Marley Marl & Pete Rock Future Flavas, Hot 97, July 1996

An unbelievable new 2CD compilation of music produced by the one and only Nick Wiz. Featuring 20+ previously unreleased recordings plus a slew of tracks that were previously only available on vinyl and have been freshly transferred from DATs and reels for this release. Limited to 400 copies on double CD from GRR.

Tracklist:
DISC ONE...
1. Shabaam Sahdeeq - Arabian Nights
2. FOD - Inner City Blues
3. Emskee feat. Kayzee - Me & You (Remix)
4. HDM - Real MCs
5. UG - Do You Know
6. Ran Reed feat. Shabaam Sahdeeq - Murderous Flow [12" Version]
7. N-Tyce - Sure Ya Right (Remix)
8. Main One feat. OC - Droppin' Gramma (Wiz Remix)
9. Madhouse - Wendy Williams Promo
10. Emskee - I Don't Waste Time
11. Shadowz In Da Dark - Fatiguez
12. Stereo H - Fantasia
13. Native Assassins - Bring It
14. Dundee - I Used To Love Her
15. Pudgee - Kill You
16. LSD - The Ism (Full Version)
17. Emskee - My Name's Emskee
18. FOD - No More
19. UG Feat. Main One - Got Luv
20. Vee O - Everybody Knows
21. Underground Airplay Cypha Session II
22. Rakim - I'm Good

DISC TWO...
1. Shabaam Sahdeeq - Do Or Die
2. Emskee - It's About Time
3. Ran Reed - Army With a Hand Gun
4. Main One feat. Chino XL - Bring The Drama
5. UG - Da Rawness
6. Madhouse - All Over the Track
7. Emskee - Black Boys, Baseball Caps & Beepers (Original Version)
8. Shadowz in da Dark - Old Flames
9. FOD - Hold It Down pt. 2
10. Shabaam Sahdeeq feat. Cocoa Brovaz - Every Rhyme I Write
11. Gauge - Insane
12. Infamous Bars - Wherever I Go
13. Pudgee - Angel Dust
14. Main One feat. the Dwellas - The Main Event (12" Mix)
15. Emskee - You Ain't Real
16. FOD - Frontline
17. Mad Skillz - The Nod Factor (Remix)
18. Black Sun - Indian Giver
19. Pudgee feat. DMX, Ran Reed & Hostile - U Ain't Know (Extended Session)
20. Underground Airplay Cypha Session IV
21. Cella Dwellas - When I Rock

Nick Wiz - Cellar Sounds Vol. 6 (1992-2000) (2xCD Snippets)

The Wicked Takeover on WRAPfm ALL Vinyl HipHop Mixshow with Wicked

Here's one of my shows where I spun all HipHop between the years 2000-2004. At the end of the show I included a bonus mix of all joints 2000-2005.

Playlist: https://imgur.com/nNFf02W

WTO WRAPfm

The Wicked Takeover on WRAPfm Episode 027

The Wicked Takeover on WRAPfm Episode 027 (2000-2005)

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01 - Nothin lesser
02 - UN Da House
03- WarGames aka French Connection
04 - Mind Blowin'
05 - Dominant
06 - Pop art
07 - It's over
08 - Cake
09 - What They Want
10 - D.O.A. (Deadly On Arrival)
11 - For The Luv
12 - Get yo bitch
13 - Russian Hat Wear
14 - Game Of Death
15 - Ain't No Thang
16 - Hardcore (revisited)
17 - Shakedown
18 - Long time coming
19 - The art
20 - Avenue
21 - Golden Grail

The U.N - Built To Last MIX

Nearly seven years since the last Cellar Selections installment, we are back with 20 more sure-shot productions from Nick Wiz on wax, including 6 previously unreleased tracks! Featuring Rakim, Shabaam Sahdeeq, Ran Reed, Shadowz In Da Dark and many more. This essential release comes in a picture cover in an edition of 500 black copies and 200 color (clear amber/gold) copies.

