The “chill-hop” producer blends hip-hop beats, melancholy atmospheres, jazzy riffs, and other elements for supreme chill-out material.

These instrumentals make you realize how limited the term “hip-hop” has come to be understood.

You’re struck by the thought that perhaps some higher power had always intended for the components to be mashed together.

An exhilarating of sampling, laptop electronica, glitch pop, and hip-hop.

K-Os, in a gentle, nasal flow of intelligent lyrics, reminds his listeners of the true roots of hip-hop.

From start to finish, it’s a solid undertaking by one of the premier MCs nobody knows about.

I’m flabbergasted as to how something like this made it out the door without someone crying foul.

More focused and concise then their debut, but still as out there as you’d expect from cLOUDDEAD.

A record that punches holes through what the trained ear would classify as “beat-driven hip-hop.”

One of the year’s best, and I can’t wait to hear more Nobody in upcoming years.

This probably kicks more ass than any soundtrack has a right to.

Shades of Blue is smooth, no doubt about that. So smooth, in fact, that it barely leaves any impression.

Combines hip hop-infused slam poetry with a mellowed-out post-rock rhythm section and a classical guitarist.

The music is effective in creating pleasantly impressionistic moods, but it seems like there should be more.

I simply forgot that I was listening to a white boy and just starting soaking in some nice beats and skilled rhyming.

Guns, Cars & Sitars flows with a sense of style and funk that is deeply infectious, exotic, and most importantly, bad ass.

Taking in “1957” is like listening to all of the schizophrenia of “1956” condensed into only half the time.

Samori has taken the art of hip-hop a notch higher with his beautifully crafted musical tracks and passionate lyrics.

Anti-Pop Consortium’s detours are not the same old breaks trotted out which are sure to rock a crowd.

While it may be hip to be unknown and trendy to record for an independent label, you still have to make good music.