Kid Koala - Scratchcratchratchatch

This is a promo tape for his Ninja Tune debut album, 500 copies limited, released in 1996.
Some of the tracks are to be found on another 10" of his also... That's about it.
PS- That's the last post until october. Hang on, we'll be back.

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Face A

Start Hear
Emperors Crash Course In Cantonese
Tubanjo
The Prank Call
Dinner With Yoda
Statics Waltz (Lo-Fi Version)
Tricks N' Treats
Made From Björk


Face B

Made From Scratch
Capone's Theme Park
Fashion Lesson
Medieval Retrowax
Jhaptal
Taboo Soda
Almost Easy Listening
The Mushroom Factory
Thank You, Good Night, Drive Safely

Chocaholics - Brechtian Tactics

First mixtape my cousin (M. Lazerus Pit) and i ever release, it was 2001 or 2002 i think.
We met for a couple of weeks, blend our then-waay-smaller indie rap vinyl collections, spent hours finding the ideal fit, rehearse and record the whole thing on a mini-disk deck (remember mini-disc?). We only made a handful of those.

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Face A

Jahlude Campus Presentation
SONIC SUM - Rocket
CANNIBAL OX ft. EL-P - Ridiculoid
SLUG & EL-P - RPM Revolutions Per Minute
OMID - Everyone (Interlude)
AESOP ROCK - Wise Up
THAWFOR ft. MIKE LADD, ROB SMITH & SLUG - Where Thawght Is Worshiped 2.0
BUCK 65 & SAGE FRANCIS - Follow Me
AUTOMATOR ft. SINISTER 6000 - A Better Tomorrow
MR LEN ft. THE JUGGAKNOTS - This Morning
PRESAGE - Interlude
KING HONEY ft. MENTAL - Motions
EL STEW - Twoast
THEE INSEKT - In Your Earhole
KID KOALA ft. CUT CHEMIST - Here's A Little Story...
Now We Can't Go Back...


Face B

Clouddead Kidnapps The Pope
MIKE LADD - Foxwood's
CLOUDDEAD - Grey
TES - Mouth Of The River
PREFUSE 73 ft. AESOP ROCK & MF DOOM - Blacklist
ANTIPOP CONSORTIUM - Monster Sex
TTC - Subway
DARKLEAF ft. KLIZEE - Wordbound
KID ACNE - Rap Dracula
DOSE ONE - Interlude
SCIENZ OF LIFE - Divine Powerz
ORGANIZED KONFUSION - Why
YESH ft. CMNR - Most Days
The Thief That Stole My Sad Days... (Skit)
DOCTOR L - Life Of Fortune And Fame
TACTEEL - Babyeah
EL-P - T.O.J.

Joseph Young & Anonymous - Rossi Nights & Malibu Mornings

The only guy that dares post up here wanted some Joe Dub to enlighten his summer days. So here you go: a a tape from 2000 produced by Anonymous (aka Neosapien from Log Cabin aka Anti MC of Mush Records), a nice line-up of guest: Subtitle, Megabusive, Radio, Liferexall, Premo.. the whole Westcoast Workforce in action.
Beware though: the 2 first tracks are almost unlistenable due to tape fuck-ups, the rest is ok.

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Face A

Rossi Nights
I Was Born...
Clientele ft. Premonition
3 Kings
Ninety Nine
Pillow Talk ft. Liferexall


Face B

Tired ft. Megabusive & Radioinactive
Suga & Sade
Game Is Afoot ft. Subtitle
My Vision
Resources
Malibu Mornings

Foot Soljaaz - Hoes To Doe

It took me forever to find the vinyl copy of this single... To celebrate this here's a rip of the cassingle, one track + instro only, but what a nice one...
Foot Soljaaz is Otherwize and Zig ESP, two mcs from LA, Project Blowed affiliates. Wize won the 97 Rap Olympics and is part of the highly underrated Blak Forest crew (You Are Now Entering The Blak Forest is a must have btw)... Enjoy.

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Face A

Hoes To Doe (Vocal)


Face B

Hoes To Doe (Instrumental)

Shape Shifters - Rob One Presents The 12" Bootlegs + Mo'...

Another Shape compilation tape, cooked by their dj Rob One. This time you got the tracks off their various 12", plus extra stuff like jingles and freestyles. Never saw a rip of this one neither.

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Face A

Intro: Family Drops
THE CHAIN SMOKERS - Triple Threat
AWOLRUS - Awol One Might Be Dumb
CHAIN SMOKERS & THE ENGLISH LEAGUE - Strange Birds
THE ALL DEADLY JIZZM - Intro II
OF MEXICAN DESCENT & THE CHAIN SMOKERS - Pot Full O'Gold
MECK ONE aka MR FUNG, WHIPPER WHIP, IRISCIENCE, MC MAR & DEF JEF - Can't Be Stopped Vol#2 - Unreleased Freestyle From 1994
ROB ONE - Megamix Anthem
RESEK - Freestyle Headed To Arizona


Face B

Intro: More Fam & Ice T Graff Talk
CIRCUS - Mos Eisley
CODY, PABLO, ED, TONY, CHRIS, COURTNEY, MARCUS & LAVAR - Planet Rock 2012
CHAIN SMOKERS - Prevail
AWOL ONE - Flossin'
DR LUDACHRIS, BUSY BLEEK, AKUMA & LIFE REXALL - Re-Iterate
Moment Of Truth (Original) Recorded Summer Of 1996
Mo'Fam...
ROB ONE - Outro

Shape Shifters - Girl Power Vol.1

This is a somewhat rare tour-tape by the Shape Shifters, lots of known tracks from various Shapes album or la2thebay-related artists on this... One for the true collectors. Love the cover also!

