Underground Fossils: soso

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, March 8, 2022

New Music: Endemik Remote Ensemble - They Fired With Their Lives

It's been a pretty cool month for Prairie Rap. Factor Chandelier's "Time Invested II" is rolling out promo (check out the new Def3 single!,) Epic's classic "8:30 In Newfoundland" got a re-release, and the guys over at Endemik have offered up the new free "They Fired With Their Lives" project!

Endemik Remote Ensemble is Soso, Maki, Sign One, Hermitofthewoods, EMC, and Deadly Stare. The concept of this project is interesting. Each of the six guys started making a beat and would then pass that beat to another of the producers to add onto until all six of them had worked on all six beats (at which point the creation was passed back to the original producer to finish things up.) A potentially messy project ends up working very well to the extent that things often sound like one person behind all of the tracks. Check it out below and DL it for Free!

They Fired With Their Lives

Friday, March 5, 2021

soso - Poor Man’s Survey (2004)

Thanks for tuning in again folks, and as promised I've upped my game and delivered some fresh music on time. 30 minutes or it's free, so send me money. Just kidding.

That important bit out of the way, what we have here is a collection of some beats by someone who is probably one of my favorite musicians as well as rappers. I don't really weight what he does against any other rappers to be fair, because his level of originality, compositional ingenuity and absolutely brutal emotional songwriting puts his music on a level that's almost it's own genre.

soso's album Poor Man's Survey is a collection of instrumentals, mostly songs with fellow prairie rap god Epic made 'as a companion piece to soso's 7"' according to a Discoger. It's pretty damn good, soso's production is absolutely fantastic with or without lyrical accompaniment. It's stark and dark and somehow sums up what I imagine a Canadian winter to sound like so perfectly...

Why am I sharing this today? Because I'm so f*cking stoked to be hearing a new vocal album from the man himself, with super producer Maki out at the end of the month. Go ahead and preorder it here if you're in the State's and here if you're not, or want to get a physical. Check out the links at the bottom of Mism's page for sources.

Enjoy, soso is peerless and I guarantee you'll love some of this at least.

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