INNER SCIENCE started in the end of 90s. It is a solo project by Tokyo-based Masumi Nishimura. Early in his career, he made his mark in the so-called Japanese Hiphop scene but since 2000s, he has departed from narrowly-defined Hip Hop genre and branched into instrumental electronic music. Presenting a perfect merge with beautiful melodies and colourful rhythms (Last.fm, 2010).
Released Albums:
Inner Science - Music / Ladium EP
Inner Science - No Name, No Place
Inner Science - Material
Inner Science - Forms
Inner Science - Elegant Confections EP
Inner Science - Concentrates EP
Inner Science - Differentia EP
Reference:
(2010). Inner Science. Last.fm. Retrieved from http://www.last.fm/music/Inner+Science
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Jazz Liberatorz is a French hip hop crew formed in 1999, composed by producers and DJs from Meaux, which consists of DJ Damage, Dusty and Madhi. The group has released two studio albums; The 2008 album Clin D’oeil, a tribute to the golden age of hip-hop, taking its strength onto the roots of black music and more notably in jazz music. In 2009 Jazz Liberatorz released a second album Fruit Of The Past. The album featured numerous collaborating artists such as Fat Lip of Legendary Hip-Hop group The Pharcyde and award winning rapper Mos Def (Last.fm, 2010)
Thes One (born Christopher Cesar Portugal in Torrance, California, on October 18th, 1977) is one half of the hip hop duo People Under the Stairs. He has produced and engineered 7 albums for People Under the Stairs. His musical aliases include Uncle Thester, Supreme One, Thessoterrorist, Thunder Thumbs, Baron Wolfgang Von Thes, The S One and Lord Radio
People Under the Stairs (or P.U.T.S.) are one of underground hip hop scene’s acts. An MC and producer, Thes One is recognized for his eclectic and diverse range of beats. He handled the majority of the production in People Under the Stairs’ albums, although Thes One’s partner Double K is a producer, MC and DJ also.
Thes One has produced a broad range of tracks for a number of artists as well as remixing many tracks too, one such notable remix is Pete Rock and CL Smooth’s Back On The Block. Artists which Thes One has produced for include; Giant Panda, Ugly Duckling, J-Live, Starving Artists Crew, Crown City Rockers, Black Love Crew, Raw Produce, Substance Abuse, Lexicon, Akbar, Scarub and MURS. In 2004, Thes collaborated with Giant Panda to create the Bloquera EP.
In March 2007, Thes One released his debut solo album Lifestyle Marketing. It is a 2-disc album of instrumentals made from Herb Pilhofer’s Music That Works, a demonstration album originally released in the early 1970s that showcased Pilhofer’s musical compositions for radio & TV commercials, industrial films, and other projects. The first disc is Thes One’s album, the second consists of some of the original tracks from Music That Works from which Thes One’s album was made. The first single off the album is the 10” release ‘Target’ b/w ‘Grain Belt Beer’ (Last.fm, 2010).
Ras G guides a deep space exploration of music’s ancient history and rich future. Working thru obsolete tools to reach back in time and pluck out the essence of groove, Ras G's music is rich with space-funktified rhythms, fog horns, natty chattin, subterranean bass lines, colossal percussion and glorious highs.
Ras G has been a fixture on the underground hiphop scene in Los Angeles since the early 90s. He is a proud South Central LA resident. Ras along with Black Monk and Ron Stivers are the founders of the Poo-Bah Label.
This is the music that people will be playing in the ghettos of Mars in the year 3014 (Poo-Bah).
Feature:
Ras G: Into The Outer Reaches
An L.A. jazzhead launches FlyLo’s Brainfeeder imprint into the outer reaches.
Somewhere at the interstellar crossroads of Sun Ra, DJ Spooky, Strata East, and Lee “Scratch” Perry lies the incomparable musical mind of L.A. native Ras G (né Gregory Shorter, Jr.). Though he often affixes the group moniker “The Alkebulan (or Afrikan) Space Program” to his name, Ras G (a composite of his first initial and a testament to his belief in Rastafari) is the sole captain and crew of this spacecraft. Along with a 21st-century moxie, his collective influences make up what he describes as ghetto sci-fi—an extraterrestrial soundwave transmission of dub, white noise, glitch, off-kilter boom-bap, and sound bites. Incorporating healing tones (specific sound frequencies that are purported to have profound effects on the spirit and body), modal jazz, and ancestral inspiration, Ras G has managed to concoct a sonic brew that defies conventional musical categorization. “As opposed to riding trends and waves, I try to bring forth the music that I really feel,” he explains. “It’s my offering to the world.”
Tracing his fascination with the art of beat-making back to a relative who owned an E-mu SP-1200 drum machine/sampler, Ras G began gravitating towards other area hip-hop hopefuls for inspiration in the late 1990s. Most times, his passion was unrequited. “A lot of them weren’t into the music and the gear as tough as I wanted to be,” he remembers. “Or they were producing music on quality gear and the music wasn’t sounding as good as I thought it could sound. I felt like I could do something better with that stuff.” And with his influences in tow, his present-day cosmic creations can be interpreted as drum & bass being sucked into a black hole (“In Coming”) or celestial binary code (“Desert Fairy”).
