Saturday, July 17, 2021

The Shape Shifters - 'Know Future' (1999)

 So these guys have kinda vanished from the internet. Conspiracy theorist boom-bap alien rap collective from LA. This is one of their harder-to-find releases (the most popular being 'Shape Shifters Was Here') and also one of the weirdest. All the tracks are super long, barely have anything resembling a hook and the beats are noisy and lo-fi. Some of these dudes have serious skills and interesting flows...Awol One and Radioinactive came the closest to blowing up.


Tracklist:

Disc One - 'Primitive'
1. Rock Der Planet/Abundance
2. The Peoples' Rally of Area 51
3. Planet Rockers
4. a. Reincarnate
5. b. Man 2 Ape 2 Fish
6. c. 666.com
7. d. LA 2 San Jose/Outermost
8. e. Let Da Good Times Roll
9. f. Strawberry Alarm Clock
10. Girls Dipped in Chocolate
11. Pond Scum
12. The Calendar
13. Moses Freed the Slaves
14. Brain Fish Oner
15. Gotta Be Undastanden
16. Hey, Nimrod... It's Yer Birthday!

Disc Two - 'Future'
1. Give it to Me (Intro)
2. Lojack Leviathan
3. One Percent
4. Pot Full O Gold/OG
5. Area 52
6. Squash Da Beef
7. Zumthing Different
8. Surf En Tsunamis
9. Beatle Borg/OG
10. Appoca-Palooza/Crop Circles (Outro)
11. Gen X Dot All
12. Joy 2 Da World
13. Untitled

NO IDEA about all the bizarre track segues, it all kinda just flows together into one hazy puddle of backpack rap.



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