Operation Echo

  Artist: Labklik Album: Artcore Location: Kansas City, USA Genres: Backpacker Hip Hop, Abstract Hip Hop Year Released: 2000-xx-xx Date Refound / Posted: 2022-02-04 Format(s) Released: CDr Explanation : Labklik was an old rap group active in the early 2000s consisting of Dan Smith and Ill Trip. In the late 90s and early 2000s during the peak of the backpacker movement Labklik released a few albums before eventually disbanding for unknown reasons. Dan Smith would go on to form the spoken word band Listener but Ill Tripp's fate is unknown. Presumably he is still alive out there somewhere. Both members of Labklik were members of the larger collective Deepspace5. This album in partciular caught my attention because of its name. Artcore implies to be some kinda artsy rap. Reasons for Disappearance : While this album was released through Deepspace5 Recordings it just faded in time. Labklik never experienced the level of popularity contemporary acts like Atmosphere got. Deepspace5 as a wh...

Operation Echo Welcome to Operation Echo. This is the blog component to where I'm posting found albums listed from here: Hidden Lost Pockets of Time . I will also be sometimes posting albums from a similar list I maintain called The Missing List . I'll give each release a little blurb and a link to where you can get the album. For ones that still remain offline I will try to keep the link alive as long as I can. However, I implore you download what you can because there is no telling how long these links will live.  Since the start of recorded music there have been plenty of songs, albums, EPs, tracks, etc that have vanished. I don't mean just off streaming services but there are plenty of records that have just outright disappeared from the internet and all underground methods. Maybe the record was only relesaed physically in pre-internet days, maybe the artist deleted the album from bandcamp, maybe copyright abuse took it down, maybe the label decided to pull it, maybe en...