The Basics - Success And You

The Basics were a duo from San Jose comprised of MC Dem One and DJ Worldwise, both of them were featured on the SJ comp I posted a while ago, "Outerbodied".
This EP from 1999 is kind of laidback with some nice instrumental/scratching tracks on each side. Style Misia from Gypsy Cab/ New Moon/ etc. produced most of it. DJ Sonic makes an apparition.
Don't know if they released something else as The Basics. Dem One released a batch of solo releases ever since. Worth checking!

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A
Rise And Shine
Bubble In The Struggle
Live From Atlantis

B
R And R
Keep On Tryin'
Trans-Euro Expression

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
.COM
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

OD And Ebow - Beat Stampeed 2

This is a beat tape from 1995 made by two great producers, Omid (Beneath The Surface) and Ebow (CVE, Legion). It's only 6 beats total but it's a nice little release to listen and zone to and quite a hard to find one as well.

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6 Untitled tracks.

Westakoasta 10: Ain't No Radio Shit

Half an hour of westcoast underground hip hop... Enjoy:

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IMPRINTS - Recess / ZAGU BROWN - Jus Words

JOSEPH YOUNG & ANONYMOUS - Suga And Sade

BAY AREA ART COLLECTIVE - Baysic 3000

SFSM - History

FANATIK ft. AZEEM & RASHINEL - Control

CEEBROLISTICS - Spring

THE BEDOUIN - Ghetto Input

BASSLINE XCURSIONISTS - Build Or Destroy

MZR AXEOM - Fuel For Desire

HYPNOTIC THE NATIVE SON - Quantum Mechanics

MIC.EDU - Surrogate Role Model

INSOMNIAC - Kill Time

THE JEDEYES - We're Running This

EYEDLMODE - Headsets

JAMES EK-SEL - Demo

Drop from a Rob One mixtape

RADIOINACTIVE - Hair, Shoes & Eyebrows Part II

SCARUB - Our Lives

Zest The Smoker - The Smoker's Vault LP

The new release from (vulgar) is finally here!

Zest The Smoker - The Smoker's Vault LP is limited to 100 copies. 

Listen/order on Bandcamp or Bigcartel.

It features production by Cough-It-Up (Camp Crystal Lake), Oddzilla (Zest himself), Barry Bones/DJ Roe, Persevere (Sub Contents) and Architecht (ten thousand projects including Homeliss Derilex, Executive Lounge, etc.).

Zest is a veteran MC from San Jose who's been featured on numerous Bay Area classics (Peanut Butter Wolf's "My Vinyl Weighs A Ton", Dave Dub's "The Treatment", both on Stones Throw for instance). He's also part of the Camp Crystal Lake aka Camp Crypt collective.

This is 1996-2002 material.

On the A side you got the tracks off the Death... At 27 album that's not on the Murder vinyl EP, and on the flipside a selection from the Smoker Filez cd compilation, including some stuff that also were on the 3 Face the Shape Shifter demo (Puff Puff, Macadamian, etc.).

There's video for Micalina and another one should drop soon:

Thanks by advance to everyone who supports. This is much, much appreciated!