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The Opus
The Opus is an American hip hop record production duo from Chicago, Illinois. It consists of The Isle of Weight and Mr. Echoes. AllMusic described them as "two of the most brilliant beatmakers working in hip-hop circa 2003." The Isle of Weight (born Aaron Smith) and Mr. Echoes (born Kevin Johnson) first met while attending Proviso East High School together. In 1994, the duo started making music together. The duo handled the production work on Rubberoom's 1999 album ''Architechnology''. Members * The Isle of Weight (born Aaron Smith) - production * Mr. Echoes (born Kevin Johnson) - production Discography Studio albums * ''First Contact 001'' (2002) * ''Breathing Lessons'' (2003) * ''Praying Mantis-Plus'' (2010) Compilation albums * ''Blending Density'' (2010) * ''The Opus of the Opus Vol. One'' (2010) * ''The Opus of the Opus Vol. Two'' (2010) EPs * ''0.0.0.'' (2002) * ''Movement One'' (2002) * ''Movement Two'' (2002) * ''Movement Three'' (2002) * ''Movement Four'' (2003) * ''M ...
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Chicago
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Exclaim!
''Exclaim!'' is a Canadian music and entertainment publisher based in Toronto, which features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and emerging artists. The monthly Exclaim! print magazine publishes 7 issues per year, distributing over 103,000 copies to over 2,600 locations across Canada. The magazine has an average of 361,200 monthly readers and their website, exclaim.ca, has an average of 675,000 unique visitors a month. History ''Exclaim!'' began as a discussion among campus and community radio programmers at Ryerson's CKLN-FM in 1991. It was started by then-CKLN programmer Ian Danzig, together with other programmers and Toronto musicians. The goal of the publication was to support great Canadian music that was otherwise going unheralded. The group worked through 1991 to produce their first issue in April 1992, with monthly issues being produced since. Ian Danzig has been the publisher of the magazine since its start. James Keast ...
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Midwest Hip Hop Groups
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2"). It occupies the northern central part of the United States. It was officially named the North Central Region by the Census Bureau until 1984. It is between the Northeastern United States and the Western United States, with Canada to the north and the Southern United States to the south. The Census Bureau's definition consists of 12 states in the north central United States: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The region generally lies on the broad Interior Plain between the states occupying the Appalachian Mountain range and the states occupying the Rocky Mountain range. Major rivers in the region include, from east to west, the Ohio River, the Upper Mississippi River, and the Missouri River. The 2020 United St ...
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American Musical Duos
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Eliot Lipp
Eliot Lipp is an American electronic music artist and DJ based in Brooklyn, New York. His work was picked up by Scott Herren of Prefuse 73 (Warp Records) after Herren heard him working the club circuit. In 2004, Lipp released his first studio album, '' S/T'', with Eastern Developments Music, a label owned by Warp Records. Background Lipp was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington and attended art school in San Francisco. After graduating from college, he moved to Los Angeles, Chicago, and back to LA before finally settling in Brooklyn in 2006. Career While in Chicago, Lipp produced two full-length albums; by the time he moved to Brooklyn, he had plenty of material to work with. His work made its way into the hands of Scott Herren (Warp Records) and Savath+Savalas (Hefty Records), better known as Prefuse 73. Herren signed to Eastern Developments Music, a label owned by Warp Records in late 2004 and Lipp released his first album, '' S/T'', shortly thereafter. This LP already display ...
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Verbal Kent
Dan Weiss (born July 22, 1978), better known by his stage name Verbal Kent, is an alternative hip hop artist from Chicago. Early life Weiss was born and raised in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood.Moira McCormick“Organic Mind Unit is all about the hip-hop flow,”''Chicago Tribune'', November 7, 2003. He started writing at the age of 15,Andy Downing“Verbal Kent turns scars into stars,”''Chicago Tribune'', April 7, 2006. and later attended Columbia College Chicago as a music major. Career Organic Mind Unit In 1999, Weiss dropped out of college and founded Organic Mind Unit,David Jakubiak“Weiss gets ‘Verbal’ in his own way,”''Chicago Sun-Times'', August 15, 2003. a live hip hop band that performed in Chicago. Early versions of the group included eight rappers, with Weiss as the drummer. After he showed other OMU members some of his writing, they encouraged him to start rapping. He took on the moniker Verbal Kent, based on Roger “Verbal” Kint, the con artist ...
