Kid Koala - Scratchcratchratchatch

This is a promo tape for his Ninja Tune debut album, 500 copies limited, released in 1996.
Some of the tracks are to be found on another 10" of his also... That's about it.
PS- That's the last post until october. Hang on, we'll be back.

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Face A

Start Hear
Emperors Crash Course In Cantonese
Tubanjo
The Prank Call
Dinner With Yoda
Statics Waltz (Lo-Fi Version)
Tricks N' Treats
Made From Björk


Face B

Made From Scratch
Capone's Theme Park
Fashion Lesson
Medieval Retrowax
Jhaptal
Taboo Soda
Almost Easy Listening
The Mushroom Factory
Thank You, Good Night, Drive Safely

Chocaholics - Brechtian Tactics

First mixtape my cousin (M. Lazerus Pit) and i ever release, it was 2001 or 2002 i think.
We met for a couple of weeks, blend our then-waay-smaller indie rap vinyl collections, spent hours finding the ideal fit, rehearse and record the whole thing on a mini-disk deck (remember mini-disc?). We only made a handful of those.

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Face A

Jahlude Campus Presentation
SONIC SUM - Rocket
CANNIBAL OX ft. EL-P - Ridiculoid
SLUG & EL-P - RPM Revolutions Per Minute
OMID - Everyone (Interlude)
AESOP ROCK - Wise Up
THAWFOR ft. MIKE LADD, ROB SMITH & SLUG - Where Thawght Is Worshiped 2.0
BUCK 65 & SAGE FRANCIS - Follow Me
AUTOMATOR ft. SINISTER 6000 - A Better Tomorrow
MR LEN ft. THE JUGGAKNOTS - This Morning
PRESAGE - Interlude
KING HONEY ft. MENTAL - Motions
EL STEW - Twoast
THEE INSEKT - In Your Earhole
KID KOALA ft. CUT CHEMIST - Here's A Little Story...
Now We Can't Go Back...


Face B

Clouddead Kidnapps The Pope
MIKE LADD - Foxwood's
CLOUDDEAD - Grey
TES - Mouth Of The River
PREFUSE 73 ft. AESOP ROCK & MF DOOM - Blacklist
ANTIPOP CONSORTIUM - Monster Sex
TTC - Subway
DARKLEAF ft. KLIZEE - Wordbound
KID ACNE - Rap Dracula
DOSE ONE - Interlude
SCIENZ OF LIFE - Divine Powerz
ORGANIZED KONFUSION - Why
YESH ft. CMNR - Most Days
The Thief That Stole My Sad Days... (Skit)
DOCTOR L - Life Of Fortune And Fame
TACTEEL - Babyeah
EL-P - T.O.J.

Joseph Young & Anonymous - Rossi Nights & Malibu Mornings

The only guy that dares post up here wanted some Joe Dub to enlighten his summer days. So here you go: a a tape from 2000 produced by Anonymous (aka Neosapien from Log Cabin aka Anti MC of Mush Records), a nice line-up of guest: Subtitle, Megabusive, Radio, Liferexall, Premo.. the whole Westcoast Workforce in action.
Beware though: the 2 first tracks are almost unlistenable due to tape fuck-ups, the rest is ok.

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Face A

Rossi Nights
I Was Born...
Clientele ft. Premonition
3 Kings
Ninety Nine
Pillow Talk ft. Liferexall


Face B

Tired ft. Megabusive & Radioinactive
Suga & Sade
Game Is Afoot ft. Subtitle
My Vision
Resources
Malibu Mornings

Foot Soljaaz - Hoes To Doe

It took me forever to find the vinyl copy of this single... To celebrate this here's a rip of the cassingle, one track + instro only, but what a nice one...
Foot Soljaaz is Otherwize and Zig ESP, two mcs from LA, Project Blowed affiliates. Wize won the 97 Rap Olympics and is part of the highly underrated Blak Forest crew (You Are Now Entering The Blak Forest is a must have btw)... Enjoy.

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Face A

Hoes To Doe (Vocal)


Face B

Hoes To Doe (Instrumental)

Shape Shifters - Rob One Presents The 12" Bootlegs + Mo'...

