''Land of the Giants'' is the second album from the Western Australian hip hop group,

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. It was released through

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/Hydrofunk Records on 17 February 2003. It peaked at No. 6 on the ARIA Hitseekers Albums chart. Guests on the album included DJ Fdel and Porsah Laine. The first single lifted from the album was "

Gifted Life "Gifted Life" is the first single from Australian hip hop group Downsyde's second album Land of the Giants. It was released on 23 September 2002 on the independent label, Hydrofunk (established by Resin Dogs) and distributed nationally by Virgin ...

", which included tracks from their debut album ''

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''. The single preceded the album and was released in September 2002. "Gifted Life" together with " El Questro" received extensive airplay on national youth radio,

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. The album won 'Most Popular Local Original Album' at the 2003

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.WAM website

Reception

Track listing

All songs written by Damien Allia, Shahbaz Rind, D. Reutens, Scott Griffiths and Mat Cheetham, unless otherwise noted. Australasian Performing Rights Association
#"Undefined" - 3:27 #"Bitter Sweet" (Damien Allia, D. Reutens, Scott Griffiths, Shahbaz Rind, Salvatore Pizzata) - 2:56 #"

" (Damien Allia, D. Reutens, Scott Griffiths, Shahbaz Rind, Salvatore Pizzata, Che) - 3:38 #" El Questro" (featuring Porsah Laine) (Damien Allia, D. Reutens, Scott Griffiths, Shahbaz Rind, Salvatore Pizzata, Che) - 4:07 #"Land Of The Giants (Pt1)" - 0:42 #"Did You Know" - 3:26 #"Robust" - 3:17 #"Hot Days, Cold Nights" - 5:10 #"Keep It Alive" - 4:00 #"Kingswood Country" (Scott Griffiths, Shahbaz Rind, Damien Allia, D. Reutens) - 4:40 #"Neva Enough" - 3:55

References

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