Show #2

SHOW 2:

Producer and beat maker DNAE hails from San Francisco and has created one of the strongest emcee compilations I have heard in a while. His Album "Eternal Autum" features some of California's heavy hitters, and the music proves to be an equal match to the furious styles of guests: Z-MAN, ELLAY KHULE, LIFE REXALL, GRUNGE TOEFU & KAOE D, N8 THE GR8, EXISTEREO, DISFLEX.6, AKUMA , WRITERS BLOCK, OTHERWIZE, and the man of the hour- SUBTITLE

Along with Dj Nobody and Thavius Beck, Subtitle has been leading the way in the world of avant-tard hip hop and is one of the key figures who has been re-bridging the gap between the pyschedelic/progressive rock and hip hop worlds. A renaissance rapper if there ever was one, Subtitle finds his flows over every type of music and is an experimental emcee to the fullest extent of the word.

It's not every day that 8-bit producers catch my ear. I love the lo-fi gameboy samples and beats, but it's always the lo-fi aspect that leaves me wishing for better production vaule. Lets face it, most 8-bit music sounds like a third generation Living Legends tape from 1996. That having been said, I was amazed to find a classic, hard as hell bass heavy track produced by Two Playa Game- and with perfect production value to match. Sacramento Producers Gamebwoy and Xtraman have hit the mark with this track, and I think it's pretty hard to ruin a track that opens with a "War Games" sample cause we all know that WOPR running the program "Joshua" slayed HAL on so many different levels. I'm not aware of any albums coming out in the near future from this duo, but if they keep making isht like this I'm sure your gonna here a lot more from these guys.

Angelo Dei Morte, a.k.a Algernon, is a Voltron Clan OG who has been stepping up his game for the last eight years. From San Francisco to Texas and beyond you will find this guy killing laptops and raping hard drives as he pushes the glitch hop jungle core thing to the edge of meltdown. I can honestly say Angelo Dei Morte is the first producer I have ever seen who can rock a party with a lap top that has a screen which isn't attached to the computer anymore and is barely hanging on by a wire- Oh, and the screen only worked in intervals. I think a lot of people will be playing catch up to this guy...

Megabusive is an enigma of sorts. The only thing I know of this SF emcee comes from the numerous tracks I have heard over the last few years. I think his wesite puts it best, "i started rhyming a long time ago. i have no real interest in trying to get signed, or anything that requires me to compromize." What else can you say. "Booze and Shoes" will give you a good idea of what you can expect from other Megabusive tracks- just some straight up hip hop with no bullshit.

Uglie is from a town called Beaumont. If you are ever driving to Palm Springs and your car breaks down, it will probably be in Beaumont. When this happens to you, email Uglie because he seems to be the only thing happening out there at all; well, besides date milk shakes and those dinosaurs from Pee Wee's Big Adventure. (A little side note here is that some born-again christians recently bought those colorful dinosaurs, and have now set up a "museum" of sorts where they tell the story of how Noah also loaded dinosaurs onto his boat during the flood. He did this cause there is no other way to explain dinosaurs through creationism, so they must have existed around the time of Noah and his ark. Right.) Uglies track GDM was just another random internet find which I thought others should take a listen to. But seriously, the next time you are in Beaumont invite Uglie to go to the dinosaur "museum" with you to learn some logically fascinating details about how dinosaurs and humans co-existed...

Bizzart is an emcee who has been haunting Los Angeles for a few minutes. I don't know much about Bizzart so I will let his web page do the explaining, "An unrelenting desire to make personal, dynamic music has led Bizzart down many paths. His first release for Sounds Are Active, Everybody’s Mouth was recorded in less than a week although it hibernated for years prior. On Everybody’s Mouth Bizzart used various underground hip-hop producers for backgrounds to his psychosis: cinema, death, God and racism all shared cross examination. Alternating spoken word and more conventional hip-hop formulas, a major force behind the album’s ruminations is the meditation on his father’s murder. Bizzart puts his muse where his mouth is. Although the musical backing didn’t always propel the oftentimes incendiary lyrics his new album Ear Drung more than makes up for this." All I know is that “Nivek (Outputmessage Remix)” is a hot track and I had to share it with you guys.