United We Chill - Book & Mixtape

"United We Chill" is a photography book and cassette mixtape combo published by Seven Dollars Crew. Production is of the highest quality. These photographs only exist in print, and the mixtape does not exist digitally. Photography and design by Aple76. Mixtape by Aidan Leacy. Letters and drawings by Steven Serval and Kid Kash

 Book is 80 pages, hard cover, lithograph print, 165 x 252mm.

Available now only from hydeslovelies.com

Veks - Consolation LP - 2017

MCR001 LP - 2017 - Missing Children Records  

This is the official 2nd Instrumental LP release from the San Diego based artist Veks (Last Jazz Club). 16 tracks of raw instrumentals release on Missing Children Records. 
Available on Ltd 12" Vinyl (300 available, 500 pressed), 4 Panel J Card Cassette (only 50) & 4 Panel DigiPak CD (only 100).


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Interview : MOBB DEEP in Skills Magazine - 1995

From Skills Graffiti Magazine - Issue #7 - 1995

Demo : Almighty Wise - 1996

2 Demo tracks recorded in 1996 by Almighty Wise and played by Bobbito in the S&B Show from March 8th 1996. 

Unsigned Hype : Cipher Complete

From The Source - August 1996 - Scan by Frederic Thecle 

Lower Level - Top Notch / Flavorable Fluids - 1995

12" - 1995 - Queen City Production Records 

Lower Level was a crew from Charlotte (NC) and consisted of 4 members : Joseph Caldwell a.k.a Jay Flav, Milton Smith a.k.a Money Milt, Willie McDuffy a.k.a Wil-Nice and Barry McDuffy a.k.a KHB. 
If you have to spend a lot of your money on a record it should be this one because technically it will never come out again due to lost Masters...
This wax came out in 1995 on Queen City Production Records and is composed of 2 very good tracks "Top Notch" and "Flavorable Fluids" which is certainly the best track of this 12", containing a sample of  Slippin' Into Darkness performed by Ramsey Lewis. 

Here is the short interview with Jay Flav from Lower Level done by Bob Lipitch courtesy of Chopped Herring Records for the release of The 5PL1T EP Vol 2 :

"Did you all grow up in Charlotte?

We all grew up in Charlotte myself, Wil & Barry grew up in Hidden Valley and Money Milt grew up in Earle Village. Milt was the only one that didn't  grow up with us, we met in another street capacity.

How did you end up recording at D&D Studios?

We were working with Mark Spark at D&D on the production side and stumbled on an engineer by the name of Joe Quinde....he was a beast at mixing. That was around the time we were working with a label out of Newark called Brick Boulevard  that had a production deal with Elektra Records. We were going to be the first act off that label, but when Busta left the Leaders of the New School, Elektra went on a all out campaign to promote The Coming album by Busta, so the label along with other groups on Elektra, such as 3 Boys from Newark [which had another NC native Omniscience] got dropped by Elektra. Unfortunately they let alot of good music go to waste.

What was the scene like in North Cackalacka back in the day? 

The scene in NC was crazy, we had mad talent with groups like SoHo (Southern Hospitality) my brothers they were dope, Omniscience the Funky One Liner, Ski Beats (produced Reasonable Doubts for Jay Z) and was also the founder of Original Flavas, Nasty Fruit. ....and many more. Dopeness brother!!! Alot of notable producers such as Fanatic, Mark Spark, Laquan, Skazz Daddy, Wil-Nice and many more....

Who did you look up to growing up?

Locally I looked up to all the cats on Payroll Records such as the Bizzy Boyz and Supreme Nyborn, nationally I looked up to Large Professor, KRS One, Cold Crush Brothers (Almighty K.G) my man, Big Daddy Kane who has been in NC for over 20 years and actually came to a couple studio sessions.

Did you do cats do the support slot  for acts touring down South from the North East?

We opened a lot of shows back in the days. NC was different than other parts of the south because we banged Hip Hop and artists would come down to perform and be amazed that we sounded professional and on the same level as they did. A lot of groups came to perform in NC and left with a new found respect for NC. Even recording at D&D, up north cats would come in the room spark up and pop their neck to the sounds, such as Guru, Sadat and many more."

Chris Read Presents Gang Starr 'Daily Operation' 25th Anniversary Mixtape

1. The Cannonball Adderley Quintet - 'Fun' [Extract]

2. Gang Starr - 'The Place Where We Dwell' [Instrumental]

3. Chris Read - 'Theme #3' [Scratchapella]

4. Gang Starr - 'Stay Tuned'

5. Gang Starr - 1991 Interview Extract

6. Ceasar Frazier - 'Funk It Up'

7. BDP - 'Criminal Minded' [Extract]

8. Gang Starr - 'Ex Girl to Next Girl'

9. Johnny Hammond - 'Big Sur Suite'

10. Gang Starr - 1991 Interview Extract

11. Aretha Franklin - Young, Gifted and Black

12. Gang Starr - '92 Interlude'

13. The Crusaders - 'In The Middle of the River'

14. Gang Starr - 'No Shame In My Game'

15. Leaders of the New School - 'Sobb Story' [Extract]

16. Eddie Hazel - 'Frantic Moment'

17. Gang Starr - 'Take Two and Pass'

18. Juice Crew All Stars - 'Juice Crew All Stars' [Extract]

19. Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - High As Apple Pie Slice II 

20. Gang Starr - 'Conspiracy'

21. Gang Starr - '2 Deep'

22. Gang Starr - 'Hardcore Composer'

23. Jungle Brothers - 'Straight Out The Jungle' [Extract]

24. Sugar Billy Garner - 'I Got Some' (sampled in B.Y.S)

25. Gang Starr - 'B.Y.S'

26. Gang Starr - 'Flip The Script'

27. Ahmad Jamal - 'Misdemeanor'

28. Gang Starr - 'Soliloquy of Chaos'

29. Kid Dynomite - 'Uphill Piece of Mine'

30. Gang Starr feat Lil Dap and Jeru The Damaja - 'I'm The Man'

31. The O'Jays - 'When The World's At Peace'

32. Schoolly D - P.S.K Wha Does It Mean? [Loop]

33. Cannonball Adderley - Leo: Rosebud [Extract]

34. Charles Mingus - II B.S

35. Skull Snaps - 'It's A New Day' [Loop]

35. Brand Nubian - 'Step to the Rear' [Extract]

36. Gang Starr - 'Take It Personal'

37. JBs - 'Gimme Some More' [Loop]

38. Gang Starr - 'Much Too Much (Mack a Mill)'

39. Gang Starr - 'The Illest Brother'

40. James Brown - 'Funky Drummer' [Loop]

41. Eric B & Rakim - Eric B Is President [Extract]

42. Richard Pryor - 'Prison'

Views B4 The 6 - Interview : Frankenstein

From Hip-Hop Connection - November 1998 - Scan courtesy of Slurg

"In this episode we sit down with Toronto Hip hop legend Frankenstein and talk about everything from the early scene, him finding hip hop as an Italian kid in Toronto, early production to him trying to get signed in the early 90s and MUCH all the way to the infamous "bad boy beat jacking"... hear the truth straight from the horses mouth!!" Views B4 The 6