"I smack my bitch up, like a pimp". That and the unmistakable chanting of 'Quasimoto' had heads from the Notre Dame to the Golden Gate Bridge recite the same old lines until the wheels fell off. Or something like that. A legend was born. And there wasn't even some pregnancy going on. Cause this Quasimoto didn't jump outta the soft space between a women's legs, but outta the certainly confused brain of the beat constructor Madlib of Lootpack fame. And because this hasn't yet been officially confirmed, this reviewer still wants to believe in the possibility, that there's someone out there, that is a flesh and blood Quasimoto. Unfortunately life is not like that. Legends are mostly more or less a tale, a myth, some expressed imagination, than something that ever happened on this planet. And so we have to congratulate Madlib for this record here.

First of all, if you checked the two 12"es ("Microphone Mathematics" and "Come On Feet") and the one 7" ("Hittin' Hooks") that was released before this album dropped, you pretty much know what Quasimoto is all about. You got the funny tales, that are just a little strange, in structure, in built up and in conclusion. And you get some of the strangest samples ever used on a hip hop record. And while this could be cursed out as being an elitist experiment, it's just a humorous attempt at doing something dope, that is not taking itself too serious. Both Quasimoto and the constant collaborator Madlib drop their rhymes so lackadaisically, so completely uninterested, you can't prevent yourself from smirking, smiling and giggling from time to time. But let's talk about some of the tracks.

After the "Welcome To Violence" intro, a strange voice sample, with a jazzy bass, "Bad Character" then pretty much sums up what the world is to think of Quasimoto. The electric and relaxing beat is transiting nicely into "Microphone Mathematics", with it's bass and humble horns. The vibe gets very mid 90s on "Bad Instinct", and if that is your chosen party music, your one cool dood. The strange sample usage steps up on "Goodmorning Sunshine" with a going on your nerves voice sample, but the drums make up for it. Madlib is all about "we live like what" on "Discipline 99 Pt.0" featuring another enigmatic Mr. Herb. "Low Class Conspiracy" resurfaces here again and in the tradition of DJ tracks, this tragically long lost tradition gets picked up again, while switched, on "Return Of The Loop Digga". While Quasimoto's 'dadadadaaa' has cult potential. 'Lib talks about sampling, and even the skit with him going to the store asking for some stuff is quite funny. And with adding all kinds of samples in the back, this is just showing how deep his record pockets must be.

The disc he digged out for "Real Eyes", with the flutes, the guitar, will have many other diggers go 'damn, what's that', and quite mockingly, 'Lib puts some ODB ranting over the beat. It's all about "once we come through, there's no stopping this". "Come On Feet" leads up to "Bluffin", with an extra dope piano sample, and 'Lib and Quas' are sharing the mic like never separated Siamese twins. On "Boom Music" it's all about some smoked out fantasizing. Money hungry bitches, or "MHBs" are the chosen topic on the Madlib solo cut. Quas is torturing you, not with having you listen to "Put A Curse On You", but he talks about curses he could put on you, what he can do to your fragile bones and body system. The obscureness reaches new heights on "Astro Black". After "Green Power", "Jazz Cats Pt. 1" is a homage to some of Quas and Lib's favorites Jazz entrepreneurs. And the extra dope drums as well as the piano and horns make this on of the illest collages on this album. Medaphor is being featured on "24-7". The title cut "The Unseen" is some strange organ like sound, that's metamorphosing into a choir like something, with the bass being a rope to hang from. A previously used sample is the huge exception on "Phony Game", that has Quasimoto rhyme with a whole new motivation, it seems. When he's "Astro Trvellin", then he's on some "tranquility but still on the rugged". And his "Blitz" is the flash that is going through his head when the weed is starting to kick in, as heard on this instrumental offering. "Axe Puzzles" is sealing our fate of having to just love this album, with "Discipline 99 Pt. 1" featuring Wildchild only being the last confirmation.

While Quasimoto's off the wall rhyme style has been toned down after his first showing on PB's "Styles, Crews, Flows, Beats" track, but with Madlib providing this moniker with some of his most obscure beat offerings, the combination is still so much outta the usual borderlines, we are used to in hip hop. But upon listening to this, we again learn how unnecessary, if not how unraveling these lines are, as they are only preventing many dope things from happening. And with this album surfacing soon, we might get many more artists too, that will do something, strictly for the fun it is to them, much rather than going out for the bling bling. Cause, if hip hop is a bitch, and the bitch is getting tired, you might just have to smack it in a whole different direction.