This episode was recorded in September 2006 just before their album "Use Your Confusion" was released.  They talked about their early years making music together, the deal with the Dante Ross lead Elektra that never came to fruition, the underground scene they helped create, and their latest album.  They also dropped some freestyles at the end.  The tracks we played, at the time never heard before exclusives, were:

1. Leon Phelps
2. New $$$
3. Sumday
4. Namesake

This is the first of our long awaited re-airings from the pre-podcast era of the show.   Pumpkinhead came by Nasa Labs last year to record this episode where he talked about his full length album "Orange Moon Over Brooklyn" produced by Marco Polo.  He also got into his thoughts on the 'Battle Scene' and dropped a fire freestyle at the end.  We played tracks that were unreleased as well as some from his LP and Mix CD, Park Slope Renaisance.  We will be re-airing other Uncommon Radio episodes week by week starting now, next week will be The Juggaknots.

This episode features Beans.  Beans is a former member of Anti-Pop Consortium and veteran of 3 solo LPs since that time in the group.  He stopped by with exclusive never before heard tracks from his forth coming album "Thorns".  He talked about his new album, his roots as an artist, his time in Anti-Pop Consortium & solo career and his break with his long time record label, Warp Records. The tracks we played were:

1. Thundermouth (Thorns)

2. No Thrills (Thorns)

3. Ultimate (Thorns)

4. Beauty of a Beast on a Beat (Thorns)

5. Only Four (Thirsty Ear project "Only")

You can check out more on Beans by visiting www.myspace.com/mrballbeamakabeans

(Programming note: Starting in 2 weeks we will be posting all the episodes of Uncommon Radio that were recorded and aired previous to us having them hosted at this location.  One of these episodes will appear per week, starting with the last to the first ever episode.  The episodes include The Juggaknots, Pumpkinhead, Arcsin and many more.)

The current episode features Smacks Records owner and a co-founding member of Company Flow, Mr. Len.  Mr. Len and the group he became known for, Company Flow, changed hip-hop forever.  They were part of the NYC scene that sparked the independent/underground hip-hop movement.  He's since released a solo album "Pity the Fool" on Matador Records, been part of the group, Roosevelt Franklin and started his own label Smacks to which Bullymouth, Kice of Course, Mental Case & Rhino CMZ are signed.  On this episode he talks about the state of the underground scene, the state of DJing nowadays, his record label and the rumors of a Company Flow reunion.  Also, in the house was Espee from Bullymouth who rocked freestyles at the end with Mr. Len on the tables.  The tracks we played are from the roster of Smacks Records:

1. Who Is It?- Mental Case
2. Rock & Roll- Rhino CMZ
3. Boombox- Bullymouth
4. Definition of a Bullymouth- Bullymouth
5. Competition- Kice of Course (Prod. by Mr. Len)
6. For Kicks- Bullymouth feat. Kice of Course (Prod. by Mr. Len)
7. ***Suprise Throwback Classic

You can find out more about Mr. Len and Smacks Records by checking out www.dummysmacks.com.  

This episode was recorded in Late March 2007. 

The current episode features hip-hop pioneer and avant garde hip hop performance artist, The Rammellzee.  The Rammellzee was on some of the earliest European Hip-Hop tours, bombed with Dondi in the NYC subway system in the late 70s and went on to make a succcessful career in the art world as well as the music world.  He's most known for performing on stage around the world in multiple costumes and for some of his most current artwork, like his Letter Racers and action figure like dolls.  You can find out more about him at www.gothicfuturism.com

The tracks we played are:

1. Beat Bop (Original Version) feat. K-Rob {End portion}
2. New Meaning (Japanese Import)
3. Jamming Zabar (Bi-Connicals of The Rammellzee)
4. Quack (Bi Connicals of The Rammellzee)
5. Caution (Unreleased, from Bill Laswell project features Buckethead on Gtr)
6. This Was My School Bag (Unreleased from forthcoming "Gothic Futurism" LP)

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