Panacea - The Re Route

In 2007 many heads were doing back flips over Kanye West and Lupe Fiasco's offerings, meanwhile all those amongst us that were truly in the know were steady bumpin Panacea's sophomore release the "Scenic Route". We simultaneously snickered and cried to ourselves when someone tried saying that "Food And Liquor is the second Illmatic" or that "Graduation is the album of the year". lol, foolish, foolish children. I mean nothing against Lupe or Ye', but they just didn't bring it like Raw Poetic and Murdock did. I mean it was really a Hip-Hopper's dream to have been aware of "The Scenic Route" at the same time when the collective Hip-Hop world was gobbling up so much mainstream feed that was being sold as "underground" shit. All that garbage was just more like experimentation of fusing different genre's together. Panacea's shit was Hip-Hop straight up and down.

Indeed, it was a great feeling bumpin' "Th Scenic Route" for the first time. Kinda made you feel like a true backpacker again. Full of atmospheric, imaginative lyric's and thoughtful drum break type production I knew right away that these cats were no flash in the pan act either. I thought that they were keeping the older vibes from the 90's alive, but there was a new twist too, a new appraoch that was sorely needed.

It's been 2 years since the D.C. duo of Raw Poetic and K-Murdock blessed us with their esthetically perfect album, but that hasn't stopped the rest of the game from stepping up and honoring how truly dope it was. What I'm dropping on you poor, broke bastards today is their latest release, (which btw is a digital only release, but definitely shoulda been a retail drop as well) "The Re Route". What the "Re Route" does is very much a treat for any underground head man. I know it is for me anyway, seeing as I was a huge fan of Kev Brown's "Brown Album" and K Def's "real Live Gangster", two remix ventures that are very much in the same vein as this project here.

The whole science behind the "Re Route" is that DJ Mekalek, whose label Glow In The Dark Records was the home for Panacea when they dropped "The Scenic Route", has tapped some of the illest producer's in the underground (or anywhere for that matter) to remix and re-release the whole "Scenic Route" album. Guys like DJ Numark of Jurassic 5, The legendary DJ Spinna, Damu The Fudgemunk, Joe Beats, Nicolay and even K-Murdock himself drop new takes on the classicness that was "The Scenic Route" and they successfully make an already dope album better. Everything on here is more than worthy but I have to say that Damu's remix of "Walk In The Park" was especially amazing and Spinna's take on "Flashback To Stardom" was also pretty memorable. Enjoy this, but make sure to support the artists and cop this when it's released! It'll be on itunes, napster, amazon and many other digital DL'n sites, so no excuses!

-BIG D O






01. The Scenic Route (Doug Life Remix)
02. Flashback to Stardom (DJ Spinna Remix)
03. Pops Said (Nicolay Remix)
04. Epiphany (DJ Nu Mark Remix)
05. Between Earth And Sky (Joe Beats Remix)
06. Bubble (Stoerok Remix)
07. Square 1 (Cool Calm Pete Remix)
08. Blue Ice (Mekalek Remix)
09. Walk In The Park (Damu Remix)
10. Aim High (Newman Remix)
11. Katana (Aeon Remix)
12. One Shine (K Murdock Arturian Remix)
13. The Missing (Panacea Remix)

http://rapidshare.com/files/188034370/Panacea_-_The_Re_Route_-_2009.rar