Some time ago I talked about the instrumental release of Dark Time Sunshine 's 2010 album Vessel . This original joint is now streamable in it's entirety thanks to the altruistic people at Fake Four Inc. To be concise, this is a brilliant album, a personal favourite of recent years. It requires a certain mood at times but has enough diversity to catch a lot of ears. Sleestack Payback / All Aboard CLICK IMAGE FOR VIDEO Dark Time [...]
We'll be the first to admit this list is arriving, oh, at least a month late. On the other hand, 2010 was an expansive year for Northwest music in many regards and worthy of chronicling one last time with thoughtful and focused intention. So we hope you will see that the extra time we've given [...]
The time has come to whittle down all the albums I've listened to over the year and cut it down to the 20 best. I'll be publishing 20-11 today, and 10-1 tomorrow, so be sure to check back tomorrow for the rest of them! First off though, here are 5 albums that were on the bubble but just didn't quite make it: Sungha Jung-Perfect Blue / Kina Grannis-Stairwells / Willy Mason-So Long Baby Shoes / Joe Purdy-This American (free download until the end of this month) / Dark Time Sunshine-Vessel [...]
Wild Orchid Children ::: photo by Abbey Simmons Boys and girls, you are in for a treat this evening. Come to Ballard. Be the social entities I know you are. Come to the Sunset Tavern for a night of spirits and jovial buffoonery. In doing so you will help raise money for Powerful Schools. Trust me, [...]
Wild Orchid Children ::: photo by Abbey Simmons Boys and girls, you are in for a treat this evening. Come to Ballard. Be the social entities I know you are. Come to the Sunset Tavern for a night of spirits and jovial buffoonery. In doing so you will help raise money for Powerful Schools. Trust me, [...]
Pigeon John 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN 10/15/10 -Lineage: Audience recording using Zoom H2 rear internal mics>SD Card>PC>Adobe Audition>CD Wave Editor (Split Tracks) -A "MN Gneiss" Recording 1. Intro 2. Hello Everybody 3. The Bomb 4. Dude, It's On 5. Money Back Guarantee 6. Before We're Gone 7. Freaks! Freaks! 8. Buttersoft Seats 9. Fox Hills Mall Macks 10. Hey You 11. Identity Crisis 12. [...]
South Seattle's destination neighborhood is Georgetown, the rust-colored, industrial arts community slowly growing at a semi-gentrified pace. They even have a Via Tribunali now and the Miller Building along 13th has a bunch of new tenants. I do love me some Georgetown grit, but lately I haven't been getting down there near as much as I used to (confidential to Smarty Pants: save me a sandwich, please.) Lucky for me and for the rest of us, the Georgetown Music Fest is still going strong with its fifth installment coming up in nine days. The [...]
As psychedelia continues to infiltrate hip hop, Dark Time Sunshine pin the dark arts of Grayskul to the hemp headband to an experienced skull - the journey is a hard trip. Last year Onry Ozzborn of Grayskul/Oldominion and Zavala, a producer from Chicago, released the first Dark Time Sunshine album Believeyoume as a free download on Fake Four Inc. The duo return with Vessels, an album sent to collect mystic journeyman ready to wake up from a sleeper's life. "All Aboard," which features voca...
Although highly conceptual and even tedious at times, this new adventure from Grayskul's Onry Ozzborn and Portland (Oregon) producer Zavala does not belong in the Emperor's New Closet with so many comparable alt-rap projects. Rather than a mess of awful noises that sound as if cats were testing fans to see whether they'd embrace naked nonsense, here we get æsthetics that ring somewhere between those of an unapologetically inaccessible Bazooka Tooth –era Aesop Rock (who appears on "Primor") and the complicated yet melodic work of Chicago rhyme genius Qwel (who drops [...]
Dark Time Sunshine - "Primor" Here's something dug up from the underground for your ears. Dark Time Sunshine consists of Onry Ozzborn and producer Zavala, and they'll be dropping an album by the name of Vessels on 4/20. From the beat to the the dizzying lyricism, "Primor" really embraces the indie rap feel it has. The fast, dense [...]
Dark Time Sunshine – Primor ft. PeeGee 13, DJ Zone, P.O.S. & Aesop Rock Damn I love me some gritty hip-hop. Dark Time Sunshine is made up of Grayskul's Onry Ozzborn and producer Zavala. Off their upcoming album titled Vessel which drops on April 20th. P.O.S. kills his guest verses. spotted at 2dopeboyz .
At the end of the month, Connecticut-based independent hip hop label Fake Four Inc. will bring their spring tour to The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn. The line-up consists of Sole & The Skyrider Band, Dark Time Sunshine (the new project from Onry Ozzborn and Grayskul) and Fake Four Inc. founder Ceschi Ramos, all of whom are pushing the envelope and expanding the hip hop genre we know today. CLICK HERE to download BELIEVEYOUME , the free LP from Dark Time Sunshine. They will also release a new EP through Fake Four Inc. next month. [...]
Macklemore ::: Photo by Josh Lovseth This party just get's better every year. Two stages and a hip hop showcase? This is how Seattle's party at SXSW should be going down. It's happening Saturday, March 20th at the Beauty Bar, starting 12 noon. It's no doubt free, but you'll likely need an RSVP. We'll keep you [...]
First off, big thanks to the man, the plan Strath Shepard (he of the amazing blog Pacific Standard) for turning me on to this, something I believe I'd never be invested in ever again - a Northwest hip-hop group. Not turning the hate hose on to the fertile hip-hop scene that grows and grows in [...]
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