mercredi 26 août 2015

Bay Area Art Collective - B-Sides Demonstrations


Back with a cassette release from 1995. This is the first official album from the Bay Area Art Collective (BAAC). The only info I have on this group is from Discogs: it's a 3 guys band from Berkeley who released a handful of very confidential tapes between 95 and 98.
One member of the band, James Ek-Sel, is also a member of this other confidential westcoast group called All The King's Horses whose only demo cassette from 93 was just released on vinyl by Back 2 Da Source.

About this album now, I don't own a copy myself but found a rip of the full A and B sides that I proceeded to cut into different tracks. I then named the tracks accordingly to the Discogs page, like I did for the Log Cabin tape. Sound is correct. For those wondering why I switched tracks A07 and A09, well the A07 track begin with the rapper saying "Perpendicular Composers" which was supposedly track 9 according to Discogs, so.... Every other track is matching their title.

Enjoy!



Face A

A New Page
Bay Bridge Interlude
Transformation All Stages
When I Lay In The Shade
I Unleash
Seargent
Perpendicular Composers
Hello Goodbye
Looking In A Destination
You Can Find Me In The Bay
The Perspective
Stop Messin With The Crack
So Much Weed


Face B

The BaacGround
You're Not Like Us
Off The Deepend
High Performance
Loose Lips
Circlecycle
Fake ID's
More Bricks
The Inner View

mardi 25 août 2015

Zest The Smoker - The Smoker Filez


The Smoker Filez is a compilation of unreleased works, remastered demos and such from Zest. 
31 tracks in total, that's a good dose of dark and minimal San Jose hip hop (although it seems that he lives in Sacramento nowadays). You can recognize reworked versions of old tracks on slsk-floating demos (like 3 Face the Shape Shifter which isn't a real release). Some of the cuts on there are brilliant.. Don't sleep on it.



Dirty Filthy Nasty
Tranczedelic Funk
It Ain't All Good
Sex Drugz N Techz
Max Murder
Macadamian
The Signal
Dead End
No Escaping The Ghetto
Hallwayz
Hold Ya Own
Murder Psycho II
No Chorus
The Hellyer Park Stories
Max Murder (Radio Edit)
Zest Freestyle (1994)
Puff Puff (Pre)
Puff Puff
My Old Nasty Habit (Dirt Mix)
Watch What You Say
The Bumrusch
Smoke Field Farm
Junk Intro
Funkcun
Impin Pimps
Red Hot
SJC
Bumrusch II
The Triple Threat
Blossom
Autumn

mardi 4 août 2015

The Nonce - Unearthed (Private Compilation)


Scrolling through my files recently I stumbled upon that sort of 'private comp' that I named Unearthed.

A few years ago, fellow writer from now-defunct hiphopcore.net Bachir hit me about his forthcoming project. He wanted to do a mixtape dedicated to The Nonce, knew my passion for both that group and the vinyl format and wanted an outside advice about which tracks to select.
My nerdy self promptly made him a two-part compilation collecting on one file all the rap featurings and rarities (i.e. tracks including Sach or Yusef on other albums or comps), and on another file collecting all the additional remixes and productions for other artists I could find from them in my files.

I probably forgot a couple, but it's still a decent collection. 
And Bachir's mixtape, "The Only", released in 2010, is a must have if you're a fan of the group.



CD1 - RAP FEATURINGS:

SACH - Number 9
SACH - L.I.F.E. Gives
BUILD AN ARK ft. SACH - Always There (Nobody Remix)
THE NONCE - Haiku Buscho Sach San
HEADSET ft. SACH - Grasping Claw
ADLIB ft. SACH - The Spot Pt.1
INOE ONER ft. SACH, AMBUSH & SAMSON - Pitch
DAEDELUS ft. SACH - Purged Lips Reply
DEBMASTER ft. SACH & INOE ONER - Digi
KEGS ONE ft. SACH - Hip Hop Exposed
INOE ONER ft. SACH & NICHOLSON - Dead Tenants
PRESTO ft. SACH & L.A. JAE - Soloist Virtuoso
THE NONCE - The Only
AMMON CONTACT ft. Sach - Into 777
LYNN NESS ft. SACH - Droppin' Jewels
SACH, PIGEON JOHN & RIFLEMAN - The People
SACH - Gold Lace AU
JIZZM ft. GLOBAL PHLOWTATIONS & YUSEF AFLOAT - Like It's 1999


CD2 - PRODUCTIONS & REMIXES:

THE NONCE - Bus Stops (Token And A Transfer Remix)
THE NONCE - Mix Tapes (81st Street Subliminal Remix)
THE NONCE - Eighty Five (Original Style 12inch Version)
THE NONCE - Bus Stops (Metro Line Remix)
GLOBAL PHLOWTATIONS - Quiet As Kept
ACEYALONE - All Balls
ACEYALONE - Annalillia
ACEYALONE - Mr. Outsider
FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP - My Leg
SUPHERB - 90008
SUPHERB - Born On Parole
SUPHERB - Dominoes, Cards And Chess
SONGODSUNS - Dream Small