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The trip-hop performance moniker of 1 Jean-Christophe Le Saoût, Wax Tailor first emerged in the French electronica scene in 2004 (using the EP release Lost just how), but didn’t release his debut album until 2006. That debut, Stories of the Neglected Melodies, was popular both in France and in america, …

Ursula Rucker is not a funky diva — she’s her own diva. Having collaborated with a few of music’s most advanced — the Silent Poets, Ruler Britt, Josh Wink, the Origins — Rucker offers honed her seductive spoken wordplay inside Philly spirit, hip-hop, and fresh jazz. She combines interpersonal consciousness …

Turntablist Rob Swift was created Robert Aguilar in Jackson Levels, a community of Queens. Developing up, he was greatly affected by cutting-edge jazz designer Herbie Hancock aswell as the greater standard DJ heroes like Grandmaster Display, Grand Wizard Theodore, and DJ Top. After graduating from Baruch University with a level …

A Brooklyn-based designer influenced by dub reggae aswell as jungle and drum’n’bass, Dr. Israel offers toured Europe many times and made an appearance on several compilations, including both quantities of Crooklyn Dub Consortium. He in addition has released the single records 7 Stories of Israel (1996) and then Stage (1997), …

A WordSound label supergroup featuring Expenses Laswell, ex-New Kingdom member Scotty Hard, and Spectre, amongst others, the experimental dub ensemble Dubadelic debuted in 1996 with 2000: A Bass Odyssey. The follow-up, Bass Invaders, made an appearance two years later on.

The Brooklyn-based dub-hop project Slotek was primarily the task of Particular Dark in collaboration with cohorts Sibling J, Jadoo, and Scotty Hard. The LP 7 made an appearance in 1997, implemented two years afterwards by Hydrophonic.

Also called Torture, Sensational was an associate from the Jungle Brothers on the album 1993 J. Beez Wit Da Treatment. He released his self-produced single debut, PACKED WITH Power, in 1997. The follow-up, Part the Market, made an appearance the next 12 months and Heavyweighter was released in fall 2000; …

An appropriately shadowy entity with many albums for WordSound and creation places for Prince Paul and Techno Pet, Spectre may be the Nosferatu of underground horrorcore, channeling the greater isolated shades of industrial-dub and illbient into hip-hop productions of the intensely paranoid character. Inspired from the wealthy legacy of horror …

Naming themselves following the African underlying used to improve male performance, longtime collaborators Vernon Reid and DJ Reasoning united in 2002 as Yohimbe Brothers and released Entrance End Lifter, a dense album of guitar-fueled turntablism. Both New York-based performers first came jointly in the first ’90s as founding associates of …

An associate of New York’s Water Sky family members, DJ Wally started acquiring trip-hop into brand-new directions with three EPs recorded for his very own label, Sams Jointz. The monitors contained a fantastic variety of noises, encompassing ambient, funk, jungle, and also a solid workout in ’70s nostalgia — a …