The Witzard

Last month we told you about the latest installment of Brycon & G-Pek's There's No More Room In Hell (6) just in time for a last-minute addition to your Halloween-themed playlists. Now, less than a month later, Brycon has already returned with his next proper solo outing: Brutalism EP. It's being described as "a 7-song EP focused on city life and some of its associated hardships. Each track surveys and explores around these themes, but leaves the resolve in the listener's hands." More or less, a "beat tape" in most aspects of said term, Brutalism boasts slow mechanical drums, ethereal samples, hazy conga lines, and haunting voices, as well as an overarching conceptual theme. Not entirely unlike J Dilla, Madlib, or even Kanye West before him, Brycon fully employs the "producer/musician as feature" theory here and is, indeed, front and center through and through. Additionally, to help fully flesh out this ensemble-like EP, Brycon h...

Equipto & Brycon Present The Watershed by The Watershed The Watershed are a San Francisco -based Hip-Hop crew consisting of emcees Equipto and Old Soul Kollective members MC Pauze & Professor Gabel , as well as producers Brycon , Old Soul Kollective beat-makers Baghead & Mcstravick , and emcee/producer Monk HTS . However, Monk HTS only contributed his emcees skills to Equipto & Brycon Present: The Watershed . The Watershed describes itself as a "multi-generational group" with a line-up consisting of both "vets and up-and-coming Frisco -bred talents (with one exception.)" I personally, heard about The Watershed just this past weekend from I Had An Accident Records (IHAA) label owner Damien Miller of Luke Sick & Damien fame; we were discussing one of IHAA 's upcoming releases— Rabbi Max 's TRANSATLANTIC tape—as well as The Watershed , along with Luke Sick & Damien 's Strike The Clutch EP and Bonzo Speechless & Da...