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OKeh short history: 

OKeh was founded by Otto K. E. Heinemann when he set up his own recording studio and gramophone record pressing plant in New York City in September 1918. Heinemann formed the name of the record label "OKeh", from his initials.  OKeh began by issuing popular songs, dance numbers, and vaudeville skits similar to the fare of other labels, but Heineman also wished to experiment with music for audiences neglected by the larger record companies. OKeh produced lines of recordings in German, Czech, Polish, Swedish, and Yiddish for the USA's immigrant communities. In 1920, Ralph Peer's recordings by African-American blues singer Mamie Smith were a surprise smash hit for Okeh. The company perceived the significant, little-tapped market for blues and jazz by African American artists. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Bix Beiderbecke are only a few names of jazz greats that have recorded for the label. By 1926 Columbia Records bought the label and kept it running into the 60's with jazz and R&B recordings. 

In 1994, Sony Music reactivated the OKeh label as a new-age Blues label. Okeh's first new signings included Keb' Mo, Popa Chubby, and Little Axe. By 2000, the Okeh label was again retired, but in 2013 it will see its re-launch as a jazz label once again.

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The Thousands are a versatile and engaging hip-hop combo from Los Angeles via Oklahoma City. Their first two albums are viewed by fans as some of the most compelling and progressive cerebral offerings available in this music genre in ten years.

The next debut is titled A Typical Limit, and once again produced by M-Flo with a host of specialists. The group has refined their dense and pounding sound while continuing to pursue their socio-political themes and afterhours narratives. From their viewpoint, 2012 should be an interesting year.

A Typical Limit explores classic hip-hop traditions with a futuristic tilt, the rhythms are tense and propulsive while the lyrics examine and challenge the listener. Throughout the album, the duo moves with ease, intertwining their lyrical agendas to weave an illuminating 18-track tapestry. The result is gripping and undeniable.

Fans of fascinating rhyme vocals and exotic beat production were engaged in 2007 as the duo of M-Flo and Plovo dropped the highly anticipated follow up to their groundbreaking LP, Circulation. Dh6 Productions released Press the Button, the full length album from the most exciting group performing psychedelic hip hop in Los Angeles.

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"The Thousands have shown us that the most socio-politically dangerous, sonically mind-blowing music happens when the groove is slapped across the face by the strange progress of the avant-garde (and so few can do it right)." Popstocker Magazine

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