Another Shape compilation tape, cooked by their dj Rob One. This time you got the tracks off their various 12", plus extra stuff like jingles and freestyles. Never saw a rip of this one neither.

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Face A

Intro: Family Drops
THE CHAIN SMOKERS - Triple Threat
AWOLRUS - Awol One Might Be Dumb
CHAIN SMOKERS & THE ENGLISH LEAGUE - Strange Birds
THE ALL DEADLY JIZZM - Intro II
OF MEXICAN DESCENT & THE CHAIN SMOKERS - Pot Full O'Gold
MECK ONE aka MR FUNG, WHIPPER WHIP, IRISCIENCE, MC MAR & DEF JEF - Can't Be Stopped Vol#2 - Unreleased Freestyle From 1994
ROB ONE - Megamix Anthem
RESEK - Freestyle Headed To Arizona


Face B

Intro: More Fam & Ice T Graff Talk
CIRCUS - Mos Eisley
CODY, PABLO, ED, TONY, CHRIS, COURTNEY, MARCUS & LAVAR - Planet Rock 2012
CHAIN SMOKERS - Prevail
AWOL ONE - Flossin'
DR LUDACHRIS, BUSY BLEEK, AKUMA & LIFE REXALL - Re-Iterate
Moment Of Truth (Original) Recorded Summer Of 1996
Mo'Fam...
ROB ONE - Outro

Shape Shifters - Girl Power Vol.1

This is a somewhat rare tour-tape by the Shape Shifters, lots of known tracks from various Shapes album or la2thebay-related artists on this... One for the true collectors. Love the cover also!

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Here Face B


Face A

Beatle Borg
Zumthing Different
Girls Dipped In Chocolate
Pond Scum
Access The Light Body
Funky Honky
Concievable Evidence
Da Socias Have Taken Over
The Callendar
Swollen Brain Fish
Can U See?
Goods 4 Yhaz
Stop Yer Playa Hate'in
Cheese E. Chuck


Face B

Ignite Jupiter
Squash Da Beef
A Lil Piece O Heaven
Into The Spectrum
Pepsi On Tha Record
Gaia
Kooky Crazy Robot Eye
Every Day
1st Day Of The Rest of Your Life

Plankton - Abyss

Now let's enter the mystery of the westcoast indie rap/finnish connection through this dope mixtape.
I have no idea why but this particular indie rap scene always been very much followed in that particular country. Maybe a great way to escape the rough weather with a music who transpires california and its sunny skies, who knows... This connection has been existing through lots of different activists, lots of DJs playing these underground stuff (way before it even reach obscure french messageboards), finnish artists/bands inspired by this sounds (early Ceebrolistics for example, but there's too much of them to mention)... Tommi aka DJ Plankton, owner of the very-lofi-yet-absolutely-lovely Anti-Party Music label was one of those early days activist. He released several mixtapes, sometimes finnish-only stuff, and sometimes, like on this tape, a blend of those 2 worlds...
Let's face it: in 1998 not many people even heard of the Living Legends or Emanon outside Cali (me including of course!), so yeah this guy was one the pionneer i guess...
So here it is, Asop meets Portishead, meets Stanley Clarke, meets some local finnish artist that you never heard of (oh and what's up with EVS' very early Commonwealth group also?), all here on Abyss.
I owe the original, hence the artwork, but the rip is from another slsk dude. Still the same sound though!

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Face A

TREEP - Abysmal Deeps
FUTURE SHOCK - Timekeeper
THE GROUCH - Giventake
TURNTABLE TERRANOVA - Misteries
COMMONWEALTH - No Worries
LITTLE AIDA - Times Not Leaving
ASOP - How Could I Ever
STANLEY CLARKE - Yesterday's Princess
ABSTRACT RUDE - Yesterday And Today
VOLUME 10 - First Born
IWERE - Deep In The Abyss


Face B

PSC - Tamika
ELIGH ft. THE GROUCH & MYSTIK JOURNEYMEN - Wasteful Thinking
PORTISHEAD - It Could Be Sweet
MIXEDPRACTICE - Untitled
EMANON - Outside Looking In
SWOLLEN MEMBERS ft. ACEYALONE - Consumption
ECLIPSE 427 - Mr Melanin
BORED STIFF - Peaceful Rotation '92

I Ran Y - s/t

I Ran Y is Ian and Ray, 2/3 of the SF group Private School (the third one being JunDax which appears here too). This is their first tape, there's no year mentioned on it but it sounds like their very early work... This first version got absolute no info on it, but they re-issued it with a tracklist and credits, and different artwork.
Check out their recent album In Lue Of The Greater Nowhere if you can.

