features tracks from AESOP ROCK, DEEP PUDDLE DYNAMICS, CANNIBAL OX, MIKE LADD, THEM, JOSH MARTINEZ and more!
"Seriously fine leftfield hip hop compilation - a wide survey of all that was good in forward thinking hip hop stylings circa 2002. All tracks have been released previously in one format or other but so varied and (some of it) so hard to obtain that this sampler is a perfect place to start or refresh. Tracks come from the NYC skill spit posse - Aesop Rock, Sonic Sum, Mike Ladd, Cannibal Ox and Antipop. The canadian new guardians truth/reality lyrics and deep original hip hop musicality - Josh Martinez and John Smith w/ McEnroe. Then Anticon are in the house - Them, So Called Artists, Deep Puddle Dynamics and Telephone Jim Jesus (Restiform Bodies). One of the strongest tracks is from Offwhyte from the killer Chicago based Galapagos 4 label, who, when he drops his second album (jointly released by Agenda and G4), will blow up big style. Excellent.1 Mike Ladd - Takes More Than 41 2 Them - Another Part of the Clown's Brain 3 Centric I.E. &Offwhyte - Simple Harmonic Motion 4 Josh Martinez - Chickenshit 5 Antipop Consortium - Laundry 6 So Called Artists - So You Wanna Be a Rap Star or Recycling Bin 7 Sonic Sum - Rocket 8 Deep Puddle Dynamics - Mothers of Invention 9 Cannibal Ox - Straight Off the D.I.C. 10 John Smith - No Room For Subtlety Featuring - McEnroe 11 Aesop Rock - Daylight 12 Telephone Jim Jesus - Teleprompter
