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For the past year or so, Zilla's been working with this independent label called World Around Records to put out some of his projects, including the Bad Weather Classic and Nights & Weekends EPs. The label's run by Kyle Tierce and Justin Boland of Audible Hype, two guys who have left me quite impressed with their insights into the music industry after a few brief email exchanges. With a handful of artists from Philly, Vermont, Boston, and Switzerland on the roster, World Around tends to focus on experimental, occasionally ambient sounding hip hop. For their latest label compilation, We Are World Around Vol. 2, they made the very wise decision to bring My Man Shafe into the mix. Aided by a vocal assist from Curly Castro and yet another great beat from Small Pro, Shafe offers up the highlight of the collection:
My Man Shafe featuring Curly Castro - Resistance (produced by Small Pro) (right-click to d/l)
One of the other notable tracks features Zilla Rocca taking a ride in his lyrically vast vehicle with Dr. Quandary:
Zilla Rocca - Vast Vehicle (produced by Dr. Quandary) (right-click to d/l)
With a tracklisting nineteen deep, there were a few other songs I wanted to put up - Humpasaur Jones offers up a thought-provoking song for the working class, Dr. Quandary (Kyle Tierce's alter ego) has some nice instrumentals, and Castro is as sharp as usual on the mic - but I thought it better to leave you all with something to discover on your own. So go download World Around Records' compilation We Are World Around Vol. 2 for free over at their bandcamp page.
1/17/2012 6:30:00 PM posted by Fresh