Dark Down
at the turn of the millennium hip hop was over 20 years old and main stream. luckily there was an underground alternative created by cats who made hip hop because they had to. whose free expression wasn’t concerned with Billboard and bling; only a passion for hip hop… and it shows.
photo : Derek Smith
* the darker side of a two part mix originally aired on Brave New Waves, CBC Radio, 2/21/02.
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Tracklist:
- Swollen Brain Fish – The Shape Shifters – Shape Shifters (1999) > (searching for buy link)
- Digi Destruction – Projecto – Hiero Imperium (2001) > buy link
- Saboteur (Roots Manuva version) – Amon Tobin – Ninja Tune (2000) > buy link
- F*ck Rap – Antipop Consortium – 75 Ark (2000) > (searching for buy link)
- Shock Therapy – Atmos – Vecta / Mo’ Wax (2001) > (searching for buy link)
- Foxwood’s – Mike Ladd – Ozone Music (2001) > (searching for buy link)
- Grey – cLOUDDEAD – Big Dada (2001) > (searching for buy link)
- Instrumental 4U – Reachout – Oh-Eye Records (1999) > (searching for buy link)
- Amethyst Rocks – Saul Williams – Immortal (1999) > (searching for buy link)
- Will I Get Shot By A Dope Fiend? – Third Sight – Disgruntled Records (2001) > buy link
- Sneak Preview – Mr. Lif & Murs – Def Jux (2001) > buy link
- Put Your Quarter Up – Slug, Aesop Rock, MF Doom – Molemen Inc. (2001) > buy link
- Super Brooklyn (inst.) – Cocoa Brovas – Duck Down Records (2000) > (searching for buy link)