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Title [Magnesium Opium (2003) ] ░██▓
Artist [Nowfolk (Moka Only & Ishkan) ] ██▒
Label [Urbnet ] Genre [Hip-Hop ] ██░
Quality/Size [44.1 @VBR 87,9 MB] Ripped [02-20-2016 ] ▒██
Grabbed from [WEB ] Enc [Lame 3.98 ] ▓██
Website [https://urbnet.bandcamp.com ] ▒██
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Track Time Title ██
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01 01:28 Magnesium Opium ██
02 02:55 I Got Some Shit That You'll Love ██
03 02:58 What Comes To Mind ██
04 03:03 Thats Where I Wanna Be ██
05 03:40 Get Things Jumpin' ██
06 02:20 Thats The Way That We Do It ██
07 03:42 Lifelike ██
08 02:55 Yeah Yeah Yeah ██
09 01:59 Its Over Girl ██
10 02:20 Just Another Short Story For Ya ██
11 02:27 Its Like That You Know ██
12 03:00 Put It On ██
13 03:18 In A World Husslin' ██
14 02:54 Change Tha Way ██
15 03:00 Where Ya Be At ██
16 03:21 Ya Actin' Like Ya Saw Somethin' ██
17 03:02 Chamarvellous ██
18 02:57 All The Way ██
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18 51:19 min ██
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"Well, here goes... Magnesium Opium. Finally. There has been ██
a considerable amount of folklore amongst longtime fans ██
surrounding this album: "Was it ever completed?"; "why was ██
it never released?"; "what's the story behind the title?" ██
that kind of talk. ██
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Let's take a sec to look back: the early 2000s were an ██
incredibly industrious time for myself and my peers in ██
music. We had big rap dreams, busy schedules and bountiful ██
ideas-all amidst what some would consider to be the "last ██
big hurrah" of the music industry as we knew it. ██
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As for the nowfolk album, Ishkan and I had been recording ██
music under the group, Moniker, since the mid-late nineties ██
and had released two albums already: Style Gangstas (1999) ██
and The Moon (2001). During the late fall of 2001, we ██
hastily launched into a project called The Winter. We ended ██
up shelving it, and at the start of 2002, decided to work on ██
something we felt would be more substantial (a more updated ██
nowfolk project, if you will). We worked on the album ██
incrementally from January 2002 until June 2003. Around ██
June, I had a conversation with a fan who told me of a crazy ██
dream he had involving finding a "lost nowfolk album," and ██
in the dream he recalled the album being called Magnesium ██
Opium. I told Ish about the dream, and we unanimously ██
decided use it for the title. ██
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It's kind of amazing that we didn't have a real album title ██
until the project was wrapped. That's unusual. As I ██
mentioned previously, it was a very busy time and between my ██
solo work and touring with my main group-I was swamped. ██
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At the end of June, my Adat recording system was destroyed ██
virtually stranding the nowfolk album from being mixed and ██
released along with many other solo projects. I know I've ██
brought this up countless times, but it has to be rehashed ██
to accurately tell the story. ██
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Anyway, all I had were very rough mixes on cassette and cd ██
of "mag op". I acquired new recording equipment and really ██
didn't look back from that point plus Ish moved to Victoria ██
in the fall of 2003 and it ultimately slowed our nowfolk ██
aspirations to a near standstill for years. When I finally ██
acquired a replacement Adat lx20 unit a couple years ago, I ██
began to unearth and mix mag op using my rough tape mixes as ██
reference. Then, I reassembled the album chronologically in ██
the exact order that we had recorded the songs. ██
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Now that URBNET has granted me the opportunity to release an ██
album monthly for 2016, I knew that it was the perfect time ██
to bring Magnesium Opium to the world. ██
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Upon reviewing and scrutinizing the album from start to ██
finish, it's interesting to hear the phases we went through ██
during different seasons. The album starts very playfully ██
with "I Got Some Shit that You'll Love," (Ish and I were ██
definitely on the bug out tip with that one!) From that ██
point on, the album seems to drift into an ethereal and ██
almost mystical vibe for the first half of the project, as ██
exemplified by the track "LifeLike Part Two." It seems to ██
float like its own planet in some other plane of reality. ██
One of my favorites on the first half of the album is ██
"That's the Way That We Do It." I remember I had to leave on ██
tour that morning, and was waiting for the tour bus to pick ██
me up at the crib. Ishkan came over and we took the ██
challenge of having mere minutes to record a new song before ██
I had to get on the bus. I mention in my rap about it being ██