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Sonic Sum
Sonic Sum is an American hip hop group based in Bronx, New York. It consists of Rob Sonic, Fred Ones, Eric M.O., and Preservation. The group was described by ''CMJ New Music Monthly'' as "hip-hop's Radiohead". In 1999, Sonic Sum released the first studio album, ''The Sanity Annex'', on Ozone Music. It has received critical acclaim worldwide. ''XLR8R'' called it "one of the most criminally slept-on albums of the indie hip-hop boom". In 2002, the group released the second studio album, ''Films'', exclusively in Japan. It was released in the US in 2004 and released on Definitive Jux Definitive Jux was a record label based in New York City. It was co-founded in 1999 by El-P and Amaechi Uzoigwe. History Definitive Jux was initially known as Def Jux. However, popular hip hop label Def Jam Recordings sued Def Jux over the nam ... in 2008. Discography Studio albums * ''The Sanity Annex'' (1999) * ''Films'' (2004) EPs * ''Plaster Man'' (2002) * ''Operazor'' (2003) Singles * "Downto ...
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The Message At The Depth
''The Message at the Depth'' is the seventh solo studio album by Japanese hip hop producer DJ Krush. It was released in 2002. It peaked at number 23 on the '' Billboard'' Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart. Critical reception Tamara Palmer of ''XLR8R ''XLR8R'' (pronounced "accelerator") is a website that covers music, culture, style, and technology. It was originally also a print magazine. History and profile ''XLR8R'' was founded as a newsprint zine in 1993 by publisher Andrew Smith in Sea ...'' wrote: "With beats and melodies that outline the caliber of a classical composer, Krush rocks the international flavor that's he's honed on previous efforts with a true global hip-hop hybrid." Track listing Charts References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Message at the Depth, The 2002 albums DJ Krush albums ...
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DJ Krush
, better known by his stage name DJ Krush, is a record producer and DJ. He is known for his atmospheric instrumental production which incorporates sound elements from nature and extensive use of jazz and soul samples. Early life Ishi was born in Tokyo in 1962. He dropped out of school at an early age and joined a local gang and, a few years later, the yakuza. Early in his career as a yakuza underling, Ishi discovered a severed finger wrapped in paper on his desk. Later, after discovering that it had belonged to a friend, he decided to leave the yakuza and cut ties with the criminal underworld. Ishi was inspired to start DJing after seeing the film '' Wild Style'' in 1983. "When I discovered the film Wild Style in 1983 I found what I really wanted to do, to express myself," he said in a 2015 interview. "Breaking, grafitti, rap, DJ… I always liked music so I chose DJ. My body wasn’t built for breaking, DJing was the thing for me." Career Aside from being considered one of the ...
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Chicago Reader
The ''Chicago Reader'', or ''Reader'' (stylized as ЯEADER), is an American alternative weekly newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its literary style of journalism and coverage of the arts, particularly film and theater. It was founded by a group of friends from Carleton College. The ''Reader'' is recognized as a pioneer among alternative weeklies for both its creative nonfiction and its commercial scheme. Richard Karpel, then-executive director of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, wrote: e most significant historical event in the creation of the modern alt-weekly occurred in Chicago in 1971, when the ''Chicago Reader'' pioneered the practice of free circulation, a cornerstone of today's alternative papers. The ''Reader'' also developed a new kind of journalism, ignoring the news and focusing on everyday life and ordinary people. After being owned by same four founders since 1971, by the early 2000s profits and readership of the ''Reader'' were dropping, and o ...
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Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria metropolitan area, Illinois, Peoria and Rockford metropolitan area, Illinois, Rockford, as well Springfield, Illinois, Springfield, its capital. Of the fifty U.S. states, Illinois has the List of U.S. states and territories by GDP, fifth-largest gross domestic product (GDP), the List of U.S. states and territories by population, sixth-largest population, and the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 25th-largest land area. Illinois has a highly diverse Economy of Illinois, economy, with the global city of Chicago in the northeast, major industrial and agricultural productivity, agricultural hubs in the north and center, and natural resources such as coal, timber, and petroleum in the south. Owing to its centr ...
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Chicago Tribune
The ''Chicago Tribune'' is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tribune Publishing. Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (a slogan for which WGN radio and television are named), it remains the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region. It had the sixth-highest circulation for American newspapers in 2017. In the 1850s, under Joseph Medill, the ''Chicago Tribune'' became closely associated with the Illinois politician Abraham Lincoln, and the Republican Party's progressive wing. In the 20th century under Medill's grandson, Robert R. McCormick, it achieved a reputation as a crusading paper with a decidedly more American-conservative anti-New Deal outlook, and its writing reached other markets through family and corporate relationships at the ''New York Daily News'' and the ''Washington Times-Herald.'' The 1960s saw its corporate parent owner, Tribune Company, rea ...
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