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Sach - Essential (LP - Orange Vinyl)

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While G-funk dominated hip-hop airwaves through the 1990s, the pulse of underground rap was maintained at the Good Life Café, an open-mic workshop at the corner of Crenshaw & Exposition in Los Angeles. After Freestyle Fellowship became the first Good Life group to invade the national consciousness in 1991, a young duo called THE NONCE were their heirs apparent, seemingly primed for a breakthrough. Composed of Leimert Park natives Lance ‘Nouka Basetype / Sach’ Caldwell and Yusef ‘Afloat’Muhammad, The Nonce had already been rapping and recording together for years prior to arriving at Good Life.

The Nonce signed to Wild West Records / American and completed a record called ‘World Ultimate’ in 1995. An early single called “Mix Tapes” emerged from the ‘World Ultimate’ sessions. With its dense percussion, rolling bass, spare horn samples and deft turntable scratches, it’s emblematic of the sound that would pervade the classic album. The song charts Sach and Yusef’s growth from mixtape peddlers to artists. It also became The Nonce’s stepping stone to a major label contract and a bonafide west coast classic. After ‘World Ultimate,’ Sach and Yusef intended to push their musical boundaries even further.

Unfortunately for Yusef Afloat, the journey ended at age 28. In 2000 his body was found beside the 110-Freeway. In the years since Sach has maintained a prolific solo career, selfreleasing nearly a dozen projects ranging from LPs to collaborations and instrumental tapes.

Fast forward to 2016 and the forthcoming release of ‘ESSENTIAL [HNR57] a remastered twelve-track “Best of” SACH compilation album, serving as a re-introduction of Sach to a new generation of hip-hop lovers, producers, beat makers & emcees. This extraordinary musical document comes complete with cover artwork courtesy of Augustine Kofie, the legendary photography of Eric Coleman, plus illustrative and informative liner notes by luminary Carlos Nino, and is available on limited-edition 12” tangerine colored vinyl (plus Cassette tape (includes two non-LP bonus tracks “Heavenly Spit” & “Robot on Ya”).

BLACK EARTH: from ‘Suckas Hate Me’ (2002)

VOICE OF HIP-HOP: from Sach 5th Ave’ (2004)

MIX TAPES: from The Nonce ‘World Ultimate’ (1995)

ROSE: from ‘Only For The Gifted & The Lifted’ (2006)

LET ‘EM: from ‘I’m From Vermont Knolls’ (2014)

BRASS RUNG: from ‘Sach 5th Ave (2004)

MY BLUN (DEDICATED TO NAUHI): from ‘Happy Verse Day: Suite 2’ (2013)

HUMBLE!: from ‘Ignorance My Enemy’ (2010)

FLAMBAY: from ‘I’m From Vermont Knolls’ (2014)

I MIGHT: from ‘Only For The Gifted & The Lifted’ (2006)

LOOK AT ME MEAN: from ‘Seven Days To Engineer’ (1998)

JOY: from ‘Sach 5th Ave’ (2004)

HEAVENLY SPIT: from Grand Daddy Sach (2002)

ROBOT ON YA: from Happy Verse Day: Suite 2 (2002)

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