Hip-Hop legends Decrease Life Varieties drop their studio album, ‘A Journey By The Anthropocene’.
Mister Clever and DJ Dialtone take listeners on a journey via time.
The album begins on a Friday within the Fall of 1993, and with every observe progresses via the duo’s exceptional lives till reaching the ultimate two songs that are set in current day.
Clever interweaves tales and views with assured humility whereas sustaining the crew’s signature jazz fusion impressed sound that made their early work sought by Hip Hop historical past buffs and cultural fanatics.
The tales are wealthy intimately, together with documenting travels to New York on “One other Journey”, and the crew’s basis of their very own studio and unbiased label with “The Skilled Setting”.
Kurious and MF DOOM be part of as options on “DOOM on the Beatbox” spotlighting their friendship and artistic collaborations within the mid 90s.
Because the album strikes in direction of fashionable occasions, Clever addresses extensive ranging matters from the fragility of human civilization, getting older and bodily exhaustion.
About Decrease Life Varieties:
As two thirds of the hip hop manufacturing squad, Group Demo, DJ Dialtone and Mister Clever have a formidable discography behind data for hip hop luminaries similar to 50 Cent and Sean Value, however their musical profession started within the early Nineteen Nineties in Burke, Virginia as a duo often called the Decrease Life Varieties.
Whereas nonetheless in highschool, the Life Varieties have been noticed by Ahmed and Otis (dancers for the legendary group, third Bass) who signed them to a administration deal.
After prospects with two main labels dissolved, Clever based Depth Cost Recordings, a label and recording studio operation centered round his prolonged household of artists, producers, and DJs, recognized collectively as Group Demolition.
In 1997, the Decrease Life Varieties accomplished their debut album, ‘The Entire Universe is Ours’, and launched their first 12 inch single, “Open Invitation”.
After a small native cassette circulation, Clever opted to desk the business launch of the album to direct firm assets in direction of manufacturing of Group Demolition’s debut album.
Clever and Dialtone would spend the following 25 years amassing scores of creative, manufacturing, and technical credit earlier than re-emerging because the Decrease Life Varieties in late 2021 with the remastered urgent of ‘The Entire Universe is Ours’ album on Belgian label, Again 2 Da Supply Data.
After the discharge of Group Demo’s ‘It’s a Demo‘, album in late 2023, Clever and Dialtone started exploring the thought of making one other Decrease Life Varieties album.
Impressed by the renewed curiosity within the group’s early work, the duo launched into a mission that begins set within the early 90s and with every subsequent observe, progresses in direction of current day.
Particular consideration was made to adhering to the duo’s unique jazz fusion impressed sound.
The finished end result, ‘A Journey By The Anthropocene’, is out there now to present a hear beneath…
Decrease Life Varieties’ ‘A Journey By The Anthropocene’ album can also be accessible now to stream and cop on all main digital streaming platforms