MH-243 Blue Sky Black Death - A Heap Of Broken Images Blue Sky Black Death step on the scene with their double CD debut, A Heap Of Broken Images. Comprised of producers Kingston and Young God, this San Francisco tandem explores the nether regions of hip-hop, meshing dark samples, vocal snippets and live intrumentation into an album that holds its mood from start to finish. The first CD consists entirely of dense instrumental music, while the second is structured around guest MCs. Jus Allah, Wise Intelligent (Poor Righteous Teachers), Sabac Red (Non-Phixion), Guru (Gang Starr), Chief Kamachi, A-Plus and Pep Love (Hieroglyphics), Rob Sonic, Virtuoso, Mikah-9 (Freestyle Fellowship), Awol One, and Holocaust (Wu-Tang) all appear. This deep line up of collaborations spans the spectrum of hip-hop sound with stirring cohesion.

Tracklist 01. Skies Open 02. Days Are Years 03. Chloroform 04. Not Here 05. They Came Around 06. Dream Of Dying 07. From Sun's Angle 08. Rap Creature Land 09. Heroin For God 10. Guilty Ones 11. The Dead Tree Gives No Shelter 12. Still Asleep   01. Engage My Words (Feat. Jus Allah, Wise Intelligent & Sabac Red) 02. Street Legends (Feat. A-Plus & Pep Love) 03. Floor Chalk (Best Reprise) (Feat. Guru & Chief Kamachi) 04. Scriptures (Feat. Lil' Sci) 05. Long Division (Feat. Rob Sonic & Mike Ladd) 06. I Catch Fire (Feat. The Holocaust) 07. Grimey Styles (Feat. Mikah-9) 08. Brain Cells (Feat. Virtuoso) 09. Everything (Feat. AWOL One) 10. It Wasn't White

Release Details Release Date: 05/23/2006   Running Time: 91:04   Download/Available/$7.00 2XLP/Available/$10.00 2XCD/Available/$10.00 Territory: World

Reviews Summary

Pure, unadulterated hip-hop fire - Vapors / Screams quality all throughout - Word / Stunning - Mean Street / Recommended! - Boomkat / The music is so intriguing it's impossible to stop listenining - All Music Guide / If you need something new and fresh in your life you may have just found it - UK Hip-Hop

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3D World / All Music Guide / Amp Camp / Boomkat / Cobwebs & Strange / Cyclic Defrost / Eshkoshkan Spot / Exclaim! / Lodown / Lost at Sea / Mean Street / Pop Matters / Properly Chilled / Rock Sound / Signal to Noise / Subba Cultcha / Tastes Like Chicken / Thermostat / Tiny Mix Tapes / UK Hip-Hop / Urban Pollution / Vapors / We Push Buttons / Word /

Two discs in one album? Each containing entirely different musical approaches? And the both work?!? Yeah, for real. Kingston and Young God present two sides of the coin. Disc one is some of the nicest instrumental music I’ve ever painted to, and disc two is straight-up hip-hop, built around the guest MCs appearing on each track. Think I’m kidding? Just listen to how good Guru and Chief Kamachi sound on “Floor Chalk (Best Reprise)”. - Tastes Like Chicken