The Witzard

Acid Lab Records (ALR) is a Los Angeles-based record label/crew established in 2011; it's members include BeOND , Express Fresh, Gajah , Myk Mansun, Olmeca , OneWerd, Upword , and 3-man emcee posse, Acid Reign AKA Gajah, BeOND & Olmeca . ALR 's members have released a wide array of solo and collaborative projects since 2011 with each other and a handful of affiliates and frequent collaborators, including Kenny Segal , Le Parasite, Willie Green , Japanese emcee MC GEBO, Chrono Triggers , Herrmutt Lobby, Mute Speaker , Destruct, Scotty "Sixo" Trimble , Awkward, and Uncommon Nasa on Gajah 's Hand of Gold Are Always Cold . While Acid Lab Records features a wide variety of talent, all of which can be streamed or purchased on ALR 's Bandcamp page, this very piece will primarily focus on Gajah & Mute Speaker ... hailing from Los Angeles and Cambodia , respectively, Gajah & Mute Speaker are currently gearing up to release their third collaborative ...

"It's cool to see things come full-circle. A year ago, nearly to the day, I walked out of my classroom and headed home for Winter Break . My only aim for that window of creative time was to put together the foundation for the best project possible to submit for Fake Four 's Freecember series the following year," San Francisco/Bay Area rapper-producer OneWerd wrote within a recent press statement. Adding that he then, spent the next three weeks "experimenting with new production approaches, brain-storming, and collecting song ideas and working them out into lyrics." Upon completing eight genre-eschewing beats for what would ultimately, become his Alive EP , OneWerd reached out to a particular collection of artists he looked up to and admired to appear within Alive ; this would end up including features from Denver emcee sole , Graves 33, Sleep of Oldominion , Ersatz Splynter, and Fake Four, Inc. 's own "anti-boss himself," Ceschi . OneWerd...