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Before Spotify, and before Napster; those of us with an appetite for weirdo, left-field, alternative, underground hip hop would trade dubbed cassette tapes through janky Angelfire-built websites. Connecting w/ eachother via chat rooms like AOL's "Hip Hop Music'', SOHH (Search Online Hip Hop), UGHH.com; or on message boards like the Living Legends forum, the Heiro message board, the Anticon message board, LA2THEBAY forum. We’d spend hours scouring websites like HipHopSite.com and ThaLandz.com for RealAudio files of new underground hip hop; and pour over new releases at online retailers like Access Music, Sandbox Automatic, and B-Boy Kingdom; always looking for the most obscure rare underground rap tapes. A lot of music from that era never made it onto streaming. This show is dedicated to the lost golden age of underground hip hop & the internet. Enjoy.

Leron Carson

Leron Carson

Leron Carson has been played over 60 times on NTS, first on 7 March 2014. Leron Carson's music has been featured on 52 episodes.

Leron Carson isn't the most well-known or prolific of Michigan house producers - his only official release to date is 2001's 'China Trax' on the Theo Parrish-split The 1987 EP - but he's nonetheless one of the most respected. He was a 15 year old kid playing around with drum machines and synth keys in 1987-88, when he produced the five tracks on 'Red Lightbulb Theory'. The tracks apparently languished away in his basement until Theo Parrish released 'China Trax' split with his own 'Insane Asylum' on the Sound Dignature classic '1987 EP'. Now eight years down the line, or 22 since 1987, Leron is afforded his own doublepack, rounding up those early handmade experiments with a little bit of engineering revision from AOS aka Omar-S. All the tracks were produced in that early Chicago style, meaning no sequencing and lots of cassette tape overdubs, hence the inimitably raw and psychedelic wow-and-flutter between the grooves.

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Leron Carson

Leron Carson has been played over 60 times on NTS, first on 7 March 2014. Leron Carson's music has been featured on 52 episodes.

Leron Carson isn't the most well-known or prolific of Michigan house producers - his only official release to date is 2001's 'China Trax' on the Theo Parrish-split The 1987 EP - but he's nonetheless one of the most respected. He was a 15 year old kid playing around with drum machines and synth keys in 1987-88, when he produced the five tracks on 'Red Lightbulb Theory'. The tracks apparently languished away in his basement until Theo Parrish released 'China Trax' split with his own 'Insane Asylum' on the Sound Dignature classic '1987 EP'. Now eight years down the line, or 22 since 1987, Leron is afforded his own doublepack, rounding up those early handmade experiments with a little bit of engineering revision from AOS aka Omar-S. All the tracks were produced in that early Chicago style, meaning no sequencing and lots of cassette tape overdubs, hence the inimitably raw and psychedelic wow-and-flutter between the grooves.

Original source Last.fm

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Lemonlime
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Baby Said to Me
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Red Lightbulb
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Under The Conditions
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Sof N Thik
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Mechanism
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88th & Luella
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China Trax
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Sound Signature2001
Dedicated
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Sound Signature2009
The Unknown
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