People eat cereals. But if you think about it, it's not much more than pressed straw. Unless you get them colorful with more sugar than cereal on them. So, while we eat cereal because we want to eat something healthy, most still need some sugar on top that it's delicious to us. As said most. There's this strange group of folks out there, that like their 'muesli' without nada, not even milk and nothing. Just the raw essentials. And if we draw the line to this album, then this is some hip hop for these kind of folks. The tri of the two emcees El Isaac and Es Dugaliss, backed by producer Ocult One, take you into the cereal aisle, offering you about as many different varieties as you can find there, their hip hop being grown in real soil and without artificial flavoring and additives.

On a strictly: 'if you want to put a new thought into your brain, you need to lose an old one' tip, "Empty Your Mind" opens the album, to get sufficient space for the cluster of new thoughts that is about to follow. Slow moving strings transform gently into a unfolding beat on "The Vulture". This is over as fast as it started. But the strings of "Fearing Reflection" fill up the gap, this track being the first of many highlights to come. It's beyond believe philosophical, the beat unbearable melancholy, and Es Dugaliss verse is rightfully quoted on the website, as it goes "everybody's got they own notion of success, sometimes I find this hard to accept, If everyday I push beyond / my capacity / won't I eventually / live happily? Possibly I suppose, but often I'm lost on these roads, wondering what other men chose and whether what I know is worth dying over; is it worth dying over? I'm lying over bars of gold / mesmerized by their sparkle, enticed by a material goal, but is it heart felt? Deep down I feel the deep frown of the miser, 'Why's your life so sad?' I'll ask him, ain't the money enough to keep ya laughing? But he's gasping for breath he achieved his goal / and what's left / but alone / solitary zone / no one to hold / no where to go no one no one no one no one no one...". The whole track is one big quotable, and you'll find yourself listening to this over and over again.

"The Inner" had to seem dull after such brilliance, but if not always listened after that other track, you will see the dopeness of the switching beat, as well as the again thoughtful rhymes. The vibe gets somewhat chaotic on "Society Inside of Me", and while the track seems to wanna rush at many different places at the same time, things seem to move in circles, as they always meet again, and at the end the track still sounds rounded out. It's amazing how this album still keeps on blowing your head, as "Nothing Is The Matter" only suffers little with the bass, cause the piano is taking away all doubts. This is filling space like "somewhere in the nowhere was something", and again the website quotes "there once was some skin wrapped around some hollow, this skin was here today and gone tomorrow, but what surprised the walking skin is no one admitted in the fact they were filling in the space that was dealed to them with anything they could find. Cause space, space seemed the opposite, facing their face didn't correspond to it, what was near and dear to them was heavy and thick, not like the airy / clear / sphere / that surrounded it. And the walking children skin swung their limbs violently; Adult skin internally felt emptiness anxiety; But both knew / when both stared / that nothing was out there, and in there between there but on and on they stared nothing nothing nothing...". And while "Can You Take the Weight?" seems to only fit hard into the vibe of the rest, with it's over focus on the bassline, it's jazzyness is just a whole different brand of cereal that needs to be tasted before one can say if one likes it or not.

We have only reached the end of the first side. On the flip, there's "The Twitch", again suffering from the biased impression we have carried over from the first side, you will need half a minute to let go and trust this track not letting us crash to the ground when we jump from the stage. The voice is holding a mirror in front of us, confronting us with not being satisfied on "Realize", kicked in a sing songy style. The track again tries to go to several places at once, and this time, it seems harder to gather all elements together again. With much jazzyness, and an otherwise bare track, "The Whositwhatsit" is used to talk about females and other phenomena and encounters, while DJ Dorsale is cutting up some black gold. Then "Minimal" is just that, an instrumental cut, that combines a wicked drum with a simply and haunting piano, before on "Take Your Mark" the emcees take over the track again. Then again, they don't really take it over, cause another exceptionally dope drum programming is getting much of our attention. The otherwise stripped down track does provide a good platform for fable-ous rhymes. We gotta start taking shortcuts here, cause the review is getting too long, so what shall be said about "Inner Rhymthms" is, that it's an amazing instrumental / turntablism track, with Ocult, DJ Clockwize and Dorsale switching things constantly. The album then ends with "balancedecides", where Es and El complete the statement started by the other.

This is a must have. Like cereal is good for your body, this is good for your ears, mind, body and soul. Don't go for the crappy artificial, synthetic, no nourishing, whatever crap. Go for some real grown, rugged, balanced, honest cereal. Make this your breakfast.