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Here Face B


Face A

Beatle Borg
Zumthing Different
Girls Dipped In Chocolate
Pond Scum
Access The Light Body
Funky Honky
Concievable Evidence
Da Socias Have Taken Over
The Callendar
Swollen Brain Fish
Can U See?
Goods 4 Yhaz
Stop Yer Playa Hate'in
Cheese E. Chuck


Face B

Ignite Jupiter
Squash Da Beef
A Lil Piece O Heaven
Into The Spectrum
Pepsi On Tha Record
Gaia
Kooky Crazy Robot Eye
Every Day
1st Day Of The Rest of Your Life

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

I Ran Y - s/t

I Ran Y is Ian and Ray, 2/3 of the SF group Private School (the third one being JunDax which appears here too). This is their first tape, there's no year mentioned on it but it sounds like their very early work... This first version got absolute no info on it, but they re-issued it with a tracklist and credits, and different artwork.
Check out their recent album In Lue Of The Greater Nowhere if you can.

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Face A

Going Off The Deep End
Waiting Room ft. JunDax
Run Fast Faster Too Late
Airplanes And Cars


Face B

Who Is U
Unmasking
Naked
I Ran Y

DJ Klock - Direction Of Rainbow (Live Mix In New York)

This is a live mix from 2004, the artwork is from a member of the Barnstormers.
Dj Klock was a one-of-a-kind turntablist, a truly original artist. He released a couple of albums / eps which i could hardly describe... He had this sort of very abstract, minimal sound. That tape is the perfect example of a (great) japanese dj at work: abstract hip hop blends with far out electronica, it's rare when a guy comes with this sort of tracklist and play a set like that in front of an audience.. it takes some balls!
He was one of the few artist i distributed from my label and it was a pleasure working with him... His tapes were kind of challenging and as a dj, he was the kind of guy that makes you think about your own stuff... what do you have to say, how much fresh things you offer to the listener and what makes the difference between you and the thousands other dudes with turntables.
He passed away in 2007. Check his other music if you can, it's worth it.

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Face A

Intro
CHRISTIAN KLEINE - Unauthorized
?- ?
GEODEZIK - Down In Nowhere
TAICHI - From The Train Window
DJ KLOCK - This World?
MATTHEW DEAR - Reae
ANNA KAUFEN - Who Carez (Eve Millards Careless Mix)
GANGSTARR - Mass Appeal
SUTEKH - Parse
KARAFUTO - ?
LACKLUSTER - Close Enough
SHIN TAKAI - E.Q-3


Face B

3-Q, VPR, E, EEE - Iakat Nihs
MINOTAUR SHOCK - Let Me Out
ATOM - www.pringles.com
FRIVOLOUS - Black
TAICHI - Mirror
NUYORICAN SOUL - It's Alright, I Feel It! (Roni Size Remix)
INDIVIDUAL ORCHESTRA - Standing. Beer
HERMETO PASCHOAL - Bebe (Childs View Mix)
JVOX - Cadona
THE BIG KNIFE - Deodesic Dome
BOARDS OF CANADA - Happy Cycling
HERMANN & KLEINE - Sitting Next To You

Pseudzero - Heavenly Reverse (A Bigg Jus Mix)

I found this thing a few months ago. It's a mix i started in 2005-2006 i think but never properly finished. It's 25 minutes long and listenable though, even if it's obviously not the type of hyper technical mix right here... I did it as part of a project for a label that was planning to release something by him, but shit got cancelled at some point and i sat with my unfinished (and now useless) mix. The recent Co-Flow show in London had me giving it a couple of more spins though... Hope you'll enjoy too.

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Mr Aeks - Savagery's Blunted Blade

This one's from 1999. Mr Aeks is the beatmaker from San Jose group KHZ Devils, his album was released on Dave Dub's Isolated Wax imprint. Shitload of guest mcs, incl. personal favorites Zest The Smoker and Dave himself... Artwork by Mr. Doze Green.

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Face A

Prelude
Breeze ft. Zest The Smoker
In A Nutshell ft. Megabusive
Say Something ft. Bzy Moe & Persevere
Triple Six ft. KHZ Devils
Off The Top ft. Axeom
Subliminal Slang ft. Pablo
Intimate Conversation ft. Koan Able
Eternal Family ft. Constylations
Ash Tray ft. KHZ Devils


Face B

Everywhere And Anywhere ft. Kefing The Asiatic & Zygote
Speculations ft. A-One
Suitcase Synopsis ft. Noah Dee Akili & Tape Master Steph
Listening For... ft. Q
Internal Revenue Service ft. Tobias & Ill Traxx
Listening For ft. Bzy Moe
Never Still Born ft. Dave Dub