wtf ever happened to the guy that produced aceyalone's book of human language??

A quick search reveals he's one half of this band. And he's done some other production work as well.

hey thanks

Discogs.com is your friend.

i still think this is a dope album

i mean theres just this real optimism and openness to it it doesnt wear its density and facility like armor the way so much of the other late 90s backpacker shit did its not really ~bearing grudges~ its just striving for truth

none of you goon bloggers are gonna stop making up dn puns long enough to talk about this album w/ me are you??

This is a good album.

Love The Guidelines, The Faces and The March especially. Interesting concept album. All Balls Dont Bounce is a better album I think.

i like the title track and 'the thief in the night' best i think although theres a cohesion to the whole thing that makes it hard for me to find standout trax.

yeah i can see 'all balls' as a better album but i just think 'book of human language' is a stronger package and i like the production a lot better

Listening again right now, trip of an album this is. Not the kind of album I'd put on to bump on a frequent basis and maybe thats why I hold ABDB a little higher, but the themes on this are deep, and carried out in that vintage Project Blowed style. Aceyalone was so great in the early stages.

Thief in the Night is great.

Agree about the lack of a standout, ABDB has Mic Check and thats my go to Aceyalone track, so my mind is automatically drawn to that lp I guess.

Met Ace in 2005 at a show of about 30 people, said he still gets way nervous, was very stoned, nice guy.

He said, "DJ KICK THAT SHIT" and just spit for 60 minutes straight, no break, dj just kept mixing, perfect transitions and just unconscious rapping. I ate that up, probably flipped the boring switch for the kids that were there, but I was like honed in on every word. I remember he did this sweet medley of The March/The Guidelines/The Faces.

haha man at one point i wouldve killed to see ace live. tbh it kinda annoys me that i never got to see any of the dudes i loved in middle/high school live cuz i was too young to get into their shows and now that corny indie rap is so unfashionable im not getting nostalgia-driven tours of classic deltron 3030 albums or w/e in my mid 20s

I'll still rep for plenty of 'backpack' raps. When the heavy-handed KILL WHACK EMCEES, WE'RE REAL HIP-HOP nonsense became part of the thought process, it got stale. Its still what plagues that boom-bap stuff, the fans are the worst kind of fans, you just can justify it anymore.

That being said, critics have stayed pretty high on old school Project Blowed, that stuff is un-impeachable. Myka 9's style was v influential, just not sure how anyone could hate on him.

*cant

The Walls and Windows is cool.

it is!

no imo there were real diminishing returns on 'backpacker' rap into the 00s but the stuff from when i was first getting into music say 97 or so until the turn of the century seems to have really fallen out of both critical and (to w/e extent it was popular in the first place) mass favor in a way that i find p disappointing. and even the earlier stuff which i think is critically 'okay to like' seems to have kinda disappeared from the conversation or w/e

I really meant to say "I'll still rep for plenty of *classic 'backpack' raps." Basically that time frame you are talking about, it all really got lame after 2000. I agree with what you are saying.

7th Seal from To Whom It May Concern still blows my mind. That Billy Cobham & George Duke sample is so otherworldly.

That song is so great. Is there really not a Project Blowed/Freestyle Fellowship thread?