Operation Echo

  Defeatistchan was a hard EDM and breakcore producer active in Auckland, New Zealand. Due to her Bandcamp and social media accounts all down it's hard to say where this album is in her discography.  In mid-2020 she passed away. I don't know the details but she is survived by several fans who took it upon themselves to make this album readily available.  Sometime prior to her death, Defeatistchan pulled all of his music off Bandcamp and whatnot. With no labels backing her music all surviving copies have been distributed freely. This upload is to help make additional copies of this album available.  https://archive.org/details/defeatistchan-defeatistchan

  Home is a member of the rap group Papervehicle and singer/songwriter/rapper from California. His style combines rapping and folksy instrumentation and singing. This album was originally released on the now-defunct Decorative Stamp label. Though short it's decent with Home showcasing an often unknown style of hip hop that he and his contemporaries pioneered.  With Decorative Stamp purging all of their older releases (to the point where they don't even have public information about what they released in the past. And while Home has an active Bandcamp page he has no made any attempts to re-issue this album.  This particular rip was done by DiTF.  https://archive.org/details/10-home-hauling-the-nameless-value

  I don't have much to say, if anything about this. This album was trash. Only including it here for archival purposes.  This album was previously distributed on Bandcamp until the artist deleted the page and vanished from the internet. It's a singer/songwriter project with some vague hip hop influences. https://archive.org/details/holy-roman-empire-st

Knowself is a Canadian emcee known for his extremely political and occasionally conspiratorial bars. He has a speedy and incredibly dense flow leading to his bars sounding like water shooting out of a fire hydrant, the listener trying to graps everything firing out.  Lyrics revolve around blunt political statements and incredibly ironic and occasional humourous lyrics. This can even be found in the track title with two songs being called 'Cyber Sludge, Mechanized Slaves, Social Engineering, Weather Modification and High Frequency' and 'Critical Like Alfred Korzybski' and another song called 'Cee!!!!!!! Takes a Long and Painful Crap'. This album in particular has some of Knowself's fasted rhymes. This album was previously distributed via CDBaby and became lost media when CDBaby shut its service down. Knowself has not been active since the mid-2010s so any chance of re-issuing this is slim to none. This was recorded back in 1999 but never saw release until 201...

  A hip hop and drone project from hip hop producer and former RYM-user turned classical composer Josten Myburgh. While the project opens up with bursts of noise the majority of this project is just drone and noise mashed up with various popular rap songs. There's a Biggie Smalls track here combined with a piercing drone beat with occasional ambient interludes like Lock it Down. While the remixes are decent the later tracks have just a bit too much high-pitched sounds to the point it becomes unlistenabel. In Shambles is a good example of this. All in all, it starts off strong but is bogged down by the later tracks. I don't know why he deleted it but I do find it pretty humourous that after he did he moved excluively into classical music, never once mentioning this project again. Not sure why. It showed promise. https://archive.org/details/josten-myburgh-friendsfriendsfriendsfriendsfriends-itr-013

  Sinister Stricken is a British emcee and associate of the Philadelphia-based rap crew, The Lost Children of Babylon. He releaeses his music exclusively on his personal Facebook page with Mediafire links. This EP was released in collaboraiton with several members of LCOB.  His style can arguably be called Spiritual Hip Hop, with his extensive use of new age samples and lyrics constantly covering topics of the occult, spirituality, conspiracy and religion. This EP features other spiritual emcees such as Atma, Tesla's Ghost, Son of Saturn and more. It also features an appearance by American Poets 2099 member, Warcloud. It's pretty good. If you like LCOB you'll like this. Lots of apocalyptic imagery and hard hitting beats.  Enjoy!  https://archive.org/details/sinister-stricken-chaos-theory-ep