Plankton - Young Manic Depressive

This is the second Plankton mixtape Renti sent me.
Another dope selection of westcoast underground filled with a couple of indie rock inserts.


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A
VIOLENT RAMP - Intro
ANACRON - Good Friday
JULIE RUIN - I Wanna Know What Love Is
SUBTITLE - Young Dangerous Heart
AWOL ONE - Flying Spiders
TONY DA SKITZO - THC
FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP - 7th Seal
VOLUME 10 - A Real Freestyle
2MEX - L.A. (Like...)
FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP - Heavyweights
ELLAY KHULE - Master Flows
THE BADSTADS - Treacharous 3 Remix
BUSDRIVER & 2MEX - Walking Dead
CVE - What A Pity

B
ANACRON - Be Where? (Beware!)
JULIE RUIN - Apt. #5
SUBTITLE - Freestyle
AWOL ONE - Sleepin' All Day
TONY DA SKITZO - Hi-To
FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP - Six Tray
VOLUME 10 - Where's The Sniper
XOLOLANXINXO - William Banner
IMPRINTS - Pepsi On The Record
HIP HOP KCLAN - Sounds Like
EASTY BOYS - Don't Wanna Hear It
BUSDRIVER & XOLOLANXINXO - Borrowed Material
NGA FSH - One Man Riot

Plankton - Moments To Ruin

This one has been kindly sent to me by Renti (along with another one that I might share too at some point). Another hard to find pause mixtape by finnish DJ / Anti-Party Music head Plankton.

It's from 2006, first side is obscure westcoast indie rap, the flip is indie rock only. 

Great selection as always (anyone knows who Adura is? What's the name of the tape?) and a good way to share almost-impossible to find cassette content. Like the hand-drawn artwork too.

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ADURA - Ain't Ready

SIDUS IDIOM - Moments Til Ruin

DIVERSE - I Wish I Had That Power (Rmx)

MPX - Endlessly

TOMMY V, JOE DUB, TABU, HEDGEHOG, STEPHEN, JESTER - Bright Future

ALEX75 & CHAZ - 3rd Bass Shirt

BAY AREA ART COLLECTIVE - Kick BAAC

ANACRON - My Other Pair

PEEKABOO - Live Bonus

B

LOU BARLOW - Be Nice Me

KATHLEEN HANNAH - I Wish I Was Him

JEFFREY LEWIS - 3/4 Moon

KIMYA DAWSON - Time To Think

DANIEL JOHNSTON - I Live For Love

MUCKAFURGASON - South Dakota

MUCKAFURGASON - Bad Ass Fucker

LOU BARLOW AND HIS SENTRIDOH - No Matter What

LUKE KELLY - ??

LUKE KELLY - ??

THE MOLDY PEACHES - Jorge Regula

Plankton - Fresh Off A 6 Pack

I already told you about my fascination for finnish mixtapes. Ever since that post, Abyss has been removed but the equally dope My Groundhog Day and I Like B-Sides appeared for free download on Anti-Party Music's bandcamp. 

I recently got back a little batch of my tape collection left in a muddy garage down south and found a copy of this long pause mix cassette from 2006. It's 96 minutes long, full of dope indie rap and homemade remixes and served cold with a good old tape hiss.

Enjoy while it lasts.

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Face A

INOE ONER - Hot Love

THIRD SIGHT - Zodiac Killer

PIGEON JOHN - Sam The Goat

ELLAY KHULE - Sounds Of The Human Race

Pause-ish Lyrics Born' Drop

BLACKALICIOUS - Make You Feel That Way (My Way Mix)

THE REALIST - Gimme Love (Buy My Tape)

HOMELISS DERILEX - Fuck You

SACRED HOOP - Burn Drunk Hours

EDDIE K - So Much Drama In The Industry

SFSM - Inhale / Exhale

Plado's Drop

PLADO - Try To Read My Mind

I SMOOTH 7 - For Da Love Of The Ghetto

MURS - Tomorrow

P.E.A.C.E. - Freestyle 98

MURS & NEOSAPIEN - Virtual Reality

Face B

Big Ran's Drop

MISFITZ OV STYLZ - Where The Fuck U At?

CITY SIDE CREW - Kali

OLD JOSEPH - Fraudulent

THE BAY AREA ART COLLECTIVE - Kick BAAC

BORED STIFF - Therapy

SAAFIR - Can-U-Feel-Me?

THE GROUCH - The Afterlife

VOLUME 10 - Pistolgrip Pump (Crunk Rmx)

Z-MAN - Get Yo Tapes

GET THE HATER - Back To Dirt Town

AWOL ONE - Believe

EELS - World Of Shit

AWOL ONE - Try

SACRED HOOP - Fresh Off A 12 Pack (Plankton's 6 Pack Remake)

Plankton - Abyss

Now let's enter the mystery of the westcoast indie rap/finnish connection through this dope mixtape.
I have no idea why but this particular indie rap scene always been very much followed in that particular country. Maybe a great way to escape the rough weather with a music who transpires california and its sunny skies, who knows... This connection has been existing through lots of different activists, lots of DJs playing these underground stuff (way before it even reach obscure french messageboards), finnish artists/bands inspired by this sounds (early Ceebrolistics for example, but there's too much of them to mention)... Tommi aka DJ Plankton, owner of the very-lofi-yet-absolutely-lovely Anti-Party Music label was one of those early days activist. He released several mixtapes, sometimes finnish-only stuff, and sometimes, like on this tape, a blend of those 2 worlds...
Let's face it: in 1998 not many people even heard of the Living Legends or Emanon outside Cali (me including of course!), so yeah this guy was one the pionneer i guess...
So here it is, Asop meets Portishead, meets Stanley Clarke, meets some local finnish artist that you never heard of (oh and what's up with EVS' very early Commonwealth group also?), all here on Abyss.
I owe the original, hence the artwork, but the rip is from another slsk dude. Still the same sound though!

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Face A

TREEP - Abysmal Deeps
FUTURE SHOCK - Timekeeper
THE GROUCH - Giventake
TURNTABLE TERRANOVA - Misteries
COMMONWEALTH - No Worries
LITTLE AIDA - Times Not Leaving
ASOP - How Could I Ever
STANLEY CLARKE - Yesterday's Princess
ABSTRACT RUDE - Yesterday And Today
VOLUME 10 - First Born
IWERE - Deep In The Abyss


Face B

PSC - Tamika
ELIGH ft. THE GROUCH & MYSTIK JOURNEYMEN - Wasteful Thinking
PORTISHEAD - It Could Be Sweet
MIXEDPRACTICE - Untitled
EMANON - Outside Looking In
SWOLLEN MEMBERS ft. ACEYALONE - Consumption
ECLIPSE 427 - Mr Melanin
BORED STIFF - Peaceful Rotation '92