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Face A

Going Off The Deep End
Waiting Room ft. JunDax
Run Fast Faster Too Late
Airplanes And Cars


Face B

Who Is U
Unmasking
Naked
I Ran Y

DJ Klock - Direction Of Rainbow (Live Mix In New York)

This is a live mix from 2004, the artwork is from a member of the Barnstormers.
Dj Klock was a one-of-a-kind turntablist, a truly original artist. He released a couple of albums / eps which i could hardly describe... He had this sort of very abstract, minimal sound. That tape is the perfect example of a (great) japanese dj at work: abstract hip hop blends with far out electronica, it's rare when a guy comes with this sort of tracklist and play a set like that in front of an audience.. it takes some balls!
He was one of the few artist i distributed from my label and it was a pleasure working with him... His tapes were kind of challenging and as a dj, he was the kind of guy that makes you think about your own stuff... what do you have to say, how much fresh things you offer to the listener and what makes the difference between you and the thousands other dudes with turntables.
He passed away in 2007. Check his other music if you can, it's worth it.

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Face A

Intro
CHRISTIAN KLEINE - Unauthorized
?- ?
GEODEZIK - Down In Nowhere
TAICHI - From The Train Window
DJ KLOCK - This World?
MATTHEW DEAR - Reae
ANNA KAUFEN - Who Carez (Eve Millards Careless Mix)
GANGSTARR - Mass Appeal
SUTEKH - Parse
KARAFUTO - ?
LACKLUSTER - Close Enough
SHIN TAKAI - E.Q-3


Face B

3-Q, VPR, E, EEE - Iakat Nihs
MINOTAUR SHOCK - Let Me Out
ATOM - www.pringles.com
FRIVOLOUS - Black
TAICHI - Mirror
NUYORICAN SOUL - It's Alright, I Feel It! (Roni Size Remix)
INDIVIDUAL ORCHESTRA - Standing. Beer
HERMETO PASCHOAL - Bebe (Childs View Mix)
JVOX - Cadona
THE BIG KNIFE - Deodesic Dome
BOARDS OF CANADA - Happy Cycling
HERMANN & KLEINE - Sitting Next To You

Pseudzero - Heavenly Reverse (A Bigg Jus Mix)

I found this thing a few months ago. It's a mix i started in 2005-2006 i think but never properly finished. It's 25 minutes long and listenable though, even if it's obviously not the type of hyper technical mix right here... I did it as part of a project for a label that was planning to release something by him, but shit got cancelled at some point and i sat with my unfinished (and now useless) mix. The recent Co-Flow show in London had me giving it a couple of more spins though... Hope you'll enjoy too.

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Mr Aeks - Savagery's Blunted Blade

This one's from 1999. Mr Aeks is the beatmaker from San Jose group KHZ Devils, his album was released on Dave Dub's Isolated Wax imprint. Shitload of guest mcs, incl. personal favorites Zest The Smoker and Dave himself... Artwork by Mr. Doze Green.

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Face A

Prelude
Breeze ft. Zest The Smoker
In A Nutshell ft. Megabusive
Say Something ft. Bzy Moe & Persevere
Triple Six ft. KHZ Devils
Off The Top ft. Axeom
Subliminal Slang ft. Pablo
Intimate Conversation ft. Koan Able
Eternal Family ft. Constylations
Ash Tray ft. KHZ Devils


Face B

Everywhere And Anywhere ft. Kefing The Asiatic & Zygote
Speculations ft. A-One
Suitcase Synopsis ft. Noah Dee Akili & Tape Master Steph
Listening For... ft. Q
Internal Revenue Service ft. Tobias & Ill Traxx
Listening For ft. Bzy Moe
Never Still Born ft. Dave Dub

Lexicon - More / Sundays

Not the most interesting one i admit, but i put it for historic value... This might be the very first Lexicon promo tape, probably around 98... Those 2 tracks never appeared on any albums or 12", there's the mention of Library Crew on the cover (an old collective build around Subtitle for what i know), and surprise, an uncredited Mr Marks himself appears on the bonus track called "Wizardy" which is really "More" with... him.
One of the Lex guy sounds a lot like LMNO too...
(PS- This guy IS actually LMNO... The tape is from 98 and about 20 of those exist. Thanks to Damien/Laitdbac and the Lexicon guys for the tip.)

