Til Infinity documentary

 

DJ Moves - Independant Hip Hop #3

 

This is a tape I recently copped from a Halifax local.. One of the early DJ Moves mixtapes and the very first 'official' Low Pressure Records release. Probably released around 1997-8 based on that fact. 

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In another news the 3MG just dropped this dope new track... hope it means a new album soon.

Quarterbar - Me And My MPC2000 + Woodtown Terrace

Quarterbar was a member of SF hip hop group Mic.edu in the late 90es. He released this beat tape in 1998 and reissued it on cd in 2003. This is a rip of the cd.

As a bonus, a second beat tape (well, from a cd), also released in 2003, called Woodtown Terrace.

Later on Quarterbar went to form Meanest Man Contest and I think was involved in various small indie labels, Weapon-Shaped (that crazy ShapeShifters 7'' anyone?), Rocketship then later Sneakmove and Gold Robot.

In 1998, Mic.edu released a great split tape with Substance Abuse. The group disbanded after the death of one his member, A-Twice.

It was reissued digitally in 2010 on Circle Into Square and more recently, last year to be exact, the japanese label Lo-Vibes operated by beatmaker KK (-his Pure Fragments EP is worth a check!-) reissued it with bonus tracks to make it a full album.

I strongly encourage you to check and buy the album on bandcamp. It's really good and original.

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A

Introduction

Clowns

Rigid Harp

Char

Bri RMX

Klosstrophobia

Corny Duke

Freeways

Frankie Gets It

RonRossi

Authors!

UKNS

Dijon

Polyunrest

B

Ford Tempo

Witchita

Yoster

Continue

Chainlinc Miles

Scudz

Silver

Obligatory

Poppycocks

Last

Silly Song

Hamhorn

Keyz

Michine

Denver connection: Bug-A-Boo & Ideal Ideologies

Both projects are Denver acts from the late 90es.

I copped them from someone from there but don't know much about it.

Bug-A-Boo sound like a kind of Digable Planets, while Ideal Ideologies is a duo made of Jolt and Mane linked to graff writers L.I.F.E. Crew. There's a couple of tracks with Kaera One aka Kayer on it too.

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Bug-A-Boo - Parallel To Tha Universe

A
New World Order Pigeons
Anotha Day
All Of This Is Relevant
Super Saw
Keep The Mic At Farenheight
Rythm And Subject

B
Soul Vibration
At Tha Bar
Knowledge Of The MC
The Light Start Beaming
Too Much Advertising
The End (Cosmic Fource)


Ideal Ideologies - ... The EP

A
Intro
Ideal Chemistry ft. Abstract Chemistry
Feed The Chickens
Kool Man Invasion
Rosey Palmer
Instrulude

B
Pink Pantalones ft. Kaera One
Relativity ft. Abstract Chemistry
Kaera's Drunk Ass
Alleyways ft. Kaera One & Sam Strange
Where The Wind Goes
Word Pilots
Outro- Sporadic Thoughts

Summer Of Reissue 2020

First I want to thank everyone who bought the 99th Demention LP reissue and contributed to sold it out in less than 2 weeks.. that was unexpected and it's a great feeling!

I'm already working on the next one. Something more obscure but an absolute banger, hope you'll like it too.

Some great pieces were released or put for pre-orders recently:

- Back 2 Da Source in Belgium put out one of the white wale of unreleased westcoast gems: Atban Klann's "Grassroots"! 

In short A.K. was the first version of Black Eyed Peas before it went commercial. They were signed on Eazy E's label, Ruthless in 94 but their first album was shelved after E's death in 95. That album was sold on cassette through the Hieroglyphics' message board. About 150 were made but the digital rip and various dubs made it relatively popular amongst the westcoast underground aficionados.

The tricky part of this reissue was making it a viable financial project with a successful act like Will.I.Am on the other side of the deal. Well, B2DS pulled it out with the help of DJ Motiv8, so kudos to them and needless to say you need at least a copy of this in your life.

