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Dungeon Loud & Duhmetrius - Ritualistic (2015)

  So screw it. After being silent so for long here's a 2nd release. K. Clifton is a rapper from Spokane who has used many aliases and has been part of many different groups over the years. As of 2024 his most recent alias was Dungeon Loud. Clifton has a habit of deleting all of his releases months after uploading them. At the time of writing the only projects of his that are still live are ones that are collaborations. In those instances he doesn't have direct access to those pages to delete them. He uses a depressive rap style, moody and often deadpan beats and a flare for mystical and almost fantastical lyrics. His Dungeon Loud later saw fit to embrace the contempoary Dungeon Rap style. This release doesn't necessarily fit into that style but fits more in the Cloud Rap movement (which was arguably a huge inspiration for Dungeon Rap). This specific release is also a collaboration with rapper Duhmetrius (Spokane) who is only known through collaborations with K. Clifton. Thi...

Manznaita - Pirate Lady (1979)

  Merry Christmas everyone!  I realize this blog has been mostly dead for months now though I've been trying to revive it, or at least figure out what the plan is going forward. I'll spare all the deliberations. I'm going to try and post more regularly going into the New Year. No more formalities like when a release was lost or whatnot I have decided to just post whatever lost releases I come across and add them to the Internet Archive.  The only thing I'm still on the fence about is if I want to add NFOs to the releases and fully embrace the warez aesthetic. While I still figure that out I am going to at least post something here that means a lot to me.  Manzanita is a jazz band from San Diego, USA consisting of Tommy Aros, Kelly Jocoy, NAthan East, Peter Sprague, Rob Schniederman, Mark Lessman and Tripp Sprague. In 1979 they released one private-press album called Pirate Lady and never really saw an distribution beyond that. The album has been out of print for over...