The Guidelines: A West Coast Indie Rap Compilation ’94-’00

Last week Bfred ^[1] put up a pretty great overview the late 90s backpack era that had me flashing back to gortons fisherman caps and provided a self contained compilation for my ipod so I no longer have to scroll past “L-Fudge” every time I want to hear some La Monte Young. As great as it is to have CDQs of “5 Star Generals” and “Repetition” Bfred’s mix was notably lacking on the west coast side of things, featuring only a single Dilated Peoples track.^[2] So to compliment I zipped up a bunch of West Coast indies from around the same era. (more…)