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INDICA JONES · February 4th, 2005

yo, check out this cat from Seattle...he is very dope....

www.superhappywax.com is going to bring him out to Portland on Saturday the 12th to rock the mic proper.....you have to peep this cat...I have a feeling he is gonna get huge....

Superhappywax.com presents
RETURN OF THE ARTISTS w/

Sleep (Oldominion.net) myspace.com/sleep
Specs One (SEA, True Belivers Crew) myspace.com/specsone
http://www.superhappywax.com/specs_one.php
Manic D & Fogatron w/ DJ Papercuts myspace.com/manicd
Brokaw (Disscompany.com)
DJ Void (Allskratch.net)
Village Elliot
Belly (superhappywax.com)

he reminds me of how hiphop used to be.....flava baby!!!

so you can check his stuff @ http://myspace.com/specsone

evergruven · February 7th, 2005

yo I didnt know there were cats like that from seattle..
glad to see a true head still doin his thing.

uneasylistener · February 7th, 2005

The album is available through Superhappywax as well and coming soon.... NO MORE PAYPAL!!! Thanks for the plug Indy... I'mma try and check you out next time I'm in SEA.. Where are you playing now?

INDICA JONES · February 7th, 2005

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Originally Posted by uneasylistener

Where are you playing now?

Thursdays at the "Ballroom" in Fremont and Saturdays at the "triangle lounge" in fremont/seattle.....

uneasylistener · February 11th, 2005

I'm so happy right now. We're bringing Specs down and not many people had really heard about him down here. I only know about him due to the guys at Respect In Seattle recommending his CD. Anyway, this is the first show I've thrown for my website and we got him a quarter page story where they called him "The holy Ghost of NW underground" in the big indy events paper here the Portland Mercury! It's like fate I think....

http://www.portlandmercury.com/current/music4.html

THE SPIRIT OF SPECS ONE
The Holy Ghost of Northwest Underground
by Charles Mudede

Specs One
Sat Feb 12
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd

Born and raised in Seattle, Specs One has been in the world of hiphop since that world was born, 1979. Indeed, it's almost impossible to find someone in that city whose life is more devoted to the production of hiphop art than that of Specs One. As far as his memory can tell, he has made 10 full-length CDs under various names--Mic Makers, Balcony (slang for brain), and Clockwise.

Most of these CDs and cassettes were homemade and street-distributed by Specs One. His latest CD, Return of the Artist, however, was released earlier last year by Abduction, the label run by the avant-garde trio Sun City Girls. For reasons that are not entirely mysterious, the members of Sun City Girls have admired the "insane number of limited-edition cassettes and CDRs" made and distributed from the backpack of the man they describe as "The Holy Ghost of Northwest underground." And so when Specs One contacted Sun City Girls about a work in progress that had been dropped by a once-interested label in San Francisco, LOOK Records, they wasted no time picking up, packaging, and marketing what would become one of the best Northwest hiphop CDs of that generally dismal year, 2004.

Comprised of 15 expertly crafted tracks, Return of the Artist was recorded over a three-month period with an MPC 2000 sampler and a TASCAM DA-38--an eight-track recorder. Return of the Artist sounds as if it were made with relatively new equipment, which is certainly not the case with his earlier cassettes and CDs, which sound as if they were made with equipment that was unearthed by archeologists excavating a city that died a thousand years ago. When that dead city was alive and thriving, it looked very much like the city in which Specs One currently lives, Seattle, the ultimate subject of his art. As it is impossible to separate Specs One from that city's hiphop; it is impossible to separate his music from the city in which it was made.