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Face A

More (Dirty)
More (Beats)
Wizardy (Bonus)


Face B

Sundays (Dirty)
Sundays (Beats)

Jus 1.0 - Audio Aesthetics

Jus 1.0 is a beatmaker from Hawaï, from the Lightsleepers collective I think.
He did an album back in the days with Neila as "Lady Day & The Pres", this tape is probably from the same era... Then he pretty much disappeared from the radar.
There's some interesting featuring on there, Topic from Painkillers, JunDax from Private School, and even some group called Kilowattz (related to SDs' Kilowattz? No idea)...

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Face A

Intro
Iron Monkey
Modified Filmz ft. JunDax
Interlude
Speak Free ft. Kilowattz
Interlude
Communication ft. Mez & Topic
Disturbed ft. Animal Parts, Timer & Topic


Face B

Intro
Feel The Need
Atah Boy Intahlood
Demons
Mellow Drama ft. Man Ox
First Things 1st ft. JunDax
Outro...

Tenshun - Deadbeats

Another 'rare' item, one of Tenshun's very first tape album. It's from 2000. I'm not even sure it was ever commercialized. No tracklist, no info of course...

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Sircut - Blending & Bending

This one's a mixtape by a german DJ from the Offbeaters collective. I don't know much about them other than they're somewhat related to Vinylkingz/Subversiv*Rec.
Dark and industrial mood overall, lots of Anticon-related stuff, which is rare enough on this format. There's no tracklist on the jacket but I knew most of the stuff here... If you know about the missing tracks hit the comment section though.

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Face A

??
OF PROLITEARIOTS - Star Of David
CAVEMAN SPEAK - Acceptance Equals Death
BUCK 65 - Man Overboard #9
ALIAS - Watching Water
OBJECT BEINGS - Attack Of The Post-Modern Pat Boones
OCTAVIUS & 4AM - The Locust From The Bottomless Pit
OMID - Visions Out
PHILLIP BOA & THE VOODOOCLUB - Come In The Rain (Funkstörung Remix)
??


Face B

OCTAVIUS & 4AM - Modern Chairs
STIGG OF THE DUMP ft. BUCK 65 - Five Dollar Jesus
TES - Acts Of Tragedy
OF PROLITEARIOTS - Pentagram + DnB beat
SO-CALLED ARTISTS - Token Joyous Tune About Scorpions And Their Place In Our Society
PRESAGE - Aliens
GLOBAL PHLOWTATIONS - Subterranean Service
RUSTY PELICANS ft. IMANI - Tread Water
MEANEST MAN CONTEST - Feelin Pretty Psyched (About Love)
FUNKSTORUNG ft. BEANS - Salt
SIXTOO - A To Zero

Imprints - Homeless Tea Party

A one-sided cassette EP from an early Tommy V. I chose it because i never saw it anywhere, so I guess this one's for the hardcore la2thebay collector nerds... And also, i love TV and I think he's way underrated.
There's 3 tracks + 1 instru, one is TV rapping with what seems to be his little cousins, and a long posse cut starring Awol One about controlling your emotions.

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I Fall In Love 2 Fast ft. Slopoke & Noname
I Fall In Love 2 Fast (Instrumental Version)
At Least Freestyle Battle ft. Hedgehog, Esteban, Carla & Rebeca
Control Your Emotions ft. Awol One, Virus, Gel Roc, Noname, Origin & DJ Roach

Log Cabin / Universouls - LA Experimental / Westcoast Underground

2017 Edit:
I just changed the link to a new, better sounding rip of my cassette. Still not thee perfect sound, there's still hiss background, but this time the rip is much louder. 320kbps mp3.


