Operation Echo

  Artist: Jake and Bake Beats (currently known as Jabbu) Album: La Planète Sauvage Tape Location: Bensalem, USA Genres: Lo-Fi Hip Hop, Library Music Year Released: 2017-06-14 Format(s) Released: Bandcamp Explanation:  Back in 2017 I listened to a lot of albums. I used to have a list on my page with a brief review of them all but that's since been deleted. Anyway, one of the many tapes I listened to then was this one by Jake and Bake Beats. He's now known as Jabbu but other than that I don't know anything about him. I remember the tape being adequate but never looked deeper into his work.  And I really didn't think about this until a friend going through my ratings asked if I had a copy since Jabbu deleted all his old work. I didn't but after some work between him and another person I know they managed to recover this tape. And here we are today.  It's a lo-fi hip hop beat tape that samples the cult-classic French movie Fantastic Planet. Never seen it myself thou...

  Artist: Th@ Kid / TeamSESH Album: TeamSESH Location: Oakland, USA Genres: Boom Bap, Datpiff Scene, Cloud Rap Year Released: 2011-xx-xxxx Format(s) Released: Datpiff Explanation: TeamSESH is a hip hop collective that was founded by rapper Bones in the early 2010s. Consisting mostly of producers, their output has been primarily instrumental. They are also noteworthy for being where several now-major hip hop artists got their start such as DJ Smokey and Fifty Grand and performed alongside other major acts such as Raider Klan and Odd Future. Aside from loads of DJ mixes but some of the members for NTS Radio and a 2016 tape they haven't put out much. Individual members, sure, have tons of stuff out but the group, not so much. There was also a bootleg in 2013 some random Tumblr user made. However, within Bones lost early tapes there was one tape just called TeamSESH. As it was lost for a long time with no songs surviving from it, I just assumed this was the actual start of TeamSESH and...

  Artist: Shark Dentures Album: Pre-Released & Unreleased Tracks Location: Seattle, USA Genres: New Cocoon Year Released: 2012-xx-xx Format(s) Released: Bandcamp, CD-R Explanation:  Shark Dentures is a strange emcee and former(?) member of the New Cocoon collective, one of the strangest rap groups to ever exist. Aside from an album with Summon as Dead Seagull Medicine and an EP with the Sorcery Orchestra he hasn't done much. Featured heavily on various New Cocoon releases he vanished around 2018 or so along with the rest of New Cocoon.   New Cocoon's notable for their occult subject matter, rapid-fire bars, strange and unusual flows and use of dark samples, cybernetic beats and occult imagery. I've enjoyed their work though I have to admit I haven't listened to enough of their stuff. I would say 2014's Fated Empire album is probably the best thing I've heard from them, Dead Seagull Medicine in 2nd place. He also has this album, which was deleted at some poin...