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KING VISION ULTRA ~ SHOOK WORLD (hosted by Algiers)
One of the motifs that unifies SHOOK WORLD, a collaborative album produced by GENG PTP aka KING VISION ULTRA, is the use of field-recordings of trains. This is partly a call back to beginning of Nas‘ Illmatic, cementing a connection with hip hop history. The title SHOOK WORLD also can’t help but recall Mobb Deep’s classic…
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BEFORE THE INTERNET
It’s been a tough year for New York. This episode we check in with Geng, the man behind one of our favorite labels, Purple Tape Pedigree, and see how these fine “purveyors of weaponized media and information” are handling the pandemic and the uprisings. With live performance no longer an option, the model of mutual…
Sound Propositions 