- Dope Folks just released Saafir's Boxcar Sessions Demos as an LP to celebrate their 100th release!

This one probably needs no explanation... Another must have.

- There's still a vinyl reissue of Eyedlmode's "Fogville" in the works from Key System (aka King Koncepts' label). Can't wait to see this one happening.

Now for the cassette section:

- L-Wood and 12ManRambo (aka J.Darrah from Park Blvd Records) probably released the best 2-mixtapes combo of the year with Nasty Game and Cheap Thrills. Everything is perfect on those two and they got a lot of what the other mixtapes miss: personnality. 

Not for your average boom bap lover but that's a good thing.

- Megakut Records aka Luke Sick's label.. well, he continues to flood the market with consistent project after another, so we keep buying.. the last ones are part 4 of the excellent Dankslob project and "On A Sick One", a screwed & chopped exercise of Luke's catalog. Sick indeed.

A bonus one to finish: check out the recent collaboration from fellow french label Sergent Records between Awon & Gorilla Glock : "The Black Paladin".. more of a east coast flavor but excellent concept album. You won't regret!

99th Demention - S/T LP

Yo.. the ninth release of my label, Vulgar, just dropped.
It's a vinyl reissue of the 1995 Bay Area classic 99th Demention self titled album.
It's been remastered from the original DAT and Z-Man did the crazy art, inspired by the cassette cover.
There's a 60 x 30 cm poster inside too.

99th Demention is Z's high school group that he did with his brother King Maz and his school buddies (Rev Cope, Young $lim amongst others..). This is their first album (they did 2, the second being just Z & Slim).
Here's some of the reviews they had back then:

"Extremely dope (...) their originality and new flavor add spice to the life of Bay Area rap and to worldwide hip hop (...) their shit will make you laugh, nod ya head and think" (DJ Stef (RIP), Vinyl Exchange, 1995)

"A fantastic release topped off by great packaging and artwork (...) the lyrics are loaded with underground music politics but they still know how to have fun. Highly recommended!" (P-Minus, Atak catalogue)

It's available here, only 150 copies made:
https://vulgar.bandcamp.com

Blame - Tales From The Polish Pub

"Chances of finding this is basically next to impossible".
This is what Blame actually wrote on the discogs page of his first album, released in 1997.
Until recently it was indeed a pretty well kept secret, traces on the internet of it were almost non-existent. I recently had the chance to purchase one though, completely by hasard.

I was interested in buying a tape by a member of the same crew (Mystery's Extinction).  The seller had bought a couple of tapes from that crew during a show in the Seattle area back in the days.
That Blame tape wasn't even in his list of items for sale though.
So when I received that other tape I bought, I quickly realized the cassette itself didn't match the tracklist, but at the beginning of the tape it said "...tales from the polish pub", which lead me to the realization that what I had indeed in my posession was that elusive Blame album.
Later, the seller confirmed that it was, indeed, "Tales", that it was accidentally stored in the wrong case, and sent the cover to me as well... Some real karma score right there!

I ignore why it wasn't reissued later, since it's pretty solid. It contains all the tracks from his first vinyl EP and it's good all the way through. I added a track at the end that I spotted on youtube called "track 16 from Tales from the Polish Pub". It's not actually on my tape.

Enjoy!


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A
Waters Edge II ft. Sandylion
Emotions
Fallen From Grace
Zion Dawta's Delight
Lyrics Geometrik
Murda Star ft. DejaVu & Kankick
Mom's Science
Outerlude

B
Intricate Vocabulary
Tales From The Polish Pub
Cargo Vessel ft. Eksile
Untitled
Migraine
Needs Vs. Wants (Version A)
Untitled

Paws One - Shut Your Mouth Vol.1

This is a mixtape released in 2000 and distributed by Below The Surface, Kegs One's shop located in Burlingame CA., and one of the very few spots where you could find anything westcoast underground in the early 00es.

