producer: tee double

guests: panda-one from the animal pharm, dj drez

GoodVibe have been quite busy lately, releasing Spontaneous, Declaime and also Tee Double. On his own EP, this fella, blesses the world with his somewhat organic music, combined with carefully crafted lyrics. So does this platter start with a pan flute enhanced, guitar touched "What The Want?!?", on which Tee not only shows his braggadocios skills, his flow, but also asks what happened to the emcees that were of the same spirit as he is. Some of the possible candidates to be considered that kind of emcee, are mentions, when he breaks down the roaster of the GoodVibe label on "Tried & Tested". And not only Panda-One of The Animal Pharm shows up, DJ DJ Drez, the inhouse GoodVibe DJ lends his scratching technique to this track. And the song succeeds where the previous failed: combining a boom bap bouncyness with live sounding instrumentation.

"Blazin'" lowers the vibe with a moody, almost dark track, that is, just like all the others produced by Tee himself. Again showing his skills with letting other people know of his dopeness content, this Texas resident did even alter his voice to have them complement the track. And then horns chime through the speakers, with a sparkling piano in the back on "I Remember". The 'back in the day / spiritual' track of this album, has us follow his train of thought, while we get a certain sun setting flavor in musical form.

The dopeness continues on the few seconds long sneak preview of "Move In Silence" and then shifts on "Mixtape Material". While this will be passed on by DJ Clue, or Master Tee, a DJ Muet or Fakts One could actually be thinking about putting this on one of their tapestry products, so to say. But then again, that's like too much hoping for some exposure on tapes, when the whole title centers around it. Then again, the lyrical content is rather deep. However, with the last song, the title track "Lost Scriptures", the organ takes us back to the boom bap, and we happily nod our head, to more braggin' rhymes and a mid-90s resembling production. Definitely a nice track to end this offering.

GoodVibe has been putting in work for some time now. Releases like the Anonymous or Animal Pharm have always been quickly bought up by people that like their hip hop musical, creative and a little more intelligent than what the next cat is doing. And with more releases coming up, that are stuck with the 'coming soon' status for too long, namely Bahamadia, Medusa, Statik, the Divine Styler Magazine compilation or Jizzm. Tee Double might be just one fish in a pond of many, with them all being unique Koi though, they all attract and get the same deserved attention.