Reviewed by Steve Hayes

Illect Recordings have often been at the forefront of some of the most creative and forward looking underground hip-hop and boom-bap projects. Along with its sister, sphereofhiphop.com, they've been responsible for keeping the underground alive. This album (incidentally it's not a cassette) is no exception with J Rhodan showing his looping, sampling, cutting up and production skills, or should that be showcasing them. As a producer he's done tracks for Illect as well as artists such as Taelor Gray, Japhia Life, Hazakim, Dre Murray and many others. Seamlessly fusing an array of beats, breaks, vocals, samples and no doubt his own crate digging skills, this features only one vocal track with James Gardin on "Q&A Freestyle". Aside from this, like others, I recognised and loved the Rugrats cartoon theme mashup on "Ratatouille". Great to have a project where the beats and production skills are the theme.

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