TEAM RNS PRESENTS

LABEL: Mush Records

RIPPER: Team RNS

1hr 00min total- 86.7mb

RELEASE DATE: 2003-09-16
RIP DATE: 2003-08-23

02 Robert L. Ripley (Featuring    5:05

04 Live From Tokyo (Featuring     6:42
Luckyiam.Psc, Slug, Aceyalone, Murs,

05 Sound of the Sitar             3:27
06 Double Header (Featuring Buck  4:46

08 Myth Behind the Man (Featuring 4:12
Abstract Rude and 2Mex)

10 I'm Just A Bill (Featuring     3:26
Spoon of Iodine)

12 Shock And Awe (Featuring       3:30

13 Always Being Born              5:37
14 Club Apotheosis (Featuring     6:26

With the hugely influential 'Beneath
the Surface' album and production for
Freestyle Fellowship ('Can You Find the
Level of Difficulty in This?') to his
credit, Omid continues to enhance his
reputation as one of the Los Angeles
underground's most respected producers.
He's the rare hiphop veteran who refuses
to let time or universal adulation weaken
his creative instincts. Over the last
several years he's remixed The Beastie
Boys, produced music for Mary Joy's
'Tags of the Times', appeared alongside
Anti-pop Consortium and El-P on
'Constant Elevation' for Astralwerks,
and produced tracks for many of the
brightest lights in Los Angeles
underground hiphop (2Mex, Abstract Rude,
Aceyalone, Busdriver, Dilated Peoples,
and Sach). His 2002 instrumental release
'Distant Drummer' and 2003 Mush debut
'Monolith' have only solidified Omid as
one of the most sought after producers in

Omid raises the standard on
producer-driven hiphop albums with
'Monolith' a project that rests in
concept between his Celestial Recordings
smash 'Beneath the Surface' and 2002's
stellar 'Distant Drummer'. Equally
split between densely layered
instrumental pieces and standout vocal
tracks, Omid invites some of the world's
most important emcees to rhyme over his
beautifully crafted, middle-eastern
tinged productions; Buck 65, Busdriver,
Abstract Rude, 2Mex, Spoon (of Iodine),
Luckyiam.PSC, Slug, Aceyalone, and Murs
all give noteworthy performances. Two
standout tracks are turned in by
Hymnal, whose world-weary tales of moral
corruption bookend the album. In a time
where some producers are content with
just making beats, Omid's mature design
speaks volumes with or without emcees.

Retail September 16, 2003.