Supastition & Stoupe are VESTIGE

Since Stoupe The Enemy Of Mankind left Jedi Mind Tricks to focus on various solo projects and all kinds of collaborations, a lot of fat music has materialized. His solo album "Decalouge" featured some really intense collabos with M.O.P., Saigon, Reef The Lost Cauze, Joell Ortiz, and of course Supastition who's now will hanle all the rhyming on a forthcoming Stoupe LP. I was also a big fan of his team-up with singer Liz Fullerton as DUTCH which was a really good album.

The LP with Supastition is titlted "The Inanimate Life" and is set for a release sometime this summer; ""The Inanimate Life" which documents the fictional life story of a man born to an unfit mother and how his life spirals out of control due to her actions, as well as his own mistakes. The story and lyrics were written by Supastition with Stoupe and his production team (Bad Tape) handling the music which meshes together hip hop, downtempo, and live instrumentation." Sounds like a keeper, that's for sure.,.. Stay tuned for more info and the first single.

[Album] VESPERTINA - "The Waiting Wolf"

It's no wonder Jedi Mind Tricks' doesn't really exist in it's original incarnation anymore, if you try to make music you're heart's not into anymore it will be a failure 100% of the times. Luckily it has worked out for the best for all involved parties on their respective paths - Vinnie Paz is off doing heavy hip-hop shit with legendary producers for his solo albums, while original producer Stoupe The Enemy of Mankind is collaborating with talented singers on dreamlike, abstract but beat based music that defies categories. After releasing the beautiful "A Bright Cold Day" with Liz Fullerton as Dutch, Stoupe formed Vespertina together with Lorrie Doriza and created "The Waiting Wolf" in 2011. Fans of his work with Jedi Mind Tricks, will recognize Stoupe's hip-hop based drum programming and epic soundscapes, but just like with Dutch he shows how great he is at arranging music to suit the specific artist he's working with. This is also why his work with Vespertina is very different from Dutch's album as well, although there's of course enough likeness to hint about it being from the same composer. Doriza's strong pipes are complemented with both samples and live instrumentations and sees her surrounded with loads of strings, dark piano melodies, moody bass lines, opera like background vocals and constantly changing motives within each song. There's a lot happening here, and it's definitely not for everyone, but if you can get down with it, Vespertina is willing to take you on a journey into their twisted and dark world. 

The entire album (which apparantly was almost three years in the making) is now available for both stream and free download in full via the groups' Bandcamp page in celebration of the one year anniversary of the original release date. If you enjoy it, and want to buy the CD (or a T-shirt), head over here. Thanks to Meta4 for the word on this and props to Stoupe and Lorrie Doriza for daring to think outside the box and doing what they believe in!

Stoupe & Lorrie Doriza are Vespertina

Stoupe The Enemy of Mankind should be considered a hip hop legend and a super producer but the guy is criminally underrated despite every amazing beat he created for the Jedi Mind Tricks catalouge. Despite his talent he hasn't worked with too many legendary emcees which is a shame (save for GURU, MOP, Sean Price and a few others) but it seems he's moving away more and more from the epic boom bap pieces he's known for; last year he dropped a collaboration with singer Liz Fullerton which had real atmospheric, soulful and cinematic production that suited Liz's beautiful voice to perfection.

Vespertina seems to be a similiar project to the one mentioned above, it's a project between producer Stoupe and singer Lorrie Dorzia and judging from this single it's different but straight up amazing if you got an open mind. The song is called "Devil's Dance" and will appear on their long player "The Waiting Wolf" which will be released on May 10 which is looking to be a great day for us underground heads since eLzhi is dropping his promising "eLmatic" that day too.

VESPERTINA - "DEVIL'S DANCE"