Bay Area Art Collective - B-Sides Demonstrations

Back with a cassette release from 1995. This is the first official album from the Bay Area Art Collective (BAAC). The only info I have on this group is from Discogs: it's a 3 guys band from Berkeley who released a handful of very confidential tapes between 95 and 98.

One member of the band, James Ek-Sel, is also a member of this other confidential westcoast group called All The King's Horses whose only demo cassette from 93 was just released on vinyl by Back 2 Da Source.

About this album now, I don't own a copy myself but found a rip of the full A and B sides that I proceeded to cut into different tracks. I then named the tracks accordingly to the Discogs page, like I did for the Log Cabin tape. Sound is correct. For those wondering why I switched tracks A07 and A09, well the A07 track begin with the rapper saying "Perpendicular Composers" which was supposedly track 9 according to Discogs, so.... Every other track is matching their title.

Enjoy!

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Face A

A New Page

Bay Bridge Interlude

Transformation All Stages

When I Lay In The Shade

I Unleash

Seargent

Perpendicular Composers

Hello Goodbye

Looking In A Destination

You Can Find Me In The Bay

The Perspective

Stop Messin With The Crack

So Much Weed

Face B

The BaacGround

You're Not Like Us

Off The Deepend

High Performance

Loose Lips

Circlecycle

Fake ID's

More Bricks

The Inner View

Zest The Smoker - The Smoker Filez

The Smoker Filez is a compilation of unreleased works, remastered demos and such from Zest. 

31 tracks in total, that's a good dose of dark and minimal San Jose hip hop (although it seems that he lives in Sacramento nowadays). You can recognize reworked versions of old tracks on slsk-floating demos (like 3 Face the Shape Shifter which isn't a real release). Some of the cuts on there are brilliant.. Don't sleep on it.

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Dirty Filthy Nasty

Tranczedelic Funk

It Ain't All Good

Sex Drugz N Techz

Max Murder

Macadamian

The Signal

Dead End

No Escaping The Ghetto

Hallwayz

Hold Ya Own

Murder Psycho II

No Chorus

The Hellyer Park Stories

Max Murder (Radio Edit)

Zest Freestyle (1994)

Puff Puff (Pre)

Puff Puff

My Old Nasty Habit (Dirt Mix)

Watch What You Say

The Bumrusch

Smoke Field Farm

Junk Intro

Funkcun

Impin Pimps

Red Hot

SJC

Bumrusch II

The Triple Threat

Blossom

Autumn

The Nonce - Unearthed (Private Compilation)

Scrolling through my files recently I stumbled upon that sort of 'private comp' that I named Unearthed.

A few years ago, fellow writer from now-defunct hiphopcore.net Bachir hit me about his forthcoming project. He wanted to do a mixtape dedicated to The Nonce, knew my passion for both that group and the vinyl format and wanted an outside advice about which tracks to select.

My nerdy self promptly made him a two-part compilation collecting on one file all the rap featurings and rarities (i.e. tracks including Sach or Yusef on other albums or comps), and on another file collecting all the additional remixes and productions for other artists I could find from them in my files.

I probably forgot a couple, but it's still a decent collection. 

And Bachir's mixtape, "The Only", released in 2010, is a must have if you're a fan of the group.

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CD1 - RAP FEATURINGS:

SACH - Number 9
SACH - L.I.F.E. Gives
BUILD AN ARK ft. SACH - Always There (Nobody Remix)
THE NONCE - Haiku Buscho Sach San
HEADSET ft. SACH - Grasping Claw
ADLIB ft. SACH - The Spot Pt.1
INOE ONER ft. SACH, AMBUSH & SAMSON - Pitch
DAEDELUS ft. SACH - Purged Lips Reply
DEBMASTER ft. SACH & INOE ONER - Digi
KEGS ONE ft. SACH - Hip Hop Exposed
INOE ONER ft. SACH & NICHOLSON - Dead Tenants
PRESTO ft. SACH & L.A. JAE - Soloist Virtuoso
THE NONCE - The Only
AMMON CONTACT ft. Sach - Into 777
LYNN NESS ft. SACH - Droppin' Jewels
SACH, PIGEON JOHN & RIFLEMAN - The People
SACH - Gold Lace AU
JIZZM ft. GLOBAL PHLOWTATIONS & YUSEF AFLOAT - Like It's 1999


CD2 - PRODUCTIONS & REMIXES:

THE NONCE - Bus Stops (Token And A Transfer Remix)
THE NONCE - Mix Tapes (81st Street Subliminal Remix)
THE NONCE - Eighty Five (Original Style 12inch Version)
THE NONCE - Bus Stops (Metro Line Remix)
GLOBAL PHLOWTATIONS - Quiet As Kept
ACEYALONE - All Balls
ACEYALONE - Annalillia
ACEYALONE - Mr. Outsider
FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP - My Leg
SUPHERB - 90008
SUPHERB - Born On Parole
SUPHERB - Dominoes, Cards And Chess
SONGODSUNS - Dream Small