4. The Escape

There are artists that would like to have a concept to their music. But because they are afraid that a concept could alienate parts of the audience, they take a half hearted attempt and end up making something that neither works nor ever had the chance to work. But not the Unknown Entity. They not only come up with a concept, but they run with it, bang on it, remember it, remind us about it, and don't care if anyone does not get it. urban smarts.com likes that.

Having the Unknown Entity pointed out by a to them fellow San Diego resident, the frustration of not getting one's hands on their music was just as high as the pleasure to finally crack open the package and drop that CD in the player. And the years (or at least many months) long wait was well worth the pacing up and down the room. Cause the album spreads through your body, just like the drug these cats like to rhyme about: psuedocide. And while the first time it might not hit you too hard, and you only wake up with a bad headache the next day, after you body knows what to do with those strange chemical molecules in your blood stream, your mind will be taking the ladder up another few dimensions, and you better not forgot your parachute, or you might as well crash down to the ground like an elephant trying to be a jumbo jet.

As said, the album starts with "Psuedocide" (or "Pseudocide"). It kinda gives you an idea of what this is all about, referring to the track as being the commercial for this "new drug that can help you leave the earth". And it really is a rather compelling commercial, Dizzy and Rokon pointing out all good things about this special pharmaceutical, and it's all "just a matter of being in tune with my sources". The space effects are ripping through the beat, the piano is giving it a little insanity, and after this we are very much prepared for "Bad Trip". The beat is much more smoothed out, and if that's the worst 'bad trip' that psuedocide gives you, we might as well line up now to get them little pills, or a bag to smoke up. However, lyrically the whole experience is once again beautifully captured, and they do rip out our mind out the soothing pillow this beat is. A dope cut this song here.

Next up is "The Report". Tenshun shows up with some space craft scratching, and with this track you now understand the UE quest to 'go beyond jackin' fools in their cars, they want to jack aliens for their UFO's'. This is as good as anything you have ever heard in all those space tracks. And what takes the UE above most of their counterparts is, that they are confident about what they spit. You can hear it in an Emcee if he / she is having doubts. These cats here don't have no doubts. This is them. Damn. Have this followed by "The Escape", that's started up with some movie clip. The topic is reflected by hectic rhyme styles and a somewhat rushing beat. This is real emotional chaos these cats are trapped in. And if your system plays that very low bass, your body will be effected on a very subconscious level too.

Mr 'Behold A Pale Horse' William Cooper calls Alternative 3, the plan "to exploit the alien and conventional technology in order for a select few to leave the earth and establish colonies in outer space" (p. 213, what adds up to 6. ha.). The beat that these cats picked for their "Alternative 3" track again combines the best of all galaxies and the emcees are once again switching from dimension 3 to dimension 4 with their freed minds. Okay, by now I have you saying: damn, this can't even make sense! It can. At least in their own "Twisted Logic (Remix)". Then again this song title is misused for this little review game. Moon guitar take the emcees by hand and have them go "I'm a stranger to your unreal world" and they have you 'cope with their reality'.

Just like the world probably will, this here also has to end with a big badaboom. "Last Transmission" is the playground for Tenshun's hands to slice up whatever black disc he took from the sky and put on his revolving table. This instrumental cut with heavy scratches makes us wanna go through all Star Trek episodes to find out if really no one ever said 'beam me up, Scottie". And then there's a turntablism cut that's not credited, as well as two additional different versions of "Twisted Logic".

Wanna know more? Intrigued. Checked your wallet if you got enough for your own hit of psuedocide? Well, unknown-entity.com has all the hook ups.