Quasimoto / The Unseen 2LP post-punk from the poison-tipped string parts

from the poison-tipped string parts and Eno-esque engineering of “So Nice” to the groove-locked Krautrock inclinations of “Lupine Dominus

its verses whispered in Greek prisons before spilling out to the greater population in the 1930s

sly asides and deft twists of tongues and licks

or are out to destroy rap that doesn’t sound like theirs

Quasimoto / The Unseen 2LP post-punk from the poison-tipped string partsThe Unseen, released in 2000, was among the new decade's first sleeper hits, ranking on Spin's year end list at a time when the producer and label were unknown outside of hip hop DJ circles. Few could have known that this, Madlib's solo debut, would be just the first album in a rich catalog of music spanning from hip hop to jazz, with wild experimentation and collaborations with MF DOOM & J Dilla. The identity of Quasimoto himself was a bit of a