Original Post:
I bought this one with a batch of other LL tapes a few years ago on ebay. There's no tracklist on it.
Prior to that, all i knew was the bootleg floating on slsk with varying tracklists and track names.
Recently, finnish homie/collector Kaliyuga Pro gave me a tracklist Anti MC (Neosapien back then) posted on a msg board years ago, which led me to these facts: a. it matched my tape b. the slsk bootlegs were wrong versions and more of a track collection (for instance Submental is not a Log Cabin track but a Miscellaneous Minds one, an early Eligh/Scarub/Savant Young group, and therefore not featured on my tape) c. that actual tape compiled 2 albums: LA Experimental by Log Cabin, then Westcoast Underground by Universouls (Radio, Malik, Sahga & Tom Slikk). The second one is entirely produced by Elusive.
A last thing: the sound of my rip isn't the best one unfortunately... But at least it's the real deal.

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Face A

LOG CABIN - LA EXPERIMENTAL
Intro
Collective Meditations
Erotica (Remix)
Virtual Reality
Acid Reign
(When I Put On) My Uniform
Wreckless
Metrognome
(Ultraviolet) Sunspray
Melancholy Manuscripts


Face B

Time And Space

UNIVERSOULS - WESTCOAST UNDERGROUND
Intro
Collective Meditations (Remix)
Peace Of Mind
Supreme Strategy
Trophy Ho's
3 Course Meal
Who's Child Is This?
Entr'Acte Half Time
Thus The Balance (Angel Smog)
If It's Real
Lost In Space

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Detect - Triple Threat

Second mixtape by Detect, this time it's a mix-cd with fine artwork by Ak, released in 2003.
Another classic mix dedicated to westcoast indie rap, with only one track not available on vinyl (guess who?).

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Zumthin' Different Intro
D-STYLES - John Wayne On Acid
ELIGH & DEL - A Lesson Garden
YOUNG JOSEPH ft. TOMMY V, SUBTITLE & LIFEREXALL - Suction
LIVING LEGENDS - Forces Of Nature
ACEYALONE - Balance
BOAC - 19 Ninety Now Theme Transmission
AWOL ONE - Sleepin All Day
SCARUB - Itz Uz
SACH - Suckas Play My Back
ANTI MC & RADIOINACTIVE - Agressive Fun
LOG CABIN - (Ultraviolet) Sunspray
BOOM BIP & DOSE ONE - Dead Man's Teal
SAAFIR - Lightsleeper
DEEP PUDDLE DYNAMICS - Candle (+ CONTROLLER 7 Remix)
THIRD SIGHT - Smegma In D Minor
MEANEST MAN CONTEST - Contamined Dance Step
THE SHAPE SHIFTERS - Words Of Wizdumb
BUSDRIVER - Party Pooper
EMANON - Acid Nine
THEM - I
DISFLEX.6 - Swashbuckling
OF PROLITEARIOTS - Star Of David
LAZERUS JACKSON - Hip Hop Police
FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP - Shockadoom
FOREST FIRE COLLECTIVE - Balance Of Nature
The Instructor Outro

Detect - 1st Adventure

First mixtape from parisian DJ Detect (Metalcrabs), released in 2001.
Dope selection, it all holds together perfectly, no technical fireworks but great musical & artistic coherence.

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Face A

Poco Più Ma Sempre Sostenuto
BUCK 65 - The Centaur
AESOP ROCK ft. VAST AIRE - Attention Span
NON-PROPHETS - Majority Rule
MHZ - World Premier
DOSE ONE - Interlude
MHZ - Magnetics
MICRANOTS - Culture
SEEL - Sophomore Slump
MR LIF - Be Out
INSIGHT & MR LIF - Universal
KID KOALA - Drive Safely


Face B

KID KOALA - Charlie Brown Intro
SLY DOC - Ice Cream
ATMOS - Mutiple Conversations
ELATION - Springfever
ANTARES - Ebb Of Life
PUSH BUTTON OBJECTS ft. DEL - 360°
SCIENTISTS OF SOUND - 19th Degree
OBSERVATORY SWIVEL - Provoked
DELTRON 3030 - Madness
ATMOSPHERE - Sound Is Vibration
KID KOALA - Thank You, Good Day, See Ya!