Paws One released two volumes of these mixtapes (if you have the second volume, holla at me). Westcoast, eastcoast and abroad materials in there nicely mixed. 

I heard he passed away a few years ago, so RIP Paws One.

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A

PAWS ONE - Intro

UNSPOKEN HEARD - Track Runners

POLYRHYTHM ADDICTS - Big Phat Boom

NEXTMEN - Break The Mould

SUBTERRANEAN - My Flow Is

CROOKLYN DODGERS - Return Of The Crooklyn Dodgers

J-LIVE - Longevity

ZION I - Venus (Inst.)

B

THE NONCE - Bus Stops (Rmx)

WALKIN' LARGE & JERU - When I Flow

H.S.D. - Despite

MASS INFLUENCE - Life To The MC

GHETTO CHILLDREN - Courts In Session

YESHUA - Losing Your Soul

VIRTUOSO, COUNT BASS D & ESOTERIC - Piece Of The Pie

ACEYALONE - Outro...

The Return of the Request List 2020

Feel free to put your link in the comment section if you have some of these titles :)

Also, if you have some requests feel free to post it too (no more than 10 titles please).
After a couple of weeks/months I'll remove the comments with the links.
I'm not doing trades since my files are already out there for free dl.
Thanks!

San Jose:

Minds In Unison - Never Comin' Softer (cassingle)
Esoin - The Son Don't Freeze (cassingle)

Peaceshine - No More Hip Hop EP

KHZ Devils - No Big Deal

VA - Local Dynasties - San Jo's Most Underrated Finest

Full Deck - The Mighty Full Deck

C-Ali - Ill Conversations With Myself
A-O.N.E. / Daysmen Empire - The World I See / We Bring Light cassingle

San Diego:

Millenium (MOTU/Nommo Collective) - Adura EP

Eclipse (MOTU) - Total Darkness

Jahsun Edmonds - Catabasis

Enigmatic - Sons Of The Forgotten Tongue

Matrix (Odessa Kane) - 1997 Demo

Retna - Phroetry

Solseekers - Heatstrokes

San Francisco/ Oakland:

Young Joseph - Humble Foot EP
SFSM - The Portland Sessions / BSides
Buddah Blakk / BlakkBuddah - Live Concentration

Mad Squirrel - Summer Madness

The Latter - 1983 + Hearing Aids

Prego W/Zest - Unemployed Workaholic EP

The Moonies - Ear Therapy EP

Hansover Fist - S/T 7'' + Viva El Puno

Opus X - Rat Vs. Squirrel 12''

LA:

Darkleaf - Mission I

The Havenots - No Attachments

Himself - Summer In The City + Remiccs

Yusef Afloat - Foreign Objects

L.O.R.D. (of Western Union) - B.P.C.L.R.G(...) + My Female 7'' + Mic Snatchers EP

ICU (Ill Crew Universal) -> every tapes
Phorest Krukz - Sol Armageddon

Other:

Antisocial Products - Bus Stops And City Blocks

Ghetto Sage - Poetry Or Prophet Sees

Halfway House Emcees - Tha Foreword Lateral

Yard Massive - Lifestyles Of A Cali Mcee

The Unstoppable Youth - Eclectic Stimulation

Soul Clap - 360 Soul + FTS Law To Life
Labklik - Five Elements + Non Dimenticar + Shadow Of Your Smile
Sleep Walkerz - Shadows Of The Under

Canada:
The Corps - Freedom Sold Separately
Dynasty - Alpha Flight (1996)
Bookworm - Sprawl Extreme: False Teeth EP (1997)
Kaspa - The Apparition
Jedi Jihad - Kosmos
Underground By The Pound - Talk Shit
Eye Spy - S/T

Bedouins - Volume 1

Bedouins, later renamed The Bedouin when the members realized it wasn't a plural name, was a group from the great San Jose underground scene of the late 90es, the same one that saw Peanut Butter Wolf, Fanatik, SubContents, Daysmen Empire, Zest The Smoker, Executive Lounge, Epicenter Broadcast and a slew of other super talented emcees burgeoning at the same time, in the same area.

