Fakts One - Long Range

Aaight, It's a straight up joy to bring you this cat's debut LP, which has been long overdue and a labor of love combined. For all those who have been sleepin' on duke for the past 10 or 12 some odd years, lemme educate you on the brutha's resume. Hailing from Beantown, MA this Producer/DJ/Radio Personality was a huge fixture in the Boston scene for a long while. Having started out on radio with WERS's "89.9 At Night" show breaking local acts and spining some of the illest hip-hop out there. Eventualy Fakts would drop some mixtapes on the now legendary and defunct label Brick Records that really put his name out there and garnered him some attention from arguably Boston's two biggest names in the hip-hop game: Mr. Lif and Akrobatik. The three hit it off and Fakts began producing a lot of records for the two. It seemed that it was fate that the three would form a group....they would call Themsleves The Perceptionists. In 2005 the trio dropped their debut group album "Black Dialogue" on Definitive Jux records and were met with a warm reception from fans in the form of good sales and positive reviews. Seemed like they were gonna be the chosen ones from Boston, but it ended up not working out like that at all. During this whole process Fakts was promised a solo deal so he could release his own LP, but the label stalled on him. In an unpresidented and surprising turn of events Fakts left his partners stranded without a DJ just as they were about to kick off the tour for the "Black Dialogue" album. Fakts disappeared from the limelight and kept an extremely low profile ever since......until now. In 2008 Fakts One finally dropped his debut LP "Long Range" on Green Streets Ent./Nature Sounds records and I'm pleased to let you all know it's solid and pleasantly unexpected. I was almost certain Fakts would never re-emerge to claim his glory and show these new kids what production was really all about, but he has, and he's enlisted some friends to help him do so. Along with his long time friends and groupmates Mr. Lif and Akrobatik, the album boasts appearances from Army of the Pharoahs, Boot Camp Clik, Planet Asia and Souls of Mischief. It's not everyday that a key figure from a certain place just pops back up and drops a new album on us, but in this case skepticism was squashed by a cat that was willing to give hip-hop another chance out of the love for the art and just go head' and do his thing one mo' gain.... I applaud him fro coming back and giving all his die hard fans and underground fans as a whole something to cop.

-BIG D O




01.Ridin' Dirty
02.Grown Folks Feat Little Brother
03.Life Music Feat Rocklyn & Maya Azucena
04.Ok Feat Kingsyze & Outerspace
05.Born For This Feat Chan
06.Don't Stop Feat Boot Camp Clik
07.The Showstarter Feat The Perceptionists
08.Audiovisual Feat J Live
09.U From The Q Feat Universal
10.Set The Mood Feat Grayskul
11.Moments Matter Feat Tajai
12.Selfish Feat Akrobatik & Iyadonna
13.Longevity Feat Rasco, Planet Asia & Shakes Da Mayor
14.The Showstarter (Walkman Remix) Feat. The Perceptionists


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