If anyone's looking, we stock his CD at superhappywax and there are clips there....

http://www.superhappywax.com/show_pr...num=shw0000996

February 4th, 2005	#1
INDICA JONES LONGBOARDS, SNOWBOARDS AND LIFE Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Kron-less in Seattle.... Posts: 4,312	Specs One.....check him out yo, check out this cat from Seattle...he is very dope.... www.superhappywax.com is going to bring him out to Portland on Saturday the 12th to rock the mic proper.....you have to peep this cat...I have a feeling he is gonna get huge.... Superhappywax.com presents RETURN OF THE ARTISTS w/ Sleep (Oldominion.net) myspace.com/sleep Specs One (SEA, True Belivers Crew) myspace.com/specsone http://www.superhappywax.com/specs_one.php Manic D & Fogatron w/ DJ Papercuts myspace.com/manicd Brokaw (Disscompany.com) DJ Void (Allskratch.net) Village Elliot Belly (superhappywax.com) he reminds me of how hiphop used to be.....flava baby!!! so you can check his stuff @ http://myspace.com/specsone __________________ www.djindicajones.com www.illerclothing.com www.facebook.com/illerpow "In its entirety, Iller Sessions is a meaty helping of pensive, supple tracks that will school you on new lyricists and reintroduce you to the classics."-okayplayer.com review

February 7th, 2005	#2
evergruven is what I be Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: fresh coast, errth Posts: 1,276	yo I didnt know there were cats like that from seattle.. glad to see a true head still doin his thing. __________________ "What does Dr. Cornell got to do with rap?"

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February 7th, 2005	#3
uneasylistener Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Location: SW Washington Posts: 350	The album is available through Superhappywax as well and coming soon.... NO MORE PAYPAL!!! Thanks for the plug Indy... I'mma try and check you out next time I'm in SEA.. Where are you playing now?

February 11th, 2005	#5
uneasylistener Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Location: SW Washington Posts: 350	I'm so happy right now. We're bringing Specs down and not many people had really heard about him down here. I only know about him due to the guys at Respect In Seattle recommending his CD. Anyway, this is the first show I've thrown for my website and we got him a quarter page story where they called him "The holy Ghost of NW underground" in the big indy events paper here the Portland Mercury! It's like fate I think.... http://www.portlandmercury.com/current/music4.html THE SPIRIT OF SPECS ONE The Holy Ghost of Northwest Underground by Charles Mudede Specs One Sat Feb 12 Tonic Lounge 3100 NE Sandy Blvd Born and raised in Seattle, Specs One has been in the world of hiphop since that world was born, 1979. Indeed, it's almost impossible to find someone in that city whose life is more devoted to the production of hiphop art than that of Specs One. As far as his memory can tell, he has made 10 full-length CDs under various names--Mic Makers, Balcony (slang for brain), and Clockwise. Most of these CDs and cassettes were homemade and street-distributed by Specs One. His latest CD, Return of the Artist, however, was released earlier last year by Abduction, the label run by the avant-garde trio Sun City Girls. For reasons that are not entirely mysterious, the members of Sun City Girls have admired the "insane number of limited-edition cassettes and CDRs" made and distributed from the backpack of the man they describe as "The Holy Ghost of Northwest underground." And so when Specs One contacted Sun City Girls about a work in progress that had been dropped by a once-interested label in San Francisco, LOOK Records, they wasted no time picking up, packaging, and marketing what would become one of the best Northwest hiphop CDs of that generally dismal year, 2004. Comprised of 15 expertly crafted tracks, Return of the Artist was recorded over a three-month period with an MPC 2000 sampler and a TASCAM DA-38--an eight-track recorder. Return of the Artist sounds as if it were made with relatively new equipment, which is certainly not the case with his earlier cassettes and CDs, which sound as if they were made with equipment that was unearthed by archeologists excavating a city that died a thousand years ago. When that dead city was alive and thriving, it looked very much like the city in which Specs One currently lives, Seattle, the ultimate subject of his art. As it is impossible to separate Specs One from that city's hiphop; it is impossible to separate his music from the city in which it was made. If anyone's looking, we stock his CD at superhappywax and there are clips there.... http://www.superhappywax.com/show_pr...num=shw0000996