Discreet Merchants - Mouth Of Madness - 2000

12" - 2000 - 8th & Dawson Records 

Let's talk about this 12" released by Producing crew named Discreet Merchants from Long Beach,Ca, a group consisting of Ptah (Herb), Deviant and Xsite.

"Mouth Madness" came out in 2000 on 8th & Dawson Records. The song features Moziz, an emcee originally from Long Beach, Ca who is now living in Phoenix, Arizona. It also features Field Marshall from Long Beach on the cuts. This is the only track available on the record, Radio version on the A-side and instrumental version on the flip side. 

Moziz - Photo courtesy of Moziz Mcdonald

About the connection between all the group members, you need to know that Ptah and Deviant are apart of a diggin crew named Drum Majors, along with Aaron and Einstein from Ugly Ducklings. And Xsite and Pthat were from a dance group in the late 80's/early 90's called Prime Time. They were back up dancers...

Prime Time - Photo courtesy of Ptah

They came up with the producing group name in 1998. Discreet meaning underground, Merchants meaning working...They work and dwell in the Underground. 

They didn’t put out any other projects as producers after the 12", but they did put out projects from their label 8th & Dawson Records. Ptah, Deviant & Xsite owned the label, then they added Swiss Precise (Halfway House Mcees) & Dizzy Dustin (from Ugly Ducklings) a few years later. The label isn't still active nowadays unfortunately but Discreet Merchants is thinking about release a bunch of content from the late 90's and 2000's. 

Mad Props to Ptah