Deepspace5 is an
underground hip hop supergroup formed in 1997 and currently composed of Beat Rabbi, Manwell?,
Freddie Bruno,
Listener,
Mars ILL (a stand-alone duo consisting of
Manchild and
DJ Dust
DJ Dust is the DJ and producer for the underground hip-hop groups Mars ILL and Deepspace5. His real name is Nathan Corrona. DJ Dust is known for his hard hitting "boom bap" style of production, often mixing samples from obscure 1960s and 1970s ...
),
Playdough,
Sintax.the.Terrific,
Sivion, and
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. Deepspace5 also previously included
Illtripp and The Recon. Since its formation, the collective has sold over 100,000 copies of its recordings, and has performed with
KRS-One,
Atmosphere, and
MF Doom
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, among others.
Career
Deepspace5 first coalesced in 1997 at an annual
Christian hip hop conference called Cru-vention.
,
Sev Statik Joseph T. Evans (born December 11, 1971), known professionally as Sev Statik and Stu Dent, is a hip hop musician and promoter from Albany, New York. Active as a rapper since the early 1990s, he has performed and recorded both as a solo artist and ...
,
Sintax.the.Terrific,
Manchild and Recon all met with each other at the conference and recorded an
EP. Shortly afterward,
DJ Dust
DJ Dust is the DJ and producer for the underground hip-hop groups Mars ILL and Deepspace5. His real name is Nathan Corrona. DJ Dust is known for his hard hitting "boom bap" style of production, often mixing samples from obscure 1960s and 1970s ...
and Manchild were signed to the
Tooth & Nail imprint Uprok Records as a duo project named
Mars Ill, and they suggested that Uprok release a Deepspace5 project.
and
Freddie Bruno, who at the time recorded as a duo called Phonetic Composition, joined the group in 2000, after Playdough met with DJ Dust and Sintax in Atlanta. In the same year, the rapper
Braille
Braille (Pronounced: ) is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired, including people who are blind, deafblind or who have low vision. It can be read either on embossed paper or by using refreshable braille disp ...
introduced Beat Rabbi to Manchild and DJ Dust, and Beat Rabbi was invited to join Deepspace5 a few months after Playdough and Freddie Bruno joined the project.
During the recording sessions for Deepspace5's first studio album,
''The Night We Called It a Day'', rapper
Sivion joined the collective. The album was released in 2002 to a warm critical reception. A second album, ''Unique, Just Like Everyone Else'', followed in 2005.
At Scribble Jam 2008, Deepspace5 took 2nd place in the Music Video competition for "From the Outside", off ''The Future Ain't What It Used to Be'' (released later in 2010).
Deepspace5 released ''Bakesale'' on April 29, 2008, exclusively on its website and SphereOfHipHop.com for CD or digital download, as a fund-raiser for its most recent album, entitled ''
The Future Ain't What It Used to Be'', which was released on Mega Royal Records on April 27, 2010.
The group released "5:55" on October 20, 2017, exclusively on their new official webpage at BandCamp.com
BandCamp
/ref> The 5-song EP was their first album in over seven years.
Releases
* ''The Beginning, Is the Start of Everything '' (DeepSpace5 Records, 1997)
* ''The Night We Called It a Day'' (UpRok Records, 2002)
* ''Unique, Just Like Everyone Else'' (Gotee Records
Gotee Records is a record label founded by Christian hip hop performer Toby McKeehan (known professionally as ''TobyMac''), Todd Collins, and Joey Elwood. The label began as a production company. At the time of the label's founding, McKeehan wa ...
, 2005)
* ''Deepspacesoul'' w/ Beat Rabbi (ILLECT Recordings, 2008)
* ''Bakesale'' (Deepspace5 Records, 2008)
* ''Greatest Beats and Unreleased'' (Deepspace5 Records, 2008)
* ''The Blueprint 3 Outtakes (Deepspace5 Version), aka "5Print mixtape"'' (Independent release, 2009)
* ''The Future Ain't What It Used to Be'' (Mega Royal Records, 2010)
* ''5:55'' (BandCamp.com self-release, 2017)
Notes
External links
* (Currently at BandCamp.com)
Hip hop supergroups
Underground hip hop groups
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