Tracklist:
1. Shabaam Sahdeeq - Do or Die (1996)
2. Dark Mind - Outside Looking In (Alternate Mix) (1996)
3. Mister Fit - First In, Last Out (1996)
4. Shadowz In Da Dark - My Old Flame (1996)
5. F.O.D. - Shuwado (1997)
6. Quassan - I Am
7. Rakim - Man With A Gun (2002)
8. Vee O - Everybody Knows (1994)
9. Madhouse - Young Girls Are Jingling (1992)
10. Ran Reed - Underground Airplay Interlude (1994)
11. Various Artists - Underground Airplay Cypha Session II (1994)
12. Stereo H - Fantasia (2000)
13. F.O.D. - Inner City Blues (1997)
14. Shadowz In Da Dark - Fatiguez (1997)
15. Fat Kat Kareem - Nothin' Fugazi (Remix) (1998)
16. Shabaam Sahdeeq - Pump Ya Fist (2000)
17. HDM - Real MCs (1997 )
18. APB - Hardenuff (1992)
19. Emskee - My Name's Emskee (1993)
20. Triip - No Tricks in 96 (Alternate Version) (1996)
21. Various Artists - Underground Airplay Cypha Session IV (1995)

Nick Wiz - Cellar Selections vol. 11 - Vinyl 2LP (Snippets)

A VIVID IMAGE
by Brent Schön AI
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A Vivid Image is an album devoted to perception itself—the moment when sensation sharpens, color intensifies, and awareness comes fully into focus. It explores what happens when experience is no longer muted by habit, fear, or noise, and life appears again in high definition. This is music about seeing and feeling clearly, not through force, but through presence.

At its heart, A Vivid Image treats sound as light. Each tone, rhythm, and harmonic layer functions like a brushstroke, building scenes of emotional clarity rather than telling stories with words. The album does not describe images; it creates them—inner landscapes that feel immediate, alive, and immersive.

Sonically, the record blends modern electronic production with cinematic atmosphere. Bright, detailed synth textures shimmer like sunlight refracting through glass. Deep, controlled basslines ground the listener, giving contrast and depth to the higher frequencies. Rhythms are precise yet fluid, moving with confidence and ease, allowing motion without urgency. Melodies are expressive but uncluttered, designed to linger in the mind like color after light.

The album unfolds like a gallery of states rather than a linear narrative. Early tracks introduce clarity slowly—soft illumination, gentle contrast, emerging detail. There is a sense of waking up into awareness, where edges become defined and the world feels newly tangible. Mid-album pieces expand the palette: richer harmonies, fuller rhythmic structures, and layered motion create the sensation of standing fully inside the image rather than observing it from a distance. Later tracks open into wide, luminous soundscapes—confident, expansive, and composed—where perception feels effortless and sustained.

A Vivid Image values balance. Space is treated as an active element, giving each sound room to resonate. Silence is not absence, but framing—allowing details to stand out more vividly. Transitions are smooth and intentional, reinforcing the album’s central theme: clarity emerges through continuity, not shock.

Brent Schön AI approaches technology here as a precision instrument for expression. Digital tools provide sharpness, depth, and control, while human intuition guides pacing, emotional tone, and restraint. The result is music that feels polished yet alive—refined without becoming sterile. Every choice serves the image being formed.

Symbolically, the album reflects the act of self-perception. Just as an image becomes vivid when focus aligns, identity becomes clearer when attention is intentional. A Vivid Image suggests that clarity is not something added to life—it is something revealed when distraction falls away.

There is optimism in this record, but it is grounded rather than idealized. The brightness does not deny shadow; it defines it. Contrast is embraced as essential to depth. The album understands that vividness comes from nuance, not perfection.

This music adapts to the listener’s moment. It can accompany creative work, focused movement, reflection, or simply being present. It does not demand interpretation. It invites experience.

A Vivid Image truth.
It offers TRUTH

It simply sharpens perception.

Music as color.
Music as focus.
Music as awareness in motion.

This album is a lens—
clear, intentional, alive—
through which the world appears again,
bright and unmistakable.

Crown

Bobby B Phoolan - Your World [Produced By DKODA]

Trip In The Rain

Beat Junkies - Classic material vol 1 ( full mixtape )

BUY THE VINYL: https://www.slice-of-spice.com/collections/milano

Faithfully restored from a dusty and crusty 1997 cassette tape, these tracks by Ambush are actually Milano Constantine's demos, produced by Showbiz!!!

Included on The Believers: Deluxe Double Disc Edition (x2CD), we pressed a very limited number of copies on 45 vinyl, for the heads...DON'T SLEEP!

This project is 20 years in the making for Milano as it includes his previously unreleased D.I.T.C. produced album, The Believers, from 1999, his original demos under the name of Ambush and more tracks, produced out on the west coast with the legendary, T-Ray. Once you hear these tracks...you know this is an instant classic!

