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An Octave Above the Original Volume No. 1 is the full-length debut album by the American hip-hop duo Ill Harmonics (Blake Knight and Doug Krum), released on BEC Recordings’ hip-hop imprint Uprok in 2000, a division of Tooth & Nail Records.
The album was written, produced, arranged, and programmed by MG! The Visionary. Recorded at The Reign Room in Seattle, Washington, and at The Green Room in Huntington Beach, California. Mixed by Gene Eugene of Adam Again fame (tracks: 7 to 9, 12, 14) and MG! The Visionary at The Reign Room and at Front Page Studios in Costa Mesa, California.
III Harmonics is a creative hip hop duo, both are accomplished musicians, creating a style that is full of acoustic instrumentation and smooth vocal harmonies. The sound is classic Latin/funk/Middle Eastern-influenced, with deep yet agile rhyming, plus phat beats. The variety of the mix is rich and progressive, nothing predictable here. A very mature first album, though having been producers for other crews and appearing on MTV’s The Cut’ etc… enough said. These guys ain’t waiting around for something to happen or gushing standard sounds, instead they’re creating “styles that purge”. This is totally real, this is beautif… ill Harmonics. [T A Sutherland, Cross Rhythms, July 2001]
CD tracklist:
01. Rock The Casbah (Cuts by DJ Marc)
02. The Woman (feat. vocals by Nisha Krum)
03. Nomadic Caravans
04. Woe Is We
05. Gringos
06. What I Am (Cuts by DJ Marc)
07. Matadors (Cuts by DJ Ghost)
08. Will I?
09. Simile And Metaphor (Cuts by DJ Ghost)
10. 30 Platinum Bits
11. What You Are
12. I’m An Emcee, Baby! (Cuts by DJ Marc)
13.1. 30 Platinum Bits (Remix)
13.2 untitled hidden track
Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and CD by Uprok. (Track 13.2 is an untitled Outro not mentioned on the release, starting after 32 seconds of silence after “30 Platinum Bits (Remix)”.)
“Nomadic Caravans” (MUSIC VIDEO)
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