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Title [The Black Lab Mixtape ] ░██▓
Artist [VA ] ██▒
Label [Black Lab ] Genre [Hip-Hop ] ██░
Quality/Size [44.1 @VBR 131,0 MB Ripped [03-08-2014 ] ▒██
Grabbed from [CDDA ] Enc [Lame 3.98 ] ▓██
Website [n/a ] ▒██
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Track Time Title ██
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01 03:00 Phreewil & Jewels Hunter - Magnus Opus ██
02 03:25 Phreewil, Onry Ozzborn & Jewels Hunter - Counting ██
Cards ██
03 03:39 Danitra Hunter, Nathan Wolfe, Tru - Id & Cheo ██
Lopez-Lives This Music ██
04 03:10 Graves33, Phreewil & Khanfidenz - Industry ██
Merchants ██
05 02:51 Ricky Pharoe & Jewels Hunter - Inhale Magick ██
06 04:22 Suntonio Bandanaz, Julie C & Rev.1 - 19-Better ██
Think Twice ██
07 02:43 Nathan Wolfe & Phreewil - Habitual Harvest ██
08 06:41 Phreewil & Jewels Hunter - Students Of The Drum ██
09 04:34 Graves33 & Jewels Hunter - Game Of Life ██
10 02:00 Filkoe - Why Crack An Egg ██
11 02:42 Jewels Hunter - The Hueman Pain ██
12 02:56 Gajah, Audiopoet & Danitra Hunter - Media Madness ██
13 02:38 Phreewil, Leland Jones & Jewels Hunter - Journey 13 ██
14 03:06 Audiopoet, Nathan Wolfe & Graves33 - The Take Over ██
15 04:06 Ricky Pharoe - Get Lost ██
16 04:28 Noah 23, Ricky Pharoe, Tru - Id & Byrdie-The Four ██
Horsemen ██
17 04:14 Jewels Hunter, Robust & Momentumx - Blood Ink ██
18 03:19 Graves33 & Julie C - Loathing Love ██
19 05:30 Graves33, Jewels Hunter & Kasi - Periodic Time ██
Table ██
20 10:22 Jewels Hunter, Momentumx & Nathan Wolfe - Lost At ██
Last ██
Totals ██
20 79:46 min ██
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For many years...I was obsessed with collecting albums; from ██░
vinyl to CD. I sometimes would spend hundreds on music ██
within a week. Over this period of time I gained hundreds of ██
CDs...most of these albums (95%) were all underground hip ██
hop; many of which are now out of print. I loved the art ██
work, layouts, disc image; and I always loved to have the ██
track listing, liner notes, bios and album credits. ██
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I eventually really got into instrumental Hip Hop. This, at ██
first, was hard for me to get into because I always wanted ██
to hear rapping over beats; but after listening To Hip Hop ██
for almost two decades.... at this point in time (2000) ██
things started to become redundant. The mainstream was doing ██
a lot of commercialized rap/pop music at this time, most of ██
my all time favorite Mceez were not really doing anything ██
that was my particular cup of tea and hearing the same ██
watered down similes & punchlines in the under ground, ██
really had an effect on me. So it eventually became easier ██
to listen to instrumental Hip Hop and it soon became a ██
central cornerstone in my daily listening sessions. In ██
ways...instrumental Hip Hop started to seem like Hip Hop in ██
it's purist form during this time; because you never had the ██
rapper's egotistical perspectives involved with the art ██
form. The instrumentals speak for them selves; and that ██
allows one to think and admire the music. ██
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This took place between 2000 and 2007. In these moments I ██
heard things in Hip Hop that I never heard before and that ██
caused me to view Hip Hop music in a way....that eventually ██
changed my life. for this 7 year period I came across beats ██
and instrumentals that I always wanted to use someday. Some ██
of these beats never had rapping over them in the first ██
place; but they were some of the dopest I had ever heard and ██
wanted to some day write a little to them. ██
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After a while everybody and they grandma were doing ██
mixtapes. Then I started to hear a lot of underground ██
mixtapes with production from the mainstream (Nothing wrong ██
with that. To each his own.)....that always kinda tripped me ██
out though, because the underground needs all the love it ██
can get, had all these dope instrumentals left untapped and ██
has some of the best producers that I had ever heard. ██
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So....in 2007 I decided to do The Black Lab Mixtape! It ██
would be a mixtape with a concept; in that....we would only ██
use our favorite beats from the underground and at the same ██
time alert people to our favorite producers that influenced ██
us...as a collective. ██
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So this mixtape ended up being unorthodox in a few ways: ██
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(1) Usually mixtapes are comprised of the newest beats that ██
just dropped; but we were gonna use beats from any and all ██
years.s ██
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(2) Usually mixtapes have beats that were songs of ██
rappers....beats that had already had recent songs over ██
them; but we were planning on also using a variety of beats ██
taken from Instrumental albums as well, that never had ██
vocals over them originally. ██
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(3) Usually mixtapes are more about the rappers and their ██
vocals...but this mixtape has a concept that showcases the ██
dope producers, that Black Lab Felt should be brought above ██
the radar. ██
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(4) finally...mixtapes are usually comprised of ██
instrumentals that are available or can be found on singles ██
and the internet. Three of these tracks I have never seen ██
instrumentals for...EVER. I actually imported the original ██
