The Library Crew - Bibliotechnitians Vol.1

This is the Library Crew cassette, an old project from 1997 that consisted of Subtitle, Memorex, Premonition and the Lexicon guys.

Here's What Subtitle said about it in an interview for Hiphopcore.net a few years ago:

"That started when we were in high school. That was Lexicon (which is Oak and Nick Fury), Number Crunchers (myself and DJ Memorex), Premonition, Dramatic, Recon and this dude C-Trouble, whom I think he's doing porn or something right now. There was also lots of friends walking in and out of the group… But it all started when we were in Oxnard and every Friday we'd all go to Santa Barbara to freestyle on Mums The Word's show. He had this show at this radio station at the UCSB (the Santa Barbara college) that everybody went to, like the Project Blowed, KanKick, CDP and all those dudes… We would all roll out there, we were all real young and we all ended up meeting up. We kicked it a little bit and got along so we did songs and ended up calling ourself a crew. I had the name in my head 'cause I worked at the library at my high school at the time so I said : "Let's just call it the Library crew". We made a cassette "Bibliotechnicians Vol. 1" in 1997.

There was also a group in the Library called Rector Set, that was me and Scribble, but we never recorded any song because Scribble was a dick head at the time. Matter of fact, when we did "Bibliotechnicians", we had left him, we didn't even tell him we were going to record the project… which is some dick-head-shit. I just called him when I got home to play him some songs over the phone and he just hung up on my face of course. Library went on about 3 years. We did some shows and were going to work on more material but then everybody started moving further away… I moved out to L.A., Lexicon moved out to L.A., Premonition and Dramatic would come to hang out but you wouldn't hear from the other dudes. Memorex moved out to L.A. and we would hang out a bit but he was doing other stuff, he wasn't deejaying as much. "

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Desert Storm

Punk Ass Bitch (Interlude)

Fowl Play II

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Gladiators

I Should Thank The Wack MC's

Resident Evil '97 (The Devil)

Ultraman - A Universal Language Taught Regardless Of The Animosity Of Man

San Jose rap circa 1999. As far as I know it's his only album, but you can find more material from him under the name Provy Suflayy if you google it.

Definitely worth a check.

Edit - Ultraman was also FTA's Unbreakable Comb's big brother.

Edit2- Justin Morales did all the production work on this album

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Intro

Galloping Through Galaxiez

Automotive Digestion

Decadence Of Destruction

Humanity (Poetic Intermission)

Corridorz Of The Mind

Man With 2Brainz (Remix)

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U.L.T.R.A.Man

Daydream

Legendary Teachings And Tall Talez

Trialz And Tribulationz

Thought (Poetic Intermission)

Song Of Time

U.S.F. - Unstoppable Force EP

I came across this vinyl through Luke Sick's zine Let's Side which had a full article about this one and some of interesting hindsight about the Redwood City hardcore/rap scene.

There's a couple of influential underground hip hop acts from there, some of them sharing members with hardcore bands like Spazz or Plutocracy. So it's not a total surprise if that EP was released in 2001 on a hardcore-centered label, Family Of Resistance.

USF stands for United Sicko Foundation or Unstoppable Force and includes, amongst others, members Stinkweed (RIP, also part of 152 other Bay Area bands) and DJ Eons One, who produced some of the cuts.

If you like this EP don't forget to check the post-mortem Stinkweed Bandcamp put together by Eons, there's most of his rap-related work for free download. Some of the Shed Dwellaz material has been recently reissued by Ormolycka on cassette btw.


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Puff Dank Stuff Bank
Don't Fuck With The Doom Crue
Group Therapy
Hands Of Doom(Ryde)

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Tape Out The Deck
Demonic Harmonics
Chemically Treated
What A Long Strange Dip It's Been

C.I.D. (Culture Identity) - Street Rockers

As promised, this rare C.I.D. (Corey Harris from SFSM) album/demo/compilation.
The visual was taken from SFSM's facebook, I actually don't have any other info besides the title and that little Atak flyer. This is from Kaliyuga Pro collection. Enjoy.


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23 untitled tracks.

SFSM - Fountains And Raps

This is a rather confidential SFSM album, courtesy of Kaliyuga Pro.. I don't even have a visual for this so I used this visual borrowed to Ghetto Tyylit which mentions it (that "Street Rockers" album is next btw). Not even sure if it was cassette or cd. 

While we're talking SFSM prepare for a vinyl reissue of Word Of Mouth released by Chaz by the end of the year also.

And while we're talking vinyl reissue, hope everybody got his copy of The Nonce' "1990" or more surprisingly the picture disc reissue of Living Legends' Almost Famous.

Finally, prepare for a brand new vinyl release by yours truly, probably for this fall. 

Z-Man's 4 Hours of Sleep is now available at VINYLResistance (Geneva, Switzerland), Park Blvd Records (Oakland, CA.), HHV and Vinyl-Digital (Germany) and finally our Bandcamp and BigCartel.

Big thanks to anyone who already purchase from us!

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Joyridin
Lioness
Everybody
Sands
Oblique (Remix)
103.3 SFSM Radio Libre
Street Signs
Let My Spirits Go
Dank Right
W.C. (Without C)
Magik Pt.1
Mixed Nuts (Instrumental)
Magik Pt.2
Downtown
103.3 SFSM Radio Libre
Head To Toe
Fountains And Raps
10th Ave
Fee Song
Inspiring
Rap Is About
Orange Juice And A Kiss
The More The Merries

Bay Area Art Collective - Tuesday-Thursday 12''

This is a hard-to-find white label 12'' with 2 tracks off 2 different BAAC (also known as the Nameless & Faceless) albums and a couple of unreleased beats. Not really sure which Loki the cover is referring to since there's a batch of Bay Area emcees with that name.

I've ripped my copy. Enjoy!

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Tuesday-Thursday

Tuesday-Thursday (Clean Version)

Tuesday-Thursday (Instrumental)

Beat

Beat

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Soul Shakedown

Soul Shakedown (Instrumental)

Beat

Beat

The Jedeyes - Experiment 31

Another rather confidential group from LA.

They share a member in Yota One with Kosmic Four. The rest of the crew member list is rather vague: depending on if you check this vinyl LP or their other release, the "It's Not What You Think!!!" cassette, there's a bunch of Star Wars-derivative pseudos mentioned as part of the group, and it's different on each album... so, hard to tell who are the Jedeyes really.

Both albums share a couple of tracks, although the vinyl is not just a selection from the longer cassette, it has some unreleased tracks as well, such as the opener "Jedeye Philosophy".

Musically the album is rather refreshing, jumping from classic straight boom bap numbers to a couple of more experimental tracks here and there and a large array of influences (dub, Sun Ra...). There's something for everyone in there. Have a listen!

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Jedeye Philosophy ft. Kosmic 4

The Most High

Electric Dino Tribalized

Freestyle Improv

Earth Memories

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I'd Rather Be Broke (& Have My Respect)

Jazz Break

Revolution

We Keep The Shakers Shakin

Who's Watching Who

You Can't Get None