COMPILATION - Bassments of Badmen Vol. 2 Before talking about today's main topic, let's start with a bit of contextualization: a long time ago, in 1996, when Hand’Solo was created, it all started with the first Bassments of Badmen compilation. Just when […]
TOMMY V - Travel Size Drawing Board Thomas Valencia, a.k.a. Tommy V, is a known name to anyone familiar with Los Angeles' post-Project Blowed scene key players, by the end of the 90's. This rapper, indeed, had been close to the Shape Shifters, and more particularly Awol One. And in 2001, he had released an album, Quarter Life Crisis, with some artists from the Anticon label. Last but not least, along with Xololanxinxo and the Ramos brothers, he had been a member of Toca, a quartet who had managed to mix the punk, indie pop and Latin rap genres, into some messy but exciting kind of music.
TOCA - Toca For Toca, serious matters had started in 2004, with one of these CD-Rs Cali's indie rap scene was fond of, by these times: a rock and rap crossover record named Dancing with Skeletons. Later on, the band had promised a real album, but it took months, and then years, before anything was released. The group's members, however, were still active. The Ramos brothers, for example, started releasing solo albums. In 2005, the quartet had even proposed one of their tracks to the Project Blowed 10th anniversary album. And in 2006, net31 was supposed to publish the album. Unfortunately, shortly afterwards, this small label had ceased to exist.
CENTA OF DA WEB - Beyond Human Comprehension In 2001, when Def Jux had released Cannibal Ox's The Cold Vein, the label had been at its height. With this record, it had definitely established its fame, notoriety and credibility. It had become the main herald of the […]
ALLEY BOY - Definition Of Fuck Shit By 2010, the rise of Alley Boy begins with that release, a mixtape elegantly named Definition Of Fuck Shit, and hosted by DJ Holiday and The Empire. Such starts a fantastic series continued with another mixtape named the […]
