Free Album & Video: Unjust (Hieroglyphics) – Fullmelt
Few artists excel at both music and the visual arts. But even fewer succeed in combining the two cohesively. Following up his work producing for First Light, a 
project from Hieroglyphics crew members Pep Love and Opio, fellow Hiero Imperium artist Unjust releases Full Melt, his own instrumental album and self-directed audiovisual project.
Unjust first became involved in the hip-hop world as a designer, and his artistic talents landed him design work with luminaries including J-Dilla, E-40, Rakim, Tech N9ne, Ice Cube, and many others. Yet Unjust never saw any separation in the two worlds; he explains, “…whenever I heard a song as kid, I’d see colors and shapes, and vice versa with art, especially my grandma’s paintings and mom’s stained glass…I never thought of [Full Melt] as just an album, but an experience.”
Unjust spent five years collecting samples from 1970s and 1980s TV shows, cartoons, and commercials, and he spins the material into a whirling psychedelic display that transplants the viewer to another era. Sonically, Unjust melds the ebb and flow of J-Dilla with retro synths and samples that are purely his own.
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/20308061″ params=”color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] [vimeo]https://vimeo.com/84717353[/vimeo]Download Fullmelt for free: http://www.fullmelt.tv / stream: https://soundcloud.com/hieroglyphics-1/sets/unjust-full-melt-instrumental
See the Fullmelt video: http://youtu.be/yqCCvA-L1zU
Embeddable link: https://vimeo.com/84717353
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A designer who has worked with Rakim, Ice Cube, Tech N9ne, J-Dilla, and many other hip-hop legends, Unjust first connected with the future label mates Hieroglyphics not as a producer but as a designer and director. But when Hiero members Pep Love and Opio heard Unjust working on a beat for his group Chosen Few’s album (released on the Hieroglyphics Imperium label) they were so impressed that they recruited him to produce many songs for them, which resulted in 4 tracks on Pep Love’s Rigamarole album, The Opio/Unjust colab Big Lebowski tribute album, Mark It Zero, a song on the recent Hieroglyphics album, The Kitchen and ultimately 11 of the 15 songs on their First Light album, Fallacy Fantasy.
Founded in 1997 in Oakland, CA, Hiero Imperium Records is Del The Funky Homosapien, Casual, Pep Love, Domino, and the Souls of Mischief, made up of A-Plus, Opio, Phesto and Tajai. Coming off waves of success from earlier releases like Souls’ ’93 Til Infinity, the Hiero crew had already established themselves as a name in mainstream and underground hip-hop, and soon released their first collective project Third Eye Vision. Since then the Hiero team has been thriving in the hip-hop world, releasing a number of projects within the label as well as branching out for collaborations with the likes of The Gorillaz, Jurassic 5, George Clinton, Dilated Peoples, Q-Tip, Xzibit and more.
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Fullmelt album download: http://www.fullmelt.tv / https://soundcloud.com/hieroglyphics-1/sets/unjust-full-melt-instrumental
Fullmelt video: http://youtu.be/yqCCvA-L1zU embeddable: https://vimeo.com/84717353
“Blue Teardrops”: http://youtu.be/9l_Qg-hQFgk
“Lighters”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxRHCkaSK1s
“Los Lobos”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UN7cG31LBo
Bio, pictures and streams available here: http://www.audibletreats.com/hieroglyphics