HISTORY OF CONSPIRITUALITY 1990-1999
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HISTORY OF CONSPIRITUALITY 1990-1999 〰️
THEY WERE LOST IN AN INTENSE CULTURAL IMMERSION, WATCHING AND RECORDING EPISODES OF "RAP CITY" ON MUCHMUSIC. THEY CONDUCTED COVERT PILGRIMAGE CROSS-BORDER RUNS TO SPECIALTY MUSIC STORES IN OLD BELLINGHAM TO SEIZE HARD-TO-GET ALBUMS, B-SIDES, BOOTLEGS, AND PROMOTIONAL VINYL, WHILE SCOURING DOWNTOWN VANCOUVER FLEA MARKETS ON WEEKENDS WITH BROTHER JASON (BIGBROTHER). IN COMPLETE ISOLATION, GEMINEYE WAS SECRETLY SHARPENING HIS FREESTYLE CADENCE AND LYRICAL DEXTERITY OVER BEATS DURING LONG, SOLITARY WALKS WHILE CUTTING NEIGHBORS' LAWNS FOR EXTRA MONEY.
IT WAS IN 1993-1994, WHEN GEMINEYE’S EARS FIRST GOT A CHANCE TO HEAR SOME LOCAL VANCOUVER ARTISTS. BIGBROTHER HAD PICKED UP THE RASCALZ REALLY LIVIN’ AND FROM OUR COUSIN KIM VIA HER FRIEND NANCY, WE WERE INTRODUCED TO HER COUSIN SHANE’S (MADCHILD) MUSIC THROUGH HIS FIRST UNDERGROUND GROUP, "WHAT THE HELL," CONSISTING OF MADCHILD AND FLIPOUT (FORMERLY KNOWN AS SHOW AND TELL).
FROM 1993 TO 1997, OKBAR RAS MUFASA (ZADDIK MELCHIZEDEK) WAS ONE OF THE CORE MEMBERS OF THE SURREY COLLECTIVE THE SPECIMENS ALONGSIDE DECEO ELLIPSIS, ASONE (SPEECHES BEYOND), AND IKURUS.
IN 1998, THE NETWORK PROPHETS—CONSISTING OF OKBAR RAS MUFASA, CANDU JERUSALEM AND DRONESKI ROCKONE, FOUND THEIR WAY ONTO THE LEGENDARY VANCOUVER ISLAND UNDERGROUND COMPILATION ALBUM "FAMILY TREES". PRODUCED BY DECEO ELLIPSIS AND EXECUTIVELY PRODUCED BY X IVY VINES, THE PROJECT FEATURED THE TRACKS "BABYLON DREADS WE," "DEEP ROOTED," AND "ITAL CONVERSATION".
AT THE SAME TIME DECEO WAS BUSY SHAPING THE WEST COAST LANDSCAPE, CRAFTING EARLY CLASSICS FOR MOKA ONLY LIKE "APE NUTS" IN 1998 AND "FLOW TORCH" IN 2000.
OKBAR’S SOLO EXPEDITION, LEAD TO THE RELEASE OF THE ALBUM "INCIENT OF DAYS" IN 1999/2000 PRODUCED BY SURREY’S INFAMOUS 2RA.
MEANWHILE, DURING THE LATE 90S, GEMINEYE STARTED DEVOURING BOOKS, LIKE JOHN PERKINS “SHAPESHIFTING: SHAMANIC TECHNIQUES FOR GLOBAL AND PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION”, “MDMA: THE ECSTASY STORY,” ZECHARIA SITCHIN’S “EARTH CHRONICLE SERIES”, ERICH VON DÄNIKEN’S ANCIENT ASTRONAUT THEORIES AND GRAHAM HANCOCKS “FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS”.