Volume I

Description

Not all of the tastiest beats find their way to the mainstream. The superior vinyl format can be a luxury for bands still whipping up melodies in their basements or the back of local dives. For those road warriors, the cassette became the de facto format to spread their musical ideas. Much like the Intergalactic Beets Project, the Xarian Cassette Archive (XCA) set about collecting and preserving these flashes of brilliance that Lord Prosect and his goons unceremoniously burned. Volume I, so far the only collection of salvageable beats, was delivered in secret to the IBP to issue it on vinyl to expand the reach of its artists (the cassette player is as rare as a buhkip stone and twice as expensive). Within this collection, we find the unreleased tunes of undiscovered bands like Krunk & Co., Allergic Reaction, and Fuzz In The Corner. Each song more eclectic than the…