In 2005, underground L.A. music scene impresario/producer Carlos Niño helped to launch Ras G’s career as a producer by tapping one of his productions for legendary jazz vocalist Dwight Trible’s acclaimed experimental album Love is the Answer. “That was like the lift off,” Shorter recalls. “But it was all kind of weird to me, because that was like one of the fifth or sixth beats that I’d ever made.” Remarkably, Ras G had only just purchased his first beat machine, an MPC-2000XL, the year before. Capitalizing on the buzz surrounding the Trible record, Shorter increased his output and began moving in a new circle of kindred spirits at a monthly soundclash safe haven called Sketchbook at L.A.’s Little Temple Bar.
“Flying Lotus, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Dibiase, and everybody who’s doing it right now on the L.A. scene used to gather there,” he reflects. “We would play beats, b-sides, and crazy stuff. So I used to make beat CDs for the parties so we would have something to listen to when we were outside smoking.” Since then, he’s been featured in the documentary Secondhand Sureshots and has released a slew of albums and EPs for Poo-Bah Records that have garnered him a devout following from Japan to the Netherlands. And since being inducted into FlyLo’s L.A.-based artist collective/label Brainfeeder, which Ras G dubs “the X-Men of future music,” it’s apparent that he’s bound for the exosphere.
“Everybody loves Brotha From Anotha Planet, but that’s something I did last year in the summertime in my kitchen,” he reveals about the creation of his latest album. “So the vibes of that kitchen were recorded on that project.” And though Ras G has enough recorded material for two full-length releases, he’s wary of predicting what vibes his next album will transmit. “Ain’t no telling where we’re going with this music. The inspiration changes quickly—that’s the Afrikan Space Program. We just do it" (Washington, 2009)
Released Albums:
Ras G - Beats Of Mind
Ras G - Overcast78
Ras G - Day and Night Ep
Ras G - Ghetto Sci-Fi
Ras G - Brotha From Anotha Planet
Ras G - Destination There Ep
Ras G - El-Aylien Part 1
Reference:
Washington, R. (2009, June 30). Ras G: Into The Outer Reaches. Retrieved from
Unorthodox producer/rapper Fat Jon is not only the beat-maker for the underground hip-hop collective Five Deez but a member of the 3582 crew and a solo artist with a string of albums that flirt with electronica, downtempo, and dub sounds. Sometimes credited as Fat Jon the Ample Soul Physician, Jon started out as a rapper in his native Cincinnati. There weren't many beat-makers on the local scene, so Jon learned how to make his own, working with a set of analog equipment that fit perfectly with his old school-loving, throwback style. As time went on, he became more forward-looking, but the analog equipment stuck around, creating a unique style that was both familiar and strange. Around 2000 his two crews began making waves in the underground rap community, and soon artists like Rakim, Talib Kweli, and Black Star were hiring Fat Jon for his dynamic production style.
A year later he struck out on his own with Humanoid Erotica, a laid-back, lounge-ish full-length credited to "Fat Jon as Maurice Galactica." The moody, mellow collection Wave Motion appeared in 2003, and a year later he began working with Stefan Betke, better known as Pole. Now based in Berlin, Fat Jon added his rhymes to Pole's 2003 self-titled release, a hip-hop-flavored album from a project that had been strictly icy cold and dub previously. Even if Pole's loyal fan base saw the jump in genres as heresy, the album introduced Fat Jon to a whole new audience. Now armed with computers and plenty of digital gear to go with his analog, Jon put his production hat back on for 2004's Lightweight Heavy, a breakthrough release that benefited from the attention he received with Pole. The year 2006 was extremely busy, with a new Five Deez album (Kommunicator), an instrumental album (Afterthought), and a collaboration with the indie electronic outfit Styrofoam (The Same Channel) all being released (Jeffries, 2010).
Released Albums:
Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician - Humanoid Erotica
Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician - Hundred Eight Stars
Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician - Afterthought
Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician - Lightweight Heavy
Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician - Wave Motion
Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician - Stasis Ep
Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician - Dyslexic Ep
Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician - The Same Channel with Styrofoam
Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician - Repaint Tomorrow
Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician - Departure (Samurai Champloo Soundtrack)
Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician - Impression (Samurai Champloo Soundtrack)
Reference:
Jeffries, D. (2010). Fat Jon. All Music. Retrieved from
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Hailing from Southern California, Dayeve Xienze, real name Dayeve Masangcay is a skilled underground hip hop and trip hop disc jockey, who loves to make sample-based music with a touch of acoustic guitar and keyboard, ever since 1998. His music can be considered abstract, experimental, distinctive, eccentric, weird and wonderful. It can be categorize as trip hop, underground hip hop, turntablism, breakbeats, electronica, cinematic, avant garde, film score, and space age.
This blog is dedicated to my Trip-Hop, Downtempo, Electronica, Dubstep, and Underground Hip-Hop Instrumental Addicts.In this blog, I will be spotlighting a beat innovator from around the world each day. I will also provide the artist's bio, album releases, music videos and more.
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