songs off of CD and chopped the instrumental parts from the ██
song and rebuilt the beats. ██
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In the summer of 2008, before Ricky Pharoe moved to ██
Cali...he came and recorded a Mixtape track for himself ██
called, "Get Lost". I was like, "hey...I was gonna use that ██
beat on The Black Lab Mixtape!" Ricky was like, "Use it on ██
The Black Lab Mixtape." So Get Lost was technically the ██
first song ever recorded for The Black Lab Mixtape and it ██
was recorded in the Late Summer of 2008. All the rest of the ██
recordings were done between the summer of 2009 and the end ██
of 2010; but almost all of these recordings were done in ██
2009. ██
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What your left with, is a mesh of styles that represent the ██
producers who inspired them. A collage of kaleidoscopic ██
textures, that paint a mural of Hip Hop from the perspective ██
of The Underground. This mixtape truly embodies the hart and ██
soul of The Black Lab and captures the very essence of the ██
soundscapes that we would like to craft for ourselves and ██
present to open ears. We wanted to bring to the forefront ██
MCing, in it's Purest form...no catchy hooks...just raw ██
uncut rhyming carried out in the tradition of The Wu-Tang ██
Clan; and some of our other all time favorite Mceez from the ██
East coast in the mid 90's, that laid a foundation for What ██
The Black Lab does and represents . You have one Mc after ██
another sounding off and most times where there would ██
usually be a chorus or scratching...we left it empty...so it ██
would have a raw feel and allow the true rugged vibe of the ██
music that inspired us, to play it's part. ██
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In the end...it's raw, grimy, warm, vintage and reeks of old ██
dusty records; and the worn down turn tables that play them. ██
Its back bone consists of chopped breaks & dated samples. It ██
captures sounds and moments...to recycle and resurrect them ██
for todays youth and for generations to come. Its drums are ██
hard and heavy. The concepts are deep and passionate. It ██
resonates the very frequency of a movement...but uses the ██
elements of Hip Hop as its voice and vehicle. From the 12 ██
bit sound of the SP1200 to the sample pads of The MPC 2000; ██
It stands for something much more then ourselves and carries ██
on a grand tradition, that was started by the children of ██
the civil rights movement. Its a beautiful family tree, with ██
many colored leaves, all diverse in shade and tone. It ██
contributes to our lives and becomes the very air we breath; ██
But BENEATH THE SURFACE...is where it all began and it's ██
roots will always run deep in the hart of the underground. ██
credits ██
released 01 January 2013 ██
All tracks recorded, engineered, edited, mixed & mastered by ██
Jewels Hunter in The Black Lab. All additional recording By ██
Graves & Phreewil in The Black Lab. Scratching on track (1) ██
by Graves33. ██
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All songs were written and performed by the artists ██
involved, between the end of 2008 and the end of 2010. ██
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PRODUCTION: Track (1) Blatantly hijacked from Blood of ██
Abraham's 2005 release entitled, "Eyedollartree". ██
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Tracks (2 & 19) Produced by Blockhead and taken from his ██
album, "Music by Cavelight". ██
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Track (3) Produced by Alias and taken from his instrumental ██
album, "Muted". ██
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Tracks (4 & 5) Produced by Jel and taken ffrom his ██
instumental Album called, "Green Ball 2-The Proud Parent of ██
a US Marine". ██
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Track (6) taken from Ayentee. ██
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Track (7) Produced by DJ Premier and blatantly hijacked from ██
Gang Starr's. "Step in the Arena" ██
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Tracks (8 & 9) Produced by DJ Shadow. Track (8) was taken ██
from his 1996 release entitled, "Endroducing....." and track ██
9 was taken from his instrumental album, "Preemetive ██
Strike". ██
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Track (10) Produced by Sixtoo & Stigg (Villain Accelerate). ██
Taken from there instrumental album, "Maid of Gold". ██
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Track (11) Produced by Factor. Taken from the album ██
entitled, "Chandeller". ██
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Track (12) Produced by Stigg. Taken from vinyl. The beat was ██
originally from a Sebutones (Sixtoo & Buck 65) song. ██
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Track (13) Produced by Buck 65. Blatantly hijacked from his ██
album entitled, "Language Arts" ██
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Tracks (14, 15 & the hidden track) Produced by Jel. Taken ██
from his instrumental album. "Green Ball". ██
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Track (16) Produced by Thavius Beck. Taken from his album, ██
"Give Us Free". ██
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Tracks (17 & 20)) Produced by Maker. Track (16) taken from ██
the instrumental bonus disc off of Glue's album, "Catch as ██
Catch Can". Track (20) Taken from his solo album called, ██
"Honestly". ██
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Track (18) Produced by Controller 7. Taken from his ██
instrumental album, "Left Handed Straw". ██
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