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Using Hiphop as a foundation, The Floor (LP) bounces through genres - from rap to reggae to R&B to rock - all the while keeping originality, lyricism and innovative beats at its core. Backpackers and non-discriminant music lovers alike will not be disappointed!
Artists: The Sky Beneath
Album: The Floor
Length: 15 tracks; 52 min
Release: August, 2005 |
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The Winter EP is a juicy taste of what's to come from The Sky Beneath crew in the months ahead. Undoubtedly, it represents the tremendous growth and increasingly diverse style of this up and coming bi-coastal collective.
Artists: The Sky Beneath
Album: The Winter EP
Length: 6 tracks; 21 min
Release: January, 2005
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The Sky Beneath's debut album. The musical genius of veteran producer Steven Van Beathavin laid the foundation for Beaujangles, Furia & Pakwit to construct a cinematic drama about two emcees struggling to reconcile the politics of a corrupt music industry. The Ground takes us on a lyrical journey through tragedy, disillusionment, and resolution.
Artists: The Sky Beneath (Beaujangles, Furia, Pakwit, Steven Van Beathavin)
Album: The Ground
Length: 10 tracks; 43 min
Release: January, 2004 |
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The 5th Floor (EP) contains six full length tracks by NuSonRize, Furia & Fitzgeezus. They recorded original lyrics over beats from some of their favorite producers. This album is not being sold.
Artists: The Sky Beneath (Furia, SonRize, Fitzgeezus)
Album: The 5th Floor
Length: 7 tracks; 28 min
Click HERE to download this album for FREE (.zip, 192kbps, 39 MB) |
The Floor
| "The diversity represented not only in rhythms, but the voices, cadances, topics, should make commercial radio stations feel embarrassed not to have this kind of music. It just goes to show you hiphop is still alive and growing...if you're willing to look beyond your radio dial."
-Ricky (Unknown)
"Wow! I just listened to your stuff and it's amazing! I genuinely dig your style and delivery. Self-Suffice has got that nice GURU calmness to his flow and his rhymes are refreshingly sensical compared to a lot of stuff I hear on the radio. One guy rapping with him in "Illa Raps" sounds almost exactly like A-Plus from Hieroglyphics. I saw that Suffice is in MF Grimm's crew - I haven't heard him yet but if he's anything like MF Doom then that is outrageous."
-J.S. (Unknown)
"It's really incredible the amount of work you all put into the album. It was clearly a labor of love and ALL that love definitely comes through."
-Badr A., (Berkeley, CA / Washington, D.C.)
"I LOVE Cubano. Dope. "
-DJ Eurok, (Washington, D.C.)
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Winter EP
| "This multi-MC crew is not total thug but far from being soft. Tight beats, sharp and smart. Positive rhymes with an Eastern vibe. More about educating than bragging (more PRT than 50 Cent). Just the right amount of sound layering. Cubano has a Latin beat (naturally) and it hops. Comes close but doesn't cross the line into being preachy. These cats clearly dont dig the current onslaught of faux-hard Crys-sipping bling kings. And SB lets em know with lines like 'You wanna talk that thug talk? / I scrunch up my face like a pug dog.'"
-Craig Gilbert, New Haven Advocate
"I was at a get together last night and someone threw on what I think is your latest CD, and I loved it. Especially the track about fake hip-hop ["The Remix Pt. II"]...it is really good. I love that it is catchy as hell, so that I can see people really getting into it, but when you listen to the words you really get what it's about."
-Liselle R., Trinidad & Tobago
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The Ground
| "Outstanding album. Great beats, great rhymes, great concept. Listens straight through."
-Nicholas Conway, WRPI 91.5, Albany, NY
"Dreams Die (Track 6 on "The Ground") would have been a smash hit in the opium dens of China 150 years ago. The beat, itself, is a cruel addiction. I overdosed the first time I heard it and looped the damn thing at max volume for almost two hours straight. It resounds perfectly with the savage appetites of our dark past, still crowded around the crackling campfires of kill or be killed."
-Tom Casey, Seattle, WA
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The 5th Floor EP
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"The 5th floor is what happens when gritty Hiphop linguists infiltrate an Ivy League institution. Coming off the unprecedented success of their first single "BK2Nite", Fitzgeezus, Furia and NuSonRize have collaborated to mix hip hop history (the bouncy "Hip Hop Circus"), with the high expectations of Ivy life (the sultry "Money Grows on Trees"). Touching on racial independence (NuSonRize's "People of the Sun") and international discord (Furia's mixtape mosaic "United Nations"), The 5th Floor EP is a truly unique and vibrant album from some of today's best independent emcees/producers. Big ups!"
-Joshua Gallant, Ottawa, CA
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2004 Promo CD | "This CD is f***ing amazing... It is making me feel so so good right now... I forgot what power music has over me sometimes."
-Lia Yohannes, Middletown, CT
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