We've painstakingly put together and restored a total of 30 tracks, across a x2LP, x2CD and 45 Re-issue and Bonus Single. The Believers x2LP and Deluxe Edition Double Disc CD are both finished to the highest degree with heavy vinyl, gatefold jackets and gold foil trimming...we've gone all out. DON'T SLEEP!

- SSR-073 - The Believers - x2LP 
- SSR-CD016 - The Believers: Deluxe Double Disc Edition - x2CD 
- SSR-074 - Rep For The Slums / My Niggaz - 45 Single 
- SSR-076 - Depress (New York, New York)/ Jungle Life - 45 Single 

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Ambush Demos (45 Single)

Depressed (New York, New York)

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Ambush aka Milano (D.I.T.C.) - Ambushed Demos (45 Single) - "Depressed" produced by Showbiz

This very special mix (recorded in '98/99  but never previously released) was done by Kevin Beacham (A.K.A DJ Nikoless) in his words "is definitely dedicated to the amazing, and what I feel are slept on skills of, the great Showbiz. His tracks were always raw and stripped down with banging drums and nice melodies. I've always considered him one of my all time favorites since early on in his career, so much respect and appreciation for years of dedication to the craft of quality beat making.  It features some guest scratching/turntablism from two of my good friends, DJ Pratt & DJ Precyse. This is also dedicated to Big L (R.I.P)"

1)Introduction (Medicine Inst & You Know Now Inst) w/DJ Precyse on the cut!
2)Check It Out-Show & A.G.
3)Q & A-Show & A.G. w/ Ghetto Dwellas
4)Get Dirty-Ghetto Dwellas
5)Who's It On-The Legion w/Show & A.G.
6)N S E W Remix-Black Sheep (w/I'm No The One Instrumental Blend)
7)Wishful Thinking-Big Pun w/Kool G Rap, Fat Joe, & B Real
8)The Ultimate Remix-The Artifacts (w/DJ Pratt Beat Juggle)
9)Mind I C Mine-Scramanga
10)Time For.... (Demo Version)-Show & A.G.
11)Confrontations-Organized Konfusion (w/You Want It inst)
12)The Crow-O.C. (w/The Session Inst & Represent The Real Hip Hop Inst)
13)Breakfeast At Denny's Remix-Buckshot Lefonque (Bonus Cuts By DJ Precyse)
14)Blowe!-KRS One
15)All Out-Show & A.G.
16)Yes You May Remix-Lord Finesse w/Big L [Remixed By T Ray] (R.I.P BIg L)
17)It's Up To You-Show & A.G. w/Lord Finesse
18)A Lil Sumpin-Lord Finesse
19)Soul Clap-Show & A.G. [Co Produced By Diamond D]
20)It's My Turn [DJ Nikoless Beat Blend Remix]-Uptown (w/Bring It On Rmx Inst)
21)Never Less Than Ill-Show & A.G.
22)A Friend-KRS One
23)Parental Discretion-Big Pun w/Busta Rhymes
24)Stone To The Bone-Big Jaz
25)Freestyle-Funkmaster Flex Presents Jay Z (Stages & Lights Inst)
26)I Don't Understand It-Big L
27)Represent-Show & A.G. w/Lord Finesse, Ice Water Deshawn, & Big L
28)Hands In The AIr-Lord Finesse
29)Fine Tune Da Mic-Maestro Fresh Wes w/Showbiz
30)Stand Strong-Show & A.G. (w/Dignified Soldiers Inst)
31)More Than One Way Out Of The Ghetto-Show & A.G.
32)Drop It Heavy-Show & A.G. w/Big Pun & KRS One
33)Neighborhood Sickness-Show & A.G. w/Pary Arti
34)Themes, Dreams, & Schemes-D.I.T.C
35)Feel The Vibe-Diamond D w/Showbiz
36)Mic Mechanism-Maestro Fresh Wes
37)Set It Off-Lord Finesse
38)Return Of The Funkyman-Lord Finesse
39)Giant In The Mental-Show & A.G.
40)Party Groove Inst (w/Showbiz Verses: Hold Ya Head, Fat Pockets, & Silence  The Lambs)-Showbiz
41)Devils Son-Big L
42)Fire Water-Fat Joe w/Raekwon, Big Pun & Armageddon

Ep. 142 - DJ Nikoless (Kevin Beacham) - Production Credits: Showbiz (DJ Mix)

Melbourne-based DJ, producer, engineer and label owner.

Nick Wiz - Cellar Sounds Vol. 6 (1992-2000) (2xCD Snippets)

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