Underground Fossils is run by Dimxsk and often by Trylemma, who is on a hip hop spiritual journey in the Himalayas and may not be back for a bit. Posts are every Friday, usually some quality old sh*t but sometimes promotional posts or "reviews". We do all we can to make sure we don't post stuff that (1) You can still reasonably buy from the artist directly, (2) You can reasonably buy secondhand for cheap, (3) You can download easily elsewhere, (4) The artist(s) asks us not to for any reason. Rips will include our own personal rips, old scene rips, and random web rips.

Friday, October 4, 2019

The Shape Shifters - Showtape (1998)





We're digging into the 90s LA underground with today's post - The Shape Shifter's "Showtape."

The product is 14 tracks from a live Shape Shifters show from 1998, the year of the Shifters' "Planet of the Shapes" and Omid's "Beneath the Surface." On top of some pretty crisp sounding performances (ripped from cassette) we get lots of hilarious banter in between tracks, including a description of what is known as a "slap your homie contest."

For the future, we have two other Shape Shifters cassette releases to post dating back to 1993 (before the likes of Awol and Circus joined the crew.) I am currently collecting some information on the releases, however, to accompany the rips so expect those before the year is up! Enjoy!



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