his last album I can't wait to hear his forthcoming one....

Bandcamp

Mulatto Patriot & Primeridian's Simeon Viltz - Ray Elementary

Bandcamp

Lewis Parker - Game Of Charades Part 1 Instrumental

Soundcloud

Sapient - Dry Puddles Ten Year Edition

 Bandcamp

Ugly Duckling - Fresh Mode

Bandcamp

LuvJones - Art History Mural Project Soundtrack

Bandcamp

Souls Of Mischief - 93 'til Infinity ( Timeless Beatz Remix )

Soundcloud

Cunninlynguists & G&E - The WinterFire EP

Bandcamp

Masterclass - Show Returns

Bandcamp

Imani - Imani Thank U

Bandcamp

DJ D - The Highlife Movement

Highlife Movement

DJ D - The Workers Union

The Workers Union

Ganjah K - Welcome To The West

Listen on Soundcloud

Gajah - Hands of Gold Are Always Cold

Bandcamp

Maleko - Obsessed

Dear visitor, just wanna let you know that Maleko put a short track on Bandcamp.
Surprisingly, it is produced by Omid. What do you think about it?

Bandcamp

Gramatik - Street Bangerz 4

SB4

Gramatik - Street Bangerz 3

SB3

Gramatik - Street Bangerz 2

SB2

Gramatik - Street Bangerz 1

SB1

Various Artists - Crucial Alignment

Bandcamp

Toki Wright - Pangaea

Bandcamp

TOKiMONSTA - Desiderium

Bandcamp

Tonedeff - Hunter EP

Bandcamp

Meen Green - HempStory In The Makings

 Bandcamp

cLOUDDEAD

cLOUDDEAD

cLOUDDEAD Instrumentals

Bandcamp

Aceyalone - Magnificient City

Magnificient City

Instrumentals

Who Framed The A-Team?

You might have heard the A-Team on the Project Blowed compilation for the first time on the track "Maskeraid" for example. Here they (Abstract Rude & Aceyalone) are again but this time with a full-length album. There is another Heavyweights track on it, so that you can find all the released ones on this blog.

A-Team

Busdriver - Memoirs Of The Elephantmen

The Elephantmen

P.E.A.C.E. - Southern Fry'd Chicken

 

Southern Fry'd 

Bonus

Radioinactive - Hip Hop Helmet

Hip Hop Helmet

Awol One - Horrendous Acts Of Violence

Horrendous Acts

Noah23 - Street Astrology

Bandcamp

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