Underground Fossils: nolto

Underground Fossils was an indie rap focused blog run by myself (Dimxsk) and by Trylemma, who passed August 3rd, 2024 from liver failure of unknown origin at the age of 34. We mostly posted week or twice weekly, the bulk of which were rare rips we made, found on old blogs, he acquired through his insanely broad connection to the scene, etc. We did all we could to make sure we didn't post stuff that (1) You could still reasonably buy from the artist directly, (2) You could reasonably buy secondhand for cheap, (3) You could download easily elsewhere, (4) The artist(s) asked us not to for any reason. Being involved in this blog was some of the most fun I ever had, even if at times it was time consuming, challenging or intimidating (having a readership). It was the product of one of the best friendships I've ever had. If I could say one last thing, it's to encourage all of you: if you have the time and desire, make your own UGF. Find a friend who loves this shit like you do and build it together. It will bring you incredible joy, enhance your connection to this amazing community, and change your life in unexpected and exciting ways. I know it did mine. Love you all!

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Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Pen Thief Records

Pen Thief Records officially went "live" this New Year's, and they're a label a lot of you may want to pay attention to. The label is ran out of Germany and is headed by super-producer Noblonski. The label acts as a European sister-label to the Canadian Saskatoon Folk Rap Records (ran by Epic and Chaps) and the American Audio Recon (ran by Id Obelus.)

Pen Thief focuses on limited edition physical products and they just dropped a special edition of Rob Crook's "Introducing the Ghost." They also dropped the "Winter Collection 2021" compilation, which features previously released and previously unreleased tracks from people like Epic, Ceschi, Chuckchee, Chadio and others.

You can peep Pen Thief's Bandcamp HERE. They plan on dropping a special edition of Nolto and Dren's "Sit Down Comedy" next!

Friday, September 6, 2019

Write Brothers (Nolto & Dren) - Weathered Wings

Most of you probably know Nolto most for his incredible trilogy of concept albums with the great Factor. Dig a little deeper, however, and you'll find further jewels like today's post: Write Brothers' "Weathered Wings."

Write Brothers are Nolto and Dren (both of whom are still occasionally active in the scene) and "Weathered Wings," as far as I know, is the duo's only full-length album (though I'm not exactly sure when it came out.) If you enjoy Nolto's work with Factor, you'll almost certainly enjoy this project as well. There's a lot of prairie-esque whimsical yet melodic production accompanied by some well-constructed societal, political, and humorous rhymes. The project isn't as tight as Nolto's collabos with Factor, but, generally speaking, it fits in pretty well with that legacy line.

The sound quality on this varies (it's ripped from an old CDR that Nolto sent me back in the day) but it is well worth the listen. Rumor has it that Nolto and Dren are currently working on a new EP entitled "Sit-Down Comedy" which will hopefully drop sometime soon!

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