Sleepwalkers - Despair

I bought that tape by sheer curiosity, only knowing it was part of the Atak catalogue back then.
Funny to see how the darker-than-thou/ depressive/ nihilistic aesthetic was pushed to the max on this one: somber productions? Check. Melancholic violins? Check. Someone whispering "the horror" at the end of the intro? Check. Kierkegaard quotes in the liner notes? You betcha. Tracks names including "I Hate Myself", "Despair" or "Divorce From Reality?" Hell yeah!

All jokes aside, the quality of the tracks are pretty uneven, but special mention to the less-serious ones: the hidden track on side A which is completely freestyled for instance. Or the ironic "Surfing", which kind of counterbalance some other more serious, self-loathing tracks that didn't aged well.

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A
Entrance
Divorce From Reality
Desert Druids (4-Track Version)
Despair
Knowing & Unknowing
Blood Of Enoch
I Hate Myself
Misunderstood

B
Failure Of Nerve
Plague Of Misery
Harmony Of The Spheres
Off Key
Surfing
Turntable Orchestra
Blood Of Nogoe
Death In The Forest

VA - Broke Ass Summer Jam III - 98 Sampler

That cassette sampler was supposed to promote the Broke Ass Summer Jam hip hop festival build by and for (but not only) Living Legends members in 1998.
It features mostly already known singles from various LL related releases but also a couple of unreleased songs, live extracts and interludes I think.
Something for the LL completists really, and I think it was on Jibs wishlist too.

Also, I wanted to present another interesting blog I discovered a few weeks ago.
Record Recollection highlights late 90es canadian indie rap releases with indepth interviews from the artists themselves. A deep source of knowledge if you're into this.

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A
Teleportation
THE GROUCH - Nothing changing
Beer After Work
Paradiso (Amsterdam Nights)
MYSTIK JOURNEYMEN - Always Interlay
PSC - Moments Ov Life
Pressed Instr.

B
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BFAP - Broken Glass World
Sheeple Station
ASOP - As Good As It Gets
Midnight Escapade
LIVING LEGENDS - Rythmic Cinema

Sanuhtayshun Duhpartment Muzik - S/T

SDM is a 5-guys group (see artwork above for members name) from Oakland who only released one single in 1997 in both cassette and vinyl formats. That's pretty much all the info available for this one.

In another news I strongly recommend this new blog by Trylemma and his pal, named Underground Fossils and which already shared a pretty rare piece in Subtitle's HTBTB 01.872 cassette.
There's other good stuff too.

Kayer re-released his debut cassette with DJ Void on the super dope Sublevel Epidemic imprint.

The seminal Seattle compilation Do The Math will exist on double vinyl pretty soon, thanks to Back 2 Da Source. Untranslated Prescription should be next!

HHV continues to reissue The Grouch's complete backcatalogue on color vinyls. After albums 1 and 2, here's albums 3 and 4.

Finally, there's 2 more vinyl releases in the works for (vulgar), hopefully out this year.
Meanwhile: https://vulgar.bandcamp.com



Enjoy!

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A
I 2 I
Never Ending

B
Shut Up!!!
Intelect 4 Specs