Bedouins was comprised of beatmaker TapeMasta Steph (who later produced the awesome Endlessness In Machinery tapes) and two MCs: the Gill brothers, K-Swift and Mozam.

I think I already stated that for the most part, christian rap isn't my cup of tea. 

Bedouins is thee exception*, mostly because Steph's beats are just great, and even though the lyrics' content is not speaking to my heart, the emcees' delivery is on point. 

* English not being my first language helps I guess

That EP/mini album was only released on cassette. I think the year was 1998 although the material might be older (1995 maybe), it's not completely clear. I also read 1993 somewhere.

There's 3 versions of that cassette: a 4 tracks (as in "2 tracks per side") EP version that seemed to be duplicated by hand. The cover reads "The Missing Link" on it. 

The "regular" 7 tracks version which is what you get on this post, the cassette is professionally duplicated with the title on it and no mention of 'The Missing Link' but the name of KnightsBridgeLair, which is the name of a crew of sort if I'm correct.

Then a 9 tracks version with 2 bonus tracks off Sidus Idiom's solo tape (this is a Tapemasta Steph alias). That full tape has already been posted on this blog, so no need for me to post that version. Its cover is brown and the tape has a sign on it, seemingly made with Tippex or such.

Enjoy!

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A

Overide (The System)

II Exodus

Vanity Of Vanities

Ghetto Input

B

Quiet Storms

Rev: 20.4

When Did I Die?

Dash - The "I" Of The Beholder

This one was ripped by Kaliyuga Pro: a relatively tough to get album from San Diego, released in 1998. 

Although he wasn't an official member of Mystery's Extinction, Dash seemed to be tight with the crew: DJ Cro, Sandy Lion, DejaVoo all appeared on this album. 

What you get is pretty short tracks (most of them under 2 minutes), a few instrumentals, raps that sound more like spoken words or such... and a few familiar samples here and there (Waterie Reflection use the same loop than Clear Blue Skies).

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A

Intro: Spec ft. DJ Cro

Smintro ft. Sandy Lion

Waterie Reflections

Crucifix On The Corner

Part 1: BNADLAHNAW

Meditation

Sitting In The Middle Of The World

?

Simple Minded

Barricade

Visions

??

B

Sequences In Motion ft. Cali

You

Religion

Dash Ain't Gonna Take It! ft. Dejavoo & Sandy Lion

NCTD

New Thought Of An Old Day ft. Catapult

Brother Inc Presents: Conversation

My Mission

Testing Ground - Logikingone 0.0

This one is probably late 90es-early 00es by Bay Area duo Testing Ground, comprised of Logic and DJ King One.
King One has released a handful of underground mixtapes while Logic has one split 7'' on Sublevel Epidemic (the red one with Deeskee on the flip). He later had a solo career in garage rock under his real name, Hanni El Khatib and went on to found the very hip Innovative Leisure label with two other guys. This is a rather nice and overlooked one... check it out!

In another news, HHV launched a new indie label called 90's Tapes and two of three of their latest releases on both vinyl and cassettes format are pretty dope and obscure: Mystery's Extinction (Blame One early group from San Diego)'s self titled album is one and Endangered Species' Intangible is another. So that's both courageous and promising for a young label... Definitely go support them.
Hopefully more obscure westcoast & canadian reissues to come..


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A
Intro Pt.1
Intro Pt.2
Negative Space
Sandman
Childrenstory2k.com
First Sight Pt.1
Sticks And Stones

B
American Household
Eyes Wide Shut
Thought Process ft. Anti Sunala
Contra Celibrity
Dedicated
Outro