July's Artists, and changes. PT1

Okay, it's been a few months since I've done the artist, info, and download. So, this month Im going to do a few different artists in this blog. So this blog will be quite long.



The first artist is Atmosphere.

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Atmosphere is an well known, and well respected underground rap group. The group formed in 1994 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The groups Members are, Slug[ Lyrics], and Ant[Beats/production]. Atmosphere has been around for fourteen years, and has been releasing albums for eleven years. The rap group released their debut album in 1997, which was titled "OVERCAST!". From there on they've released several other albums. These albums include; "Lucy Ford EP", "Se7en","God Loves Ugly", " Sevens Travels", "You can't imagine how much fun we're having", " When life gives you lemons you paint that shit gold", Aswell as a series of 12 "Sad Clown" EP's. The rap duo has had songs featured in video games, such as; Tony Hawk's underground 2, Need for Speed Underground 2, and Fight Night Round 3. For a short time, The song "Watch out" was featured on an, And1 comercial in 2005-2006.


The rap duo has come a very long way in the fourteen years since they formed. Their style has evolved over the years, getting better as they went, and still retaining their own original style. Slug, with his lyrical, storytelling style is incredible, and has a very unique way of rapping bout politics, and many other different themes. He uses his own past, or at times making up fictional characters to write a song about in order to stress a certain point or subject[check the album "When life gives you albums..you paint that shit gold!"]. Then ant, with his also extremely unique, instrumentals[beats]. His beats are dusty, and hooky, and are R&B informed, yet, never lose touch when they are behind slugs sometimes mannically depressed rhymes. The rap group are the people who are behind the Indie label "Rhymesayers Entertainment", which has many equally incredible artists on it. The rap duo has been mentioned in several different magazines, such as; Rolling Stone, Blackbook, Vice, Entertainment Weekly, And XLR&R. These magazines state many things about the rap duo.

"One can feel Atmosphere loosening modern hip-hop from its moorings and yanking it into some weirder and far more interesting place." - ROLLING STONE

"This Minneapolis indie rap hero has potential to spare, delivering taut, complex rhyme narratives with everyman earnestness." - ROLLING STONE

"Like it or not, Slug is reluctant king of emo-hop, the emerging alt-rap scene."
- BLACKBOOK

After their last album went indie triple platinum, these guys got offers from every major label in the business, but the chose to sign to Epitaph just to prove how punk rock they are. Ant's got beats, Mr. Dibb's got skills, Slug's the nicest guy in the world and the ladies, they love him. - Vice


With passionate inflection and pristine delivery, Slug toggles neatly among the poetic, preachy, and provocative, sometimes hitting all at once.
- Entertainment Weekly

"In this era of the hip hop anti-hero, there's no more unlikely candidate for universal stardom in the rap game than a gangly kid from Minneapolis….Slug is bringing a new DIY spirit and, gulp, emotional vulnerability to a hip hop scene currently orbiting out of control in a materialistic galaxy." - XLR8R


Members of Atmosphere:
Slug- a.k.a. Sean Daley
Ant-a.k.a. Anthony Davis

Albums:

OVERCAST! [1997]

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Vinyl Cover

Tracklisting:
Side A
1. Scapegoat
2. Multiples
3. Primer
4. The Outernet

Side B
1. Scapegoat
2. Sound is Vibration
3. Brief Description
4. God's Bathroom Floor

Regular Cover/extended version :
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01. 1597
02. Brief Description
03. Current Status feat. Beyond
04. Complications
05. 4:30AM
06. Adjust feat. Beyond
07. Clay
08. @
09. Sound Is Vibration
10. Multiples
11. Scapegoat
12. Ode To The Modern Man (Lightning Blend)
13. WND
14. Multiples (Reprise)
15. Caved In
16. Cuando Limpia El Humo
17. The Outernet


God Loves Ugly[2002]

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Tracklisting:
Onemosphere
The Bass And The Movement
Give Me
Fuck You Lucy
Hair
Godlovesugly
A Song About A Friend
Flesh
Saves The Day
Lovelife
Breathing
Vampires
A Girl Named Hope
Godlovesugly Reprise
Modern Man's Hustle
One of a Kind
Blamegame

Sevens Travels[2003]:
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tracklisting:
01. History
02. Trying To Find A Balance
03. Bird Sings Why The Caged I Know
04. Reflections
05. Gotta Lotta Walls
06. The Keys To Life vs. 15 Minutes Of Fame
07. Apple
08. Suicidegirls
09. Jason
10. Cats Van Bags
11. Los Angeles
12. Lifter Puller
13. Shoes
14. National Disgrace
15. Denvemolorado
16. Liquor Lyles Cool July
17. Good Times (Sick Pimpin')
18. In My Continental
19. Always Coming Back Home To You

You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having[2005]
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Tracklisting:
1.The Arrival
2.Panic Attack
3.Watch Out
4.Musical Chairs
5.Say Hey There
6.Hockey Hair
7.Bam
8.Pour Me Another
9.Smart Went Crazy
10.Angelface
11.That Night
12.Get Fly
13.Little Man

Strictly Leakage[2007]:
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Tracklisting:
1.YGM
2.Little Math You
3.Full Moon
4.The Thing That Hates You
5.Jewlery
6.Get It To Get Her
7.Domestic Dog
8.Crewed Up
9.What They Sittin For?
10.Thats Not Beef, Thats Pork
11.The Old Style
12.You Played Yourself
13.The Road To Riches

When Life Gives You Lemons,
You Paint That Shit Gold [2008]:
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Tracklist
01 Like the Rest of Us
02 Puppets
03 The Skinny
04 Dreamer
05 Shoulda Known
06 You
07 Painting
08 Your Glass House
09 Yesterday
10 Guarantees
11 Me
12 Wild Wild Horses
13 Can't Break
14 The Waitress
15 In Her Music Box

Lucy Ford EP[2001]
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Tracklist:
Between The Lines
Like Today
Tears For The Sheep
Guns & Cigarettes
Don't Ever Fucking Question That
It Goes
If I Was Santa Claus
Aspiring Sociopath
Free or Dead
Party for the Fight to Write
Mama Had A Baby & His Head Popped Off
They're All Gonna Laugh @ You
Lost & Found
The Woman With The Tattooed Hands
Nothing But Sunshine
Homecoming

Se7en[2005]:
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tracklist:
1. Sep Seven Game Show Theme
2. Round and Round
3. Tracksmart - (featuring Mr. Gene Poole)
4. Choking on the Wishbone
5. Jackpot/Swept Away, The
6. @ It Again
7. Stick Up, The - (featuring EyeDea)
8. Lyle Lovette
9. Higher Living
10. To the Break of Sean
11. Dear Wolf
12. Molly Cool
13. Dungeons and Dragons - (featuring Musab)
14. Anterlude
15. Advanced Communications
16. Tall Seven and Seven, A
17. 3.2 Red Dog
18. Abusing of the Rib, The
19. Write Now (Multiples No. 4)
20. I Wish Those Cats @ Fobia Would Give Me Some Free Shoes
21. Heart


Favorite Quote:

"Fuck a classic album, give my life five mics"-slug-Watch Out

Explanation:
The source magazine has been rating albums from artists since it came out by mics. The album can get anywere from a half a mic to five mics. Five mics being a classic album.


Download: Atmosphere-Trying to find a Balance

http://www.sendspace.com/file/2q87y6
Posted on July 23rd, 2008 at 10:41pm

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