Lab Waste - Monochrome World + Tour Mix-CD

This one is a tour-only cd-r from Lab Waste's 2008 Crev Or Die Tour. The tour was something like 8 shows in France (plus one in Netherlands I think).

Lab Waste was the super duo formed by 2 influential figures of the westcoast underground: Subtitle (aka Giovanni Marks, Westcoast Workforce and Shifters affiliate, released dope super lo-fi albums - some on GSL, giant and super-fast talker) and Thavius Beck (aka Adlib, Global Phlowtations, released dope instrumental albums on Mush, worked with Saul Williams and Trent Reznor, more the quiet type).

Their first album Zwarte Achtegrond (2005) is an underrated classic of rap & electronica blend (to put it in context it was the era "glitch rap" was the hip thing for the average rap fan.. so it was right on point and put them on some slight more media exposure despite a relatively unknown label). 

Some tracks on this album where supposed to be featured on their next album, and it's still weird to think labels like Big Dada or Lex passed and prefered to bet on stuff like Jneiro Jarel or Spank Rock. Anyways... This is a collection of those unreleased tracks and remixes.

There's also a mix Subtitle did for the iHeartComix blog at the end, plus! I added another 24 minutes long continuous mix Lab Waste were selling as another merch cd on this very tour (it was another item with no title or artwork).

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CalTech80s

Eloy_Al

Everywhere Anywhere

Duran Roberto Demo

I Don't Go Out

System Of A Down Ass Nickel

Mega Attitude

People Talk About Us

Secret Elemental Block 03

Stuntman Drugs

Megadditude (Sebastien Casino Remix)

Untitled

Untitled

Untitled

Show Dance Mix (For iHeartComix)

+ Bonus Tour Mix-CD

Netherworlds - Pals

...Talking about LL classics.. even though only Murs of the 3 MCs is an official member of that crew, that album would be ranked #1 in my opinion. Weirdly enough, it was released on Chicago's label Galapagos 4 in 2000 ('weirdly' cause it sounds so westcoast and different from the rest of the G4 releases).

As a matter of fact, year after year there's not a summer when I don't find myself playing Pals at least once (but usually a couple more time). There's a special kind of vibe in this album. First of all Anacron's productions are at his all time best, it's not a short album but there's nothing to throw away, even the skits. Then, there's a real alchemy between the MC's (the third one being Himself), and they complement each other perfectly. Lots of nice punchlines, lots of slept on hits... This is one for the ages.

"for all those that only trust the written word: this is dope. Dope in an universal kind if way, and even doper for those that enjoy the left coast mentality, blueprint and ways of doing things." - Urban Smarts

If you don't know, you need to check it immediately through Anacron's bandcamp:

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The First Utterance

One...

Uncommon (The Theme)

Fat Boys

Abandoned (No Love)

Friday Nite Special

Sonovaguns

Balls To The Wall

...Two...

Futura

Cali (Souled Out)

A Love Ballad

Come Back Home

How Do You Like It

Lessons Learned

Green Daze

Pals

...Three...

Netherworlds Dream (1997)

Lookmarkz  Rmx (Eyeballin') (2005)

One... Two... Three

US Pros - Have You Seen Us?

This is a repost from Ghetto Tyylit's. 

US Pros were a Living Legends- related group composed by ex Log Cabin member Knows (aka Pooridge), Very (also in AfroClassics with Scarub) and Timsears which is not featured on this third and last album of the Pros.

I chose this one because it's by far the most solid of the 3 and in a general way, US Pros are pretty underrated and their releases difficult to find. 

Emceeing is on point all the way through with a few nice cameos. Productions are a great surprise: very diverse stylistically,  and original without falling into "weird to be weird" traps... There's some true bangers on it too ('Ch'ps' for instance, but there's more), some more minimal ones, but it sounds right almost every time.

More ex-members of Log Cabin are featured on the production credits, like Sahga or Magi (aka Tom Slick), which left us wondering were are all the other dope post-Log Cabin projects? Do they even exist? Can we have some more?

It truly deserve a place next to the handful of LL classics although it didn't have half the exposure it deserved. 

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Who? Intro

US... Love / Hate

Express

As If We Never Left

Name Game

Movement ft. Pariah

Da Whoomp

Larry Elder

Ch'ps ft. Sahga

Future Of Music

Keep On Continue

Have You Seen Us? ft. Scarub & Voice Watson

Have Fun

Ohhh Yeaahh (Outro)

Bonus Track

DJ Feadz - Stagnation Reversed 2

Back when paper rap magazine was still a thing in France, you could mailorder in each issue the latest cassette mixtapes from the local DJs. I copped a few this way but here's one I really wanted and missed at that time (2002). 

It featured a promising tracklist (a good blend of new-york and westcoast indie rap plus some more obscure electro/breakbeat stuff), a nice abstract artwork reminiscent of Mo'Wax (at least it seemed to me at the time - and by the way most of the usual mixtape artworks were so ugly and generic that things like these couldn't go unnoticed) and a solid DJ (Feadz, who I only knew was closely related to Mr Oizo -which I loved). No need to say, I was sold way before even listening a second of it.

Thanks to the internet it resurfaced on various blogs a few years ago (last time I checked it was on a couple of soundclound accounts as well). So here you go.

And yes, it was all that was expected: well mixed, some adventurous blends (Oizo vs APC or Kool Keith), a good balance of uptempo tracks and some more weird electro-oriented productions.. no big discoveries but a good, solid mixtape overall.

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Face A

DJ Feadz - Intro

Mr. Oizo Vs. Beans

Sensational - Livin' It Up

Brainsick - Playin' For Keeps

Brainsick - It's My Thing

EPMD - Get Off The Bandwagon

Quasimoto - Come On Feet

Zion I ft. Planet Asia - Critical (Madlib Remix)

Declaime - Wicked Ways

D-Shade - Full Contact

J-Zone - S-H-I-D

Third Sight - Rhymes Like A Scientist

Mr. Oizo - Electro Shit Non Stop

Face B

Mr. Oizo Vs. Kool Keith

Divine Styler - Satan Dynasty Killer

Company Flow - Friend Versus Friend

G.I.T.  ft. Street Preachers - The Warning

Anti-Pop Consortium ft. L.I.F.E. & Pharoahe Monch - What Am I?

Scotty Hard ft. Sensational - Pockets Fat

Alexanders Dark Band - Greedy Cow Boy

Kool G. Rap - Verse

The Infesticons - Quarterback Theme

Murs - Murs FM

Company Flow - Infokill

Alexanders Dark Band - EH° 400

Mr. Oizo - Electro Shit Non Stop

Gang Starr - Brooklyn