put down "in a minute." We actually pulled it off! After ██
"LifeLike," the album seems to go through a playful state ██
again with "Yeah Yeah Yeah" right through "It's Like That." ██
Which was recorded during the late summer through fall of ██
2002. "Another Short Story for ya" is almost bizarre, and ██
Ishkan's raps and styling baffle me pleasantly. You can hear ██
our style change once again by "In a World Husslin" which ██
was recorded right before New Year's Eve 2002. The beat I ██
made felt like a new futuristic direction for us, and seemed ██
appropriate for entering 2003. I love the pictures Ish ██
paints on his verse with "pots and pans clangin/pieces clap ██
at the clouds." Dope stuff. The track "Change the Way" was ██
recorded Jan 1st or 2nd, and continues the futuristic -feel ██
we were edging, both in beat style and overall vibe. You can ██
hear an underlying tone of real optimism in the track. I was ██
also finishing up my Lowdown Suite album at the time, and I ██
was happy to have Ish represent on the track "Magnificent" ██
which was recorded a day or two before "Husslin." ██
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I was also living in both Vancouver and Los Angeles then, ██
alternating my time between the two cities which explains a ██
significant gap in the nowfolk recording sessions as "Where ██
Ya Be At" wasn't recorded until spring 2003. In fact, the ██
final few tracks on the album were recorded weeks apart, ██
through late spring until June 2003, and the final two ██
tracks were recorded only a day or two apart. "All The Way" ██
is a bittersweet effort, as it signifies the end of an era, ██
and it was the last official nowfolk song recorded. ██
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Things were never the same again after, for both my ██
recording and the music industry on a whole, but the story ██
is not over yet. There have been a couple brief 'nowfolkish ██
' attempts since then, including a track we recorded for ██
2008's Carrots and Eggs album on URBNET (still available). ██
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There are plans underway for Ish and I to record a new ██
nowfolk album strictly utilizing unused Moka beats from ██
2002! So here's hoping to that becoming realized. I think by ██
finally releasing Magnesium Opium it will provide some ██
closure and bring to reality a more plausible possibility of ██
a future for nowfolk. By the way: Ishkan is also a member of ██
my crew Torchlight Commission. ██
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In conclusion, regarding Magnesium Opium, there is just not ██
enough space to say and express everything I'd like to about ██
the album and that era. There was just too many fun nights ██
and laughs while recording; too many Shell gas station ██
coffees; too many great recording breaks to hit up Cactus ██
Club restaurant; and just too much awesome wizardry to ██
accurately describe. I get so much joy re-listening to this ██
album, and I sincerely hope you will too. !" ██
~~ Moka. February 15th, 2016. ██
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"Magnesium Opium.... At long last. First and foremost I have ██
to thank my brother Moka Only. While Nowfolk is a an ██
opportunity for me to write and record songs, the brunt of ██
the work always falls to Moke who spends countless hours ██
pouring over the details of beats, mixing vocals, editing, ██
and in general keeping the spirit of our group alive with ██
his tireless inspiration. His Torchlight Commission is aptly ██
named as he continues to light the way for artists like ██
myself who occasionally drift in and out of obscurity. ██
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This album, like any album, is a period piece for us. Like ██
an old photo album we can pull out and laugh at silly things ██
and be in awe of the moments of something unexpected. Music ██
is our way of diarizing our lives. A time capsule filled ██
with relationships, style trends, and growing pains. This ██
album in particular is a reflection of a time when every day ██
was a sort of lead up to being in the studio and making as ██
many songs as possible. Filling Moke's amazing beats with ██
the daily events and nightly stream of consciousness it was ██
a real era of 'The Folk' as well as our other crew The City ██
Planners. To be able to finally release old material like ██
this not only gives us something for the longtime fans, but ██
lets us revisit the dream space we were in when creating it. ██
And for all the verses where my voice sounds off or I'm ██
ahead of the beat or...a bit sloppy on this and that, this ██
is still a collection of magic for me and I'm stoked to have ██
it shared. ██
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For all the people still checking for NowFolk we love you ██
and will continue to share our music with you and invite you ██
into our weird world." ██
~~ ISHKAN ██
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