up 009: brookland/oaklyn [2006]

''california-based anticon producer alias had never heard about new york-based rona “tarsier” rapadas before he got a letter from her one day in 2003, shortly after the release of his instrumental-based album 'muted', telling him how much she liked his work, if he would listen to her band (brooklyn indie electronica outfit healamonster & tarsier), and if he would ever consider remixing muted with her vocals. 

alias was so impressed by her samples that he immediately sent tarsier four beats, asking her to choose one and to add her own vocal track to it. thus began a 21-month-long email relationship in which the two parties sent each other music, never meeting face-to-face until shortly before their debut album, 'brookland/oaklyn', and the ep compilation 'plane that draws a white line' were both released in 2006.'' - last.fm


caution! this album is for people who like underground hip-hop and trip hop. there is no talk about guns, killing, drug dealing, bling-bling, or anything else that commercial rap artists like to reference. 

tracklist:

cub 01

rising sun 02

last nail 03

dr. c (ft. telephone jim jesus) 04

anon (ft. matt mccullough) 05

5 year eve (ft. kirsten mccord) 06

plane that draws a white line 07

luck and fear (ft. healamonster & doseone) 08

picking the same lock (ft. matt mccullough & dax pierson) 09

ligaya 10

your choice: get it easy/support the artist.