Tasmanian Devil: the world. World: the Tasmanian Devil.
Well, after this formal introduction, let's move smoothly to a more informal introduction saying: this is a tape that showcases the lyrical tribeism of 4 Months Of Winter, together with his Acheeka brethren Realistikk, the female emcee showing up on several tracks, as well as Panic, Spam and Fluent.
"Here & There" is guitar layered, and the first track on here. The third introduction to these cats, counting the two above. The next cut will have some heads turning, just for the fact that Living Legend affiliate Elusive laid down the track. Unfortunately the beat gets a little lost in the struggling sound quality, but "Crescent Moons" can live up to the atmospheric, hallow beats, we are used of this beatsmith. And 4 Months steps up his game too, to impress with an adapted Living Legend flow, and lyrics that take the best outta scientific insanity rhymes and braggadocious boasting, combines the two, to make this a track that will get him props.
Things get smoothed out again on "Fantasy Orbs", produced by 2 Sick. The beat sounds a little too westcoast for eastcoast backpackers, and a little too clean for the rhymes that are altered to sound like they were done under water. But that does not confuse us as much as the sample that starts up "Josie & The Pussie Katz". This Romeo & Juliet movie track takes the vibe down, with 4 speaking his mind about the days, about much and not much really, while the beat moves forward with some inspired drums and with some xylophone vibes. "Light Styles" takes the vibe further, the Acheeka Members that are credited to have produced this track, probably go by the name of Periodic and Panik, cause this reminds us of the sonic adventures of their Circular Objects album.

Elusive returns for "The Birth". This track further shows 4 Months preferred style of beat, while he flows philosophically through space and time, revisiting his coming about, and progressing into him becoming an idea. Realistikk shows up on "Minimum Ways" again, together with EVS, who also did the beat. And they all come nice with theirs, putting their thoughts to a musical piece.
On the second side, things start up with an Acheeka posse cut "Galactic Idols". "Blur" teams up Tted with 4 and they flow over a very dark beat, that does resemble some reflected shadows on the crater of Pluto, or something like that. However, it's dope. What can't necessarily be said about the Bay Area thump bass or southern bounce of "Hip Hop Scotch". While this is not wack, it's good as a parody on dog barking and the mentioned styles, but in general weird compared to the rest of the tape. And so we don't mind progressing to another cosmic composition featuring Spam. "I Wanna B Perfect" again showcases the to study rhymes, while the beat again gives more of that Circular vibe, this reviewer loves to pump and confuse his neighbors with.
Maybe the dopest Elusive track on this here is "Center Stage". And that although it's not in his layered, mystic style we are expecting, but it's rather hopping. The Emcees go blow for blow, fist for fist and do some spitwrestling (ha). Last is "Pih-Poh", with Tted teaming up with 4 again, before some Play Station video game outro ends the 12 tracks tape.
Yes, the quality of the recording could be better. But to tell you the truth, this is hip hop. If you have had the chance to listen to the real first hip hop recordings, live tapings of gigs done by the pioneers, that wasn't some digital Dolby thing either. And as long as the music is dope, it will not stop us from pumping this kind of record. (tadah the byk)

explanation of our rating: each album can get a total of 100 stripes. there are three categories the albums are rated in: lyrics (40 stripes), beats (40 stripes) and originality (20 stripes). the stripes in black show the remaining stripes for the full 100.